February 12, 2025 To sign up for this class go to the bottom of the post and click on the pay button. It will accept the $5.00 payment from most credit cards. It’s time to think spring! My favorite spring flower has always been the lilac. Unfotunately they don’t grow here in Tucson. So I…
Bridget Casey’s Free Saturday Workshop Today we will experiment again with Interference Inks. I fell in love with the colors Jaycee used on November 11th Perfect Paring. We will try to create that vibe using some Interference Inks. Jaycee used the Fresh Flowers Die Set (From Secret Garden 2024). I am using the CAF Gardenia…
Textured Winter Floral I selected CYL Delicate Garden as one of my favorite Altenew products for 2024. This is the card we will be creating in the New Years Eve Altenew Educators Retreat Craft the Year Away 2024. When you sign up for the retreat you will receive supplies and instructions in the form of…
A Year In Review I look forward to Altenew’s Inspiration Challenge every month. It motivates me to use a new color combination or technique. The Inspiration Challenge can be found at blog.altenew.com. Another year of great Altenew Inspiration Challenges. For this month we are asked to choose one of the past Inspiration Challenge photos to…
Winter Valentine Create a non-traditional valentine which reflects the quiet beauty of winter. There is no stamping or coloring, just step-by-step guided die cutting creating depth but not bulk. The quiet blues are white in the card will be appreciated by anyone on your card-giving list. You will receive a discount code for 20% off…
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge 12/2/24 A post on Bonnie Krohone’s Craft Time YouTube Channel inspired me to created this quietly beautiful card. I loved the colors she selected for this Tim Holtz Trim a Tree using Distress Inks. Blue just calls to me. The background is a stencil from Spellbinders. Sentiment Die is from…
Nicki Baxley shared this beautiful vacation photo for November’s Inspiration Challenge. The monthly Inspiration Challenge is a great way to get your crafty mojo going. This time of year that seems to be needed more than usual. The Inspiration Challenge can be found each month on Altenew’s Blog www.blog.altenew.com. My cards this year have been…
This month’s challenge was to use Mindy’s Magicals Victorian Bouquet. I used three of the colors: Hydrangea Blue, Sweet Violet Purple Teal and Lucky Shamrock Green. The the snow I used Milky Way White The image is a die cut called Tree Line from Tim Holtz.
November 2, 2024 Bloppy Roses Stencils CAF Lilac, Branches Frames, Itty Bitty Branches Altenew Sweater Stencils, Spellbinders Festive Friends Stencils made from snowflake dies and masking paper.
December 11, 2024 6:00 PM ET Making holiday tags has been my passion for decades. Family members have now decorated entire trees with their collections of my holiday tags. This will be a fun 90 minutes of making something beautiful from your scraps of cardstock, glitter paper, gems and die cut pieces and embellishments. If…