Aloha, all! It’s Saturday and time for another Christmas card. In fact, I think I may have found my main Christmas card for 2020. I won’t make my final decision until the end of October (when I really get serious about Christmas cards). But today’s card is in the running. Creating the Card Base By… [Read More]
Techniques
A Diagonal Gatefold Card!
Aloha, all! It’s Tuesday again, and time for my Tuesday Technique, which this month is simple fun fold cards. Nothing too complicated, and they all use just half a sheet of cardstock. In the case of today’s card, once you’ve cut your half of the cardstock, you pretty much have to make another of the… [Read More]
September Tuesdays – Easy Fun Fold Cards!
Aloha, all! For September, my Tuesday Techniques blog posts are going to focus on fun folded cards. Those that I’ll be posting are almost as easy to make as a traditional “fold-in-the-middle” type of card. If you have any ideas that you’d like me to include, I’d love to hear about them. Meanwhile, I’ll be… [Read More]
Two Card Fronts With the Tailored Tag Punch!
Aloha, all! This is the last of my current Tuesday’s Technique series on using punches and printed papers to make fun card fronts. Last week we just punched the ends of some paper strips to form a card front. I also added a bit of discussion about not punching those strips at all. Today the… [Read More]
Papers and Another Punch to Make a Card!
Aloha, all! Welcome back to Tuesday’s Technique Tips blog post. This month’s theme is using your Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Papers and a punch to create a beautiful card front – no stamping images! While I love stamping – and coloring! – all the wonderful images in Stampin’ Up!’s catalogs, sometimes I just want to… [Read More]
Throwback Thursday – a Chevron Card Design
Aloha, all! Lately I’ve been enjoying quite a few “Throwback Thursday” posts on several social media sites. They are definitely not new. But, as I’ve been looking for something new to share with you, this time I paid attention. So, from here on for a while, I am going back into my own archives to… [Read More]
A Second Look At the Postage Punch!
Aloha, all! Yesterday, I showed you one way you could use printed papers (Stampin’ Up!’s Designer Series Papers, specifically) to decorate a card front. For that card, I used the Rectangular Postage Stamp Punch. Today I’d like to share another c card I made with a Christmas printed paper and the same punch. I actually… [Read More]
