Cardmaking, Paper Crafting, Rubber stamping, using, organizing and selling supplies
Author: Karen
Hello! I'm a 50 something wife and mother of two girls ~ I started Blogging in March of 2011 on Blogger and just converted to WordPress in Dec 2019. I started paper crafting in 1995 when I first tried embossing with powder, I was so excited and couldn't believe it was so easy to make something so beautiful. Creativeseconds was started as a way of selling secondhand craft supplies and cards on Ebay and Etsy. You will find creative cards, tags, and paper crafting projects here as well as craft room organizational ideas. Follow along with me and comments are welcomed and appreciated.
It’s Thursday’s Art Date and I’d like to share a tag I created yesterday. The theme is May flowers with pollinators and I combined that with Tag Tuesday’s theme of creating a tag with buttons and/or bows. The tag is made from scrapbook paper cut to shape, and I added twine, a button and some […]
Once again it’s Tuesday where several of us share a drink inspired post at the Altered Book Lover. My husband and I went to the Union Ale House In Virginia Beach for a nice brunch on Saturday. They serve $2 Mimosa’s and bloody Mary’s as a special, so I had a cranberry Mimosa and Hubby […]
I’m joining Rain for her Thursday Art Date with my beach themed sympathy card. My daughter’s future mother in law just lost her sister after a long battle of uterine cancer. She loves the beach which happens to go along with this weeks theme of sun and water for my entry. I actually scrap lifted […]
It’s been a loooong time since I joined the T group at The Altered Book Lover with a drink and a life update. I’m sharing my Coffee, and some cards I made yesterday, and a small confession. Confession first = every time I have to get my blood drawn and fast, I eat something I […]
At Tag Tuesday the current challenge is to use a stencil on your project. I haven’t experimented much with texture paste, so I thought I would give that technique a go. I used a Stampin’ Up metal background die and made a stencil out of cardstock. I chose music sheet patterned scrapbook paper for the […]
I joined a swap on Swap-bot to create a collage greeting card and mail it to one randomly assigned partner. I’ve been making only holiday and birthday cards lately, so this was a welcome change. The card base is 5×7 and I scored a frame along the edge. I picked several elements to start and […]
It’s been a long time since I joined in on This Weeks Smiles at A Stich in Time. The idea is to share something on Friday’s that you have been working on and something to make you smile. I created a mini album based on the video by Pinkstrawberryz (see below) in a Fall theme […]
I’m late to the T party today at the Altered Book Lover! My drink of choice is not a hot one today since it’s still 90′ and I’ve broken a sweat 3x’s already and it’s only 4:30pm. I had a small glass full of Green Goodness by Bolthouse Farms, and I’m pleased with the flavor. […]
The theme at Thursday’s art date with Rain is to create with rough texture. I combined this challenge with Tag Tuesday’s challenge to use seashells this week. My tag was created with a sand paper background. The crab is a jolee’s embellishment, and the silver piece was a clip on earring. I added a real […]
Hello everyone, and Happy T day to the gang at the Altered Book Lover. It’s been some time since I posted, but I’ve been creating with this new set called “Clever Cats” from Stampin’ Up and thought I’d share what I made. I wanted the cat to appear like he was flying over the moon […]