Tag Archives: card making

Mixed Media Greeting Cards

    I wanted to share a couple of new mixed media greeting cards I created recently for FaveCrafts. The first one is a Mixed Media All Occasion Card with a little ink, acrylic paint, a stamp roller and some washi tape. A little of everything. You can get the full instructions by clicking on [...]

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Paper Crafting Embellishments with Piccalo Enamel Gels and UV Resin

  I attended Adventures in Stamping here in Akron last weekend and picked up some new products to try from Globecraft & Piccolo. I’ve been having fun creating unique paper crafting embellishments and I thought I’d share some of my impressions, results and techniques. This is what the website says about the 3D Enamel Gels: [...]

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Card Making Made Easy: Wishing You Blue Skies and Sunny Days

Designer Craft Connection Blog Hop     I like getting and sending mail but I think that people have this expectation that because I’m creative that I will send them this handmade WOW card. Yeah, that’s not going to happen very often. While I like to send handmade cards I only send the WOW cards [...]

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Card Making: Let it Snow Card

  Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Doesn’t this happy snowman just make you wanna dance around and sing? No? Just me then? It’s ok. I’ll dance and sing for both of us. :)     Anyway… I made a card similar to this ages and ages ago. Way before I started [...]

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The Creative Goddess Week In Review

 Trend Spotting at the Country Living Fair   It’s been a rough week here in Vickiland. I’ve been sick for just over 3 weeks now but am finally on the mend. Aren’t antibiotics AWESOME? I did stay pretty quiet and got some rest but I was also working here in the back end of my [...]

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Card Making: 5 Fifteen Minute Cards to Make

  As you know, I’ve been cleaning out my studio lately. Sorting, purging and organizing. I came across several card samples from past projects and thought I’d share them with you. Some I’ve posted here in various places but some… not. They are really quick to put together, should only take 15 minutes or so, [...]

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Make an Easy Patriotic Card or Invitation

Designer Craft Connection Blog Hop   It was SUPPOSED to be a wonderful weekend. My friend Jenny from Craft Test Dummies was having a card making party for the troops, beautiful weather and MORE yard work and a family dinner to say “good-bye”  to our middle son as he’s going overseas at the end of [...]

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Card Making and Paper Crafting Techniques – Coloring with Bleach

  I imagine that “coloring” with bleach is probably not a new idea but I loved this sweet little rabbit so much I just had to share. It’s so easy that there are only 3 steps to the process. 1. Stamp an image on a colored piece of paper. I recommend StazOn ink. 2. “Color” [...]

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How to Make Easy Valentine’s Day Cards

    I’ve been working HARD on projects to get ready for Winter CHA (Craft and Hobby Association) Trade Show in Anaheim. I leave before daylight in the morning & I’m taking part in several fun events, classes & parties so I’ve been wicked busy preparing. The above Valentine’s Day card is the only one [...]

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A Mans Home is His (Sand) Castle – Father’s Day Card

  My friend Jenny from CraftTestDummies gave/loaned me this fabulous Inkadinkadoo stamp the last time I was at CTDWHQ (That’s Craft Test Dummies World Headquarters. hehe) because I thought it was FABULOUS. Today I am minding my own business, working on some jewelry designs when I spy the stamp out of the corner of my eye [...]

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