Ready for another Festive Friday challenge? What is the Festive Friday challenge? The Festive Friday challenge is a bi-weekly challenge that is inspired by a holiday/festivity. An Inspo list of 10 items is created using the festivity as its inspiration. To play in the challenge you need to use 3 items from the Inspo list…
It is Thursday and time for a new Create with Connie & Mary Challenge. This week it is a color challenge. Can you guess the colors that are in the challenge? Did you guess correctly? Isn't this a fun color combination? It has been a little bit since I pulled out the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set…
I try to schedule my blog posts to go live in the early morning (Pacific Time). Sometimes that doesn't work, for example when I am participating in a blog hop or some other kind of event. Lately it has been a lot more random and I hope soon I will get back to posting at…
I have been playing with the Simply Marbleous DSP, a Sale-A-Bration choice. What a fun pack of paper and it is free with a qualifying purchase but only for another week, Yes, sad to say that Sale-A-Bration will be over at the end of February. I paired up the Blossoms in Bloom bundle with the…
I am always on the lookout for new color ideas. I came across the Inspire. Create. Stamping Challenge's combination of Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen, Misty Moonlight, Sahara Sand, and Soft Succulent and wanted to give it a try. Sahara Sand is one of those colors I do not use very often and when I do…
It is Friday and time for a new Festive Friday Challenge. The Festive Friday Challenge is a bi-weekly challenge that features an Inspo list inspired by a festivity. The Inspo list has 10 items on it and to play in the challenge you need to use at least 3 of the items on the list. …
It is Thursday and time for the Create with Connie & Mary Challenge. What is the Create with Connie & Mary Thursday Challenge? This weekly challenge alternates between a sketch and a color challenge. The challenge will hopefully inspire you to create a project and then share it on the Create with Connie and Mary…
It is Thursday which means it is time for the Create with Connie & Mary Challenge. This week it is a color challenge and it fits perfectly with Valentine's Day coming up! I pulled out the Party Puffins stamp set. I haven't played with this set in a bit and I missed this cute little…
Today I have another birthday card featuring the Friendly Hello stamp set. When I see the bird on the branch image, I can imagine her singing a sweet song, maybe at sunrise or sunset. That idea is what inspired today's card. I started off creating the "sky". I used Blending Brushes on Basic White CS…
It is Thursday and time for a new Create with Connie & Mary Challenge. This week it is a color challenge. I arrange my stamp sets alphabetically and keep my new sets in a separate area. Why? I want to easily access the new sets and be sure to use them. This strategy works for…