AECP: Clean and Simple Boutique Cards and Altenew January 2019
Continuing my streak of snow days, and my journey through the Altenew Academy….. snow days have afforded me a chunk of time to sit and finish up some classes I had started over winter break. Today I…
Gina K Designs Challenge/Stencil Overlay Technique
Here in Michigan, we are experiencing quite a stretch of ice/snow/cold days. However, it has afforded me quite a bit of extra time to work on my card making craft. The Gina K. Designs monthly challenge for…
AECP: Let it shine
I was accepted as a member of the Altenew Educator Certification Program, and have been working hard at completing several of the classes. The first class I took was “Let It Shine”. This was a great class…
“Clean and Simple”…..
This blog is a shared blog with two of my sisters. Carina and I are the paper crafters. And we decided to challenge ourselves to create cards that require minimal supplies, layers, embellishments, inks, etc. It’s interesting,…
Metallic embossed die cuts
A few months ago, my sister and I went to a paper crafting mega meet and took a couple of classes and did a bit of shopping. I picked up a set of entwined circle dies from…
Ink Blending for a Sympathy Card
Greetings from Michigan. Unfortunately I needed a sympathy card this week. I decided the card I wanted to make needed to have deer in it as he was a hunter and I wanted it to reflect him.…
Using sentiment stamps to create a custom background.
Hello again! In spite of the crazy life September brings, I manage to continue to carve out time to create things. Part of the reason I started making my own cards was purely because I could tailor…
Quick and simple sympathy card
Sometimes it is amazing what a difference a week makes. A week ago, we were under heat advisories, celebrating birthdays, and I was enjoying my last couple of days before school resumed. Now, I am cold and…
Using a Card Sketch to Make Batch Cards.
Greetings from Michigan. I am currently prepping for a craft sale so I have been making as many Christmas themed items as I can to be ready. I made a bunch of vintage style cards recently and…
His and hers (complementary) cards
I don’t know about you, but we have a few couples in our family who celebrate birthdays fairly close (actually, my parents’ birthdays are within three days of each other, so quite close) to each other. I…
Three sisters sharing their love of crafting with the world.
