Rainbow Butterflies

Hi crafty friends! I’m entering the Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge today. The theme for July is butterflies and I can’t wait to make All The Cards for this!

Blue China Card

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card inspired by Delfts Blue porcelain (a Dutch version of blue China) and I love love love how this simple card turned out.

Dino Party

Hello crafty friends! Today I wanted some no stress coloring and that’s exactly what I got from this card. A super simple design but so easy to adapt to different occasions and to whatever stamps you have in your stash.

Hang In There Sloth

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a super quick and easy one layer card to share. I needed a quick encouragement card for a friend today and this stamp set by Jane’s Doodles was just perfect for it!

Ombre Pattern Stamping

Hello crafty friends! I’m so excited to be guest designing for Crafty Meraki for the next three months. This is my first project and I love how it turned out.

Colorful Shadow Stamping

Hello crafty friends! I’m back with one of my all time favorite things to do with clear stamps: shadow stamping. I’ll also finally give all the beginners out there a straight answer on which stamp sets you should get to start with.

MFT SC 542 – Beary Bored Without You

Hello crafty friends! Today I played along with the Wednesday Sketch Challenge from My Favorite Things. I absolutely loved this sketch, so fun to play with.

Cut Up Panel

Hello crafty friends! Today I’m joining the challenge over at the Share Handmade Kindness facebook group. Every month they revisit one of Jennifer Mcguire’s old techniques over there and it’s so fun.

Bold Sparkly Hello

Hi crafty friends! Today I have a really fun and simple card to share, with just some stamping and die cutting and 2 mins of coloring that will make your card stand out!

This CAS Card Is A Hoot

Hey crafty friends! Hope you’re well! Today’s the day of the Streamside Studios Instagram Hop and giveaway! I’m sharing the tutorial for my card here, but if you want to enter the giveaway head over to instagram.

Freshly Picked Just For You

Hello crafty friends! It’s Mother’s day today, a prime occasion for a cardmaker to make something! I know my mom loves simple cards and she loves the look of colored pencils, so that’s what I did!

Technique: Easy Faux Watercolor Background

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a spring card to share and a really fun background technique you can do with any stamp and your water reactive inks. So let’s get into it!

Brew-Tea-Ful Best-Tea

Hello crafty friends! Today I’m excited to join the Brew-Tea-Ful Blog Hop from Jane’s Doodles. I’m going to give you my usual tutorial here and then you can hop along following the links below to see plenty more cards showcasing this gorgeous stamp set and leave a comment on the blog to enter the giveaway

Houseplants

Hello crafty friends! So happy to have you back here this Friday! I hope you had a lovely week and that you’ll have a crafty weekend, maybe you can try one of the techniques in this post! I’m using ink blending to color die cuts today and I have some tips to make it easier!

A Million Dandelion Wishes

Hello crafty friends! Today I’m going back to a tried and true background design with some Mama Elephant stamps to make a fun birthday card.

Mft Sketch Challenge 535 – Bear Hug

Hey crafty friends! Today I’m joining the MFT Sketch Challenge with one of my favorite stamp sets of all time. I did a fun stamped background so let’s get into it!

Hap-pea Birthday

Hello crafty friends! I’m back with another design post for Streamside Studios. Today’s a really bright and punny birthday card which happen to be my favorite.

Happy St-Patrick’s Day!

Hello crafty friends! Hope you all had a wonderful day, maybe you even celebrated Saint Patrick’s! I didn’t, but I did make this cute and quick card with lots of shimmer and shine.

Radiant Embossed Vellum Flowers

Yes, I’m definitely running out of good titles. Hello crafty friends! Hope you’re having a good Friday! Today I played around with my new products from Pinkfresh Studio for a second entry to their monthly challenge. This month is all about flowers, which happens to be one of my favorite things in cards.

Digi Stamps Sentiment Pattern

Hello everyone! Today I have a fun technique to share that you can do with any digital sentiment stamp and makes a fun backdrop for your cards!

Cocktail Party Shaker

Hello everyone! Today I have a quick vellum shaker card to show you guys. I love vellum shaker cards because they’re just a tad more subtle than your regular shaker card made with acetate. This one also includes another fun vellum technique so definitely read on if you’re curious about that!

No Line Fox

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to make a thank you card for someone who sent me a gorgeous birthday card, so I tried my hand at some no-line coloring again.

