Candice Windham Design Studio

--> I love to make birthday cards. I don't always get them in the mail on time, but I still love the creative process of making them. This sentiment has been around for a long time in one form or another, but I can remember my Dad wishing me "Hoppy Birdie" when I was a child. I don't know where it originated, so if it came from you, please let me know and I will happily give you credit. Otherwise, all the credit goes to my funny, sweet father, who I am so thankful for and miss every day. This is an example of one of those times when a stamp just will not do. That’s why I am so thankful for the Duetica Lettering Arts Studio. I can get a very cool look, just using their fonts in basic form, but adding the ability to have a myriad of letter styles within each font family is the icing on the cake. Not only that, you can alter the colors in Photoshop or print out outlines of your sentiment and custom –color them with paint, markers or colored pencil. ...

Today begins another monthly edition of the Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop. This month's theme is handmade gifts. Be sure to click on the Designer Crafts Connection button at left to hop forward or backward and see all the wonderful gift ideas from our talented designers. This little box began life as a chick feeder that I found on Decor Steals . (If you are not on their email list for daily bargains, you're missing out.) When I bought it, I didn't know what it would become, but knew that I loved it. Chick feeder base I have to admit that the idea to house the growing pile of charger cords into one container was not mine. I got the idea of containing all the cords from a website that I stumbled onto late one night. I wish I could remember where it was, but alas, my brain is not as good as it once was. (My theory: Our brains are like hard drives. You store a lot of information in there and the more you have, the longer it takes to sort through find wh...

Winter is finally coming to West Tennessee. It was war m today, but we're expecting 20° one night next week. Brrrrrrrrrr! One nice thing about winter is the number of poems and quotations available with the click of a mouse to be used in our art. And doesn't this just come in so handy since the All Things Altered blog hop theme is Winter? Be sure to click on the the list below to  see the work of some really talented designers. There is also a great prize package pictured on the first blog in the list below, Scrapbook Flair. To be entered to win the main prize package: 1. Leave a comment on all the designers' blogs . 2. Sign up to Follow the blogs. 3. Leave a message on the Scrapbook Flair Blog  telling Pam you followed the directions! 1. Pammejo: http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/ 2. Nicole: http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/ 3. Gloria : http://www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com/ 4. Irit : http: //iritshalom.blogspot.com/ ...

Welcome to a middle-of-the-month blog challenge on the Designer Crafts Connection! This time, we're playing wi th Smoothfoam ™ , one of my new favorite surfaces. Smoothfoam™ is sturdy, resists chipping and crushing, paintable (no tedious prep work!), waxable, stampable - everything you want in a foam product. On top of that, it can be adhered with just about any adhesive, including glue guns. You can get out that dinosaur glue gun from the "olden days" when that was all that we had available, and not worry about whether you are using high heat or low. Both work fine on Smoothfoam™ (but you still need to keep it off your fingers). This stuff can be cut or carved as well. Be sure to click on the Designer Crafts Connection logo to the left to see what some great designers have done with Smoothfoam™. You can win the Smoothfoam™  Kit to make me! As you hop through the designer blogs, comment on your favorite projects. Each time you comment you'll be ent...