April Design Team Projects From Michelle Joy Wecksler

Happy April!!!  I’m excited to be back with you this month after playing with the Attic Boutique Suite from Stampin’ Up!  I love how being a Design Team member challenges me to try new things and work with products that I might otherwise not play with!  Who knew I would fall in love with designer …

March Design Team Projects From Michelle Joy Wecksler

Wow!  It’s hard to believe that it is already my second month on the Design Team!  Time is flying by!!!!  Spring is definitely in the air, or at least in my mind right now, so I decided I needed to play with flowers!  The Blossom Punch by Stampin’ Up! and the coordinating Mixed Bunch stamp …

Countdown To Spring / Easter Newsletter Makeover Challenge

Welcome to the new face of the Makeover Monday challenge.  Every Sunday, as part of our project ideas newsletter we’re going to make over one of our own older cards, showing you how easy it is to use existing designs (your own OR someone else’s) as inspiration. Your challenge – as with our previous Makeover Monday Challenges – is to use our …

Welcome Guest Designer Judy Kubota!

In addition to our quarterly Design Team members, we have have invited a number of Guest Designers to share their creations with our Paper Crafter’s Library readers and members. Today we would like to share this adorable Owl Valentine pop up card created by Judy Kubota.  Judy has also created a video tutorial that will be available exclusively …

February Design Team Projects from Michelle Wecksler

Hi everyone!!!  I am so excited to be creating my first blog post for you as a new Design Team member!!!!  I hope the projects I’ve created for you spark your creativity and inspire you to try something new!  I decided to bring some spring to the winter here in Colorado by playing with the …

Makeover Monday Challenge #7: Inspired by Maille Bells….& A Winner

Welcome to our Make Over Monday Challenge – a weekly challenge brought to you by the Paper Crafter’s Library and Sunny Stampin’ Studios.  The purpose of Makeover Monday is to help you learn how to take the ideas and inspiration you find on the internet, and make it your own. This challenge is strictly a …

Holly Christmas Card

This year I’ve been having fun playing around with incorporating holiday greenery into some of my Christmas projects.  Today in the Paper Crafter’s Library, I’ve put together a video tutorial on how to create this Holly Christmas Card which uses some fun iridescent greenery we found at Michael’s. The layout for this card was inspired by …

Happy Halloween Spider Card

I don’t know about you all, but I just love Halloween.  We’re not one of those families that go all out and decorate our house for Halloween or throw Halloween parties, but we enjoy taking the kids out trick or Treating, and I enjoy creating all sorts of nifty Halloween projects.  We’ve got a whole …

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 …