Category: Handmade Cards

Shabby Pocket Tutorial

I discovered this crossover pocket last week and knew immediately I wanted to create one but in my own aesthetic. Selecting some of my favorite paper, “Dream,” designed by Stamperia, I started playing around with scraps and ephemera. I decided to share this project in a Youtube tutorial…

Tag Pocket Valentines

These monster-sized Valentines were created using primarily My Porch Prints botanical/floral and RomanticaArts digital papers. I decorated each one from my personal stash of doilies, vintage lace, charms, vellum, and of course, shabby, crinkled seam binding. My dad’s more masculine Valentine was fashioned from Tim Holtz…

Shabby Pink Loaded Folder Christmas Cards

This year’s handmade Christmas cards were fashioned using a Shabby Chic File Folder design. (I have an unexplainable obsession with file folders right now, and this project fulfilled that creative longing.) My Porch Prints on Etsy has some wonderful feminine digitals that are perfect for a Shabby Chic…

Thanksgiving Day Cards – 2021

When the weather finally cools down in Santa Clarita, and the constant threat of wildfires encouraged by unrelenting heat and high winds becomes a faint nightmare, I welcome the subtle changes that Fall brings. Leaves that turn golden, then orange, the woody scent of chimney smoke, and homemade soups and…