Archives for January 2007
How Gorgeous is This!!
Stephanie Ackerman created this beautiful card - I just love it. It’s a new one posted in the “Use Your Scraps Card Making Blog Challenge”. I can’t think of any better way to use those wonderful papers - you know the ones that are too small for scrapbooking, but too pretty to throw […]
All Occasion Cards
Well, I don’t know about you, but this challenge is really helping me out! I’ve created so many all occasion cards - my card box is filling up! I keep a file of all occasion cards, organized by theme, and it was empty before I started this challenge!
I hope more people will post […]
Thank You, Girlfriend
I am cruising through my scraps, making as many all occasion cards as I can. I am making the card fronts from the scraps, and then attaching them to the cards made from other paper. I’m running out of pieces big enough to make the envelopes from. But I’m enjoying making the cards. The Card […]
Use Your Scraps Card Making Challenge
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                                 Who’s up for a challenge??
 I am! I have several drawers of paper scraps. It’s time to put them to use! Let’s create cards (any occasion) from our paper scraps and enjoy these benefits:
1. You now will have a collection of cards to use - and you know you’ve been wanting to do that!
2. […]
Another of My Favorite Techniques
I love to add my stamped images to my cards, but I always like to “frame” them in some way. Here I used Ranger Alcohol inks directly onto my glossy cardstock, and then stamped my image over the color. I then matted it with black cardstock (DCWV) and mounted it to my card […]
A Little Effort Goes A Long Way - in Cardmaking!
This is a card I made the other day, and as I was creating it, I kept thinking - this looks harder than it is! I stamped the image with brown dye ink onto glossy cardstock, let dry (seconds), and then colored in the image with watercolor, acid free markers. The markers on […]
Card Collections
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Have you ever thought of using a collection of cards to give as a gift? I made this collection as a Mother’s Day gift. The 6″ matching envelopes all have Lick & Stick (TM) on them and are ready to use. I’ve made a similar set with a monogram on each one - again, a […]
Announcing Our Winter Holiday Cards Contest Winners!
We are so pleased to announce our winners - the cards in the gallery are just beautiful and we had a lot of fun sponsoring the contest. Thank you to everyone who participated! If you haven’t had a chance to browse through, yet, I hope you will go take a look - they […]