Animal Friends Birthday

I have to admint when I first saw the BIrthday Delivery stamp set and coodinating product I wasn't too wowed by it. I immediately thought I won't buy this one. But it only took seeing some samples at the last On Stage event and realizing that some of the images […] Read more »

An Amazing Trip – Part 3, Amsterdam

The final leg of this amazing vacation was two days in Amsterdam. Our first night was on the ship and then we transferred to a hotel. I had been warned by friends to be very aware of the bicyclists and they were so right. This city has 800,000 people and […] Read more »

An Amazing Trip – Part 2, Germany

After our 4 days in Paris we boarded a high speed train towards Luxembourg and the beginning of the river cruise portion of of trip.  Champaigne greeted us as we got on board. There were only 104 passengers on this cruise so not crowded and by the end of the […] Read more »

An Amazing Trip – Part 1, Paris

I just returned from the trip of a lifetime. I spent two weeks in Europe on an Avalon River Cruise. A year ago I started talking to my friend, Alice, about going on a river cruise and it seemed like the day would never get here and then quickly it […] Read more »

Hello August

This is from the CD calendar which is an annual class I do each year. The stamp  set is Seaside Shore and the coral was made using the tree die from Thoughtful Branches framelits. I can hardly believe it is August already. This year is just whizzing by and schools […] Read more »

Carols of Christmas

During the month of August, you will have early access to one of our top-trending bundles from the upcoming holiday catalog! Check out the video to see some amazing cards. I love the borders included in the thinlits.   Read more »

Shadowbox Card

Another card I found when sorting through old stuff in my stamp room was a shadowbox card made a very long time ago. It inspired me to make this card using the Colorful Seasons stamp set and thinlits. There are two pieces of card stock, each 5-1/2" x 4-1/4", and […] Read more »

Something Funny in the Dressing Room

Something funny happened today when a friend and I went shopping. We each had several things to try on and had dressing rooms right next to each other. As we often do, we would come out of the dressing room to have the other one see what was being tried […] Read more »

Pop-UP Birthday Card for a Friend

I have been working on reorganizing my stamp room (which seems like a never ending task) and I found a very old card that has a surprise pop-up. It was the inspiration and template I used to make this birthday card for a friend. There is very little stamping. Most […] Read more »

A Few of My Favorite Things

Every new catalog I like to share what are my favorites. I was going to list my top 10 but couldn't leave any of these out so here are my top 11 products. If a stamp set and framelit or punch came in a bundle that is what I have […] Read more »