I hope you are not tired of my cards using the Cool Treats bundle. It is such a fun suite of products that I reach for it a lot. I really liked the whole suite and couldn't resist buying the washi tape too. I have a bad habit of buying washi tape and not using it….
It is Thursday and time for the Create with Connie and Mary Challenge $451. This week it is a sketch challenge and a perfect one to use with your favorite designer paper. Here is the sketch. I finally did it. I cut into this design which is one of the specialty papers in the Tasty Treats…
Ready for a fun challenge? This sketch for the Try Stampin' on Tuesday Challenge #315 is a great one. So many different fun possibilities. I hope you will give it a try. Optional theme: 3 different patterns This image from the Birthday Blooms stamp set is one of my favorite to color. In fact this…
Don't you love it when you try something new and it works? I am sure someone else has already figured this out but it is new to me. Here's how it started. I wanted to make a fancy edge on my card front so I looked through the different framelits to see what might work….
Time for the Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch Challenge! As a member of the Design Team I submit a project every other week. It is a lot of fun and sometimes very challenging. Here is the sketch for challenge #311. The optional theme is Checkerboard or Plaid. I knew just the stamp set…
It is so nice having Watercolor Pencils again. Time to revisit some of those techniques we used to do, like Black Magic. I stamped the flower on black card stock with White Craft ink. Let the white ink dry, you can speed up the drying process by using a heat tool. I used the Daffodil…
I enjoy playing along in stamping challenges. I found this one on the Stampin' Royalty blog SR#355. I thought this was a fun, bright combination especially since it is a little dark and gloomy here. I pulled out the Flower Shop stamp set and coordinating Pansy punch and played around with different images and decided…
It is Thursday and time for the Create with Connie and Mary Challenge. Color Challenge time! What to make with this lovely combination? I was stumped except I knew I wanted to do some coloring so I pulled out one of my favorite sets to color, Birthday Blooms. Since I was planning to…
I was looking at the Stampin' Up! catalog, something I do a lot and saw the Live, Love, Grow stamp set. I love the idea of stamping a terrarium. My mind wandered to all those terrariums that were started in jars and that led me to today's card. It is a homemade mason jar terrarium! This…
The Amazing Birthday set (R) is on the Stampin' Up! retirement list and so is the awesome, It's My Party Designer Series Paper stack (R). I will miss both of these items. This is a quick and easy card and one of my go to sketches. I love the 3 images in a row. I dressed them…