Add Texture to your Projects with Elements of Text

Love texture on a card and for this one, I stamped a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock with the Elements of Text stamp - just all over - willy nilly - no set pattern in Misty Moonlight ink. Then I die cut the inside of the butterflies shown here from that. This would work nicely with any light coloured cardstock so experiment. The same pattern from this stamp set is on the die cut circle. I like how this turned out!

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Layered Thoughts with a Twist

Sharing a card we made at my June Monthly card class. Bright, bold colours in a simple layout. The Layered Thoughts stamp set is the star of the show with this really big greeting. For a twist we coloured in the open spaces on the greeting with a coordinating Melon Membo Stampin' Write Blend marker. The Eyelet embossed layer adds that special touch of dimension. Everyone loved this project!

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Impressions Abloom for a spray of floral beauty

 This pretty floral spray is courtesy of the Impressions Abloom Dies with loads of texture and dimension with one pass through the die cutting machine. I used Strawberry Slush, Granny Apple Green, Pecan Pie, Pretty in Pink and Basic White for my die cuts all laid on a sheet of patterned paper in Darling Duckling. Love how this turned out! What do you think?

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Cheers & Sips - It's Friday afterall!

It's almost the weekend - yeah! ready to celebrate just because it's Friday? I am! On vacation next week from the day job with plans to hang out in the backyard, read, rest and craft. Starting off with a long, tall lemonade and feet up with a book in hand. Today's card features the Cheers & Sips bundle so perfect for Friday nights, parties and all celebratory events. Kick back and enjoy!

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Layered Thoughts Stamping Technique

Ever tried this? For this greeting, I stamped it once in a lighter colour - Darling Duckling - then slightly offset with a darker colour - Garden Green. Gives a great shadow effect. Then cropped with my absolutely favourite new dies, Textured Notes. Propped this up on stampin' dimensionals over a strip of these pretty flowers from the Lovely Garden Designer Series Paper. Quick, simple card for Thursday!

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Making a statement with the Coneflower Bundle

Look at this lovely BIG Coneflower! Really makes a statement on the front of the card. This bundle - stamp set and coordinating dies - would be equally great used on a scrapbooking page for summer and early fall memories. Check it out next time you visit my online store: #165251. Enjoy!

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NEW: Peaceful Garden Suite Collection coming September 2025

 This past weekend, demonstrators around the globe participated in Creativity Now - a virtual event for demonstrators in all markets.

We got to play with the Peaceful Garden Suite Collection. This is a brand new Suite available to you in the Sep to Dec Mini Catalogue.

Five members of my team gathered together to enjoy the afternoon of stamping, chatting and lunch. It was loads of fun! Here's one of the 4 projects we made.

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Groovin' to the Beach Boys with Everyday Arches

Quick! What song runs through your head when you read this greeting? ....It's Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys, right? This is such a retro card with the greeting and the colours. Flower Power all the way. Each of the die cuts are individual and have this amazing arch / rainbow effect. Get your summer groove on and let's hit the beach! Thanks, Kristen Hancock for this adorable swap card.

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Timid Tiger steals the show with Cheers & Sips

Joyfold fun Fold card from my Sista, Tamara Bertram in Edmonton, AB featuring the Cheers & Sips Bundle. Isn't this patterned paper adorable? The star of the show here so that all you need is a greeting to dress it up. Tamara ran with a new In Color, Timid Tiger. It's not your Pumpkin Pie...a lovely soft shade or orange that works beautifully with greens, blues, and other colours in its palette. Love it, Tam! Thanks for sharing.

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Turtle-y Cute Card

Does this ever happen to you? You are going along your merry way and whammo, you get a message in the most serendipitous way...That's how I felt when I received this swap card in the mail. A good reminder to take it slow once in a while. Not something I always remember to do as I like to operate on full speed ahead! So, I am grateful for this card and only wish I new who sent it to me as it arrived unnamed. That's OK... we'll all love it. Thanks, Friend!

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Crafting experience the easy way

Love when my crafting experience is easier with dies that cut out just the shape I need. The Gallery Blooms Dies have this large frame which I then embossed after die cutting out (so the embossing didn't get squished) and placed some fab DSP from the Floral Impressions pack behind to show it off. That's a new embossing folder, Damask Designs. Then some die cuts from Impressions Abloom dies to finish it off. Easy-peasy lemon squeezy!

If you're looking to get your hands on some of our amazing new patterned papers at a fraction of the price, ask me about my Paper Share. This gorgeous pack is included.

