Blog Hop Winners announcement

We had a great time visiting with everyone on Saturday. Thanks for coming out and playing along!
After a little teasing here comes the announcement of our two blog hop winners.
The first one is Mica, she created these beautiful layouts after Ally’s and Marci’s sketches. WTG Mica! You will receive a set of Funky Flowers!

The second…  |  read more »

Masculine kraft cards

As a clean and simple stamper, I rely a lot on the base colors of all my cards. Aside from the classic white, my next favorite color is kraft. It is so versatile and it really adds a natural look to any card… even if you just use a little of it!
Here I decided to…  |  read more »

Come celebrate National Scrapbooking Day with us!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day everyone!
We are still celebrating today, May 3rd and 4th!

We want to celebrate with you and invite you to come visit all of our blogs.
Here is how our NSD blog hop works: You follow the link on this post to Cathy’s blog (at the end of this post) and after checking…  |  read more »

Blog Hop invitation

Remember we had so much fun on April 8, blog-hopping through our Design Team’s amazing creations? You are in luck; to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day tomorrow on May 2nd, we are inviting you to join us on another journey. The blog hop starts at 5pm EST at this location. Of course, there will be a…  |  read more »

bringing back the simple

a while ago, Bettina had challenged us to do very simple cards. It was fun. So then I decided to try a few more. I decided to use just cardstock and the abundant blossoms stamps and the oval office stamps for the sentiments. 
So I used a teal blue, the red dotted swiss and white as…  |  read more »

Summer party

It’s soon summer, and here in Norway where the summer is short, and the sun is up almost all day and all night during the short summer-time, we love to stay up, to have garden-parties, meet friends and have fun.
No time to sit inside making cards – they’ll have to wait until autumn arrives…
But never the less…  |  read more »

Clear resist pad and glossy paper samples

Trace Geworsky
While walking into my lss, their new shipment of glossy cardstock, and the clear resist pad (Ranger) caught my eye.
I thought..well how hard can it really be to figure out? Well aparently for me, it was quite hard!!! LOL I am going to be totally honest when I say that all the ideas I…  |  read more »

Inspired by DP

Sometimes, when I am dry out of ideas and inspiration (like right now), I turn to my designer papers. They have done most of the work for you! I feel like all that’s left for me to do is accent work, just a little of this here and there and you’ve got yourself a finished…  |  read more »

Many, Many Thanks

If I could only have one stamp set for the rest of my life, it would be the “Many, Many Thanks” set from My Stamp Box.
I love that it has sentiments and images that you can mix and match for different occasions.
I think my favorite image is the flower vase and stems. I experimented with…  |  read more »

Heat Embossing with Lori

Today our fabulous guest designer Lori Roop will share one of her favourite stamping techniques with you: Heat Embossing! Time to pull out those many colours of your embossing powders and get to work.
Heat embossing brings an instant boost to almost any card or image. I used heat embossing on both of these cards. I…  |  read more »