For over 20 years, I crafted and even started a YouTube channel in my dining room. You all came to know it as the craft/dining room. It was a good place to create, but there were limits. The limits became more obvious as my hubby became an elementary school teacher and had summers off. It’s […]
Swatch those inks! (and grab my free title tag download today!)
You have all these lovely inks and swatching them out will help you in all of your crafty endeavors! I love having swatch rings because it’s so simply to just pop them off a jump ring and bring them to the project you’re working on to figure out what colors look best! Plus, I created […]
Stenciled holiday tags with ink blending and Glitz Glitter gel
Today I’m sharing some fun tag projects featuring a cool Ornament Builder stencil, some inks and some new Glitz Glitter gels from Simon Says Stamp. It’s all part of the Handmade Holiday release! I make a lot of tags for the holidays as a fun way to festoon the packages I wrap! This is a […]
Welcome to the Craft/Dining Room Tour for 2021.
Today I’m sharing a new video tour of the Craft/Dining Room. I have been crafting in this room since I discovered scrapbooking back in 2003. Over the years, I’ve added pieces, rearranged things, and more or less turned my dining room into my craft room. Fortunately, we have a kitchen with a table, so eating […]
Mini Domed Blending Foams. New life for my old wooden handles!
There’s a new blending foam in town and I decided to bust them out, grab my old wooden handled tools, and see if I could have better luck with foams this time around. When I started making cards back in 2017, I really struggled with the circular, flat blending foams. In fact, it wasn’t until […]
A quick refresh for my ink storage in the craft/dining room
I was recently sent full-sized ink cubes from Concord & 9th (which was totally awesome, by the way, and THANK YOU to Concord & 9th!) and I wanted to expand my ink pad storage to have them at the ready for my next project. I had purchased all the mini cubes when they came out, […]