Heat Embossing

Bright Holiday

Bright Holiday

The holiday season is filled with lots of shine and shimmer, and today’s card is no exception. Stardream Metallic card stock in Silver is front and center! I started off by embossing the silver panel using a geometric 3D embossing folder and adding pieces of it to either side of a Cougar Folded Notecard. I…

Wonderful Christmas

Wonderful Christmas

Christmas cards with retro elements always make me smile. Old fashioned backgrounds, fun typography, I love it all! For my project today, I had to pair my new Hero Arts Christmas stamps with some bright, Christmas-y colored card stock. For my background, I heat embossed a large background image onto a panel of Astrobright Gamma…

Let’s Celebrate!

Let’s Celebrate!

Using dark cardstock offers a great opportunity to highlight many different techniques. For today’s project, I’m using the beautifully textured Royal Sundance Midnight Blue card stock as a backdrop for a birthday greeting. This is a rich navy with a slight cross-hatch texture to it. To bring that texture out, I started off by blending…

A Bright Thank You

A Bright Thank You

Even though Fall is close, I still like my bright, cheerful floral cards. For today’s project, it’s all about cute thank you cards that are easy to replicate. For my card bases, I used Ice Blue Royal Sundance Fiber Card Stock. This is a very light, blue with bits of darker blue speckles on it….

Fall-Themed Thank You Card

Fall-Themed Thank You Card

Fall is definitely my favorite season. I love the vibrant colors of the leaves on the trees and the potted mums that decorate neighbors’ porches. My project today was inspired by those gorgeous blooms. Next to Copics, Zig Clean Color Brush Pens are my favorite way to add a splash of color to stamped images….

Halloween Greetings

Halloween Greetings

Could it be?  Yes, Fall festivities will soon be upon us!  I thought I’d get some practice in by making a fun (and not scary) Halloween card. My main motivation was to use this pretty background stamp from Fun Stampers’ Journey called Ornate Blooms along with what I think is the “perfect orange” from CutCardstock…

Skater Birthday

Masculine birthday cards are fun for me because I get to break out of my usual florals and pastels and try something a little edgier.  For today’s card, I’m using CutCardstock’s Basis Card Stock in black along with some fun background stamps for that skater dude in your life. When heat embossing on dark card…