Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous LeAnne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's tic-tac-toe week. I always love our tic-tac-toe weeks as they provide so much scope for so many different cards. After seeing the board I was inspired to bring out my Dancin' Birthday Monsters dies from Spellbinders. Oh, these dies are so much fun. Here's a sneak peek: Oh, these little guys just make me smile! Here's LeAnne's tic-tac-toe board: I went straight across the top: stars/stripes. bling and blue. The stars/stripes comes from the background stencil I used. It's a stencil from Alexandra... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Ann's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's sketch week. Ann's creative sketch immediately reminded me of a set I bought from The Greetery several years ago called Curio Findings. I have three different sets for three different seasons. For today's card I used the summer findings. Here's a sneak peek: The Curio sets also come with a frame and dividers to help create the look of a curio box. I used both of those to create the frame as they really reminded me of Ann's sketch. You can see the... Read more →
Happy Saturday. It's another clean and simple challenge across at Addicted to CAS this week and Toni, our hostess for this week has chosen a fun code word. The code word was a perfect excuse to bring out another one of the dies I bought on sale from Spellbinders called Birthday Dinosaur. It's the cutest die and I love that you can play around with the colors and trimmings! Here's a sneak peek: Here is our code word: Isn't she cute!!!! It's taken me years to embrace the soft, fluid feel of loose watercoloring but now that I have embraced... Read more →
Happy Friday. It's another INSPO challenge at Festive Friday this week and we have a great INSPO list for you. I was inspired to use some brand new goodies from Alexandra Renke that are part of the Pen Pal collection. I just fell in love with this die set. It filled me with nostalgia and I just had to have it. Today's card is going off to my bestie but, with the power of the internet, she will see the card here on my blog before she gets in in hand! Here's a sneak peek: And here is our INSPO... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous LeAnne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and she has a..... errrr..... I forgot to fully read the challenge...... Clean and Simple challenge for us this week. I was in such a rush to catch up on cards after 5 months off that I didn't read the challenge and missed the Clean and Simple bit altogether - until I came to write this blog post! I'm busy making kids cards and saw the encouragement part of LeAnne's challenge and thought I would use the Kitty Hugs die and stamps from Spellbinders and... Read more →