Trend Watch – Aviation Abounds

Welcome Aboard and Thank You for joining us for today’s scheduled departure 🙂  OK, Aviation is (kind of) in my blood–My husband is a pilot, his uncle was a pilot, his cousin is a pilot and my father was and brothers are, all in the manufacturing side of aviation.  I spent a few years in the private/corporate …

Trend Watch – Fabrics: Not Just For Sewing

Being a paper crafter for 15+ years, this Trend Reporter has experimented with (almost) everything; natural/hand-made papers, foils, vellums, tissue paper, heavy and lightweight card stocks and my latest favorite, water color paper.  But what about fabrics?  After receiving my very first sewing machine in 2010 and building a small inventory of materials, I started …

Trend Watch – Transparencies

Now you see them, now you don’t.  Or is it, now you don’t see them, now you do?  But wait–now you don’t see them and now you don’t?  LOL!!  Regardless of how you may, or may not see Transparencies–They are everywhere!! There are so many ways to incorporate see-through touches into your designs; Surfaces, glazes, …

Trend Watch – Bokeh in Stamping

I’m so glad to know that I’m not the only card maker to have ‘nothing’.  That feeling–it happens with all of us at one time or another:  The Brick Wall.  No ideas, no motivation, no inspiration with/for or about anything creative.  We endlessly search for that ‘something’ that will re-ignite our flame of creativity. For some …