Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are looking forward to the New Year. I was very quiet during the month of December and felt like I needed a bit of a reset…more on that at the end of the post. While resetting, I cleaned and purged my craft area. So with more space and less “stuff”, I’m ready to get back at it! I thought the perfect post to…
It’s time for Creating Coast to Coast with Karen Hallam, in California and myself here in Pennsylvania. This month our creative adventure starts here in PA, where I chose our direction. Given the holidays are quickly approaching, our theme this month is “gift giving”. So a holiday gift card holder seemed like a good idea. I really enjoy creating unique ways to give either money or gift cards. Today’s card was especially fun to create.…
I noticed an arched window die online recently and was half tempted to purchase it until I realized I could easily re-create the window using SU’s Everyday Arches, so that’s what I did! I began with a card base of Early Espresso card stock and added brick patterned paper from my stash. To create the window, I cut an arch from Early Espresso and then cut the next smallest arch using a patterned from SU’s…
If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know that I’m so inspired by card challenges. I find it really fun to have to work within the specific parameters and try to come up with something I would not have ordinarily thought of. Today’s card is a shining example of just that. And I really went a little further than normal and combined two challenges…whoa, me! The first challenge I saw…
