I have always loved the simple, elegant look of letterpress. Although, as we all know, letterpress is a very expensive process. I have played around with various metal dies over the years and was happy to get a faux letterpress look at a fraction of the cost. I was playing around today with some of…
The challenge this week on the Heart 2 Heart Challenge Blog is to create something with the theme “April showers bring May flowers.” What a fun theme! I just had to create a card with some daisies. Do you remember what Meg Ryan says about daisies in the movie You’ve Got Mail? She says, “Don’t…
I made this card for a friend who recently lost her father-in-law. Sympathy cards are always hard for me to make. I want them to be simple, but comforting. I still have tons of cards that were sent to me when my father died 19 years ago and they still bring me comfort when I…
Ya’ll know I love clean and simple cards, but this one beats them all. You just can’t get anymore clean and simple than this. LOL! I pulled out my brand new CTMH Baby Love stamp set to make a card for a friend who just had a baby girl. I loved the stamp so much…
Here is one of the Christmas cards that I am sending out this year. I need to send a huge thank you to Tracey Mason and Christine Adams for the inspiration for this card! Thanks ladies!The last Heart 2 Heart challenge of the year is to post a favorite holiday card. I have made a…
I finally finished the end of the year teacher gifts for my daughter’s preschool teachers. (I just found out that my son’s teacher doesn’t like tea, so I need to come up with something else for her.)The tea pot template came from Lauren Meader and can be found here. I bought the SVG files and…
Here’s another Birthday Blessings Thank You card. I am getting close to sending out my cards. Hopefully I will get them all done this week as planned. I have a few cards that I need to send to my previous bosses, my pastor, my brother, and a few other men, so I needed to create…
Here’s another Birthday Blessings Thank You card. I love this flower in CTMH’s Smiles stamp set. I stamped it in Brown StazOn and colored it in with my Buttercup marker. The stem is made with the thank you sentiment in Papertrey’s Mega Mixed Messages set stamped with Sweet Leaf ink. The leaves are from CTMH’s…
Here is the next installment of my birthday blessing thank yous. You can read more about my b-day blessing thank yous here. These cards were inspired by a talented gal named Angie. (I follow her blog and am always inspired by her creativity.) For each card I used White Daisy and Chocolate cardstock, my Sizzix…