Carmen’s Simple Butterflies Card

I'm truly becoming a fan of simple and understated cards lately, and Carmen DeBruce showed us a perfectly elegant example of that style at our May Demo Meeting last week.    This card is so gorgeous, yet it's so quick and easy to put together! The background is created with Presto Patterns Designer Series Paper.  …

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Change of A Dress Cards

Well, it's been quite a week so far!  Definitely one of those weeks.  You know the ones, when you're trying to get your taxes done at the last minute and your computer decides to become ill, and then reports that you need to run decide to have errors instead, and the printer decides to act …

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Fleur De Lis Emboss Resist

Yes, I'm still playing with my stencils today, and no, I haven't moved on to the other two designs in the Elegant Trio Set!  Isn't this card striking?  The Dusty Durango color pert near gathers dust in my stamping studio, but I wanted create something with paper from the Designer Series Paper Stack and I …

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Going Solo With Elegant Trio Stencils

   I have recently discovered the joy of stenciling on cards and, when my new Elegant Trio Stencils arrived this week, I knew I had to try my own version of Shelli Gardner's card (shown above right).  Isn't it fantastic that CASEing (Copy And Share Everything) is heavily encouraged in the stamping world?!  Find a …

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Folk Flowers Stenciled Card

    It was SO difficult for me, but I actually made a card that was all one layer!  OK—technically it's got layers because I had to create a frame around the artwork!  But, it's almost one layer!  Hey, what can I say, it's hard for me to do simple. I wanted to try a whole …

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