Lunchbox Love Notes

Every year the older kids struggle with having to go back to school.  While they are excited to see their friends, they’re not so happy to leave behind the fun and freedom of summer.  For them – and I’m sure just about every child out there – school days, while jam-packed with activities, can seem …

Sweets for the Sweet

  Today’s card was designed with sweet lovers in mind! This card is glossy, and sparkly, and has such a fun pattern to set off this whole design. The candies have a thick glossy coating to simulate the hard candy of the lollipop.  This coating was achieved with lots of layers of UTEE, and this of course …

Strawberry Box

Well we are finally back!!  CHA was a blast!  there are so many fun new lines and products coming out.  It was amazing to see all the vendors together, and all the samples which were displayed.  There were papers of all colors and patterns, new die releases, new products for trying out new techniques, and …

Pop-up Fruit Drink Card

Today’s card is a cute little pop-up card.  I originally designed this half cylinder pop-up about a year ago for an online class.  The original one that I did was a pop-up princess in a tower.  This time I wanted to alter it to be a fruit drink on a sandy beach.  The card is …

Pool Party Invite

I wanted to create some cool invites using one of the newer cartridges called Pack Your Bags.  I love the images on this Cricut Cartridge, they are perfect for both summer and vacationing!  This card uses the image found on page 55.  This cute coconut drink is the perfect image to conjure up visions of …

Make a Splash Birthday Card

We’ve recently been making some BIG changes to our video content on Paper Crafter’s Library.  One of the changes is to create themed projects – with the theme changing every 1-2 weeks (maybe longer) depending on how many ideas we have for a given theme ( we are doing a bunch of other types of …

“Friends” Card Featuring Glitz Vintage Whatnots & Melissa Frances Resin Embellishments

Pre-made embellishments are a fantastic way to pull together a beautiful card in a matter of minutes!  When I was first conceptualizing this card, I started with the vintage-style card from Glitz Design’s Whatnot collection.  The layout of the card just flowed from there.  I tried to keep my embellishments relatively simple as I didn’t …

Snail Mail

I am in love with the whole Snail Collection from Lelo Design.  The images are very cute, and very approachable in terms of coloring.  This stamp company is based out of Germany, and the owner Nancy, ships internationally.  I colored up this image using my Caran D’Ache watercolor pencils.  They have a fantastic color selection, …

Fishy Friends: Featuring the new 3-D Sizzix pop-up die

Once again I am featuring one of the new June 2011 Sizzix die release!  I love these dies, they are awsome!  So fun and so versatile!  How can you not love them.  I can have a simple card on the outside, and open it up to a fancy 3-D card on the inside.  These dies …