Crafting for Him: Cards He'll really love

This month at team meeting, we focused on the dude cards! Really, we are so appreciative and love that man….but not that often do we put a card in his path. And up to now, there hasn't been as much to choose from to create a card.

My team has done a fantastic job in creating masculine cards! I am so proud of my team!!! They all are exceptionally talented and have hearts that really care for others! I’d like to show them off and inspire you to create too! I’ll put a link to some of the popular products towards the end of the post.


Created by Cathy C using the die from Lovely Arrangements Dies

Created by Linda M.

Created by Vanessa R.

Cards for a mechanic man masculine cards Gears & Textures from Stampin' Up

Created by Sandy L.

Created by Amanda E.

Created by Wendy B.

Created by Joy

Created by Peggy S.

Thanks for visiting! Esther

Beach Boardwalk scrapbook layout

We all have fond memories of walking on the boardwalk on those lazy warm days…..

Why not order the Beach Boardwalk Suite Collection and build an album to show off your favorite moments on the boardwalk!

This suite collection has 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper, Puffy Stickers, and stamp and die bundle Item #166844

Our other spread was one for spring …..what pictures would you put on this spread?

Click on the above image to see the Party Dies #165263. These dies are perfect for scrapbook spread titles or banners to spell names or greetings.

  • “spring” has a shadow die cut same Party Alphabet dies in Timid Tiger cardstock

  • flowers are from Easter Basket bundle

  • die cut outline flowers are from Swirled Design Dies #167032

  • but we also used the stamps from Swirled Designs for the background Bundle is #167311

  • we used Splash of Sparkles Designer Series Paper #167200

Enjoy your week and take lots of pictures!

Make plans to attend our next CARD BUFFET March 31st, it’s a Tuesday 1PM to 8PM. RSVP Bring a block or 2 for stamps and a Memento ink pad if you have one. Hope to see you stamping!

Thanks for visiting!

Esther

Card Buffet....repeat by popular interest!

It’s a 26 card line up for the next card buffet! Come/RSVP for Tuesday, March 31 1PM to 8PM. For more of the cards offered at this card buffet, please see last weeks post dated March 16, 2026.

See you soon! Esther

How many cards can you make in 12 hours?

Announcing a card buffet this Saturday, March 21st, 2026!

12 hours to come make from over 20 different cards! You choose how many and which ones you want to make. Card stock has been cut already for you and placed in an envelope. You pick up a basket with supplies and most with directions and create away!

If you make 8 cards…..you get the 9th one free. They are $3 each - earn the 9th one free!

Helpful tip: bring a friend….each of you make 2 of a card - this goes quicker than making one card at a time. At the end of the day, you keep one and one goes to your friend…and she does the same thing. You both have a bigger variety of cards made in less time.

Things you should bring:

  • bring a clear block or 2 to use….I unfortunately do not have enough blocks

  • bring a Memento ink pad….I don’t have enough of those either

  • bring your water or soft drink in closed lid bottle

  • paper snips, tweezers, and bone folder or whatever items you like to craft with

  • seat cushion if desired. My chairs are padded but always enjoy a little extra comfort!

  • small trash bag if desired

Please let me know if you can come and enjoy the day! Below are some of the cards I’ll have available. Pics were taken quickly to give you an idea of some of the cards that will be available….click to enlarge.

Looking forward to stamping with you soon! Esther

Easter Basket video tutorial

Turn a little cardstock into a basket full of smiles! Hop down to the video to learn a simple way to use Stampin’ Up Easter Basket stamp/die bundle to create these tiny baskets into BIG smiles. See how to create these adorable Easter treat holders on todays video tutorial!

Easter Basket for small treats using Stampin' Up Easter Basket stamp and die bundle

Easter Basket made using Stampin’ Up Easter Basket stamp and die bundle

Corrections to video:

  • bottom of basket is cut 2 3/8” x 5”; score at 1 1/2” and 3 1/2” turn and score 1/2” down each long side

  • Easter Basket dies have just been put on backorder….I am so sorry! The stamp set is still available

  • Easter Joy 12 x 12 Specialty Designer Series Paper is a wonderful paper to use for these charming treat baskets! It is coated and thus makes it have more body to weave the cardstock ribbon strip through besides having cute Easter patterns to play with!

