Wishing You Peace (plus Giveaway)…

Hello friends. Today I’m sharing our Christmas card…. To create my card, I inked up THIS snowflake die from Hero Arts with silver ink and ran it through my die-cut machine with THIS embossing mat. This allows it to only emboss the image and not cut through all the way. I heat embossed a sentiment from THIS stamp set in Gold. I die-cut the panel using THIS die to achieve the stitched frame and added...

Shaker Card plus New Hero Arts Giveaway!

Hello! Some of you may know that Hero Arts recently released some stamps with my handwriting and I’m so excited. You can read all about it HERE. I thought it would be fun to do a giveaway of THIS stamp because I consider all of you my crafty friends… …and here is a shaker card I created using the stamp… To create this card, I heat embossed the sentiment in white on vellum and...

Hero Arts Sneak Peek and Watercolor Giveaway!

The latest class started over at Online Card Classes and Kristina Werner’s card on Day One inspired my card… I started off by embossing THIS Hero Arts background stamp in white on some watercolor cardstock. Then I used this super cute, tiny watercolor set from Studio Calico…. and covered the entire piece with blue and green watercolor. Once it dried, I went back in with those same colors and only applied it to the flower pattern....

A dream come true…

Hello! Today I wanted to share something very special to me. I wrote THIS post a few weeks ago about the craft retreat I attend twice a year and the gift I created for all my friends. Well I wasn’t the only one who brought a gift. My sweet friend Jennifer (my fairy “craft”mother) contacted me before the trip to create some handwriting samples because she wanted Hero Arts to create a stamp just for us....