Sponged Sky Party Panda Valentine’s Day Card
I created this Valentine’s Day card for our one-year-old granddaughter using the cute Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Party Pandas. This set just brings a smile! I combined it with the easy sponged sky background technique. Here’s how: To create the sky, I used a scallop circle template that I’ve had in my crafting stash for years. […]
Crafting With Paint Chips-Sponged Cloudy Background Technique
One of my favorite things is to use paint chips in my crafting. For this card, I combined paint chips to make a colorful backing for the hot air balloon found in the Up & Away Thinlits die from Stampin’ Up! And to complete the card I created a sky background using the sponged Cloudy […]
Heart Balloons for Valentine’s Day
Heart Balloons for Valentine’s Day Happy Valentine’s Day from me to you! Heart Balloons for Valentine’s Day Supplies Used: Stamp Set: Bee My Valentine Ink: Real Red, Pool Party Paper: Petal Pink, Real Red, Basic White, Sunny Days (Sale-A-Bration), Most Adored (Sale-A-Bration) Accessories: Bee Builder Punch, Baker’s Twine, Iridescent Discs, Mini Dimensionals, sponge, scalloped circle […]
Construction Zone Valentine’s Day Card
Construction Zone Valentine’s Day Card for our 4-year-old Grandson who likes all things mechanical. It’s easy to create cards for him using the Construction Zone stamp set from Stampin’ Up! Construction Zone Valentine’s Day Card How To: 1.Stamp, color, and fussy cut the truck and workman from Construction Zone. I stamped the images on scrap […]
Moon Over the Mountain Quilt Card
One of my favorite techniques is faux quilting. I found a great website called equiltblocks.com that has a wide array of quilting patterns. Of course, they are meant for fabric quilting, but I have found that many are easy to transfer over for paper quilting. One of the patterns that really intrigued me was called […]
Up, Up & Away Window Card
Our swap challenge for the Saturday Stamp Club in February was to make a “friendship” window card. Since I was going to be in my home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the hot air balloon capital of the world, I thought I’d use the fun and very appropriate stamp set Up, Up & Away from […]