UK Paper company

A little background story. I am following a lot of stamp and paper craft companies on Facebook and enjoy all of the cards and projects that are posted. Facebook recommends pages periodically to like or join. So this one page came up, paper crafting and I joined it. So at first when I saw all these cards and papers, stamps etc. that I had never seen before and I wanted to order some. Then I discovered it was a UK company - they sell to the US but it has the issues of international sales etc. I ordered two cute paper packs. Also reading the posts about where to buy this or that I quickly realized I can't recommend Michaels or other physical stores because they are in the US! It is so interesting to see how paper crafters in other countries buy, talk about, post etc. this wonderful craft! I love how global we are becoming. These two cards are from the paper pack I bought called The Paper Boutique. They are pictures, I didn't stamp and color - such a different way to make a card but they are so adorable! I die cut and glued and made a sentiment and done. Fun and quick. There are several more little animals in the collection I will be sure to use later. Anyway the place I purchased them from is called craftstash.us - its still international but their US site.

Lantern Card

This is a time consuming card to make! However it is fun! I like to do challenging cards. It really wasn't hard, just cutting 40 little squares and 20 little circles etc. It is a great card. The directions are here: https://stampingbella.com/blog/thursday-with-sandiebella-create-a-little-bits-lantern-card/ Try it!

My second most favorite card style to make

This is the fun fold card. I have been making it for years, for some reason it just suits me! I think its being able to use a couple of different matching pattern papers in one card. I made two cards this week of this kind, one for my mom whose kitty passed away. She was 14 years old and my mom is very saddened. The other was just to use that pretty sunflower stamp (although not fond of fussy cutting them!) Just a nice fall card.

Bird Birthday

This style card is all over Pinterest. I’ve made it pretty much identical but I added paper on the inside as well. It is the Stampin Up bird suite paper and stamps. Just a nice birthday card for a friend!I water colored the birds to look just like the paper.

Halloween Card

So I've made a bunch of cards over the summer but I don't know that anyone really reads my blog anymore so I kind of lost interest posting to it! Sorry if you do read it. I could, I have enough cards to fill many days!

I thought I would post this Halloween card. I only send to my bff because well I don't really get into Halloween. Nothing wrong with it, just not my thing. She however loves it! I struggled to make this card so this is what I came up with. I fussy cut some of the figures from the paper, die cut some and the stamps are Tim Holtz crazy cats - I think thats the name. Not my usual style but seeing this more and more (especially people who use Graphics 45 paper - they don't stamp at all!) Some of the paper is Nikki Sivils, probably 10 years old and called Boo-tiful. Happy Halloween!