Celebrate with Sketched Birthday

I love making birthday cards and the Sketched Birthday stamp set is one of the best for fun, bright cards! I will be submitting this card to The Paper Players sketch challenge this week. What a great sketch! I didn’t know what I was going to do with those little squares. In my second attempt, …

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Striped Scallop Thinlit Packs a Punch

  The Striped Scallop Thinlit is a brand new item in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog, so I hope you noticed it by now. I was intrigued with it the moment I saw it, so you bet it was in my June order! There are various ways you can use it by using the entire …

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Gorgeous Grunge Helps to Make the Perfect Blend

This card is for my wonderful daughter who will be turning 17 soon. She absolutely adores anything I make with Gorgeous Grunge and since she is my coffee and tea buddy, that is the idea behind my card! I made this card with the Pals Paper Arts challenge in mind, using Baked Brown Sugar, So …

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PPA 171 with Secret Garden

Hello! Secret Garden was one of those sets in the Spring catalog that knocked my socks off!  I really love everything in that stamp set and the fact that Stampin’ Up! made it so versatile with the coordinating framelits just made it even easier to love.  Now, the Pals Paper Arts challenge is using three …

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Happy Day Sunday!

Happy Day  – the perfect stamp set for the nicest day of the week!  Lots of people love  Fridays and Saturdays but Sunday is my favorite.  It is always just a relaxing day for me – my errands have been done and my daughter, who is a hostess at a restaurant on Friday and Saturday …

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