Yesterday evening hubby and I witnessed the strangest conversation taking place on our front deck. We were listening to one of our resident song sparrows and watched as it hopped from deck post to deckpost and then onto the steps of our deck, chirping away quite happily. It was then that we noticed our cat Houdini lying not 6 feet away, sunning himself on the stone slabs responding to the bird! We must have watched this 'conversation' for a good 10 minutes, the bird chirping and then ... VIEW POST
All bundled up
A few days ago I created a cute baby card to showcase two new Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folders from Stampin' Up! called Tufted and Subtle. I mentioned that there were coordinating dies available for the Sweet Baby Stamp Set and for today's Watch on Wednesday project I decided to use the stamps and dies bundle to create a gift tag and bonus card. As promised in the video, here's the details: To create the It's a Girl! gift tag I used 1/4" sheet of Very Vanilla Card and a ... VIEW POST
All at sea
Oh my goodness have you seen the Tranquil Textures suite of products on page 154 and 155 of the Stampin' Up! 2018/2019 Annual Catalogue? I simply love it and have so many ideas for projects. One of the first things I had to do was cover a boring notepad so I somewhere to write all my project plans. This simple cover for a 4" x 5-1/2" notepad started out as a piece of Mint Macaron Card cut to 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" and scored on the long side at 4-1/8" and 4-3/8". The creases were then ... VIEW POST
