What I Do Instead of Laundry

Hello, friends!  I am honored to be a part of the National Craft Month Celebration Blog Hop with Right at Home Stamps .  Hopefully you've come from Linda's blog . We are celebrating our hobby of papercrafting by bringing our community together and spending a day doing what we love.  Come hop with all of us, leave comments along the way, and you will be entered to win this awesome stamp set: It's called " Make Something Beautiful ", and it is being released today.  It's so fun to have a stamp set that is dedicated to our love of all things crafty--scrapbooking, painting, cardmaking, sewing, and any and all combinations of the above.  Here are two cards I've made with this set.  Those tools begged to be paper-pieced with some sparkly silver paper! For this one I heat embossed the images in white on navy cardstock, as well as fussy cutting the tools out of the silver paper.  Then I used a Copic marker to shade the hearts and sentiment in...

It has been a long time, but I thought I'd jump back in to the Papertrey Blog Hop this month.  I couldn't resist creating something with these beautiful patterns as inspiration. Here's my take on it: I used the Anniversary Set: Painted Petals , a combination of heat embossing, coloring with Copics on that heat embossing, fussy cutting and die cutting.  Very fun. PTI White and Dark Indigo cardstock Ink: Versamark, Copics, PTI Hawaiian Shores, Blueberry Sky, Raspberry Fizz, Lovely Lady, HA Navy

Hello again, everyone!  It has been a long time since this little blog of mine has seen any love from me, but I thought I'd start 'er up again and see how it goes.  Here's a card that sums up how I feel in general, which seems to be a good way to get back into this blogging thing... Concord & 9th  has quickly become one of my favorite stamp companies.  They are very clever with their dies and coordinating stamp sets, and this one is no exception.  It's a frame die that has interchangeable companion dies, and they are brilliant.  This combination is the Happy Card Frame Die with the Kind Card Frame Add-On.  Sentiment is from the Kindhearted stamp set. Cardstock: PTI Berry Sorbet, white, MFT Steel Grey