Perfect Speciality Paper for crafting 3D Easter projects Easter Joy 12 x 12 Specialty Paper with spring flowers eggs strips and fun patterns

Easter Joy 12 x 12 Specialty Designer Series Paper

And here are some card samples to inspire you for your Easter creations!

I’m looking forward to seeing you stamping soon!

This weeks events:

  • Tuesday, March 17 - Morningside Club @ 10AM

  • Thursday, March 19th - Glitter Girls Club @ 9:30AM at my home

  • Thursday, March 19th - Sr. Center, Dallas NC @ 2PM

  • Friday, March 20th - Southern Bells Club @ 11 AM at my home

  • Saturday, March 28th - Team Meeting at 10 AM and virtual at 3 PM. RSVP for virtual.

Have a wonderful week! Esther

Easter and A day to Remember scrapbook spreads

Whether its grandchildren or your own precious little ones….you will cherish preserving these moments on an adorned scrapbook spread!

Each month, I hold a night to create 2 scrapbook spreads. In February, we created a cute Easter Basket bundle scrapbook spread using Easter Joy 12 x 12 Specialty Designer Series Paper. One of the cutest elements on this page is the little die cut easter basket and the Easter Assortment egg embellishments! The Easter Assortment egg/dot embellishments are low inventory - so order very soon!

I love the little easter basket….of course I would put a dark chocolate Easter Bunny in my basket! The baskets are really easy to put together and weave the colored ribbons(actually Designer Series Paper) through using the Easter Joy 12 x 12 Speciality Designer Series Paper. This paper is coated on one side to add a slight rigidity that makes working with it so easy! If you are in one of my clubs…you’ll find out this month! :)

click on picture below to enlarge

We also designed a spread using Stampin’ Up Simply Beautiful Bundle and Lovely & Beautiful 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper for a variety of different moments. This spread could be used for your favorite person, a wedding, graduation day, or just a fun day at the park, or maybe a special excursion on your vacation! It is so versatile!
I love the colors! They are just glistening and inviting, pulling you in to the pictures you choose to scrapbook! There is just a jot of gold to send excitement to the pictures.

The Lovely & Beautiful Designer Series Paper is currently out of stock but Stampin’ Up is expecting more around April 6, 2026.

I look forward to stamping with you! Thank you for visiting! Please reach out if you have questions. Esther

This week’s events:

  • Tue., March 3rd - Triple “S” club - Spartanburg SC at 4PM, Judy P is our hostess

  • Thur., March 5th - to be determined

  • Fri., March 6th - Camp Craft Card Buffet

  • Fri., March 6th - 6PM 1st Friday Club, Tammie is our hostess

  • Sat., March 7th - 9AM Sunrisers Club, Elena is our hostess

  • see above calendar for complete schedule

Creative Escape registration/Birthday Blitz recap

The birthday blitz was soooo fun! I changed the location to my home - which facilitated a fun time conversing! And we celebrated birthdays…..and had a lively time together! See all the pictures below and then think about joining us at Creative Escape in September! If you have questions, please text or call. There is a limit of 30 ladies….spaces are filling up fast just from Birthday Blitz….16 spaces remaining! Get your RSVP with deposit in quickly. I WILL be taking a waiting list for Creative Escape!

Click on pic to enlarge.

And here are the cards we made at the Birthday Blitz! Lots of fun folds and positive feed back about the cards. What’s your favorite? Click to see full card.

Here it is! Creative Escape reservation sheet. You may print and text me a picture and Zelle your deposits or print and mail. Thanks so much!

Creative Escape Reservation
2026 Waiver form

Thanks for visiting!

Esther

Sunshine & Tulips card for Sr. Center

It is time for our class at the Dallas Sr. Center this month! I hope you can make time to come and make the following 4 cards! We meet at 2 PM on this Thursday, February 19th. Please RSVP so I will have cards cut and ready for you to make.

REMINDERS for February:

  • Redeem your coupon codes from January purchases!!! Each coupon is worth $5. If you can’t find in your email, look in your junk emails and if you can’t find it there, please let me know and I will call into Stampin’ Up and get it for you. They must be used by February 28th, 2026.

