Today I’m introducing a new blog feature, Wild Card Wednesday. With the wonderful level of talent on the Design Team, sometimes I think it’s a good idea to just sit back and let them all do their own things. That’s the idea behind Wild Cards, which will run on the last Wednesday of each month. [...]

September has flown by, and we are already on our last project by this month’s Guest Designer, Mel McCarthy. She has made a special gift box shaped like a purse and a set of matching cards. As is typical for all of Mel’s projects, she has paid attention to the smallest details, combining shapes, patterns, [...]

The Design Team’s challenge this week is to follow one of my card layout sketches. The twist is that they were allowed to twist it any way they wanted. Here’s the sketch, shown rotated and flipped for four variations.

The fascinating thing about card sketches is that each designer will come up with her own [...]

This month’s Guest Designer, Mel McCarthy, has designed a darling holiday card in non-traditional colors. She also sent the description below.

Mel wrote: “These little quails from Ho Ho Holidays are so cute, they make me giggle! I mean really, those little feather hairdos — aren’t they the finest case of cute-overload you’ve ever seen? ;O) [...]

I want to thank all of you who left such wonderful comments for me and the entire Design Team on Wednesday’s Blog Hop. We had such a fun time celebrating at our Release Party.
The designers are still creating. This week’s two bonus projects come from Denise Marzec and Cindy Royal.

Autumn Tweetings Card by [...]

Yay! It’s time for the September Blog Hop. Today we’re introducing two new seasonal image sets for autumn and Christmas. We’re also trying something new — our first-ever Angels Landing Release Party, which is explained below.
Autumn Tweetings Digital Stamps
The first new image set features two birds with an acorn birdhouse and a pumpkin birdhouse. [...]

You’re invited.

This month’s Blog Hop starts on Wednesday September 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM Eastern USA time on my blog. The entire design team has been working all week to create some awesome samples with our new releases, which will be revealed tomorrow morning. Along the hop, three of the design team members will be [...]