As I said at the beginning of today’s video I said I was in the mood for creating something pretty using a new ‘dancing’ die. I chose some delicate decorative paper with frilly frame and a soft pearly finish for my dancer!
Continue readingToday’s card would work for just about any occasion, birthday, thank you, get well, thinking of you, retirement, wedding, congratulations ……. yes and even for a sympathy card, simply change out the greeting and it is the perfect solution for all those occasions.
I worked on a 5 x 5 base card, but the design would easily adapt for using 1/2 sheet of A4 or Letter size card.
Continue readingThis is the 6th part of creating this Junk Journal. As you will see from the video I am working on creating the front cover with a super shaker panel and adding a simple but effective closure. The journal is now finished and ready for me to use, come back next week for a flip thru and how I journaled and tucked away lots of memories from our recent holiday.
Continue readingYou need to watch today’s video on how I created this card ! I made several ‘unplanned’ changes to the design as I went along!!! But I dug myself out of them and am pretty pleased on how this card turned out!
Continue readingThis is the 5th part of creating this Junk Journal. As you will see from the video I am working on creating tags, clusters and a notebook which continues the theme of NO SEWING!
Continue readingAs I explain in my video today, I wanted to create a masculine card using the graceful leaf die from the Nature’s Symphony Die Set. I started with a square card base and built up from there. As I was working I mused about creating a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card using the same supplies and equipment and using some of the ‘leftovers’ from my first card. I went ahead and made one have included that in this post!
Continue readingThis is the next step in the Ocean/Beach themed junk journal I am currently working on. This is the 4th journal I have made and, like the others, I am experimenting with different ideas and techniques from those I have done before. I wanted this journal to be a NO SEW one so in the accompanying video I work thru decorating the various pages and pockets and adding flaps, pockets and belly bands to hold all my goodies!
Continue readingHere we are in Easter Week, it does not seem that long since Christmas (although I have to say January lasted a very long time) !!
I had a bunch of Notecards in my stash and decided they would be perfect for my Easter Cards this year, in today’s video I work thru an idea for a quick and easy card that would work for practically any occasion if you simply change out the embossing folder and greeting………….. Oh and I give dimensions for making the card with A4 as well as Letter size card as well ~ enjoy!
Continue readingThis is the 3rd part of creating this Junk Journal. As you will see from the video I am working out how to create pages and pockets to attach to the NO SEW hinges from part 2 (see link below)
Continue readingSince my retirement as a Stampin’ UP! demonstrator I have been working on new ideas and trying out new products. In today’s video I am using a Gina K Designs stamp set and die bundle with the coordinating layering stencils. Layering Stencils is another way to color in stamped images, it is really easy
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