Swinging By with a Hi!
I had a whim to do some coloring, and one of my favorite images to color is this little girl by My Favorite Things. She is swinging by with a “Hi” among the fall trees from Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper. The DSP is layered on a piece…
Ruthie and Warren’s Christmas Photo!
They’re back! This cute couple tickles my funny bone, so I just had to share what they are up to now! Ruthie and Warren have been busy decorating for Christmas! Yes, it’s early, but they wanted to have their picture taken so they could print up their Christmas cards in…
Textures & Frames
Sheep Dies in Sale-a-bration!
The best part of the Sheep Dies in Sale-a-bration is this cute fence die! Think of all the fun ways you could incorporate this fence into your designs! Today I’ve made it part of a pumpkin patch in a Fall scene. Inspiration: The TGIF Challenge #335 ~ Fall & Pumpkins…
Final Sale-a-bration Week (Beautifully Penned & Summer Shadows Dies)
Hello! Do you realize this is the last week to earn free Sale-a-bration gifts? Hard to believe, but this Thursday is September 30 and the final day of SAB! For this final Sale-a-bration week I’m going to highlight some of the products you can still get with qualifying purchases. These…
Tidings of Christmas Suite
If you look on page 88 of the 2021-22 Annual Catalog, you will see a photo of a wrapped box with a die cut star in the middle. See it? I took that image and turned it into a card, and I love it! I made it with the Tidings…
Gate Fold Cards (for CC2C)
Greetings! Rosanne Mulhern and I have a new CASEing Coast to Coast post for you today! If you are a regular follower of our blogs, you know that once a month we bring our projects together and share a theme. This month our theme is Gate Fold Cards. Rosanne has…
Peace Joy Love
Do you know somebody who needs a little word of encouragement? This card might be exactly what they need to lift their spirits. Who wouldn’t welcome some peace, joy, love?! This quick and easy card features Harvest Meadow Designer Series Paper, Hippo & Friends Dies, Meadow Dies, and Inspired Thoughts…
Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop (September)
Red Pumpkins?
Have you ever seen red pumpkins? No? Neither had I, until I saw an inspirational photo in the Mini Catalog that had Cherry Cobbler pumpkins on a card! It caught my eye, because it was so different! But the Cherry Cobbler against a neutral brown background is so striking! Here…
Reduced Prices on Stamp Bundles!
I’m discounting the following stamp bundles even further to give you another opportunity to buy them cheap! To purchase any of these items please email me at karenshallam@gmail.com and list the item(s) by name. I will send you a PayPal invoice, but I also accept personal checks, if you let…
Fun With Black and White
I had a little fun with black and white today! Have you ever woven paper on a card? I remember teaching my kindergartners to weave placemats for Thanksgiving – oh, so many years ago! This was like that…under, over, under, over… The paper I used is Beautifully Penned Designer Series…
Sweet Stockings (and a new Host Code!)
From a very untraditional color palette on Monday’s Christmas card, I’m jumping back to the very traditional colors today! The DSP is called Sweet Stockings. It’s perfect for the dog and cat lovers in the stamping world, but it is also perfect for everyone else. I guess, that is, if…
A Frightfully Cute Halloween Card
I’m joining the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge today with a frightfully cute Halloween card. I’ve use the Frightfully Cute Bundle and Cute Halloween DSP by Stampin’ Up! to make this s-p-oo-k-y cute card! Here’s the sketch: I love these fun die cuts from the Frightful Tags Dies! The spider…