Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday. The fabulously talented Ann has a great sketch for us across at the Paper Players tonight. My first card just didn't work as I could not get a decent photograph of it. So, I scratched that idea and went looking for a little inspiration. Whilst I was looking for that inspiration, I saw another fabulous inspiration card from Julie Ebersole across at casestudy. Once I saw the butterflies on that card, I knew exactly what I needed to do for the sketch. Here's the sketch There is this gorgeous Melon Mambo DSP amongst the Sunshine and... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Friday. Hope you have had a good week. I cannot tell you how grateful I am that it is Friday! For those of you who want to know..... No sighting of Archimedes today, but he was here yesterday - and I have a pic for you. As for our feline visitor. Yes! He came past last night and ate almost an entire bowl of food! Colleen left a fabulous insight into how owls are viewed in mythology and history. It was fascinating. If you didn't catch it, you can read Colleen's comment on this post. I also... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Wednesday. This is a very quick post, as I am running way late tonight! I saw this fabulous sketch across at retrosketches I decided to use a stamp set called All About You from PTI and knew that it was a great opportunity to use some of the fabulous SU Polka Dot Parade DSP. I love this DSP because it has the large circles on one side and the small dots on the other. Perfect for what I wanted to do. Of course, I had to do a third repetition of the "dot/circle" theme by adding a... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Tuesday. For those of you wanting to know the answer to the question, "have you seen Archimedes?" the answer is YES!!!! He's back! He's been around all day and I managed to get a couple of shots of him for you, which I will share with you tomorrow. However, no sighting of kitty. Simplylessismoore has a CAS single layer card challenge, with a little twist. Not only does the card have to be a single layer, but it has to feature spots and stripes. Well, seeing as I had just received a new stamp set that has... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Monday. Hope you all had a great weekend and a good start to your week. I have a quick post for you tonight. This is one of the cards that I made this weekend. I popped into casestudychallenges and there was a terrific card by the very talented Julie Ebersole as the inspiration for this week. You can check out Julie's inspiration card here. I was very inspired by the bright colored flowers, the white and the kraft base. I decided the incorporate those elements into my card. I stamped the flowers with versamark and heat set... Read more →