Category: Fun with paper

January 25th is the Birthday Card Create-a-thon. Join us for a great day of Birthday Card making! We’ll be creating a great set of Birthday Cards this month!  We’ll be making 5 each of 3 designs (15 total). I’ll provide the materials if you bring your basic crafting supplies: adhesives, scissors, bone folder and whatever…

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This was a fun card.  Skidding in to wish you a Happy Birthday!  I was missing some inspiration until I looked over at the Freshly Made Sketch that was going on.  So I squealed my tires on over to the card corner and went at it.  I usually pick the fire trucks, but I thought…

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So here is one of my last Thanksgiving invitations… I really need to get these in the mail this weekend. I was playing with Freshly Made Sketches #112 for this one. Love, love, love these sites! Sketch sites like FMS give makers a great starting point, whether you’re feeling totally uninspired or you just want to…

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Recently I was shopping and really wanted a new die that would make trees. I’m really pleased with the one I got and used it to make a birthday card using it. I was going to make some Christmas cards with it, but this is what came out.  I definitely think it’ll look great with…

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So since I’m on a mission to force myself to use more Crushed Curry paper, I decided I needed to make another version of the Turkey day invitation.  This one was based off the CAS(E) this Sketch #53. When I looked at it I almost immediately thought of the cards that have folding sides, and…

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  I finally got around to making the invitations for the thanksgiving day festivities.  I used the Freshly Made Sketches #111 as my inspiration for the layout.  They’ll be in the mail soon!  If I don’t forget anyway…  I’m finding it super hard to use the crushed curry paper and I think I may have gone…

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Just a simple card…                      

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I was trying to come up with something with the peek-a-boo frames with this card, because I just don’t feel like I use them enough. I didn’t take into account the size of the card and that I was going to have to put on 3 of these suckers, so I ended up using the…

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I was playing with some of my older dies and found one of my pumpkins and in another one had some vines. I wasn’t quite sure what else I was going to do with it, but I thought I’d try out some of the embossing folders and new framelits I got recently. I think it…

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I started making cards again recently and decided to go ahead and attempt to do a couple of web challenges. One was from Fab Friday where you needed to use specific colors for the palette. The colors were a little difficult for me to work with since I wanted a birthday card and not a Halloween…

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