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Retired Clubhouse Golfer Card

Blast from the past....do you remember this stamp set and die bundle? It's called Clubhouse. It's been on my shelf for ages...And this week we're celebrating a birthday at work and besides being a great guy, this friend is an avid golfer. Then it came to me, YES I have a golfer stamp. Rummaged through my now organized retired pattern papers and found the coordinating DSP. Perfect! While these products are long retired, I hope the layout inspires you to use a couple of strips of patterned paper (1-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch) and a focal point with greeting.

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Poppin' By to say Hi

Do you like going to the movies? Or having movie night at home? The thing that keeps me going back to Cineplex is the popcorn. I love that stuff! This stinkin' cute card totally screams hop in the car and head to the nearest theatre. My thanks to Deb Duval for sharing this card with me in the Canadian Business Builders Swap group. Love how she used so much of the Poppin' By bundle elements on this cute card. See you at the show!

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Check out the versatility of the Blooming Phrases Stamp Set

The Blooming Phrases Stamp Set really sells itself on the scripty greetings with tails. Then when I saw the flowers and leaf spray in the set I was like, hmmm....where would the stem be? Right there: I inked up the flourish tail and used it as the stem for the leaves. Really appreciate when a stamp can be used for more than its original intended purpose. Brilliant!

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Scenic Adventures for Scrapbooking and Cardmaking

While yesterday was Father's Day, I think this card from my Silver Sister Leanne Livingstone works great for any occasion. I'm exciting that this bundle, Everyday Arches is coming my way later this week picked up during our BOGO sale on Suites and Suite products. I wasn't sure if I needed them...do I? Yes...yes... I do! Love shapes that layer and now I'll have stitched arches. Great new shape for my stash. The other Bundle featured here is Scenic Adventures with the trees, mountains and bunch of greetings suitable for ourdoorsy type cards and memory keeping. Thanks, Leanne, for this great card!

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Sweet Jar Bundle of Sweets

Sharing some sweetness in the form of the Sweet Jar Stamp Set and Punch Bundle. Did you catch that? A punch bundle! So many possibilities for everything you want to include in these cute jars. The lid is a separate part of the punch. Here I have flowers with the jar standing up, but imagine candies rolling out by laying it on its side, fireflies inside, stamped greetings... oh so much fun to be had. Get creative with this one!

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Bloom where you're planted and relish in what brings you joy!

I've made a lot of changes to my garden and landscape around the house this year. And, I'm not a gardener. My creativity tends to "bloom" elsewhere if you know what I mean. Together with a local young entrepreneur starting out in the landscaping business, great friends with vast knowledge on the subject and help from a special friend and my daughter this year, the garden is looking pretty nice! We all need to bloom where we're planted, right? Relish in what brings you joy.

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Seriously the best!

A fantastic thank you or congratulations card in neutrals and earth tones. Fairly simple design that works over and over again by changing up the image in the centre. This one features the Textured Notes bundle in the Online Exclusives section of our website. It's a Suite Collection, too, so qualifies for this month's promotion of Buy One Get One 50% off. Sweet deal! The Textured Notes dies are each a little different design but work wonderfully together as layers. To get the most out of a sheet of patterned paper, I cut the weave paper to 4" x 4" giving me 12 pieces from the sheet. Thanks for stopping by!

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Emboss Resists like a Pro!

Here's a simple technique with emboss powders: Emboss Resist. It works out perfectly every time! Stamp your greeting in versamark or craft ink and heat emboss with powder. I used White. Take a blending brush, sponge dauber or wedge of sponge and add ink overtop in a circular motion fading on the outside edges. Works with an image as well as with the words I used on this sample from the Elements of Text stamp set. Then I take a tissue and lightly wipe off the embossed areas so they pop out from the colour. Wondering where I got the matching ribbon from? I used a Stampin' Blend (alcohol marker) to colour the White Woven ribbon, let it dry and tied it around. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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Simply Said with Florals in Bloom

One of the June Monthly card class creations from last night. They loved it! The die is so intricate that you will want to use adhesive sheet on the cardstock before cutting out so your adhesive doesn't squish everywhere. These colours are just so cheery: Petunia Pop, Bubble Bath and Garden Green. I added a small strip of embossed cardstock to the left for interest. Happy how it turned out!

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Z-Fold Fun Fold with a Twist

Holy fold out fun fold card - and what a great one to show off on your table or mantle. Do people still have mantels? I do - over the fireplace. I like to display some cards on there. This one has lots of panels on which to write messages, show off coordinating die cuts like these pretty flowers and add some stamping or embellishments. Thanks to my Silver Sister Cindy for this amazing layout.

