Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous LeAnne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and I cannot believe that it is our 700th - yes that would be SEVEN HUNDREDTH challenge! As that's a major milestone, I decided to create a celebration card. I used my much loved Pinwheel Party goodies from The Greetery. Here's a sneak peek: Here's LeAnne's sketch for this week: I created the texture in the background from a free gift we got from Pinkfresh Studio when ordering during their birthday party celebration. I then used the Pinwheel Party Stencils and dies to create the... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Joanne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's Clean and Simple Week. It was a great excuse for me to make yet another card for our local Ronald McDonald House and use a fun new die set from Alexandra Renke called Furry Friends. Here's a sneak peek: And here's Joanne's CAS theme for this week: This card came together really easily. I die cut and loosely watercolored the doggies and popped them up on a panel I die cut from a die called Stamps Quartet and added the sentiment. Here's my... Read more →
Happy Saturday. It's the fabulous Helen's turn to host our Addicted to CAS challenge and her code word is so close to my heart. It was a great excuse to bring out some Fluttering Butterflies from Pinkfresh Studio. Here's a sneak peek: And here's Helen's code word for this week: This card came together really easily as I had three watercolor butterflies left over from a class I did with Pinkfresh Studio. So I used those as my focal images and put them onto a mini slimline card. The frame is also from Pinkfresh Studio and is part of their... Read more →
Happy Friday. It's another INSPO challenge across at Festive Friday and we are celebrating the Summer Olympics. I can't believe it has been 4 years already! Anyway, we have a great list of inspiration components for the challenge and I was inspired to bring out a brand new die that I bought on Amazon. I saw this wreath and fell in love with it. Here's a sneak peek of my card: I used three different colors of glitter paper: silver, bronze and gold and it looks really pretty in real life. Oh, and here's our challenge for this week My... Read more →
Happy Sunday - again :-) I saw this great sketch across at Freshly Made Sketches and couldn't wait to bring out some of my favorite all time Stampin' Up! DSP called Nature's Sweetness. This paper is absolutely gorgeous and I thought this sketch would really help to showcase it. Here's a sneak peek: Oh, such glorious papers! I paired it with a leaf set called Pear Leaf (see what I did there?) :-) from Alexandra Renke and that leaf deserves some photos all of it's own. But, before we get to that - here's the Freshly Made Sketches sketch: So,... Read more →