First of all, I’d like to thank everyone for the birthday wishes yesterday. I truly do appreciate them all! And to add icing to the cake, the Design Team girls surprised me with a SURPRISE Birthday Blog Hop!  It was so much fun and their cards were fabulous! Thank you so much!!!  If you missed […]

Tags: Crafty Secrets, Spellbinders

Today I was just having fun again going through and trying to make more space — it truly IS a never ending task for me!  And it IS fun to actually see what I have –  kind of like revisiting old friends!  Today these vintage ladies struck my fancy.  Supplies are fairly low on them […]

Today I have a Vintage Valentine Kit to show you that I put together using a product I have long loved — Cotton Scraps by Crafty Secrets.  Unfortunately, these Cotton Scraps are no longer being manufactured, so when they are gone, they’re gone.  They were a produt that I’ve used over and over and over […]

Preparing this post sure was an unexpected trip down memory lane!  In my never-ending quest to rearrange things to try to make more room in my way-too-small store area, I decided that it was time to pull out my beloved Cotton Scraps and offer them on sale.  I have long LOVED these items more than I can […]

Tonight I needed a quick card to mail out tomorrow for a brand new baby girl.  Cotton Scraps to the rescue! No stamping — quick and easy, using Baby Girl Cotton Scraps for my focal image and Ducks in a Row 8×8 Pad by October Afternoon, dressed up with some buttons from my stash and […]

Gatefolds  — Today’s challenge deals with how we fold our card — we are going to do Gatefold cards today.  Fun for a change!  Gatefolds are cards that fold in from each side, meeting in the middle, so it opens like a gate.  The folds don’t have to be symmetrical, your opening can be off […]

I can just hear my Dad singing that old song!  And that’s exactly what I thought of and heard in my head the entire time I was making this cheerful and sunny yellow card.  I wanted to make this card tonight because I just got some new colors of silk ribbon and I loved this […]

Today I have a Buttons and Bows card for a baby boy!  And even with buttons and bows it does look boyish enough — for a newborn anyway!   The card is quite simple, using a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background and machine stitching on the focal image. I made this for our newest great-nephew, […]

… and new found friends from afar and fun and games on top of it all! I was thrilled when a few weeks back I received an invitation to play with some very talented girls *across the pond* in the United Kingdom.  As a result I’ve run across some blogs that are new to me […]