Hello and welcome to a fun blog hop celebrating Neat & Tangled’s 6th birthday! Hopefully you’ve arrived here from the Neat & Tangled blog and if you’re new to my little corner of the internet, welcome! My card for the hop features a wonderful new Floral Frame stamp set and coordinating dies. I love this floral design and feel like … Read More
Monochromatic Cards: I heart you
If you are ever stumped for color combinations for your cards, don’t overthink it, my crafty friends. Just go monochromatic! I have always loved doing this for my scrapbook pages and it turns out that it works for card, too! When I got my hands on this cute little Picture Book Crab die, I started playing with some ideas, but … Read More
Distress Ink Galaxy Card
You know how sometimes you make a card in record time and everything comes together like clockwork? This is not one of those cards. That said, I freaking LOVE this card and how it turned out so I wanted to share my process today in a slightly longer video (just over 15 minutes) because I like to keep it real, … Read More
Simon Says Stamp Friendly Frolic Blog Hop
It’s blog hop time at Simon Says Stamp to celebrate the Friendly Frolic release! Today I have a card that is a little bit whimsical and little bit graphic. You should know I am not an expert of watercolor by any stretch, and so today I’m using Tim Holtz Distress Inks to color in a huge, sketchy flower and combining … Read More
Faux Stamped Metal + Dude (a masculine card)
If you struggle to create masculine cards for some of the dudes in your life, I have a project today that just might fill that need! Using a brand new background stamp from Simon Says Stamp, I created what I’m calling a faux metal background using some gold cardstock and gold embossing powder. I thought it would work great with … Read More
Darling Dragonflies and Simple Copic Coloring
Today’s card is all about getting more confident with my Copic marker coloring and starting to learn how to use my Sandy Allnock Hex Chart. (All card supplies listed at the end of this post!) I purchased this printable chart right after buying my first Copic markers, but I didn’t really understand it in terms of how it can help … Read More
Fun with Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates
Hello month of July, the month of all things hot and right now, foil is a hot trend that I am just starting to dabble in. Today, I’m sharing a simple card (or two!) using some of the fun Foil-Mates products from Gina K. Designs and Therm O Web. I would like to say for the record, the shot above … Read More
Love You Word + Shadow die two ways
Today I’m sharing two card projects featuring a word and shadow die set that I designed for Simon Says Stamp. I really love the whole word die/shadow die combo! This particular die cuts out the love, Y, O and U as separate dies, and you ground them on the shadow layer. I kept my word die layer together, rather than … Read More
Thank You Two Ways (a Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes product release!)
The new Good Vibes release at Simon Says Stamp is going strong and today I have two cards to share today featuring a brand new alpha die set from me (on reserve until July 15), a cool, geometric background stamp and a fun stencil. One card uses the negative space and the other, the positive. A bit of crafty yin … Read More
Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes Release Blog Hop (Card Share + Video)
Hello crafty friends! I hope you are having a good vibes kind of day because it’s blog hop time for the brand new Good Vibes release from Simon Says Stamp! If you’ve just arrived here from the amazing Kristina Werner’s blog, I welcome you warmly and with, what else? GOOD vibes! Today I’m sharing a card that features two cool … Read More