I have seen a number of cards that use paper piecing techniques, and they can become quite intricate. While I admire the technique, I don’t think that I have the patience for all of that intricate detail. That is, I didn’t until I saw a card designed by a teammate of mine, Donna Leonard. She READ MORE
Category: 2022 Jan-Feb Sale-a-bration
Saying farewell to our Friendly Hello
One of the loveliest Fancy Folds is a Bookfold Card, in my opinion. It starts as a rectangle and the scoring allows the card to open to a square. It can be elegant or playful – and it makes great use of smaller pieces of paper. I decided to use this lovely fold with the READ MORE
Faux Cloisonne: Stampin’ Up! style
Do you remember cloisonné? I fell in love with it as a very little girl! My grandparents would give me little trinkets of cloisonné: ring boxes, pendants, small trays. I loved the vivid colors and the golden lines that kept those colors in. I found several different ways to produce a cloisonné effect as I READ MORE
A Friendly, if flippant, Hello…
The January/February 2022 Sale-a-bration opportunity will be gone in a little over a week. This fun campaign offers quite a few stamp sets and designer series paper packs for free with purchases of $50 or $100 – AND they are only available for a limited time. (February 28th is the last day.) I have fallen READ MORE
A Winged Pop-Up card with those Island Vibes
I’ve been sharing a few quick and easy cards in my recent posts. So, it struck me that I really needed the challenge of a little bit of “paper engineering” – and I ran across this design of Sam Calcott’s Mixed Up Crafts on YouTube. I love her designs and her videos and directions are READ MORE