Hi Everyone. Happy Thursday. I cannot tell you how happy I am that we have a long weekend coming up. Seriously.... 5 whole months is too long without a long weekend! By the looks of things, the weather is going to be glorious this weekend and we are so looking forward to it. I made a card using last week's Freshlymadesketches. It's a really fun sketch. I then needed some inspiration and found a MARITIME challenge at KIS. The minute I saw that, I knew that I wanted to use some of the new Maritime DSP that is sitting in... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Tuesday. Sorry my blog wasn't available yesterday - and I wasn't able to post, but Typepad, my hosting service, was downed by another Denial of Service attack. By the time they had service restored, I was fast asleep! This is the third attack in a month, I'm hoping that they will be unaffected for a while! Anyway, now that we are back online - on to today's card. As my regular readers will know, I recently attended the onlinecardclasses watercolor for card makers class. One of the last classes was on using dies to create an embossed... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday. Hope your day was as beautiful where you are as it is here! The sun is shining, the frogs are calling, the birds are singing and... it's in the low 60s. Perfect! I got to play in my craft room today and saw this great sketch across at casethissketch. The team really does come up with some great sketches, and this one is no exception. I was drawn to the sketch because it really forces me out of my comfort zone. For some reason I never put an element in the top left hand corner... why?... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday. It's the fabulous Ann's turn to host our Paper Players challenge and she has a clean and simple - with a twist - challenge for us. Well, considering I have created two clean and simple flower cards this past week, I was a little stumped and really did wonder why I hadn't checked the upcoming challenge a little earlier :-) However, I've never been one to NOT enjoy a CAS challenge and decided it was time to bring out the new Bloom with Hope set - again. As I've been trying to attend the onlinecardclass watercolor... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Tuesday. Hope you are all having a great start to your week! Before I get to tonight's card, I'd like to say a huge thank you to the casethissketch team for choosing this card as the winning card for challenge number #74. I was absolutely thrilled! The team really does have some super cool sketches, and this week is no exception. I had originally intended to make the right hand element much shorter than it ended up!!!! I had this idea to use chalkboard paint to create the background and do a chalkboard effect on it. However,... Read more →