Happy Sunday It's the fabulous Claire's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's color week. Claire's bright colors had me scratching my head for a while. Anyone who has been around my blog for a while will know that I tend not to use a lot of bright colors - especially together. However, when I pulled out the inks and looked at them together I had this idea for a set that I had purchased from Spellbinders a little while ago to make cards for Ronald McDonald. The set is called Water You Up To and... Read more →
Happy Saturday. It's the fabulous Helen's turn to host our Addicted to CAS challenge this week and she has a fun code word for us. This code word gave me the perfect excuse to ink up some stamps from a set called Pola Christmas that came as part of a set from Simon Says Stamp in the most recent Create and Connect with Pinkfresh Studios. I had a fun time with some very loose watercoloring for these delightful images. Here's a sneak peek And here is Helen's code word: I stamped and watercolored the image using normaly 100# paper. That... Read more →
Happy Friday. It's another great INSPO challenge across at Festive Friday this week and I had such fun creating this card. I went clean and simple using a set of dies from Alexandra Renke called Parisian Parcels. I utilized some metallic watercolors in colors that met the requrements of the INSPO list. Here's a sneak peek: Oh.. and here is our challenge theme for this week - Black Friday. As always, you don't have to follow the theme. You just need to utilize at least 3 of the items from our INSPO list into your project. Here's our INSPO list:... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Elizabeth's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and the set that I chose to showcase makes it a very aliterative title - and I love a little aliteration! I love this take on a bouquet from Pinkfresh Studios and was so happy to open it up and give it a little love for Elizabeth's challenge. Here's a sneak peek: Oh.... and here's Elizabeth's challenge: I'm always happy to make thank you cards and, as we approach thanksgiving, I certainly look upon my life and realize I have much to be thankful for!... Read more →