Welcome, friends! Today is Saturday so that means another Blog Hop — Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style.  Today the design team was challenged to use Ric Rac in their projects.  Ric Rac — what does that bring to mind?  Well, for me I think immediately of aprons — aprons from the 50’s era decorated above the […]

Welcome to another Saturday of Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style!  This week the design team girls are focusing on Red HOT Ribbon — just for fun!  Red is fabulous for upcoming Valentine projects and red is just plain old fun any time of year. I wasn’t able to get a project made in time for this […]

Before we begin, would you please all join me in sending HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES to my dearest friend, Deb, who is far, far away in Tajikistan.  She is hopping with us today, so you can catch her on the hop or you can scoot over there right away if you wish — you can find […]

Welcome to our Saturday Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style challenge.  Today the design team felt they needed more thank you cards, so we decided to create thank you cards with a twist.  We were each to make 2 cards essentially the same, but one being clean and simple while the other one was more decked out.  […]

Welcome back to our first Ribbon Inspiration challenge for 2012.  Today the design team is creating Valentines.  Everyone went in a different direction and I think you’ll enjoy the HOP.  As always, the Blog Candy will be listed at the end of this post. For my Valentine project today I created a hanging Valentine.  I […]

Welcome to another Saturday of Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style.  Today we are featuring note cards — thank you, thinking of you, blank — any type of note card that can be kept on hand and is at the ready when needed. I had fun making my set of note cards for today, and I was on […]

Welcome to another Saturday of Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style.  Today we are featuring Holiday Decor — I think you’ll LOVE what the design team girls have come up with today.  Their projects are fabulous items that you can make for your own home or to give as treasured gifts.  The links to their blogs will […]

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 […]

Welcome to another regular Saturday feature of Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style.  Today we are all creating tags.  They so SO much fun to make and useful, too!  Here are the tags I made for today: I had fun using up odds and ends of scraps from my  Silly Season pad by Kaisercraft.  This pad has […]

Welcome! Today we are working with recycling the tin can — whether you call it altering, decorating, recycling, repurposing or upscaling — it’s all about reusing some of those very versatile tin cans that are all around us.  Remember the pencil cups we made from tin cans in grade school?  Same idea — just a little more […]