Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Joanne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's color week. The bright color scheme inspired me to bring out a new die set called Coastal Escape from Spellbinders. Here's a sneak peek: And here is Joanne's bright and cheerful color choices: Lemon Lolly is generally too bright for me, but paired with the blue I really liked it. For my extra color I chose shades of Coral as I thought it worked really well with the others and added a little warmth. I die cut the images and added some watercolors... Read more →
Happy Saturday. We have a new challenge across at Addicted to CAS this week and it was my turn to choose the code word. I realized that I had some stamps in my stash that I haven't used for a long time and that influenced my choice for our challenge. It gave me the perfect excuse to ink up this stamp and make a love card. Here's a sneak peek: And just in case you hadn't guessed the theme by now, here's our code word: I inked up the Love Notes stamp set from Casual Friday and added the sentiment.... Read more →
Happy Friday. It's another INSPO list across at Festive Friday and this week we are highlighting Alzheimer's Week. This is a cause that is close to a lot of people, including me, so I was happy that we were shining a light on this condition. I wanted to create a clean and simple card and used Notes of Nature from Stampin' Up! as well as two dies from Alexandra Renke. One features a fabulous tag and the other a tea cup that I am obsessed with. Here's a sneak peek: And here is our INSPO list for this challenge. As... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's my turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's theme week. It was the perfect excuse to ink up a set from Pinkfresh Studio called Amazing Things. Here's a sneak peek: And here's the theme for our challenge this week: I inked up the stamp with versamark and then used white embossing powder. I love the way the flower pops, but I really should have used green embossing powder for the stem. Too late! :-) I needed to make the flower pop from the background so blended blue ink and then added a few... Read more →
Happy Saturday. I got the chance to play with another challenge today and this time was inspired by the CASE a DT member week across at Just Us Girls. Bobby's card was the inspiration to ink up a set I haven't used yet from Pinkfresh Studio called Wildflower Bouquet. I was inspired by the florals in Bobnby's card as well as the pastel colors. Here's a sneak peek: And here's the link to the Just Us Girls challenge where you can see Bobby's card and the others from the DT. The first thing I did was stamp the wildflowers and... Read more →