It’s the start of Strawberry Season! Time to celebrate summer with strawberries. It’s the perfect time to pick your berries in a patch, at a farmer’s market, local producer or your favorite food store. But don’t stop there! Create with strawberries too – not with the actual berry (although I bet the juice makes a great dye), but with stamps…
Last Friday I did a Facebook Live that lasted 55 minutes. Yikes!!!! You can watch the replay anytime by visiting my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mailsomethingpretty/. The following card is one I made during the Live. I discovered while stamping & chatting that printed material shows backwards in Lives. Who knew?? All my measurements showed backwards. I decided to re-film this card so…
I was going through the photos section of my phone and came across these cards I made as part of a gift for my mom last summer. These are really easy sunflower cards. All you need to do is cut the shapes and adhere the pieces together. The beauty of sunflowers are they can be used for any occasion or…
It’s time for the Annual Catalog PAPER SHARE! Before the launch of each new catalog, I offer a Paper Share. Each Share has one piece of patterned paper from the new catalog and a card made by me using one of the papers. It’s a great way to get a sampling of each pattern for a fraction of the price. Each…
Butterflies have taken over my stamping space this week. (I can’t wait to see the real ones in my garden later this summer). The new Butterfly Wings dies work so beautifully with the Butterfly Brilliance stamp set – Stampin’ Up! was really thinking smart with this one. The large Butterfly Brilliance stamp lines up perfectly with the largest Butterfly Wings…
This is a great background technique for two reasons. It’s a great way to use up scrap pieces and you can use different dies & punches for the different shapes. As you look at all the photos, you can see that they are all varied. You could make this same card for each of the holidays and every occasion by…
If you spent anytime on Pinterest or card forums lately, you have seen the trending Triple Cube Pop Up Card. These are fun cards that fit into an envelope and open up to be a triple cube. Turn them into any occasion cards by changing up the paper and popped up sentiments. Have a little patience making your first one…
There are so many different ways to use patterned paper. This is just one of the many I recently discovered. Watch how I cut this 6 x 6 paper into 4 equal fun shapes that work perfectly with the Notecards & Envelopes pack. These are easy and impressive cards which can be turned into an assembly line of creating. Custom…
Do you ever cut or punch extra pieces? Do you find them laying around on your work surface, in bowls, on shelves, in stamp cases? This is my issue right now. Since I have been using the Playful Alphabet Dies a lot lately, I found that I had a lot of extra letters in different colors. I decided that I…
Can you believe there are 12 different packs of Designer Papers in the new 2020 Holiday Catalog??? Holy Moly! To get all 12 packs of paper would cost you over $170. Join the paper share and get every design for only $49. Each pack of paper will be divided into four shares. I can ship these shares anywhere in the…
Do you ever want to give a little homemade gift to a friend, neighbor, teen, grandmother …… ? You don’t have time to bake a batch of cookies or make a stack of hand stamped cards but you want to make something quick & easy. These easy treat boxes made with 4 x 6″ paper are the perfect thing to…
Today I filmed two out of three videos for my Club. Due to the Corona virus, we have not been able to meet for April or May. I miss them!!!!! Club is one of my favorite things I do with stamping because it brings together women who love to stamp, love to learn, love to share and love Stampin’ Up!…
I decided to challenge myself to use some of the partially cut designer papers that have been sitting in my drawer. Do you save all your pieces of papers? I bet we all do! I think it’s in every crafter’s nature to save every scrap of paper, fabric, leftover yarn, etc. I have been making lots of cards lately, for…
Some stampers call this technique a “One Sheet Wonder”. Today I was asked if I had any hello or thinking of you cards to give to a nursing home, where visitors are currently not allowed to visit. This got me thinking of the “One Sheet Wonder” technique. I never watched any of the online videos or templates for this “one…
I am 100% behind the bee trend that is happening. Bees are so important to our planet, gardens, food, sustainability and their work ethic is amazing. I have a stained glass bee hanging on my studio window that I bought in Salt Lake City (Utah is the Bee Hive state) when I was there for a Stampin’ Up! event a…
Paper Shares are a great way to see and sample all of the new papers without having to buy all the packs. Read the Paper Share information below to see what is in each share and be sure to sign up by JANUARY 8. I accept checks, Venmo and PayPal and can ship anywhere within the US. Everyone will receive: …
Do you need to make multiples of cards but don’t want them to look all the same? I have just the answer for you! The solution of making multiple cards without boredom is changing your papers I needed to make several birthday cards, but making the same card over and over can get a little boring and repetitive. My solution…
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned and showed the card I made for my mother’s birthday featuring the Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper (see post here). In that post I said I was going to film a tutorial on how to make the card. I filmed the making of the card both yesterday and today (you’ll see why it…
As I was cutting all the papers for the Paper Share, I was “wowed” by so many of them. You can see that the papers are nice by looking at them in the catalog, but seeing them in person is when you really see how beautiful they are. Each set of papers has its own style, theme and color coordination.…
