Happy Mother's Day with Creative Escape Papercrafting

Hello and welcome everyone! First and most important I want to wish you all a very Happy Mother's Day weekend! I hope all mothers (including ones with fur babies) have a wonderful day filled with those you love!

Below is the link to the video for this card. Click on the thumbnail or on this link.

My card project today features card stock, ephemera and gilding flakes from the Creative Escape Papercrafting April Fully Loaded Kit. I still have a TON of supplies left even after making 11 cards! This kit is well worth your money. Especially since it included 2 great stamp sets and a Lawn Fawn die that will have uses long into the future. I have plans to use as much as I can to make some birthday cards and more gender and occasion neutral cards for my stash with the leftovers. I think I can get at least 5 more cards out of this!

Today's project also features a stamp set I got from CEP called Modern Peonies. This is a beautiful set with several sentiments for all occasions. In this project I used a Happy Mother's Day sentiment from my stash but the set includes Anniversary, birthday, wedding, happy, sending and wishes sentiments to use together. This isn't in their store right now but if you want it, send them a note and I'm sure they'll get it to you. LOVE this set. I'll be using this regularly I think.

Here are links for the products I used at CEP's store. They've recently added more brands like Avery Elle and Concord & 9th and they have a great selection of Lawn Fawn and other brands.Their prices are very reasonable so I hope you will visit their site.

CEP's Store 

April's Fully Loaded Kit

See you soon!
-Janet

Mass Producing Hand-Stamped and Colored Valentines For Kids

Hello and happy Sunday! It’s going to be a rainy day here in the Charlotte area. Here’s hoping you have mild and sunny weather where ever you are!

So it’s been a super long time since I last posted. Although I have always kept crafting, I gave up blogging a couple of times. I let myself fall into a pity trap after putting in the work to share and getting little response back. After some contemplation, I’ve decided to rededicate myself to it and not worry if anyone subscribes or “likes” my projects. I have to be honest that this is for me. It’s a kind of a online journal and as long as the work helps me relax, let go of stress and release creativity to use in other parts of my life, it’s worth it.

With that in mind, I have taken it a step further and opened a YouTube Channel under SugarShine Designs. This provides another way to share my projects and I’m excited about it! I always felt limited by using a few photographs. My first post is linked below. Yes, it’s WAY too long at 18 minutes. My goal is to stay under 15 and find a balance between enough and too much information. Practice makes perfect.

I’ll be posting projects for the seasons and attempting to provide as much practical how to information I can so if someone watching is inspired to try something similar, they’ll be able to follow along. There’s a part of me that enjoys teaching others and it's my second motivation for doing this.

So without further ado, I officially kick off my channel today! Here goes nothing!