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It's COMING!!  CHRISTMAS is COMING!!!!  Are you ready?  Are your cards started?  Designed?  Have you even shopped for the STAMPS and pap...

Autumn is my favorite time of year.  Not so surprising, really.  How could you NOT love the colors, the smells, the crisp air?  Now, I once...

A couple of years ago, in my "early days" of cardmaking, I saw a video about using the masking technique, and decided to try it ou...

Photo and Artwork Source:Stephanie Wincott Hey Readers!  The lovely and uber-talented Stephanie Wincott over at Stamping an...

No, not really.  I was able to get myself a bit of mojo though, in time to put together a card for Mojo Monday 261.     That sketch looks li...

I have fallen in love with my aqua painter.  It's true.  That thing can make magic, Baby! It does, however take some time and patience...

So, I have been musing this idea of making sellable cards, and I have been trying to design something that I can recreate easily.  Of course...

Twenty-one years today.  That's how long I've been with my DP, Charlie.  Last year, for the Big Twenty, we went to PARIS!!!  Ooh, la...

So, here's the plan-- I design a bunch of samples that I think I can recreate in a great number.  Birthday, Holiday, Wedding, etc...M...

The other week, my DP Charlie had a wicked cold and had to fly off to Boston for the week.   I decided to make him a QUICK get well card b...

So, I am really a big, big fan of banners and flags, when used as a celebratory sort of thing.  Bright colors in the wind, flashing in the s...

You may have noticed a lack of postings of late.  Mr. Cardmaker has been a busy, tired, and burned out puppy.  My wonderful MIL had a m...

Well, as promised, I was host of the Free for All Friday Challenge over at GinaK Designs during the span of July 13-20.  I did a "Man S...

 I am hosting the Free For All Friday Challenge at GinaK Designs on Friday, July 13!  Come play with us!!  Back at the end of May, m...

Ok, so here's the thing.  I was contacted by Lori McAree at GinaK Designs this week, and she asked me to host the Free for all Friday ch...

Well, it's that time of year where we show off our red, white, and blue, and go see all the sparkly things in the sky.  My cousin Gerry ...

I am really NOT a summer person.  I like the colors, and the sunshine and the long days, and all the flowers.  I DO NOT like the HEAT.  Re m...

Boy, summer in Michigan is a BEE-YOU-TEE-FUL thing!  Warm, breezy days, lots of lakes around, gorgeous trees and flowers.   We have had a we...

SO after I made nephew Elliot's card, seen HERE ,  I needed three more cards for my younger brother, my cousin, and another nephew.  Tim...

This week is graduation for Elliot, one of the nephews.  Everyone else has happened already.  I am BROKE, shelling out for gifties!  I DO lo...

I have entered the land of Papertrey Ink stamps and dies lately, and WOW am I having fun! I have been ODing on their Rosie Posie stamp and ...

So, after showing you the card made with my new EK Tools punch HERE , I felt a kinship with the punch, and had to go further.  I felt the bi...

Yes, indeed, fellow crafters, stampers, and scrappers, Mr. Cardmaker has returned.  Whoopie, probably... Anyway, the move went/is going re...

Actually, this was not so much of a quicky to make.  I fussed and fretted, and added and moved, and took a way and added back, stamped more ...

I know I have been MIA and probably AWOL to some of you, but I am in the throes of MOVING, and just too nutz to think.  I HAVE been making...

Here in New England, when you don't want what's being offered to you, instead of saying "no thanks", people tend to say, ...

Well, the big news here is that Mr Cardmaker and his DP Charlie are MOVING!  We have a great opportunity to move out to Michigan, near Charl...