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Back to my roots in papercrafting with Scrapbooking

 Tried my hand at scrapbooking by following a layout shared from pagemaps.com (seriously....check THAT resource out for your memory keeping) and great direction by my friend Lisa Henderson. Tell me...when you scrapbook do you do layouts then add your photos or bild your pages around the photos? The former is my preferred way....I get a lot more done quickly that way!

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A Sweet Jar Birthday using Azure Afternoon

From the I-rarely-use-this-ink department, I bring you a birthday card using the Sweet Jar Stamp Set and Punch Bundle. The colour is....Azure Afternoon. It's bright and bold and goes so well with other colours like Daffodil Delight and the returned In Color Strawberry Slush, but it's just not a go-to for me. How do you think I did pairing it up on this card? Lining up the candles within the stamp jar image was easily attained because this is a photopolymer stamp. I'd seen this backdrop using embossing layers on Pinterest and liked how that pulled all the bright colours together. I grabbed the hardly used Rainbow Dots to adorn this happy card.

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A first play with the Grow With Love Bundle

Playing with the Grow with Love stamp set coming complete with 4 different herbs. I was going with a mostly monochromatic layer in a collage stamping pattern. Took a little practice but happy with the result I'm sharing with you today. My tip for this is to do a lot of stamping off so that the images - while clustered - don't just make a dark mess. Makes a great thinking of you card as a simple greeting to the top right with a bow and a few matte dot embellies.

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Stunning Wedding Card featuring the Beautiful Gallery Suite

Today's card was designed by Shauna Mikuliak and the layout taught last weekend at SSS Super Team. The colours are stunning, right? This Beautiful Gallery patterned paper is stunning...truly...I have 3 packs. This is my first time using the huge peony floral image in Secret Sea, Cloud Cover and Basic White though. The Suite comes with this gorgeous embossing folder called Damask Designs that you see on the very front panel. I think this is my new go-to wedding and anniversary card. Fabulous!

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Paper Share Offering

Love all the patterned papers? Gotta have more? Why not try a Paper Share.

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120 sheets of 6" x 6" paper

Create a Fault Line Technique Card using Gallery Blooms and Season of Elegance Speciality DSP

 Have you tried a Fault Line card yet? My first time trying it and I'm pretty happy with the outcome! My friend Glenda Mollet taught us all how to make this last weekend. If you're using Gold Foil like I did, here's my tip: tear the paper away from you (not towards you) so that the inside core is on the hidden part. Of course, I learned this the "trial and error" way LOL. It sure makes a neat layout and creates a great backdrop onto which to place a big stamp like this peony. They remind me of the ones soon to be popping in my backyard.

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Window Sheet Pop Up Card featuring Florals in Bloom Suite

Here's my card from the SSS Super Team event this past weekend. I've posted a similar one a wee bit ago. With this one, I embossed the "let joy" sentiment and added some stamped images to the centre circle. Can you see the window sheet as the front of the card? The back is one panel and between the DSP layer and the Window Sheet, I've got a little mechanism to pop it out and allow it to stand on its own. I could make oodles of these...so quick and simple with packing a wow. Enjoy!

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Double Diamond Gatefold Card Layout with Delightful Wishes

Here's my take on Tamara Bertram's card from our SSS Super Team Event this past weekend where I highlighted the products from Delightful Wishes with this fun folder we're calling Double Diamond Gate Fold. It's looks very complicated...believe me that was my first thought...but with expert directions this turned out to be very easy to put together. Sure helps use up my always growing supply of patterned paper. I think I have a problem with that. How about you?

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White Craft Ink Technique featuring Gallery Blooms

On Saturday, I learned a new technique using White Craft ink and painting it over a stamped image taught by my friend, Diane Hutchinson of Crafts by the Bow. Doesn't this card look amazing with that touch of white ink? We used blender pens to pick up the ink and oh I love the result. It's good to try something new and break out of your go-to techniques and layouts. Thrilled with the result!

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Let Joy Bloom with Sweet Blooms

Sharing a multi-layer joy fold card with white ribbon to tie it closed and add some softness to the rectangular layers. I didn't want to cover up all the pretty patterned paper but I think the colours show through all those White and Timid Tiger layers. I love the Sweet Blooms Bundle with die cuts of the woods "bloom" and "lovely". Let Joy Bloom is perfect any time of year! Let me know in the comments what you like about this one.

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