Home (Again)

Over at Jingle Belles, Stephanie and I are still creating cards inspired by HOME. You can include a house on your card, use home-like products (bricks, woodgrain, etc) or incorporate the word HOME. Here's my card:

Another super-scrappy creation here. It's got a couple of designer paper off-cuts, a random tag, chipboard as well as ordinary stickers, five (5!) styles of ancient washi tape and a tiny car cut from patterned paper. Fun fact: The "12 Days" chipboard sticker has been in my stash for AT LEAST ten years... and I cannot decide if that fact is triumph or tragedy...?

Remember you still have until next Wednesday evening (9/8/25) to join the fun for JB2520: Home for the Holidays.

Enamel Accents Googly Eyes Halloween Card

What's more fun than a Halloween card covered in googly eyes? A card covered in googly eyes you've made yourself, in every size and shape you could desire, using Enamel Accents! Hop over to the Ranger Project Tutorials Page and follow along as I show YOU how to do it... then stay to see how I add the eyes to this fun and funky (pink!) Halloween card.

Spoiler Alert: Dina Wakley's Scribbly Ravens and Block Alpha Stamp Sets also play a crucial part in this project, as does Simon Hurley's Moroccan Tile Background Stamp, some fab Archival Inks, and a few shades of Ranger Embossing Powder, including Glow Up, which is very cool in two ways: #1 it glows in the dark(!); and #2 in ordinary light, it makes the perfect neutral, especially when used on Black Heavystock (just sayin').

Too Cute to Spook

Halloween is just around the corner and one of the best trends of recent years is the GAL-o-ween category, which gives us a chance to make pretty, feminine Halloween cards for our girl friends! Eyelet Outlet Brads are, of course the perfect addition to any Trick-or-Treat theme; this one sports Pumpkin Brads, Spiders, a Witch Hat and some super cute Black Cat Brads peeping out here and there, not to mention a few Rose Brads and Mini Butterflies to glam things up.

Sweet and Spooky Shopping List:

Pumpkin Brads

Spider Brads

Witch Hat Brads

Black Cat Brads

Rose Brads

Mini Butterfly Brads

Eyelet Outlet has all the brads, tapes, bling and embellies you need for Halloween and beyond!

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Would this be a good time for a bold and funky watercolor Mandala Monday? 

My friend @sherriscott67 gifted me a set of  @carandache Neocolor II watersoluble wax pastels, so OF COURSE I had to test them out immediately. And WOW... they do not disappoint! Intense, high-quality pigments, beautiful shades and super-smooth consistency mean you can use them wet or dry; and layer them under or over lots of other media. Since I knew I wanted to add details on top with my @ranger_ink Letter It Fineliners, I chose to mostly scribble my colors onto a plastic palette and pick them up with a waterbrush. But I did also like dipping the tips into water and drawing with them. Oh and it's fun to wet the crayons and flick droplets onto wet or dry paper. I'm not yet expert at coloring them dry and then blending the shades with water, but I intend to practice more on that score.

After all of the basic shapes were in place, I dried the paper (front and back!) with my heat gun and added all the lines and details you see here. I'd write more but I kind of want to go back and play with them... so that's all for now!

Grab a Slice?

This pizza is high in fibers (acrylic ones, lol!) and has zero calories and fat!

It's about throw-pillow-sized; but you probably get a better sense of it when modeled by a small nephew...

...and also a slightly larger nephew!

Notes for crocheters: I used the Pizza Slice Pillow pattern from @HMKHandmade Etsy Shop with two strands of Vanna's Choice Yarn (in Beige, Mustard and Scarlet) on an L hook; then a single strand and an F hook for the toppings (White, Scarlet, Cranberry and Olive). I chose to make my onions as rings and I added tomato slices... just because I liked how they looked. 

Home for the Holidays

There's just something about being Home for the Holidays, isn't there? Thus, that's the theme (and feeling) we're celebrating at Jingle Belles this fortnight. That means we're asking you to make a holiday card that includes a House, Housing-like materials (wood-grain paper, a brick embossing folder), or the word "Home". Or, you know, if you're feeling really overachievery, you could do all three! Here's my card; spoiler alert: I did not do all three, lol!

As a cardmaker who sometimes feels silly saving all my off-cuts of patterned paper and cardstock, this design is a little bit of a triumph because, apart from the 5.5" square cardbase, it's made entirely of scraps! I used both dies from Penny Black's Trees and Hills set; Both curvy dies from MFT's Stitched Basic Edges 2; and the house, fence, trees and snowflakes from Spellbinders' Winter Label Motifs set. The diecut flag sentiment is also Spellbinders and was in my leftover diecuts box, glued up and ready to roll.  

Be sure to head over to Jingle Belles to see Stephanie's beautiful card and link up your own HOME-made masterpiece. JB2520: Home for the Holidays runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, October 8th.

Hello, Fall

Autumn is here and there are lots of fabulous Eyelet Outlet Brads to help us celebrate that fact. Here we have Leaf Brads, Acorn and Squirrel Brads, Sunflower Brads, and a Pumpkin Brad in a Pick-up Truck. The matted letter squares are mounted on a background of beautiful vertically-oriented Autumn Washi Tape.

Fabulous Fall Shopping List:

Leaf Brads

Acorn and Squirrel Brads

Sunflower Brads

Pumpkin Brad

Truck Brads

Autumn Washi Tape

The perfect embellishments for any season can be found in the Eyelet Outlet Store!