Simple Swallowtail

Beautiful and easy I'm so sorry that it has been so long since I posted anything here, let alone a project that you may enjoy. My regular "day job" has been requiring a bunch of extra hours lately, and creating and posting has fallen by the wayside. My...

Pop-up Posies Card

flowers are here! Spring was very late in arriving here in Vermont, but I'm happy to say that it is finally here! Things are getting all green, flowers are popping up all over the place, the crabapples are blooming beautifully and there is loads of pollen in the...

Spring Flowers!

in paper form I think that I may be jonesing for some beautiful flowers around my house. I needed to come up with some card designs for some recent creativity gatherings and I just couldn't stop making cards that were including flower elements. What I really love...

Celebrate a friend

with a lovely card I made this card ages ago in a workshop for a friend. It has been sitting on my desk waiting patiently for its' very own blog post, and today is the day. This card uses two colors from the Subtles family that are retiring at the end of the...

Congratulations Catherine!

Happy engagement! Apparently, the current "Bachelor" dude asked the winner of the show – Catherine Giudici – to marry him with a stunner of a ring. I'm not a follower of the show, but I found this on line, and her ring is a real beauty. This...

Pinwheel birthday

colorful and fun I created this card for a demonstrator swap for the Spring catalog. I've had it sitting on my desk for a couple of months now, just waiting for the day when I would get around to doing a blog post about it. I really like the color scheme of the...