I’m finding that more and more often I’m enjoying using a variety of textures and media in my projects. I feel like it stretches me as a designer and gives me a wider creative vocabulary. I’m working with some pieces (wooden frame, metal flowers, fabric brads and bling) sent to me by Freckled Fawn, from…
In this video, you’ll learn to make the fun and easy double accordion gatefold card (sometimes called the double gatefold) and a belly band for the card. Here are some of the things I used in the video: Joy’s Life All Around Sentiments stamps, Martha Stewart score board, Fiskars Paper Trimmer and Echo Park Paper For the…
You know I love die cut machines. They are this crafty girl’s BFF. However, I decided that I needed a good challenge, so I took a look around my newly cleaned craft room (only took me about 6 months to clean it) and zeroed in on my paper punches. You know what I learned? You…
Woo hoo! This is my first “gate fold” card. Am I the last person to ever make one? They are so easy! If you haven’t tried one, here’s how to make a Gate Fold card: Find the center of a 6×12 piece of paper. Fold each side in toward that center point and crease with…
One of my favorite things to do with my Silhouette die cut machine is to print and cut. Does the Silhouette print? Well, not exactly. What you do is print using your printer and then the Silhouette uses registration marks to know where to cut your printed images. I’m using a hat image I got…
Don’t miss the Give Away at the bottom of this post! 🙂 Did you know that you can draw with your Silhouette? You can! Yes, there are Silhouette Sketch pens but there are other options that can broaden your drawing choices to markers, regular ball point pens, gel pens and glue pens (for use with…
If you shop with Custom Crops you might have seen these cards in a recent ad. I created them to show one way to use Joy’s Life All Around Sentiments stamps. I designed All Around Sentiments to work alone or with 1″ and/or 1 1/2″ circle punches. You can punch out the sentiment or the…
It’s SuperJoy Loves Her SuperFriends Day! Don’t miss the GIVE AWAY at the bottom of this Post! I created this a while ago and realize it’s not very Fall”ish”, but Super Husband is out of town and I have a bunch of things to do with the Super Kids and our Crafty Lair. I hope…
I cranked up ‘ye ole Silhouette SD and created this cute (and easy) flower card. As a matter of fact, I actually cranked several of these babies out in June and stamped them all with different sentiments from Joy’s Life stamps. See below for my mass production. The envelope sentiment comes from my Mother &…