Elegance for Frances

Singin’ the praises of Amy Sheffer once again, for her beautiful card that I keep going back to when I need an elegant card! If you’d like to read the story behind Frances and how she blessed our Easter and Taylan’s boo-boo, it’s below. We were shocked to find Frances’s card with the gift basket, [...]

A very special Easter – Updated with Pictures!!

Here’s the deal: I had received this email from the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs the Monday prior to Easter, with an offer that I couldn’t refuse. I’d stayed at the Broadmoor on several different occasions when I was in high school, and it made such an impression on me that I STILL remember how elegant [...]

Thinking of You

A friend of mine asked me to make a card for a co-worker, and thankfully I happened to have checked out Amy’s wonderful card and had the tiniest of epiphanies =) I took a heck of alot of creative license with it though, but I was asked to make this card pretty simple. I used [...]

A Tribute to Dulci – More Photos!!!

A very cool co-worker of mine and his wife asked me to make something for a friend of theirs who recently lost her beloved cat Dulci. They provided me with digital copies of pictures, and I found two of them to be wonderfully applicable to this project. For the picture on the left, I opened [...]

Kristen…Thinking of You

A friend of mine asked me to make a card for him to give to a special female co-worker, and for some reason I kept being drawn to “elegance” as the design basis. I had previously scoped out a card over at Amy Sheffer’s Pickled Paper Designs and nearly fell over at how beautiful it is. [...]

Card for JT

Made a quick card tonight for a cool guy on my team at work; his grandmother passed away and the funeral is this Friday, 4/3, on Taylan’s birthday. I used BasicGrey Infuse papers, Bazzill bling on the bottom layer, and GinaK Premium Cardstock for the stamped sentiment. I sewed, inked, and popped various elements. I [...]