Happy Friday. We have another INSPO list for you at Festive Friday this week. Every two weeks we produce a crafting/cardmaking challenge based on a celebration from around the world. That challenge theme provides us with a list of items to include on your creation. You don't have to follow the theme we are celebrating, just use at least 3 of the items from the INSPO list. The challenge this wee is very close to my heart and I was inspired to make this card from the sentiment with the Just My Type set. Here's a sneak peek: And here... Read more →
Happy Thursday. It's my honor to join the fabulous design team across at Time Out Challenges this week. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a winner for their colorful challenge #245 with this card. As the winner, I was invited to participate in an upcoming challenge and the one I was asked to participate in is very, very close to my heart! The challenge is being sponsored by Jane's Doodles and we were provided a digital image created especially for this challenge. We didn't have to use the image, but I decided it was too adorable NOT to... Read more →
Hi there. We have another challenge for you across at Addicted to CAS and this week's challenge them had me pulling out an old set from Paper Rose Studio called Super Hero Fun. It's one of my favorite sets for creating cards for SendASmile4Kids :-). Here's a sneak peek: What a wonderful masked bandit :-). Oh. And here's our challenge theme for this week: The minute I saw the keyword I knew this was the set I was going to use. I stamped and die-cut the image, created a cloudy background with my My Favorite Things stencil and stamped the... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Anne Marie's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's sketch week. I went with a pretty clean and simple layout and tried to add interest with texture. Here's a sneak peek: I love the texture from the Exposed Brick embossing folder from Stampin' Up! Somehow that texture just felt right with olives:-) Here's Anne Marie's sketch: It's the perfect sketch to showcase some of the wonderful DSP you are all hoarding:-) I know I was tempted to use some! I embossed a piece of Neenah Solar White 80# card stock and... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Claire's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's clean and simple week. I have to admit I had ZERO optiions in my stash for the challenge this week, so I had to improvise and use a png I purchased on etsy! Here's a sneak peek: Even though this is a clean and simple challenge, I couldn't help myself and had to add some texture! I used both the Stampin' Up! stripes and the spellbinders dots embossiing folders. Here's Claire's challenge: Growing up I was always into sports. I played both netball... Read more →