Last week, I made TWO trips to one of my all-time favorite paper crafting (and so much more) stores — GoldensHill Papercrafts in Fairfax Station. My darling husband drove me there on Wednesday (45 min. with no traffic). He was, as always, wonderful and waited patiently while I shopped for paper and embellishments for one [...]

I created this ATC using the fantastic “Steampunk” Charity Wings stamp set designed by Candy Rosenberg for The Rubber Cafe. All of the other products used to make this sticky back canvas ATC are from Ranger Industries and Prima Marketing (ribbon – color altered using Perfect Pearls Mist). When you purchase the “Steampunk” Charity Wings [...]

Tired of just slipping gift cards into envelopes? You can always create a cute pop-up or slide card to hold it, but if you want to do something extra special — decorate a wood bag! This project was created for and published in Scrap ‘n Art. It started out as a simple wood bag that can [...]

Welcome to the Scrap ‘n Art World Cardmaking Day Blog Train! If you haven’t been with us since the beginning of the train, make sure you go to Angela Pruitt’s fantastic blog — The Prissy Pixel to board this train. Our train is headed on a fantastic holiday tour and you won’t want to miss [...]

Why have ordinary when you could have extraordinary? Isn’t that what crafting is all about — taking something plain and creating art? Imagine the looks on your friends’ faces the next time you whip out your mints to share and they see the cool altered tin you have designed. The one I created was simple [...]

Welcome to my new blog. I am so excited about it! This new design definitely feels like more of a reflection of my personality than the old blog did. I have the wonderfully talented Angela Pruitt to thank for this fabulous new blog! Not only is she a talented blog/web designer and graphic artist, she [...]