Make some delightful treats for your Easter party or Easter table! Mama Elephant Favor Bag die along with the new Chickie add on. Cutest little chicks for spring. Stamping and die cutting. Lawn Fawn Rainbow Plaid paper to top it off. DIY. Handmade crafts. Continue reading

Bright and cheerful handmade cards with stamps and die cuts. Strawberries from Elizabeth Crafts with Skinny Stripes from Ellen Hutson. Perfectly set off with lovely sentiment stamps from Hello Bluebird. Handmade is best. Learn about stamping on my blog. Continue reading

Fun St. Patrick's Day card idea! I used paper, stickers and sprinkles from the Lots O' Luck collection. Handmade card idea. Shamrocks and rainbows. DIY. Crafts. Stamping. Continue reading

Using the brand new Let's Hang Out stamp set from Hero Arts and Copic Markers to create a fun scene. Stamps colored with Copic Markers. Distress Ink blended background. Handmade card ideas. DIY. Stamping. Continue reading

Learn about making a card with the beautiful Art Impressions watercolor stamps. Easy techniques for making pretty scenes. Use these stamps with water based ink pads or markers. Mushroom with elf! Woodland theme. Continue reading

Hi friends! Happy weekend! I'm super excited to be the guest designer again today on the Sunny Studio Stamps Blog! Yippeeee! You guys already know how much I love Sunny Studio! Cute stamps, awesome embossing folders and my favorite gingham papers! What's not to love? I hope you have a beautiful weekend! I'll be sharing two cards on the SS Blog and also sharing them here on my blog. Lots to show you! And the themes are monkeys and roses!? LOL! First up today is a super fun birthday card with the adorable new Love Monkeys stamp set! I adore... Continue reading

Hi everyone! Are you ready for a fun blog hop today?! I am for sure! I've been soooooo wanting to share this card with you and help introduce the brand new release from Pretty Pink Posh! Today and tomorrow there is a big two day Blog Hop full of inspiration, ideas and prizes! We're launching the Spring 2019 Release from one of my favorite companies - Pretty Pink Posh. It's a great release too! Butterflies, Easter, Peacocks, Flowers...oh my. Everything beautiful and perfect for Spring. You're gonna love it, I know it! My craft room is all about Spring right... Continue reading

Hey everyone! Happy Monday! Hope you had a marvelous weekend! My weekend was full of crafty good times! Yeah! I had so much fun at the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo on Friday! Mark came with me and then we met up with some old friends for a yummy pizza before driving home. We finally watched our DVD of Bohemian Rhapsody. SO GOOD! Then some of my crafty friends came to visit Sacramento on Saturday and we spent all day together talking about stamping, and yarn, and we ate yummy food together. Sunday was a catch up day in the studio... Continue reading

ALOHA! It's almost the weekend! I'm swinging by today with some tropical party drinks to start off the beginning of the beginning of the weekend! LOL. I love these stamps and colored them a bit ago for the coloring challenge. I had fun digging out loads of bright colors of Copic Markers. Then I layered on some glitter and lots of clear glaze. Whew. I get thirsty just looking at this card! Won't you join me? Cheers! I hope you had a great week! I had a busy week which is good - lots of work to do. I'm grateful... Continue reading

Hi everyone! Are you ready for a fun blog hop today?! I am for sure! I've been soooooo wanting to share this card with you and help introduce the brand new release from Pretty Pink Posh! Today and tomorrow there is a big two day Blog Hop full of inspiration, ideas and prizes! We're launching the Spring 2019 Release from one of my favorite companies - Pretty Pink Posh. It's a great release too! Butterflies, Easter, Peacocks, Flowers...oh my. Everything beautiful and perfect for Spring. You're gonna love it, I know it! My craft room is all about Spring right... Continue reading

Hi everyone! Today I'm popping in with sunshine and rainbows for you! I'm in the studio with allllll the Oscars pre-game on the tv and my kitty asleep in his bed. I have a lot to get done today. So many fun crafty things are coming up in the next couple of weeks. I need to hunker down and create later! Yay! Mark and I enjoyed a fun mini getaway the past two days in San Jose. On Friday I attended the ginormous Stitches West Convention! WOW! How amazing! I just posted on my Instagram stories all my haul from... Continue reading

Fun handmade card using stamps and dies from My Favorite Things. Happy Hedgehogs stamp set, scallop dies and Hugs die cut. Distress ink blending and Copic Markers. And of course gingham. Continue reading

Hello everyone! It's Monday, and I'm very happy to be sharing some cards today on the WPlus9 Blog! Hope you are having a wonderful day! I'm so excited to be joining the crew at WPlus9 as a guest designer again. I've been a fan for a very long time! I really enjoy working with this company and always jump at the chance to create with WPlus9. Be sure to pop over to the WPlus9 Blog and leave some love there! K? K! Thank you! Last year, when WPlus9 launched their tropical themed release, well, my jaw about dropped to the... Continue reading

