Trend Watch – All Tied Up in a Cute (Paper) Bow

Hello everyone!  I just love putting cute little bows on my cards and sometimes they even look like I intend them to look.  Even thought I can’t tie a perfect bow every time, I can get off the hook with cool bow dies that help create perfect bows every time.  I can also coordinate them …

Trend Watch – My Creativity is Up in the Clouds

Another fun summer pastime is sky gazing (preferably in a hammock with the cold beverage of your choice)  and you can’t do sky gazing without running into fluffy white clouds adding some interest to the great blue canvas.  This week, I want to show you how versatile and playful clouds can be and how many …

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 – Ahoy, the Nautical Trend

There is something that happens in the summer that makes most of us want to flock to the water.  Just the idea of being on a boat, or letting waves splash your feet or watching fish go by as you snorkel is so appealing.  Maybe that is why I am seeing nautical themes everywhere.  So …

Trend Watch – Doodling

Officially doodles are unconscious drawings that you make while your attention is otherwise occupied. The most common ‘doodling time’ is when you’re having a long telephone conversation. Most of the drawings are really simple but sometimes it can grow into a complete pattern. Little flowers, circles, squares, arrows, eyes and geometric shapes are very popular …

Speech, Speech, Speech… Bubbles that is

Maybe I watch too many movies but in all of the wedding movies there comes a time when the guests clink on their glasses with spoons and shout, “speech, speech, speech.”  I just thought it was a funny reference to the ever so cool trend of speech bubbles in paper crafting.  They have shown up …

Trend Watch – Chemistry Stamps

As a scientist who also enjoys paper crafting, I’ve always got my eye out for science-related crafty items. It used to be they were few and far between, but thanks to many stamp companies, including Lawn Fawn and Papertrey Ink, that has changed! Now that being a science geek has become much more trendy, thanks …