Red and Green are great, but...

Christmas cards already?!? I know it's a little early but have you been shopping lately? The Christmas trees are up and decorated! I got my Hallmark brochure in the mail yesterday with all the ornaments on it along with about 8 toy catalogs. Christmas is 2 months away!

I'm trying out all my Christmas stamps and papers looking for the perfect design for my homemade cards this year.


I had to show you this card I made with my new TAC stamp set "Christmas Season" and my favorite paper "Hemingway". I love the colors! I wanted to challenge you to use different colors for your Christmas cards. Red and green are beautiful but don't limit yourself to only using them. Experiment using blues, pinks, purples, etc. and see what you can come up with. Use your imagination and have fun!

I used the Hemingway coordinating cardstock and ribbon, Prismacolor H20 Pencils, a Dove blender and Gold Stickles to make the card above. The Stickles really add a special touch although you can't really see them in the photo. Stickles are a lot of fun!

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I'm having a special from now until the end of November. With any $20 order, when you buy 2 Stickles of any color, you will get another one FREE!

There are 14 different colors to choose from.

Just email me or call with your order to be eligible for this special.

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Here's another card using our "Holiday Greetings" stamp set. For this card I started with cream cardstock and added the pink ink with a wedge shaped makeup sponge. I embossed the tree with Gold embossing powder and used a Gold Leafing Pen around the edges. The presents are stamped with a Burnt Umber Palette pad. Very simple and chic.

I hope you take me up on the challenge and try some unusual color combinations for Christmas. Let me know how it goes.

In the next week, I will post my classes for the upcoming months so keep checking back here. Thanks for visiting!

Fall Leaves

Hello and welcome to my blog! I want to inspire you to create!

Check back here weekly for more ideas, samples, and inspiration.

I use wonderful products from The Angel Company for all my creations.

This is my youngest son. I love this photo because it is rare to see him still. He is usually so active. I used a direct-to-paper technique with the Autumn Leaves Kaleidacolor Ink Pad. It is a very simple way to get an interesting and colorful background. To create it, take some white, glossy cardstock and with the colors on the K-pad separated, just press the stamp pad down onto the cardstock. Hint: put your cardstock on the edge of your table or onto a large acrylic block to get all the colors to show up. Then use Noir Black Palette ink and your choice of stamps on top of that. IT'S SO EASY! Here are some cards using this technique.

The stamps used in
these samples are
All About a Boy, This is Me, Charcoal Leaves, Lilly Pad Pond, Don't Bug Me and Simply Put GWP- all from The Angel Company. See my website for more beautiful stamps, exclusive papers,
and scrapbooking supplies from TAC.