Merry & Bright

We’re so excited to share this fabulous card with you! We saved it for last, because it’s kind of the coolest (and, cards on the table here, it’s kind of the most difficult). But, read on, fearless crafters, because help is on the way! Tip #1: The first challenge on this card is gluing that…

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Hello out there!
Is everyone feeling good
and winter-y???

Today is our third post on the wondrously delicious Watercolor Winter Simply Created Card Kit. We are looking at the four basic cards that the kit makes to begin our journey (and be sure to come back next week to see how we bust out of the box!).  So far we’ve offered our collective wisdom…

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A Sticky Situation

Today’s featured card is the Merry Christmas card. For those of you who are new here, we are spending the month exploring all the wonderful ways to use the Watercolor Winter Simply Created Card Kit. (You can check out our first post about this kit on Tuesday’s post. It covers some helpful tips and tricks…

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Watercolor Winter

  Welcome back! We are back from our success at Village Venture and excited to get going with our next adventure. This month we will be featuring the Watercolor Winter Simply Created Card Kit and the Watercolor Winter Too stamp set. Why, you ask? Because it involves two of our favorite things: winter (yay! sweaters!)…

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Everything’s Coming Up Rosettes

You know, if we had to choose one die above all others (and, really, thank goodness we don’t because that would basically strip our lives of all meaning), we would choose the Stampin’ Up Rosette Designer Bigz XL Die. Why, you ask? Because it is so incredibly versatile—it cuts 2 different edges (zig zag and…

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Cute + Handy = Simply Faboo

Clothespins are handy little fellows, aren’t they? In addition to the traditional use from which they got their name (from the Latin “clothes,” meaning “wet laundry” and “pin,” meaning “make it stick to a rope”), they can be used to categorize sorted papers, to clip little reminders to things, to hold little sacks of treats…

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SU! Catalog Premiere

SU! tried something new this year, with a live catalog event. And, lucky us, we live close enough to Long Beach, CA to attend! So we piled in Rachel’s car (which is a sort of an SUV thing, but which she drives as if it were a sports car….) and off we went! Here are…

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We’re Ready for Our Close Up, Mr. DeMille

So simply put, we’ve been crafting maniacs. We’ve decided on a line of paper products that we think are really fun and will sell at Village Venture and we have been cutting and gluing and adding copious amounts of glitter to…well…everything! And now our application has come due. The fine people at the Chamber require…

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