I needed to make a birthday card for a Pacific Northwest resident. I decided to get my High Tide stamp set out. It is a nice change to use scene creating stamp sets. The sentiment was a tough one to find as I needed it to be a certain size to fill in the available space, and it needed to be masculine. It ended up that the perfect sentiment is from Perennial Birthday.

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The new Occasions catalog has a stamp set that is near and dear to my heart. Horses! Yes, for most of my life I have owned and showed horses in just about every event.

Not so many years back, I sold my show horse, intending to look for another young show prospect, however less than a year after I sold him, I suffered a majore spine injury.

Three surgeries later I decided to sell...

I was thrilled to receive my Occasions haul in January. As I sat down for my weekend of crafting, the very first card I made was a Valentine. I used the Be Mine Stitched Thinlit Dies with three colors of cardstock: Lovely Lipstick, Berry Burst and Rich Razzleberry.

I had a chunk of white Wood Texture DSP floating around my desk that I had not used on a previous project so I started...

I love this DSP, it is so colorful. I chose to use Night of Navy and Melon Mambo with this particular pattern. The sentiment is from Picture Perfect Birthday which fit exactly as I wanted on the Whisper White circle die cut.

Measurements

Focal Circle: 2 1/2"
Scalloped Circle: 2 3/4"

Melon Mambo Layer: 3 3/4" x 5"
DSP Layer: 2" x 4 7/8" (note I covered a portion...

Today I want to share an avid crafter project I made using three coordinating Floral Romance suite items (p. 11 in the Occasions catalog). The focal is a layered collage using the Wonderful Romance Cling Mount bundle, stitched rectangles, pearls and frosted flowers.

I wanted a die cut bow and chose the small bow from the Beautiful Bouquet Clear Mount bundle. I decided to color the large...

I have posted January's alternatives video which includes four beginner stamper projects that I make while you watch, then I discuss my own avid stamper cards I am making for my cardmaking penpals. You know those have to be special and unique! I will follow up with a final video showcasing what I ended up with. Video length 35 min 5 sec.

Note that this set coordinates with the Animal...

This video demonstrates how quick and easy it is to use Dear Doily to create a beginner stamper A2 size card.

I then show my avid stamper completed project and show how quick it is to stamp the inside of the card and the envelope.

I just love this stamp set! Video Length 9 min 16 sec. Here's the pictures of both the casual and avid stamper cards.
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Congress is one town away from Wickenburg and our RV park is between the two on highway 89. Our RV park (Escapees North Ranch) consists of two different areas, the RV campground space, which is essentially a gravel parking lot, and after that is a residential community that has RV and "one" bedroom house deeded lots.

I like the residential area, but it really is in the middle of nowhere...

After our brake issues, we decided to compress our last four days of travel down to two eight hour drives. The first day we made it through the rest of Texas and stopped in New Mexico for the night.

Day two was the long haul through New Mexico and southern Arizona all the way up to Cottonwood. While there I found some properties to go look at but we didn't expect to find this area would...

This is the third installement of my cardstock storage series. It is a refinement of version 2 which I filmed last year.

Essentially I changed the storage case shape to better fit our new trailer. The storage over the couch in the back of the trailer is taller overall and is deeper on each end. So on the ends I can fit two tall of the long narrow Homz cases. 

Then across the...