April 21

Easter, Funky Folds

Happy Easter!

We are traveling back from a super nice weekend in Minnesota!

We spent Friday with our daughter, Saturday with my brother and his family, spent the nights at my parents and now off to see our son on the way home! Whew! We packed a lot in a short while.

Stamps Used: J021 Spring Bunny Large; C314 Happy Easter; (I stacked this by inking and stamping the two words separately) F295 Spec tacular Day;

I also used a mustache, ties, and glasses set from IO for the bunnies glasses!

Dec 27

Birthday, Crazy Z Fold, flowers, Funky Folds

good evening. This was my other birthday card that I needed over the holidays!!

We had a crazy day, just getting last minute things ready with the new POS system. We are leaving Monday for Grapevine, TX.

If you live near Dallas, TX here is the promoters Website with information :

Grapevine, TX Show Info

Stamps Used: GG49 Peony in Vase; LG; FF32 Heart Banner Tag Lg; E343 String of Butterflies; D331 Birthday Wishes; G350 May Your B-Day; A232 Pull Here Sm; DD90 Dots & Circle for 1 inch punch;

Dec 18

Crazy Z Fold, Friendship, Funky Folds

So I’m rocking and rolling and getting things done around here. ๐Ÿ™‚ so much organizing that I forget to blog! Just cleaning up old make n takes and re-organizing things. Heat went out in the studio so we had to get a new heater- lucky we’ve been having beautiful weather in WI!!

Today’s card is one of our Fabulous Friend cards from our class. We will be teaching at all the Heirloom shows, Akron, and possibly Stampaway.

It’s a fun swing fold!

Stamps Used: D279 Sisters Sm; EE25 Dots and Circle; DD82 Butterflies; E142 Friend Thinking; C123 Glad Friends; A232 Pull Here; H95 Friends Words;

Cutting Die Used: Krinkle Butterfly Cutting Die;

Aug 17

Funky Folds, Snowman

Good Afternoon! I had a little trouble with the pictures for this card but hopefully you can get the jest of it!

For those asking for measurements:

Basic Steno card. (4.25x11scored at 5.50″)

1.25×11 stripe scored at 2.75″, 5.50″ & 8.25″.

Any size squares that fit. I used 2.50″x2.50″

I must be missing the cooler weather. We have had beastly hot weather. ๐Ÿ˜

Stamps Used: EE37 Plain Snowman; EE42 Snowman Looking Up med; EE47 Ear Muff Snowman; FF36 Snowman Looking Up Lg; D259 Chill of Winter; A240 Arrow Snowflake; BB22 Snowflake Fun Cube; E248 Coolest Friend;

This card is a prime example of why I Love mirror image stamps !!

Aug 16

Funky Folds, Halloween

Hello! I am alive! Some crazy days. On our trip home from Stampaway we broke a spring on our new toy hauler. We couldn’t believe it so stranded in Indy for a day. Made it home and Kevin ordered a new spring.

We came home to piles of internet orders and we had a few special orders from Stampaway. I finally got all that done and we are starting on stamps for the next convention.

Today’s card is for Becky O’Donnel’s class in Hamburg, NY which is the next show. It was fun to make.

Stamps Used: H119 Witches Feet; F225 Halloween Hi; CSM100 Mini Halloween;

Cutting Die Used: Rick Rack Borders;

July 21

Birthday, Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, Funky Folds

Happy Saturday! Doing some house cleaning today and then back to stamp making!

Stamps Used: DD102 Adam Fish Sm; DD103 Ben Fish Sm; AA33 Open Dual Dot; AA34 Open Dual Dot Mini; G346 Celebrate; EE75 Adam Fish Lg; D257 Fishies Birthday; JJ18 Wavy Border;

Cutting Dies: CDDD102 Adam Fish; CDDD103 Ben Fish Die;

Loving the new wavy border stamp!!

June 28

Crazy Z Fold, Creatures, Frogs & Bugs, Funky Folds

Good Evening! We had a hot day today! Our pool was full of people and bees. Darn bees! But they are cute on a card.

One of my nephews headed home today. We will miss him he did a tremendous amount of work.

Stamps Used: CC31 Bees Sm; EE19 Bees Lg; D193 Bee cause I care; J16 honeycomb;

Cutting Dies Used: CDCC31 Bees Sm Die; CDEE19 Bees Lg Die;

June 6

Birthday, Crazy Z Fold, Funky Folds

Good Morning โ˜€๏ธ

We are frantically getting orders out and trying to make stamps for Collinsville. Our booth placement stinks in Collinsville so likely don’t need to worry about making stamps anyway ๐Ÿคช

So we are changing our make n take format for Collinsville. We will not have our usual set up but we will be doing two different make n takes. Four spots. More like Paper Cut format. We are doing two different birthday cards. This masculine card and a girlie card that I will post tomorrow!

Stamps Used: C315 Screw & Screwhead; C319 Saw Birthday; EE80 Saw Med; GG42 Hammer Med; D341 Screwdriver Med; D342 Wrench Med; C197 Rectangle Handmade;

Cutting Die Used: Saw Cutting Die;

May 21

Birthday, Crazy Z Fold, Funky Folds

Good Morning! We have a lot going on here with the new toy hauler and modifying the booth to fit.

Spent yesterday afternoon in the studio and only got one card done ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿคจ it was not a productive afternoon. I was trying to do a new fold and have lots of crazy scored things that didn’t work.

Today’s card is from a few days ago. It is a favorite of mine. I’m planning to teach a class next year called Funky Folds and this card is going to be one of them.

Stamps Used: B301 Happy Birthday; B302 Wish Big; DD63 Dots & Circles; EE53 Skinny Candles; F253 Celebrating You Birthday;

Cutting Die Used: CDEE53 Skinny Candles Cutting Die;

May 17

Birthday, Funky Folds

good evening! Another day is done! the days seem to go by faster and faster.

Just a cute story for today… my sixteen year old nephew comes and plays video games with Kevin and he came upstairs tonight and was watching me stamps cards. He wanted to know if I was working or having fun??! I said both and he thought it would be easier to just go buy a card. So I told him my making cards was like his playing video games! He wasn’t convinced!!

I’m having so much fun making funky fold cards. I started this one early this afternoon and it took me a quite a while to get the measurements right but I was having fun!!

Stamps Used: BB60 Butterflies; D324 Happy Birthday ; E296 Wishing Birthday; G165 Silpnium Daisies in a Jar;

Cutting Dies: CDBB60 Butterflies; CDG165 Silpnium in a Jar Cutting Die;