Here's the 2nd set of dies I received from Susan Tierney Cockburn's latest collection for Spellbinders These are coneflowers.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Summer Solstice Garden: Echinacea
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Summer Solstice Garden: Cosmos
Susan Tierney Cockburn has designed some more pretty flower dies for us in her latest collection that she calls Summer Solstice Garden. I chose 2 of them; today I'll be showing you the Cosmos set.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
For Mother's Day
Happy Mom's Day to all of you out there! Hope it's special for you in every way.
Our Mom has been gone 3 years now, but lilacs are forever connected in my mind to Mother's Day because of her. So I pulled out these dies and made a card for the occasion. I was going to put "miss you" as the sentiment, but couldn't find one that was just right, so I'm leaving a sentiment off for now.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Spellbinders Club Kits: Clear Stamp and Die, Embossing Folder, Caboodle dies, and BetterPress Plates
The Spellbinders Club Kits for May are now available to new subscribers, through May 27. The theme this month is Pages & Phrases. Here are my final 3 cards.
Today I have the Clear Stamps and Dies to show you. They're named Crayon Creations! There are 15 stamps, including 5 sentiments and elements to put together these crayon cuties, and the 10 matching dies enable you to cut everything out. Here's my card.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Spellbinders Club Kits: Large Dies, Glimmer Plates
The May Club Kits from Spellbinders are now available, through May 27. This month's theme is Pages & Phrases.
My first card showcases the Large Dies, Spell It Out Fridge. And there's an upsell die set called Fridge Staples so that you can stock your fridge inside! Here's my card.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
May Spellbinders Club Kits - Dies, Stencils, Stitching, 3D Embossing Folder
The Spellbinders Club Kits are available for new subscribers, now to May 27. The overall theme this month is Pages and Phrases!
My first card features the Dies of the Month, Classroom Chronicles, and Stencils, Write On.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Some Hero Studio Monthly Mini Cards for May!
I was so tickled to be asked to help showcase this month's Hero Studio products! They have a floral theme going on, so of course I said YES! The collection is called Flower Shoppe.
My first card was really fun to put together, using May's Studio Fancy Dies, Village Florist!
My next card today features the May Cling Stamp, Floral Tiles.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Birthday Cards from the Garden
Time to replenish my birthday card stash, so I pulled out this favorite Hero Arts Flower Garden fancy die and made a couple cards.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Woodblock Wednesday: Wallpaper Flowers
Here's my card for this month's Woodblock Wednesday over at Amy's blog. The woodblock stamp I chose this month is from Hero Arts, called Wallpaper Flowers, dated 2009.
Monday, April 28, 2025
Sunny Thoughts
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a challenge blog named The Play Date Cafe. One of my favorite recurring challenges there was called "Black and White and a Splash". Here's a card inspired by that challenge.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Spring Breeze Hello
I thought the Waffle Flower Spring Breeze stencils would be a fun addition to my collection, especially because of the butterflies. I enjoyed bringing the design to life, and then gave it an overnight to decide how I wanted to proceed with my card.
This morning I decided to try the eclipse/hidden message technique.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
CASEing Donna
Earlier this year a challenge blog featured a card by my Hero Arts sister Donna Mikasa. I couldn't play at the time, but pinned her card, and today I have a card that CASEs it.
I loved her idea of mixing a stenciled panel with a similar embossed one, but she went a step further, and carried the embossing onto the stenciled panel. Here's my version of her design.
Donna used an interesting sentiment block, so I went looking through my stash for something, having in mind a vertical sentiment, but found this old Hero Arts one instead. It's dated 2009, but stamped perfectly once again after all these years! It tickles me to make these treasures new again!
Donna's cards have inspired me forever - thanks once again, my friend!
Monday, April 21, 2025
Washi and a Turnabout!
It's gardening season! From now through June is the best time of year for enjoying our gardens, before they get to the "jungle" stage! Recently I was in the mood for making a turnabout background, but then set it aside until now, when I paired it with some washi florals.
Friday, April 18, 2025
A Card for Easter
My friend Mary Anne sent us a beautiful card for Easter, and I couldn't wait to try and make one, too! Here's my first attempt, using papers from my stash. I think the floral one is Webster's Pages......