Helloooo my loves! Happy Valentine's Day! Wishing you a day filled with love, happiness and good things...you know, like chocolate! Can't believe it's mid way through February already. I have the feeling 2019 is going to go by fast! I can tell the season is changing because all my crafting lately is bright colors and leaves and flowers and rainbows! Ready for fresh things and new beginnings that Spring always brings. My husband is super busy at work this week so we'll be going out to dinner this coming weekend to celebrate Valentine's Day. We are pretty low key about... Continue reading

Hi friends! Happy Monday! Are you ready to be creative this week? I am for sure! And it's Valentine's week so there's love in the air too! I hope you had a good weekend. I rested and did some crocheting. Most of our plans were for outside and everything got cancelled because of the rain. That's okay though. We need the water, and I never mind a rainy day. Actually rainy days are my favorite days. Here's to a great week! Today I'm excited to share a project made with the brand new stamp release from Spellbinders, and Artist Stephanie... Continue reading

Hi friends! It's one week until Valentine's Day and my craft room has been a flurry of hearts and flowers lately! I really got into Valentine's Day this year for some reason. Made lots of cards and had fun doing it too! I am also inspired by the 30 Day Coloring Challenge which is really making me think, and getting me to create something each day. It's leading to all kinds of fun. I'm rediscovering some of my older stamps and dies and trying new/old techniques. This card I'm sharing today took on a life of it's own last weekend.... Continue reading

Hello crafty friends! Happy New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy! Today is the celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year so I'm posting a card I made to mark this special occasion. I love to make festive and pretty cards for this wonderful celebration. I have lots of friends who celebrate this beautiful cultural tradition, so I like to acknowledge it by creating something special each year. (CLICK HERE to see my card from last year) Do you and your family celebrate the Lunar New Year too? This year is the Year of the Pig. Is it your year? CLICK HERE... Continue reading

Hey everyone! Happy Friday! How are you?? Did you survive the polar vortex this week? I hope everyone is safe and sound and enjoying the start of a new month. I felt sort of guilty this week as the temps hit 70 degrees here, and I was outside taking pictures of apple blossoms and daffodils. We didn't even have Winter this year in Sacramento. I feel like it was hot all through Fall and then one day of cold, and it's warming up again. Definitely a different pattern this year. I am super grateful that I don't have to shovel... Continue reading

WOOHOOO! Happy Friday, friends! Why am I happy it's Friday? I don't work in an office at an 8-5 job anymore.... But my husband does! So I'm happy it's Friday since I will have my best friend to hang out with for a couple of days. Our weekend looks pretty boring right at the moment but I'm sure we'll find something to do. Tonight I have crocheting/knitting meetup! The weather is sunny and the flowers are starting to bloom already around here. We saw some plum blossoms the other night already. I hope to get some time in the craft... Continue reading

Hi everyone! Today I'm buzzzzzing by with a fun bee themed valentine card! Will you BEEEE mine? Please!? This card was a joy to make, and combined several of my favorite things! Lots of color, Copic Markers, Distress Ink blending, and cute stamps! All the stamps and dies used today are from Honey Bee Stamps. Supplies are listed at the bottom of my post as always! I got this card idea because I made a winter/Christmas card using the awesome Bee Bold Alphabet dies and I loved that card! (CLICK HERE to see it!) I wracked my brain - how... Continue reading

I'll show you how I made my own custom journal for my crochet projects! Start with a plain binder and add pretty papers, stickers and die cuts. Paper collection from Echo Park - I'd Rather Be Crafting. Stop by my blog to learn more! Continue reading

The new release from Waffle Flower has the most adorable Valentine Set! I made a card sure to please your sweetie. Stamping, Die Cutting, Copic Markers and Embossing. Visit my blog to see how I made it! And make your own DIY Valentine! Continue reading

Beginner crochet blanket! Make one large granny square into a blanket by continuing until you get the size you want. This is for a baby present and I used Caron Simply Soft yarn. Easy project and fun to make. Continue reading

Fun with the new release from Pretty Pink Posh! Awesome stamps and dies to make your own birthday cards. I love the new set called Pinata Party! It's a fiesta for you! Handcrafted with stamps, dies, and markers. Continue reading

Hello everyone! Happy New Year again! A whole week into 2019! Hope your year is off to an awesome start! Thank you for all the kind comments on my last post. I love doing that blog hop every year. It's so positive and fun. My year has been pretty uneventful so far. In fact, I've been sort of lazy! My hubs had time off work and we really just slept in and did fun stuff together. I haven't been crafting too much. I finished two more crochet projects though! And I'm ready to kick it back into gear in the... Continue reading