I was running short on”thank-you” cards after Christmas so I decided to turn some of my art postcards into “thank-you’s” by stamping on them. Instead of just stamping right on the card surface, I tried somethin’ different. I rolled a section of white-out onto the card… …scraped some of it off around the […]
Art Cards
Handmade cards using rubber stamps, decorative papers, fibers, charms, and anything else that looks cool.
2 More Cards with the Birdcage Stamp
Are you tired of seeing this stamp yet? I’m not. I still like it mucho much. Just a few words to inspire you. This was the first time I tried this: Stamping on transparency, cutting it out, and then using it as a tag that sort of hovers over the […]
Candy Corn Queen 2010
My daughter was eating some candy corn and remarked how fun it would be to make candy corn jewelry. Then I remarked how fun it would be to try to draw a lovely Candy Queen completely covered in candy corn accessories. And now, for the rest of the story… I drew […]
A Man-Card
Happy Birthday to my funny, intelligent, and extremely good-looking husband! I’d post a picture of him but it would just make you jealous. 🙂 Anyway, seeing as how the cards for men at the store are so LAME, I made a special man-card just for him. My inspiration? Captain […]
3 Cards in 3 Colors
Valentine’s Cards With Hand Drawn Birds
Valentine with Stenciling Accents
Cupcake Valentine Cards
In my last post I showed some creative ways to use a “non-Valentine” stamp for Valentine’s cards. Here’s another example. As you can see, this cupcake stamp from Stampin’ Up! was intended as an easy, fill-in-the-blank card stamp for young children. My favorite thing to do with this stamp is to use the image as […]
Valentine’s Day Stamping
It’s true! Even stamps that have nothing to do with Valentine’s can usually be altered in some way to be used on a Valentine card. Here’s an example… This little girl gathering shells at the beach (#50031 “Collecting Shells” by Stamps Happen, Inc.) doesn’t look like a Valentine’s stamp but you […]