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handmade cards with a yellow and pink backgrounds with white gerber daisies with pink highlights and green leaves

CARDS | BetterPress

New Spellbinders – Yana’s Daisies

Check out the New Spellbinders – Yana’s Daisies. Yes, the talented Yana has another new collection out consisting of Press Plates, coordinating stencils, and dies.

April 10, 2025 9 Comments

hand made die cut card with a vintage teal blue mailbox with gold trim, a pink and white envelope in the slot and decorated with pink and yellow roses

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders April Club Kick Off

Today, I’m sharing Spellbinders April Club Kick Off, and I’m starting with my four favorite kits for this month. The Large Die of the Month, the BetterPress of the Month, the 3D Embossing Folder of the month and the Embossing Club.

April 6, 2025 7 Comments

Easter card with a blue and green argyle stenciled background and a copic colored light gray bunny head with a teal bow tie

CARDS | Clean and Simple Cards

Simon Says Stamp Argyle Bunny

Bunnies and carrots are all over my work table today, and I’m having so much fun coloring them all. So here is my first card, Simon Says Stamp Argyle Bunny.

April 4, 2025 6 Comments

black hand made card with purple and blue flowers and gray leaves

CARDS | BACKGROUNDS

Alex Syberia Designs Charming Floral Background Cards

The cards I’m sharing today are Alex Syberia Designs’ Charming Floral Background Cards. This is a BetterPress Plate set with a matching 5-sheet layered Stencil set.

March 28, 2025 17 Comments

three hand made cards with an elephant in a hot air balloon, a stork delivering a baby and a rabbit driving a go kart

CARDS | Baby/child cards

Spellbinders Little Smiles Hand Made Cards

Today, I have Spellbinders Little Smiles Hand Made Cards to share with you. I created three of them covering all the elements of the new release.

March 25, 2025 8 Comments

hand stitched background on a handmade card with a die cut black and white puppy chewing a pink slipper

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders, Finishing Up Club Cards

Hello crafty friends. Today’s post is Spellbinders, Finishing Up Club Cards. I had just a few club kits left to showcase this month, so I

March 20, 2025 8 Comments

Green and Orange Glimmer Foiled Mosaic background hand made card with orange and green die cut flowers and leaves to celebrate St. Patrick's day

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

St. Paddy’s Day Glimmer Cards

I have a couple of St. Paddy’s Day Glimmer Cards to share with you to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. I combined a few of the new Spellbinders Clubs for these again. The main focus is the BetterPress Club of the Month, Mosaic Quilted Memories.

March 17, 2025 8 Comments

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Mini Wax Seals

Hi, card-making friends. Yesterday, Spellbinders released a pile of new products, which you can view here. Today, I’m sharing four projects created with the NEW

March 11, 2025 10 Comments

hand made white easter card with 6 colored and die cut chicks in eggs and a pink sentiment

CARDS | Copic colored cards

Simon Says Stamp Eggstra Special Easter Card

Today I’m sharing Simon Says Stamp Eggstra’s Special Easter Card. This is a new Easter-themed 6 x 8 Stamp and Die set with an adorable selection of little round chicks. They are super easy to color and cut out, and there’s a fabulous selection of sentiments to go with them.

March 9, 2025 5 Comments

hand made pink card with blue inlaid hearts, a large overlay blue die cut heart with a black and white penguin holding a pot of roses

2 | Cardmaking Videos

NEW VIDEO Alex Syberia Designs February 2025 Release Blog Hop and Giveaway

Hi, card-making friends, and welcome back. Today is the NEW Alex Syberia Designs February 2025 Release Blog Hop and Giveaway. I’m so excited to be hopping along with the Alex Syberia Team again this month, and we have some fabulous inspiration to share with you all.

February 26, 2025 29 Comments

handmade card with a white leaf embossed background with two cartooned chicks in the center and a cascade of flowers around them.

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

How to Easily Add Texture to Handmade Cards

Today, I’m sharing how to Easily Add Texture to Handmade Cards. I’m using more Spellbinders February Club products to add interest and dimension to my handmade cards.

February 13, 2025 7 Comments

postage stamp style card with teal and purple butterflies and black cancelled stamp overlays on a teal background

CARDS | cards for friends

Waffle Flower Butterfly Blossom Release

Today is the day we have been waiting for, the Waffle Flower Butterfly Blossom Release is live, woo hooo…..

February 5, 2025 9 Comments

hand made greeting card with little coffee die cut shapes all over them in pink, teal and brown

CARDS | Clean and Simple Cards

Tim Holtz Fresh Brewed Coffee Cards

Visit the blog for instructions on how to create the Tim Holtz Fresh Brewed coffee cards

February 4, 2025 7 Comments

a hand made birthday card with a rainbow of embossed diamonds cascading down the front and a black and white sentiment in the center

2 | Cardmaking Videos

NEW Card Making Video – Spellbinders Stenciled Embossing Folder

Today’s card making video is Spellbinders Stenciled Embossing Folder. I’m playing with the new Bougie Birthday Collection release and in particular the beautiful Born to Sparkle Embossing Folder with the coordinating stencil.

