These are a couple of cards I made today for SCS's color challenge: Banana, Grey, and Rust.. Weird, eh? This is what I came up with:  LOTS of Copic colouring on the Mushroom house! Ain't it cute?? And...

This week's challenge was to use ribbon in a unique way... Ruffles aren't SO unique, but it's something I don't do every day, so that's the special ribbon "technique" I chose to do on this card: Now I...

As I stared at this year's Santa picture my thoughts went to LAST year's Santa picture and lingered on the fact that I have not scrapped it yet!! So with the slight burn of guilt in my heart...

This is a Christmas of new traditions for our little family. We are departing from the usual Christmas dinner with my family and opting for a less stressful, less "DRAMA" -filled holiday that includes activities we have all...

Ian and I are BROKE this year (as many of us are) so I have made a lot of handmade gifts for people, not that they were totally without cost, but they were within our budget.. I try...

It's a countdown to Christmas around here and I don't know about you, but I'm WAY behind!! So what's a good solution? MAKE MORE CARDS! Hey! Makes sense to me! This week's Jacksonbelle challenge was to make a...

I played along with the Limited Supplies Challenge at SCS last night and I actually made 14 of these mini-cards. I have just given them out to all of the secretaries, vice-principals and the principal of my school...

I bought this stamp because of my son. He loves anything with kitties. He calls our cat "his brother" despite our cat not having a particularly friendly disposition. I will say, though, that every night our kitty climbs...

If you're here, that means you read blogs. MAN am I ever addicted to reading blogs! I have about 50 subscriptions in my Google reader and I read all of my blogs down to 0 every day. I...

This has, by FAR, been the busiest year for Christmas card making in the 4 years I've been doing it. I have had my big company order come and go, I've had a 12 days of Christmas event...

It's my dear son's birthday on Wednesday, but we're having the party tomorrow and he absolutely LOVES a Kim Hughes stamp of mine, so I HAD to use it on his birthday card. It's going to be a...

Welcome to day 12 of the Jacksonbelle 12 Days of Christmas!  Today we have a super fun blog hop for all of you.  The entire Jacksonbelle design team has created some gorgeous Christmas projects to share with you...

11 crystals sparkling... I counted and there are actually 11 crystals! haha....I used some Zva crystals from this set, and just cut up the line to use the individual crystals to accent the tree. I made this box...

Bam! So easy. Look at the steps: Stamp flower image (Papertrey Ink) on blue cardstock Stamp sentiment (Papertrey Ink) on pink cardstock Glue cardstocks to card-base Add pearls and ribbon Bask in your own glory   ...

I imagine everyone is extremely busy this time of year, but if you're wondering where I've been, well.. I call this "Christmas Concert Season" because in the last 8 days I've had 8 concerts/dress rehearsals (That's right, every...

Today is the beginning of the Jacksonbelle Embellishments 12 Days of Christmas celebration! Each of the Design Team members will be bringing you 12 days of holiday inspiration to jump start your holiday card making, gift packaging and...