  • Fabulous Product of the Month this month!!! You can see part of one sheet on the Fragrant Layers card for the Sr. Center class this month. Spend $75 before any discounts, shipping, and tax and you can purchase the package of 12 x 12 of Painted Illusions for $5

  • Join offer through March 2nd….don’t wait! The join kit is $99 plus tax…shipping is FREE

    • You choose $125 of products you want

    • Get the NEW STAMPIN’ POSITIONER TOOL FREE. It’s a value of $49 to help alignment your projects

    • you receive 20-25% discount off orders under your demonstrator account

    • and attend my team meetings about every 2 months

    Please reach out to me with any questions you may have about joining! Most of my team join for the discount, perks and team meetings.

This weeks events:

  • Tuesday at 10AM Morningside club

  • Thursday at 9AM New club at Esther’s home in Belmont

  • Thursday at 2 PM Sr. Center class, Dallas NC

  • Friday at 11 AM Southern Bells club, Pamela is our hostess

Thanks for visiting! I hope you have a fabulous week!

Esther

Cute As A Bug....is soooo cute to use!

I’ve not seen a bad card yet with this suite! These little critters are so cute and fun!

click on the picture of Cute As a Bug spread above to see all the products in this suite. Right now the Ladybug Embellishments are out of stock, but you can order all the other supplies to be working with these cute little guys and the Ladybug Embellishments should be back in stock soon. As of now we are not given a ETA for the Ladybug embellishments.

I love that most of the bugs have dies that cut out the Designer Series Paper and stamped image.

I’m excited to tell you about the newest join offer from Stampin’ Up! It is good until the end of February 2026!

Let’s talk about joining my team! From time to time, Stampin’ Up will have special incentives for you to join. It’s a fun way to connect, learn, and get perks like discounts on products you purchase under your demonstratorship. Most of my team are there for the discounts, ordering early, and team meetings! But, if you would like to make a little extra income, it’s a fun way to meet new friends and have a little spending money! :)

One of my favorite things is our team meetings that I hold about every 2 months! Wither you attend in person or virtually, it’s a fun time to learn and connect.

  • To the end of February 2026, Stampin’ Up is giving a Percision Tool Free with joining - No, you don’t have to stay a demo for a certain length of time.

  • Your kit to join is $99 plus tax….Stampin’ Up ships to you free and you choose $125 worth of products

  • You will receive 20 - 25% discount on what you order or sell under your demonstrator account. There are other additional incentives the more you sell/order.

  • You may come in person or join virtually to my team meetings which are about every 2 months. They are a fun time of learning, sharing, and connecting with others. Also, I’m available for help and questions most any time.

    Click on the JOIN picture above to learn more or join.

I posted a video last week showing you the new PERCISION TOOL and this week, there are a few pictures where I used my Percision Tool to get my sentiment aligned nicely.

Also, I have used the Tools & Textures stamp and die bundle. We are making a wonderful masculine card at club this month - you’ll want to come to club! But I wanted to show you a couple of samples of just fun easy cards to make…one for a man and the other is girly and using one of my favorite stamp sets….Prayers & Promises.

This was totally a fun card….I saw one similar and decided to kinda copy….although, I decided to use all the stamps in the stamp set. - just for fun! Here’s what I did…..

Get your Tools & Textures bundle! Here I just used the stamps….and ink colors: Secret Sea, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Blueberry Bushel, Balmy Blue, Pretty Peacock, and Lost Lagoon.

Some of these ink colors were stamped off and then stamped on the card and others directly as inked….just randomly - have fun!

Then I decided with my design, I really didn’t want to get my sentiment crooked….so out comes the Percision Tool.

There are 2 ways I could do this:

  1. By putting the stamped card in the Percision Tool and placing my stamps directly on the card. Press top plate down to pick up the stamps and then ink stamps and press down to stamp.

    I decided to check myself first so I put a piece of cardstock over the one I wanted to stamped to check my alignment….I was using 2 different stamps from different stamp sets - Nature’s Symphony and Lovely Arrangements stamp set. See pics below

2. Place the 2 different stamps directly on the plate using the lines on the plate to align the sentiment stamps. This seemed to work the best for this case because these came from 2 different stamp sets and having the lines in the top plate helped make the words on the stamps straight.