Elegant Celebration Card

Hello everyone! Today I’m trying my hand at a very different style. It’s just fun to play around with styles, isn’t it? I made a card that could be good for a wedding or any other kind of celebration using only white, gold and red.

Lucky Shaker

Hey everyone! Today I finally made a card featuring one of the adorable Colorado Craft Company stampsets designed by Anita Jeram. Want to know how I turned this cutie into a shaker card? Read on!

You’re My Cup Of Tea

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a warm and cozy card featuring a fun tag-style focal point, some no line coloring and some of my favorite techniques to make a quick and easy background. It’s a fun one!

Papercrafters Against Racism

Hello everyone! Today I had the absolute honor to join a whole line of incredibly talented cardmakers in the PapercraftersUniteAgainstRacism instagram hop. Please visit the hashtag on instagram to see everyone’s projects. Here I’ll explain how I made my anti-racism themed interactive card.

MFT SC #524: Birthday Chick Slimline

Hello everyone! I’m back with another card, this time based on the latest Wednesday Sketch Challenge from My Favorite Things. I used an older stamp set for this and some basic circle dies. It’s a really fun sketch and I encourage you to try it out for yourself!

Little Llama Shaker Card

Hello everyone! Today I’m sharing my first card made with the new Mama Elephant release. A fun little shaker card that’s super easy to make with some adorable focal images.

No Line Watercolor Vintage Postcard Look

Hello crafty friends! Today I’m here to show you a vintage looking card made with one stamp set, embossing powder and a lot of patience.

MFT SC #522: Peek-through Window Card

Hello everyone! There’s quite a lot of challenges going on on instagram and various brand blogs. I combined two in this card: an MFT sketch challenge and a theme challenge to create Valentine’s cards.

Candy Hearts Love Ya

Hi there crafty friends! Today I have a cute clean and simple card for you that goes back to basic. Just some fun stamping and diecutting with an oldie but goodie stamping technique.

Advent Challenge #19 – Best Wishes

Hello everyone! Today’s post is all about using your stamps creatively. I used only non-holiday items to make this Christmas card.

Advent Challenge #18 – Christmas Gifts

Hey everyone! I have more pattern stamping today, with a different kind of spotlight technique.

Advent Challenge #17 – Gnome Impostor

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a fun and funny one layer card for you, using a simple pattern stamping technique.

Advent Challenge #13 – Season’s Greetings

Hello everyone! I love to buy sentiment stamp sets, because a sentiment is something you use on most of your cards and they’re really worth their money. To add some value to them, here’s a card design that only uses sentiment stamps!

Nano Cards

Hello everyone! Today’s a bit of a different post, I have four very different card designs to share with you. For those of you who don’t know “Nano” or “Nanowrimo” (national novel writing month) is a writing challenge where you try to write 50,000 words (an entire novel) in November. Four of my friends participated

Let’s Chat Card

Hello everyone! This is another cute and simple design you can use for all occassions, but especially “oh dang this pandemic is dragging on for a long time, I should connect with my friends from a distance” occassions.

Bright Birthday Bunny

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a simple card you can make to replenish your birthday card supply. I used some of my paper scraps to make it.

Happy Mail Card

Hello everyone! This year I’ve made a lot of “thinking of you” cards, as many of you probably have as well. It’s been a weird time and sending or receiving some happy mail can brighten your day. This is one of those easy cards.

Sentiment backdrop

Hello everyone! Today I have a fun technique to share to get more out of your sentiment stamps. I personally love to buy sentiment stampsets because you can use them on every card, but sometimes it’s a little difficult to justify the price when you know image stampsets include some sentiments as well. So this

Shadow Stamping Christmas Cards

I swear this is the last post I’ll make about shadow stamping for the foreseeable future, but it’s just so fun, let me have one more! Let’s focus on Christmas cards this time.

Fall Hugs – Shadow Stamping

Hello everyone! Fall is by far my favorite season and I love making fall cards too, the color scheme is exactly my style and something about them just makes me feel all warm and cozy inside.

Beary Special Birthday Cards – Shadow Stamping

Hey everyone! This week’s posts are going to go more in depth on some cards I made for the technique post I shared on Tuesday. Today I’ll focus on the Beary Special Birthday cards, a 2 for 1 card design!

Shadow Stamping

Hello everyone! Today I want to show you a bunch of cards I made with one very simple and very versatile technique. Shadow stamping is a super quick way to make your own patterned paper for your projects and can be used for almost any kind of card. I’m going to show you how you