Cheerful Christmas

This is a little hard to see, but the base is a super shiny, heavy white card stock (non-Stampin’ Up). This big, bold bold flourishy Christmas Cheer message is in the Cheerful Christmas stamp set. This is a clean and simple, but very elegant one-layer card....

Ornamental Pine

Stampin’ Up has had some lovely botanical stamps for the holidays, but this one, Ornamental Pine, with the long needle pine and pine cone is a fave.The base is Very Vanilla, with a mat of Old Olive and another mat of Real Red. Then the images are stamped on a...

Seasonally Scattered

 ‘Tis the season and there is nothing that gets me more in the mood for the Season than creating Christmas cards.   This set, called Seasonally Scattered offers big, bold reverse lettering of three messages: THANKS (with tiny leaves),...

Paper- and Iris-folded Beautiful Cards

The art of Paper-folding and Iris-folding has generated some interest of late. The work is done on the reverse side, following a pattern of where each strip should go. When it is turned over – Voila! Beautiful!This lovely ballerina was simple to do, as the...

Simple Stems

This fun set is called Simple Stems and was in the Occasions catalog, now retired. Some of the images in this set coordinate with the Secret Garden Framelits dies.The background is a piece of Pistachio Pudding, along with a piece of designer paper from the Sweet...

Polka Dot Pieces

This is an exercise in using up DSP that has been hanging around too long.  I call this the “sunburst effect” and it is merely cutting strips of Designer Series Paper (DSP) into 1-1/2 x 6″ pieces, then cutting again diagonally.  A little...