Author: Lisa Stenz

  • It shipped! It shipped!

    I have been wanting to get an inexpensive sewing machine to sew on my cards and layouts for a long time. (I would actually love to learn how to “really” sew someday too, but I just can’t afford another hobby at the moment.) I had heard that Janome’s Sew Mini was great for sewing paper…

  • Happy Day Card

    I know that it isn’t Autumn anymore, but I just love this card. I wish I could take full credit for it, but it was actually inspired by a card by Yvonnne Wickham. The top panel is raised with some 3-D foam squares.Cardstock: CTMH Autumn Terracotta, Chocolate, textured White Daisy Stamps: CTMH Autumn Splendor, So…

  • 35 Things About Me…

    This is a layout that I did a couple of years ago. (I will be 38 this May.) I am posting it because many of you don’t know me yet and I thought this was kind of a fun way to find out some silly things about me. Here are 35 “random” things about me…

  • Welcome Baby Hannah

    This is a layout that I entered in Close to my Heart’s Regional Celebration contest last year. It is the first thing that I have ever entered and I actually won!! Here is Jeanette Lynton, Founder & CEO of CTMH, holding my winning entry.The contest was to create a layout using our E-sized alphabet or…

  • Cherish Friendship

    I have been looking at my millions of Prima flowers that I have in jars decorating my craft room thinking, “Hmm…someday I will have to actually use some of these.” I found a great blog last night and came a cross a really simple, but elegant card that inspired me to create this “Cherish Friends”…

  • Waiting for his first ride

    This is a layout I did a few years ago before I discovered clear stamps. Yikes, the title is just horrible! I used some old woodies I bought at Michaels and some craft paint. You know how you do a layout and then go back and look at it years later and think to yourself,…

  • Out on a Limb Card

    I just got my Out on a Limb set from Papertrey and LOVE it! I whipped out a couple of super fast cards. Here is one of them. I used Papertrey’s wonderfully thick cardstock and embossed a border using Spellbinder’s largest Rectangle from the Small Nestabilities Classic Rectangle Set. It is kind of hard to…

  • Crafter in training

    When I was using my Cuttlebug earlier today, my 16 month old daughter got so excited. She came right over, picked up a piece of my scratch paper and tried to do what Mommy was doing. Of course I had to drop what I was doing and grab my camera. I can’t wait until she…