Caffeinated Cats card plus FREE download for Arteza Real Brush Pens color chart

Hello you, so glad you stopped by! I hope you like color, because today I'm sharing one of the most colorful cards I've made in awhile. I'm using the Caffeinated Cats stamp set by Newton's Nook designs. I had no problem choosing the colors for the cats because I love cats, so the ideas just came to me easily! The mugs, however, took me a little bit longer to decide, but when in doubt about color choice - do a rainbow!

Watch a process video of the card below or in full HD on my YouTube channel:

Stamp Highlighting Beautiful Flowers with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing a card I made using a special technique called stamp highlighting. I was inspired by Kelly Latveola - an exceptionally talented cardmaker! I saw her do this technique in the video What Would Kelly Make Series: Stamp Highlighting on the Simon Says Stamp YouTube channel. This idea has been sitting in my back pocket for some time, and I finally garnered up the courage to try it!

Pantone Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral

Inspired by this year's Pantone Color of the Year, I created this card with it in mind. Coral is such an interesting color to me. Is it pink? Is it orange? It's both! This is the card I created using the Dainty Sprig stamp and die set from Altenew for Simon Says Stamp.

Snow Much Thanks - Painting with Distress Ink

Hello! I have had so much fun over the last several days! I've been visiting with friends, and family, eating good food, and opening presents. It's been really great, but super crazy busy so I'm glad that now I have some time to sit down and get back to crafting! The card I'm sharing today is a thank you card I made for my wonderful parents using the Snow Much stamp set from Simon Says Stamp's January card kit.

Holiday Icons card trio

Hello! I have a trio of cards to share today! They all feature the Naughty and Nice Elves stamp set that I've had since July from the Christmas in July event with Simon Says Stamp. See the first card I made with them HERE.  Since then, Simon has released a coordinating dies set. WOOHOO! I love coordinating dies! They make it super fast and easy to assemble cards like the ones I made with these adorable elves!

Fall Wishes Coffee Card and foil WITHOUT a laminator

Hello all! I'm super excited to share this coffee card I made using the Fall Wishes digital stamp set by Graciellie Design. I previously created a coffee card with her Hello Sunshine digital stamp set (visit THIS blog post to see it). I decided that this time around I would bust out my watercolors!

Z-fold Halloween candy card featuring Waffle Flower Crafts

Hey everybody! I'm back with another Halloween card - a really sweet Halloween card! It features the Sweet Tooth stamp and die set by Waffle Flower Crafts. This set was a limited edition set for Simon Say Stamp's STAMPtember event. I used a Z-fold card design that opens up to 12 inches wide to display a cute Halloween scene. Take a look in the video below:

BOO to you! An Action Wobbles card

When it comes to Halloween, I am definitely a "cute Halloween" person, not a "scary Halloween" person, and the Halloween cards I make are no exception. This one features the cutest little ghost (who has a not-so-scary secret!) Keep reading to the end to find out what it is!

Digital stamps and the Silhouette Cameo 3 - A coffee card from Graciellie Design

So I've been having a lot of fun playing around with digital stamps. (Check out this blog post or this one to see previous projects I've made with digital stamps!) I decided to step things up a notch by using a digital stamp with the Print & Cut feature on my Silhouette Cameo 3. I'm so glad I tried this out! It was fast and easy and gave me the perfect cut to make this super, yummy, delicious coffee card!

Happy Birthday cards with Glimmer Paste

I had been wanting to make this card for some time now, and I’m happy I actually sat down and made it - I made two actually! I used the Folk Dance stencil from Simon Says Stamp with Nuvo Glimmer Paste. I’ve used Glimmer Paste before, but only used one color at a time. This time, I decided to try blending a couple colors to get a really beautiful, colorful, sparkling effect.

Happy Fautumn!

Happy Fautumn! That's a word I made up for fall and autumn, because shouldn't both of them be happy?! 😊

For today's card, I was totally inspired by the color combo on the Your Next Stamp Sketch and Color Challenge #96. Plus, I just received the Gina K. Designs Autumn Wreath Builder stamp set, and I was chomping at the bit (did I really just use that idiom?!) to make a fall/autumn wreath!

I really like candy corn!

Hey all! I'm back with another card - a shaker card! I love making interactive cards like these, and Lawn Fawn has made it super easy with the Shaker Add-on die to the How You Bean? stamp set. Since Halloween is coming, I decided to use the Candy Corn Add-on stamps and dies.

Spread Love, Kindness, and Good Vibes!

Today’s card is an inspiration from the very talented Suzy Plantamura and her More Good Vibes stamp set at Simon Says Stamp. These images were previously released as Watercolor Prints (which I also have!), but now with the stamp set, I have so many more creative possibilities. Suzy's work is so beautiful, and she really inspires me to take my cards back-to-basics with just stamping and coloring.

A big, bold (but super easy) background!

I have to admit that before creating this card, I had never colored a mandala before (GASP! I know!). I'm so glad that I decided to give it a try because this Center Cut Burst background stamp from Simon Says Stamp is such a beautiful stamp and really fun to color. (And with this stamp you can even remove the middle part to make even more designs!)

Back to School!

It's back to school time! Well, not for me. I can proudly say that last December I graduated from Sac State with a Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Sciences, Nutrition and Food concentration (a mouthful, yes, but I don’t mind because I am so freakin’ proud of myself! Toot toot! That was just me tootin' my own horn for a quick sec! 😋).