“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 …

Sugar Nellie Girl in Pan Pastel

Today’s card features a beautiful stamp which is produced by Sugar Nellie (Funky Kits) and drawn by Leanne Ellis.  They can be found HERE.  The image was colored in with my Pan Pastels.  After painting her up, I gave a quick few coats of Matte Permanent Fixative to ensure that the Pastel would not budge.  …

Hero Arts Life of the Party Birthday Card

You’ve heard me say it once, you’ll hear me say it again – I absolutely LOVE Hero Arts  products. And, no, I’m not being paid to say that LOL.  I first became aware of their products about a year ago when I accidentally stumbled on Jennifer McGuire’s blog.  Now Jennifer can pretty much make you …

Hog Wild Birthday Pop-up Card

Have any of you  seen the new Sizzix dies which were recently released?  If you haven’t, then please do, they are AMAZING!!!  Ok, so why all the exclamation marks?  Well many of you know how much I love doing pop-ups, and while I can make them no problem, I sometimes find it time consuming, and …

Artful Dwellings Wall Art

I wanted to create something with the new Tim Holtz Artful Dwellings die.  It is absolutely the coolest die!  It is part of the movers and shapers style, which means that you can move around the doors and windows, or have none of those at all.  I didn’t feel like doing a card, so I …

Graduation Money Holder Card Featuring a Punch Art Owl

I am so happy it’s Friday!  This has been an absolutely insanely busy week!  On Monday I was at a family funeral (my husband’s side of the family) that was 5 1/2 hours one way, and we made the round trip in one day. So as you can imagine, that was pretty exhausting!  During the …