Turned Mistake into Vintage Valentine

I wanted to cut a scalloped card into an A2 size but made an error and cut it half the size...er, hate when this happens! lol.  

Didn't want to waste it so I decorated it with a vintage image. 

Since the small scalloped card opened up, I stamped a music note background on an A2 size cardstock.... making this a flat card by the time I was finished with it..

and ready to send out my Vintage Valentine to someone!

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River City Gift Shoppe - "Paper Blessings" CLASSES

Hello artists!  I wanted to share one of the CLASS display boards at River City Gift Shoppe that highlight some of the fun projects scheduled this month. We have weekly day and evening Rubber Stamping and Paper Crafting classes.  Come join us when you are in the area....would love to meet you!

If you haven't been to River City, you are in for a wonderful treat....about 70 artisans' artwork, Hershey's ice cream shop, antiques,  women's consignment shop, cheese and wine shop next door, etc..  Take a moment and visit River City and check out their shop here where you can see "up close" the weekly Stamping and Paper Crafting Class Display Boards like this one:

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Thanks for visiting.  May you have a most delightful day!

Photo Gallery

Hello friends! I wanted to share some photos on items I've been working on...a little bit of everything....stamping, vinyl art, mini books, sewing, domino art, etc:

Thanks for dropping by and visiting me.  God's richest blessings to you!!

Faux White Resin Embellishments

Hello paper artists!  In one of my classes we made these faux White Resin embellishments.  Inspired by those costly ones they sell at the scrapbooking stores, we decided to make our own!  What do you think?

Thanks for visiting today!

Spooktacular Goodies!

Hello all!  Sorry for my absence....lots of living life to take care of. 

I wanted to share some of the things I've been working on for Fall shows.  I'm not really into Halloween....the most I use is pumpkins, cats and spiders!  But I know we always have to incorporate goodies for the kiddos at these shows, right?

Also wanted to let you know I will be selling these on my Etsy shop and also locally at River City Shoppes  in Copley.   I'll tell you more about that later.   I wanted to share some of what I've been working on:

Candy-filled pails

Gift-ready pencils

"Boo to you" Banner for decorating

Vintage-inspired  Welcome Sign

Hope you enjoyed these....will be posting more as I get my camera to cooperate with me!!  Thanks for dropping by.  Have a most delightful and blessed day!

Snow in July?

From 4th of July to snow?  I know, I know, it's crazy!  But I wanted to share a card I made with my Penny Black stampset called Mimi's christmas:

Tip:  for the snow, I punched out white circles with an 1/8" hole punch and adhered them with one of those blue Zig glue pen.  This adds quick texture and dimension around the Mimi image. Used copic markers to color in.  And used Papertrey stamp for the "love" tag at the bottom.

Sorry the photos aren't that great...night time is NOT the time to take pictures, right?

Talk to you later!

Blessed is the nation

Hello everyone!  The new living bible translation says in Psalms 33:12 "What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord,  whose people he has chosen as his inheritance."  Is that not an awesome promise to claim?  May you have a wonderful 4th of July being blessed by God's great goodness on our lives, THE ones HE has chosen!  Let's enjoy all our freedoms today and always!  Thanks for visiting~

4th of July Party Planning

Hello Everyone!  I've been so inspired to papercraft  all things AMERICANA lately.  I guess because as Independence Day is just around the corner,  I get even more thankful & blessed to live here in our wonderful USA!!  Here are more of the patriotic papercrafting items that I've been having a blast making.  These are all geared toward dressing up your party table for the 4th of July!  Hope you like them.  You can find them at my Paper Blessings Etsy Shop.

It was wonderful having you visit.  Thank you!

God Bless America card

Welcome back!  You will see that I'm in the patriotic projects mode.  In my last class we made some patriotic scenes and from that project I've been so inspired to make other patriotic papercrating. 

I wanted to use a different shade of blue instead of the regular navy blue so I used this marine blue from Core'dinations to make this card: 

Here's how I made this:
-fold 4-1/4x11" marine blue cs in half.  This card will open from bottom up.
-on 4x5-1/4" white cs I stamped the row of stars on top and bottom.  Then I stamped the statue of liberty image &  the God bless America with fired red Distress Inkpad.
-to finish, stamped the splattered ink image with Tumbled Glass inkpad all over the stamped white cs.
-with my Mother's Day Cricut cartridge I cut the banner:  key 44, 1-1/4".  Isn't it cute?
-with my Graphically Speaking Cricut I cut the stars: key 16, shift, icon blackout.
-adhere stars to banner.  Adhere thread to banner then pop dot it at an angle to right the side of card.
-inside the card you will adhere 3-1/4 x 5" white cs panel and
 stamp a red star to bottom as per photo.

Tomorrow I will show you some different  patriotic banners and other goodies that I've been working on. 


May you be inspired to make your own red, white and blue goodness.  I'd like to see what you came up with.  Thanks for dropping by and God bless America!!