One of my best friends is turning 30 this week (Yay Kelly!!). What better opportunity to make another card. =) It certainly did not hurt that my order from PTI arrived today either!! That’ll get your mojo going. I got me some Kraft card stock to play with and two new stamp sets. To kill [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Birthday Girl WSC55
Posted in Cards, Sketch Challenges on August 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A Birthday Ensemble
Posted in Altered Items, Cards on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my dear friends is having a birthday this week so I thought I would try to make a little something for her. Inspiration struck when I saw what Lisa Johnson recently featured as a project leading up to the release of her new stamp set remember. You can see her post here. My [...]
While I’m thinking about it…
Posted in General on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wanted to tell you about how I improved on my photos. Because in my humble opinion, they are much better. Seriously. Since I started blogging I realized that I must do something about how my pictures appear in my posts pronto! Yay, for husband to the rescue. He helped me become familiar with the [...]
Gotta try them chipboards…
Posted in Cards on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…and I’m likin’ it so far. I have been intrigued with the use of chipboard on cards for a while, but haven’t actually tried until this week. What fun! I am not totally ga ga over this design but you can’t win every time…(or can you?) =) I’ll go ahead and post it anyway. Take [...]
Totally Happy
Posted in Cards on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Have you tried using google reader to peruse your favorite blogs? My husband (who always tries to entice me with new technologies and teach me little bits of HTML) showed me this about a week ago. I must say I totally love it!! It’s like having an inbox full of fun e-mails every morning . [...]
Simple Goodness
Posted in Cards, Simple Goodness on August 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
There is nothing wrong with a simple card. In fact, I often find that I am drawn to card designs that are devoid of the frills. There are quite a few smaller card/gift shops here in the city that I like to browse from time to time. Of course, as a card maker I can’t [...]
Sunshine
Posted in Cards on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So we went from 100F to 60F in a day! Not that I am complaining. I was just about ready to melt into a little puddle so the change in weather was just fine with me. In fact, I love it. It don’t hurt one bit!! =)I thought I would post a card today that [...]
Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #29
Posted in Sketch Challenges on August 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Well…its been an entire week since my last (and first) post. Hopefully that will change as soon as I get the hang of this whole blogging deal. I am glad that this week’s cupcake challenge gave me a good reason to try it again. The sketch for this week was really fun to play with [...]
An Introduction and Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge # 28
Posted in Sketch Challenges on August 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So…for the past year my morning routine has been to eat my breakfast while reading my favorite stamp blogs. Such a fun way to start the day. I have found so much inspiration and great ideas for my own stamping this way but never thought that I would have my own blog one day. But [...]
Diving In!
Posted in General on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After being a long time reader of blogs, I’m ready to author one of my own. Brace yourself, Blogosphere!