Just in CAS you think that you’ve seen this Cottage Wreath before…   

You have!!!  I have shamelessly CAS’d this pretty card from Amy Koenders from Stamp with Amy!  I just loved the card because of its color scheme as well as the wreath design.  But she also inspired me to use the Gingham Cottage DSP, which I honestly was not a fan of.  (They can’t all be READ MORE

A Rustic Harvest Easel Display…

It seems like Stampin’ Up! is always offering at least one “border print” in each season’s Designer Series Paper collection.  For this fall’s Rustic Harvest, there is a beautiful confluence of chrysanthemums that are printed on a black background.  (Is that like a “bevy of beauties”?)  They are gorgeous – and they make a beautiful READ MORE

Poinsettias Peeking out in a Split Diagonal Christmas Card

As I have said in the past, I love playing with all the beautiful Stampin’ Up! Designer Series papers – and we have some gorgeous Christmas and other winter holiday papers this year from last year’s carryover as well as the current Mini Catalog – July – December 2022.  This card design is quick and READ MORE

A Whirl of Leaf Fall

I love tone-on-tone cards, although I usually tend toward the blues and grays.  Instead, I decided to be inspired by Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty with her blog post of a few months ago.  (I was absolutely NOT ready for fall at that point…) This pretty card uses Stampin’ Up! Forever Fern as well as READ MORE

Is it me – or does the Split Card Textures Dies look like the profile of New Hampshire?

Here is another easily overlooked item in the catalog:  the Stampin’ Up! Split Card Textures Dies.  I saw them and almost overlooked them– except that they looked like the profile of New Hampshire… Or was it really Vermont? Well – in either case, they spoke to me as a very appropriate design for the changing READ MORE