Happy Friday. It's another fabulous INSPO List at Festive Friday this week. It's also the last challenge of the year. The design team will be taking a couple of weeks off to enjoy the holidays, but we will come by and visit your cards and leave a comment :-) Even thought we have a theme, you don't have to follow the theme - just use three of the items from the INSPO list on your creation. This week's challenge gave me the perfect excuse to ink up what has quickly become one of my favorite sets from The Greetery this... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous LeAnne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and she has such a fun challenge for us. As I don't have a lot of Santa's in my stamp collection, I didn't have a lot to choose from. However, I do love this set from MFT called Christmas Selfies, so I was happy to have an excuse to ink it up! In fact, I got a little carried away and made several cards with this set using different colors and different backgrounds and sent them off to SendaSmile4Kids. Here's a sneak peek: I stamped... Read more →
Happy Tuesday I have another card for you today. As I had a little time to spend in my craft room I went looking for some inspiration and found the perfect blank slate at Inspire:Create. I looked around on my desk at my new goodies that arrived and realized that the blank slate was the perfect sketch to use my new Big Branches Mistletoe from the new November release from The Greetery. Here's a quick sneak peek: I actually went with two background stamps for this one. I did the first layer with the Pine and Berry background stamp and... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's my turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week - and it's color week. I went with soft muted tones of the colors and inked up the Arched Holiday Sentiments from The Greetery. Here's a sneak peek: I think you might have guessed that the colors involve black and silver:-) These colors can be used for Christmas, New Year, Hanukkah, masculine birthday - anything you choose. I was tempted to go with a much brighter blue but, in the end, settled on a much softer blue. Here's my card: I hope you will join us and... Read more →
Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous LeAnne's turn to host our final Paper Players challenge of the year. The first time I made this card, I made it with the incorrect color green! ugh! So, I had to go back and correct it today! For my card I used one of my favorite Stampin' Up! sets - Poinsettia Petals. I used both the die-cut and the embossing elements of the set once I had colored my elements. I mounted it onto the closest thing I had to Very Vanilla, sadly it isn't as rich as Very Vanilla is. I used the... Read more →