Another advantage of using my Percision Tool - I decided the sentiment needed to be a little darker to stand out and be more readable….so I just lifted the top plate and reinked the sentiment and stamped again in the same place to make it darker.

And here is the girly card using Tools & Textures along with Natures’s Symphony leaf die and Forever Florals Die for tiny flower. Colors of inks: Flirty Flamingo, Petal Pink, Bubble Bath, Granny Apple Green for leaf die and Gray Granite ink for sentiment.

Thanks so much for visiting! I look forward to stamping with you soon. Because of some changes due to weather, I am headed now to update the calendar on my site here. But you can always text or email me with questions.

Thanks,

Esther

Birthday Fancy Card Kit goes Scrapbooking

I love this card kit….for scrapbooking in December 2025 we made a really CUTE birthday scrapbook spread from the Birthday Fancy Card Kit!

quick birthday scrapbook kit for easy birthday pages or cards lots of cakes for birthday

Birthday Fancy Card Kit #166211

Here are birthday cards you can make with the kit….it’s so pretty, cute, easy and makes a great celebration!!!

I love the lacy laser cut edges corners a picture matte for this spread! This kit is so easy, fun, sweet and just says let’s CELEBRATE! You can find the kit on my web site by clicking the above picture.

Our other spread for December is soooooo appropriate for this weekend! Who know - besides God, North and South Carolina would have soooo much snow! And hurry while there are supplies left to copy this spread! Click on the scrapbook spread below to order your snowflake decorative masks - they are on sale and clearance! And using decorative masks can be so satisfying to use with blending brushes for a smooth variegated color palette!

Tips to make the word SNOW:

  • Begin by using the tearing technique….tear Basic White Cardstock and adhere it to Misty Moonlight Cardstock

  • Next, die cut with Stampin’ Up Party Alphabet item #165263

  • Finally add so sparkle to your word. Here we used retired Pearlized Enamel Effects to the word, SNOW but you could use any kind of sparkle

Wow!!! It is so exciting to have a sweet “JOIN” offer from Stampin’ Up in addition to an alignment tool!!!!

Here’s an opportunity to join my Stampin’ Up team! I think you will love our community!

  • when you join, you choose $125 worth of Stampin’ Up products for $99

  • And February 3 through February 28 when you join, receive the Precision Alignment Tool FREE!

  • get 20 - 25% discount under your demonstrator number

  • order 1 month early

  • earn commissions on sales you make

  • and my favorite….our team meetings and fellowship with other members of my team! We usually meet every other month to craft, learn new things, and have fun together.

Please reach out if you have questions…I’m happy to help!

Stay tuned for club times early February due to weather. I’ll text each club with any updates.

Happy Stamping!

Esther

Continued Fun with Sunshine & Tulips

One of my friends texted me a picture of her card using Sunshine & Tulips stamp and die set…..it is soooo pretty!

This set is so easy and fun to use….it’s a simple set but fun to make all kinds of varieties of spring tulips! What color of tulips would you make?

Valentine’s Day is coming up! here is an adorable little milk carton made for Valentine’s Day to hold a few Hershey kisses. It is so cute with the little punched out heart and then a window sheet put inside the carton so you can see the kisses.

Stampin' Up A Child is Born stamp set Christmas manger scene.

A Child is Born

I wanted to share this Christmas card I received. I love how the creator added color to the background around the central nativity scene. It gives it a rustic look that blends in perfectly with the rustic character of Joseph and Mary.

And finally I wanted to share this beautiful card! I love the simplicity and coordination of the Designer Series Paper and different sizes of the DSP for a design that keeps me looking at the card.

Well done to all of the creators of these projects!

I am so grateful the winter storm has not been as bad as expected! And I’m hoping none of you lost power. Can’t believe that January is almost over….but I’m always excited for new adventures and projects coming up!

  • Card buffet Friday, January 30th 10 AM to 4 PM - RSVP

  • Card buffet Saturday, January 31st 10 AM to 4 PM - RSVP

  • Scrapbooking Saturday, January 31st 4 PM

  • Triple S Club - 4 PM Spartanburg, February 3rd

  • First Friday Club - 6 PM February 6th

  • Sunrisers Club - 9 AM February 7th

Hope to see you soon stamping with me!

Take Care! Esther