Amazing Paper Grace

I’m so glad to be back, and with a card!  My daughters graduation was so nice, and when I was looking through sentiments appropriate for a graduation card, I came across this one and set it aside in my "short stack"  (the pile of stamps I keep on my desk that whisper "use me first").

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 My goodness this week is flying by, life could not be busier and I have company coming this weekend.  I’m having a proud mother moment….my oldest is graduating from college this weekend.  In retrospect her growing up has flown by just like my perception of this week - in the blink of an eye.  I […]

There is a first time for everything, and for me, this time…it was the first time I’ve ever made a sympathy card.  The mother of a dear friend passed away a little bit over a week ago on April 15th.  I sat down the very next evening to make this card, but didn’t want to […]

Using a large sentiment, I wanted to do something other than plunk it in the middle of a card, so I’m calling this a bookmark.  Granted, it’s a large bookmark…..all the better not to lose one’s place, right?  I had this dreamy piece of vellum in my stash and decided to sew it down to […]

My post is a quick one, as we have spent most of the day celebrating my husbands birthday.   We are so blessed for having all of our children close to us and able to spend time as a family. For a couple of minutes,  I was able to steal away to finish up this card.  […]

 What a glorious day!!!  I worked out in the yard, mowed the grass and breathed in spring like there was no tomorrow.   I have a post for this evening and the sentiment that I used on my card is no small coincidence.    This is a stamp that I don’t store with the others….since purchasing it […]

Today’s a busy day, but I have a quick post for a challenge that I worked on in between things.  The challenge is A Sketch for you to Try and can be found here on Jen del Muro’s blog, I{heart}2stamp.

Another classic layout that nicely showcases a single image.  I picked a cute Magenta flower that […]

I was in the mood to do a challenge, so the layout for this card is the Mojo Monday sketch at Poetic Artistry.
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Now that I’m sooooo organized with my new Sketch Book journal, I’ve recorded a couple of challenges I want to do….this is the first.  This one went together very easily and is very […]

I’ve never been able to keep up with all the sketch challenges out there floating around week to week, much less the tiny pieces of paper that I jot down sketches on.  Are you seeing a pattern here?  You got it!  I can’t remember anything unless I write it down. 
Ta-da!!!, a new sketch book.  I’ve […]

Previously I showed you the swatches that I use with Copics, Prismacolors and color samples of stamp pad ink.  For anything that I have a few of, as time permits, I make a list or swatch pages to help me with colors or to help me remember what I already have.  Well, for my ribbon […]

On Friday, I happened to be in Michaels to pick up ribbon - it was on sale!!  Can you imagine my glee when I discovered this yummy satin ribbon at $1.00 a spool?  I splurged! 

It is called Simply Satin and my guess is that they are changing packaging because there are others on […]

Our family spent some special time together today and the stamp used in this card was on my mind.  This card is not my style, it is way simple but the stamps says everything I felt in my heart today.

Today is the last day of the kids spring break and we were up and out […]

A quick card to share.  I wanted to pull together something to showcase the daisies on this Printworks stamp.

Pink and green seems to be my favorite color combination and it worked out well with the design paper as well.  I’m stuck on square cards and as with other recent cards, this one is 6×6. […]

 I wanted to participate in Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge which sports a very cool layout.  I did not make the deadline but I so love the layout and wanted to post it anyway. 

I started out with the two stamped images and thought I might want to emboss them.  I found some textured embossing powder in […]

I’m so glad to have a card to post today.  I’m still participating in the Divine Design Challenge, and this is one of my very favorite scriptures.

 I saved this stamp until I could think of a pretty way to display it.  Unlike many others in my stash, I have used this one many times, it […]