A Sympathy Déjà Vu

Yes, I turned once again to one of my favorite elegant card sketches by Amy Sheffer to create this sympathy card for a guy at work whose dear mom passed away.  I don’t even know this guy very well, but somehow, for some reason, I got the very distinct feeling that he took her death [...]

Blog Hop du jour – QKD RW!

Welcome to another exciting Royal Wednesday blog hop! All the fun started at the QKD blog, but hopefully you’ve dropped by here via Lara’s blog!
Today we were given a color challenge – teal and pink – and whenever I need that particular color combo, I reach for SEI’s gorgeous world of Poppy. I will probably cry [...]

Upon Braeden’s Behest

Braeden wanted to give a very special card to his kindergarten teacher’s classroom aide, and he knew exactly what he wanted. He asked to look through my paper and select something that Ms. Baress would love – and everything had to be green. He chose paper from the Grade School stack, and I chose everything [...]

Yep, Another One =)

It’s like déjà vu all over again, isn’t it?  I wanted to make a very elegant card for Bill’s parents, who do so much for us, so that it will end up in a box, where his mom puts all the cards I make for them. She loves blue, and although she prefers darker shades, [...]

Fabulous Graduation

This is a special graduation card, in many ways, for a gal graduating from high school this month. All patterned papers are from Formal Affair by Scrapworks, and the rest is Bazzill textured cardstock. The black brads are Spare Parts, the ribbon is from Hobby Lobby, the stamp is Studio G and heat-embossed, and I’m [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

Poppy Card for Brynna

Using the same sketch as the card below, I decided to make one for a friend of mine who I met at IBM and who will remember helping me grow a spine during my divorce almost 10 years ago. The SEI papers in this Poppy line are absolutely delicious, and Brynna loves fairies, so I [...]

BearyBox Card Challenge #19

When I saw Tina’s take on Joey’s Beary Box card sketch, I thought, “Wowy, please let me have some cool paper so I can make mine cool!” Well, who knows if I pulled that off, but I do like the Poppy paper from SEI!! The cardstock is Paper Studio, the felt ribbon is Making Memories, [...]

Distance Makes the {heart} Grow Fonder

Yep, another card like this, I had to do it. Found my Cosmo Cricket Love Notes paper, looked up and saw this wide satin copper ribbon I bought at WallyWorld, then it all came together. The thread I used to sew everything is also copper! I’ve forced myself to be a WHOLE LOT MORE patient [...]