Yesterday was my oldest child's 20th birthday.  I can't believe my baby is no longer a teenager.  The time sure goes by fast!  This is the birthday card I made her yesterday.  Her favorite color is purple, so, of course, I had to put a lot of purple in it.  I CASEd a card made by Connie Babbert when making th…

Happy Monday, everyone!  I finally had time to do a MojoMonday sketch!  This is MOJO197 .  I really like making square cards.  This one measures 4-1/4" x 4-1/4", so it fits in one of Stampin' Up!'s regular medium envelopes (A2 envelope). The set I used is Strength & Hope (p. 27 in the Summer M…

I hope you're all enjoying your weekend so far.  It's a beautiful day here in Central Indiana!  I used this week's color and card sketch challenges over at SCS (splitcoaststampers.com).  The color sketch is CC328 , and the card sketch is SC338 .  I love learning new color combos that include one of my favo…

Happy Monday, everyone!  I wanted to show all of you the card I made my dad for Father's Day yesterday.  I used the stamp set, The Open Sea (p. 9), from the Summer Mini.  The picture didn't turn out very well, because I had to take the picture inside.  The lighting in my office isn't very good.  The color…

Happy Thursday, everyone!  Today's card is the card that my Technique Stamp Club will be making at their last monthly get-together.  The technique is called "Burnishing."  I really love this way of coloring in stamped images.  As I said, this is the last technique my current club will be learning, but I …

I finally got to play with my new toys!  I've had them for almost a week, but this is the first time I could actually make something with them.  It's been driving me crazy!  lol  I did use a sketch challenge on this card.  It's a new one I haven't done before at the Clean & Simple Stamping blog.  …

For those of you that get my newsletter, I'm sorry that I didn't get one of these posted yesterday like I said I would.  One of my daughters and I were food poisoned!  I made taco salad Monday night, and we had 2 bottles of taco sauce.  Steph and I were the only ones that had taco sauce from one of the bottles…

Here is another card that is going to be made at my Fond Farewell Stamp Camp.  I've changed the date of the Tuesday camp, but the Friday camp is still the same.  To find out more about this camp, please go to my EVENTS CALENDAR .  The main stamp set, designer paper and the ribbon are all retiring.  You can find th…

Here are a couple of the cards that will be made at my Fond Farewell Stamp Camp next week.  There will be a total of 5 made at the camp.  All of the cards will be made with stamp sets that are retiring.  CLICK HERE for the links to the Last Chance Lists.  To find out more about this camp, please visit my EVENTS CALE…

I can't believe it's time for items to be retiring already! There are quite a few stamp sets, accessories, and Definitely Decorative items retiring this month.  The links to the lists are below, along with some information about each list. Last Chance Stamp Sets List - Click Here The retiring stamp sets a…