Today I made a fun little card that could cover any number of occasions.  I used a lovely wood mount heart stamp by Penny Black and the gorgeous True Love paper by Basic Grey.  I consider this quick and easy, clean and simple, for the most part.  Take a look: Isn’t that heart stamp pretty! Stamp:  […]

Something on the schedule got cancelled today and thus a few bonus hours were thrown my way — WOW!  That doesn’t happen too often!!!  Soooooo, I decided to pull out some of my very favorites for Christmas and make a couple cards.  And what are my favorites this Christmas season?  There are so many it really […]

We have many projects to show you today!  Starting with Deb, she has done a lot of gorgeous projects over the last couple years with the MDF Board Beyond the Page Alterables by Kaisercraft and she created another beautiful project for today.  She used one of the four Bauble Ornaments included in the package to create […]

Beautiful Penny Black images make it so easy to create clean and simple (quick and easy) cards!  I use them so much every year at Christmas.  The Penny Black stamps we carry are all wood mount images that are well suited to embossing, which is a favorite technique of mine for Christmas cards.  It’s quick […]

Last week I was one day late, this week 2 days late — oh NO!!!!  Trying hard to get back on track here!  Today I made 2 clean and simple Christmas cards from the same pad, but totally different cards.  I also photographed them first with no bows for those who prefer them that way, […]

Today I’m doing a little trip down memory lane — I hope you don’t mind.  This works out perfectly as some of my all time favorite CAS creations have been made with Penny Black and Rubber Soul/Wordsworth Wood Mount Christmas stamps.  I just received a shipment last evening restocking my supply, so to those of […]

Welcome to another Saturday of Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style.  Today we are packaging our gifts up — ready to go!  I enjoy putting together a lot of small gifts for friends, neighbors, service workers, etc.  The gifts are never fancy or expensive, but just something to say *thanks*, *I appreciate you*  or *Merry Christmas*.  Taking a […]

Today I have a fun trio of Christmas stockings that I finally got a chance to play with, but before we get to that let’s annouce the winner from Saturday’s Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply  Style.  Last week’s challenge focused on Tags.  The blog candy winner was chosen this week from Barb’s Blog, and she is Karen […]

 Today I have a trio of gift tags that you can make in less than 5 minutes — all 3 of them, truly!  And as an added bonus, you can likely use up your scraps to do so.   Clean and white, quick and easy. A little word about gift tags. I LOVE to make them […]

I have much to share today so let’s begin with the WINNER from last Saturday’s Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style. The featured ribbon was Twill, and the lucky winner from Saturday was Carla Suto Congrats! Carla.  Carla was chosen from Deb’s Blog and has already written to claim her prize. It’ll be mailed out tomorrow, Carla!  Thanks […]