January 29, 2025 8 Comments

hand made mint colored valentine card with a gold frame, a white heart created from small white leaves, with gold berries, a gold sentiment in the center and a white wax seal with a gold rose in the center

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

Spellbinders Stylized Lattice Valentine Card | BLOG HOP & Give Away

I wanted to do something entirely different for this hop. This card is created entirely with the Deluxe Caboodle Club Kits for January. The Stylized Lattice 3D Embossing Folder, the leaves that create the heart are from the Large Die of the Month Club, the hugs sentiment is from the Clear Stamp and Die of the Month and the Wax seal, is Floral Jewel, Wax Seal Club.

January 23, 2025 44 Comments

hand made card with a green and gold sky and a silhouette of winnie the pooh and friends holding hands off on an adventure

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Pooh and Friends Handmade Cards

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of creating Spellbinders Pooh and Friends Handmade Cards. Three cards covering Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore.

January 20, 2025 8 Comments

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Soaring Dragonfly Cards

Today, I’m creating with the January Small Die of the Month, which has this beautiful large dragonfly and a couple of lovely options for wings.

January 16, 2025 12 Comments

three hand made cards with pink flowers, blue leaves, glimmer background

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

Spellbinders Stencil and Glimmer of the Month Plus Deluxe Caboodle Bonus

Welcome back crafty friends. I have 3 cards to share today with the Spellbinders Stencil and Glimmer of the Month Plus Deluxe Caboodle Bonus. So

January 14, 2025 7 Comments

Spellbinders Botanical Atrium handmade card with white and red flowers on a bed of greenery and a blue background

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

Spellbinders Botanical Atrium

Today I’m sharing how I created the Spellbinders Botanical Atrium with the new Large Die of the Month Kit from Spellbinders

January 6, 2025 12 Comments

image of my top nine cards from Instagram.

CARDS | BetterPress

Top 9 Cards from 2024

Visit the blog post for details on my Top 9 Cards for 2024 with links to the individual posts for card instructions and supply lists

January 2, 2025 4 Comments

hand made greeting card with a stamped and colored little mouse staring at a crocus in the snow

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders New House Mouse Stamps

Visit the blog for detailed instructions on how to create the Spellbinders New House Mouse Stamps cards shared today.

December 12, 2024 8 Comments

teal colored card with a gold die cut H decorated with purple flowers and green leaves

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders | My Favorite December 2024 Clubs

Today, I have Spellbinders | My Favorite December 2024 Clubs to share with you. Okay, there are only three cards, but they use a lot of the new products, LOL. It’s always fun to combine the clubs and see what you come up with. They all coordinate so well.

December 10, 2024 12 Comments

Life is Better with Friends

CARDS | cards for friends

Life is Better with Friends Handmade Cards

Hi, card-making friends. Welcome back to my blog. Today, I have 3 cards from the NEW WAFFLE FLOWER RELEASE to share with you. I’m calling

December 5, 2024 6 Comments

Waffle Flower Postage Collage Snowmen

CARDS | BACKGROUNDS

Waffle Flower Postage Collage Snowmen

The postage collage snowman stencil fits perfectly over the postage collage die-cut panel, and it’s super easy to stencil. The only serious decision you have to make is what colors to use; the rest is just fun!

November 26, 2024 10 Comments

CARDS | Baby/child cards

Spellbinders Birthday Bliss Die Cut Card

Hello, my crafty friends, and welcome back to my blog. My share today is a Spellbinders Birthday Bliss Die-Cut Card. I’m getting an early start

November 5, 2024 6 Comments

Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique

2 | Cardmaking Videos

NEW Card Making Video – Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique

Today I have Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique to share with you. The Nature’s Botanical Release from Spellbinders and Susan Tierney-Cockburn is beautiful, and I chose the Botanical Wreath and Nature’s Botanical Garden BetterPress Sentiments to create with today. This is a super fast and easy inking technique and you are going to LOVE the results.

October 30, 2024 9 Comments

hand made friendship card with blue and green flowers with purple leaves on a white embossed background

CARDS | cards for friends

Purple and Blue Grateful For You Card

Today, we have Purple and Blue Grateful For You Card using new products from Alex Syberia Designs. This is the same stamp and die set as the last card, done with completely different colors and layered over an embossed background using a NEW Tiny Autumn Leaves Hot Foil Plate.

October 24, 2024 13 Comments

Grateful for You hand made card

CARDS | Everyday Cards

Grateful For You Stenciled Card

I’m sharing a Grateful For You Stenciled Card created with three new Grateful For You products from this release. The 6 x 8 stamp set, the coordinating dies and the stencil.

October 22, 2024 24 Comments

Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest

I had fun with this one, Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. It started with this month’s Embossing Folder Club, the lovely Checkered Argyle, which is quite conservative and lovely. Then I decided our little Festive Friends needed to be included (Small Die of the Month Club), and after I got his sweater all argyled to match the background, I thought, “Ugly Christmas Sweater.” So I grabbed the reindeer dies from the Large Die of the Month Club, Cozy Toes Slippers.

October 17, 2024 8 Comments

Watercolor Orchid hand made card intro

CARDS | cards for friends

Watercolor Orchid hand made card

This die and embossing folder set are from Spellbinders and Susan Tierney Cockburn and are part of the Winter’s Grace release. If you like making 3 dimensional flowers, you are going to love this release.

September 25, 2024 10 Comments

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