Arnold Grummer's Design Team Blog

Having a good time creating these small note cards and envies as a gift for a friend. Sometimes less is MORE, so I decided to keep my decor down to a minimum, so the eye could focus more on the paper itself. On this project I began with  here  making three individual sheets of paper. No dyes were used, but i did use various scraps of the shown color to achieve the final look.  The white paper has bits of my painted papers  that you can actually see in the paper.  That's something I will try again!! I made the papers using the  The Complete Papermill Kit . Before the sheets were made I knew I wanted to use my Arnold Grummer  Gift Tag Template .  I decided I did not want the appearance of the deckled edge on my papers, so I chose to trace my items for a cleaner edge, I would achieve using my scissors.  After scoring and folding my cards and envies,  my project was done. To embellish it, I used a few stamps from my Creating in ...

Hello everyone and Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you all are having a wonderful time with family and friends on this great holiday. I can almost smell the turkey cooking now. I love Thanksgiving it is my favorite holiday. Just good food with great people, no hassles of buying gifts or any of that. Just great conversation with the people you love. Oh by the way, this is Donna..... Today I have a Christmas  picture I made for my younger brother and his wife. She was born and raised in Germany and my brother met her there when he was stationed in the army. They married over there and the ceremony was beautiful, but boy can those people party!!! Any hoot, the background is made from hand made paper and then painted then I attached a painting I did to the front and wrote Merry Christmas in German on it. I also used some LOVELY ribbon around the outside that was so thoughtfully given to us by  The Ribbon Resource , it is just lovely and fit this picture perfectly. Thank you so mu...