Simplicity by Lateblossom

Operation Write Home needs Miss You cards...at least that's what I read on their Facebook feed. So I made some. With Miss You cards, I l...

My recent Papertrey order included Think Big #7 because, really, can you have too many big sentiments? Of course not, especially when they a...

You know how sometimes you have an idea? It seems like a good one, to make the sentiment the focal point and have the flower in the backgrou...

A Personal Note Happy Monday (or Sunday night, depending on when you read this). We're home safe and sound and will get our Furry Gold...

Sometimes, you have a great idea. You know it's going to look super-cool and make you giggle with glee. Then, you execute the idea and, ...

Inspired by the rad texture of peat pot cards in Take Ten , I pulled out several different textured papers and played, just to see what woul...

Often my experimenting goes awry. Sometimes, the results are not salvageable. Mostly, however, I can save the card if I think about it hard ...

Someone asked why I make portrait-oriented cards with folds on the top rather than the side. Honestly, I hadn't really thought about it....

Seeing the yummy, yummy colors of cardstock in the A Muse catalog made me feel really bad. I have a ton of cardstock already...more cardstoc...

Unfortunately, I am in need of a few sympathy cards, so I pulled out my soft pinks and browns. I chose a curved stem from Stem Silhouettes a...

In my first semester teaching Freshman Composition, I had a student bring a graded paper to me and ask, "Why did you add the commas the...

Question from Yesterday: DonnaK asked where I buy Twinkling H2Os. I bought mine at Marco's Paper, a brick and mortar store in the Dayton...

Kind stamper Angela sent me a card and some die cuts for All Booked Up, among other things, because she knows I don't have a die cut mac...

My recent PTI order included All Booked Up. Purchasing this set is a no-brainer for a bibliophile like me. I've already used all the ima...

I got a little punch crazy recently and made this card: Oh how I love the colors, the layout, everything...except the scale of the sentiment...

About three years ago, I bought a set of photopolymer stamps at my LSS by October Afternoon called Love Notes. I intended the set for scrapb...

Large, irregularly shaped stamps present a special design dilemma. How do you use them pleasingly on a card? Stamp them off the edge of cour...

There's a saying in design that lines love curves. This means that if a design is too straight and right-angled, add curves. If it's...

While centering images can result in lovely, symmetrical designs that make my AR/OC heart happy, placing things off-center and edgy often ma...

Can you guess what I don't like about this card? Hmmm. Keep in mind I'm a dirty-minded English literature dweeb who sees Christ figu...