Welcome back to the craft room and today’s How to Make an Alcohol Ink Birthday Card post. Have you ever dug through a forgotten corner of your craft room and found supplies you completely forgot you had? I found the Brass & Bliss Open Greenery #2 Die set that I bought last September, still unopened!…
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One Card Design, Endless Creative Looks
Welcome back to the craft room and today’s One Card Design, Endless Creative Looks post. Have you ever seen the same card design over and over again and just had to recreate it? That’s exactly what happened to me. This beautiful design kept popping up in my Pinterest feed for weeks, and I finally gave…
Flashback Friday Weekly Challenge Wrap
Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Weekly Challenge Wrap post. Let’s take a look at the challenges I participated in during the second week of July 2011. The techniques couldn’t be more different, but both were such fun ways to stretch my creativity in new directions. Let’s jump right in! StampTV…
Crinkle Embossed Backgrounds to Card Fronts
Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Crinkle Embossed Backgrounds to Card Fronts post. I had so much fun discovering how beautifully the WausauPaper Crinkles cardstock took to embossing—I couldn’t wait to turn those textured backgrounds into cards! Even though the backgrounds were freshly made, I took the opportunity to dig into my stash…
Masculine Cardmaking with Limited Supplies
Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Masculine Cardmaking with Limited Supplies post. I don’t know about you, but creating masculine cards never feels easy to me. It probably doesn’t help that my craft stash is filled with florals and delicate designs—definitely more suited for feminine cards. When it comes to stamps and dies,…
Flashback Friday Black, White and One Color
Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Black, White and One Color post.Back in March 2012, I joined the Black, White, and One Color challenge on Stamp TV. Sometimes, working with a limited color palette feels like a breeze—but other times, choosing that one extra color can be surprisingly tricky. That was…
Elegant Tulle Window Birthday Card
Welcome back to the craft room! Today, I’m sharing an Elegant Tulle Window Birthday Card inspired by a discovery I made back in 2019 while going through my mom’s scrapbooks. She had saved a wedding congratulations card that she and my dad received, and what caught my attention was its unique tulle window. I was…
Beautiful Handmade Cards with Mamigami Paper
Welcome back to the craft room! In today’s Beautiful Handmade Cards with Mamigami Paper post, I’m taking the textured papers I created two weeks ago and transforming them into stunning handmade cards. If you missed it, I previously shared How to Create Textured Paper with Mamigami, where I explored this Japanese-inspired technique to make unique,…
Timeless White on White Card
Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Timeless White on White Card post. A friend recently introduced me to the Simon Says Stamp monthly color challenges on Instagram, and this month’s theme—white on white—immediately caught my attention. Designing with a single color presents its own set of challenges, as you can’t rely on contrasting…
Elegant White on White Cards: Simple and Beautiful
Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Elegant White on White Cards: Simple and Beautiful post. Today we are going to discover the simplicity and beauty of white on white card designs. I have been enamored with this technique for a while now. In my mind I didn’t own the “right” type of die,…









