Here is another card I made for the CAS200 celebration! The challenge was to make a card inspired by a Holiday song. Hmmm can you guess which song inspired this one? Yep…it was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! Easy peasy card! The base of the card is 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 Whisper White. I took another piece of Whisper …
So I decided to make some cards for Christmas (didn’t have enough ‘non-lumpy’ ones in my stash). I wanted to use the single Bold Snowflake stamp and I wanted to keep it pretty simple. I found this GREAT card by my friend Connie and changed it up a bit. I made a bunch of these up in no time at …
(Please note: If you are viewing this prior to December 20th, all the links may not yet be active. The hop is scheduled to go live on the 20th of the month.) Welcome everyone to the December Tour de Freaks! Can you believe it is ALMOST CHRISTMAS? Nope…I can’t either! Hope you all have a few minutes to spare to …
The CAS challenge is a very pretty Christmas photo that has lovely country candles on it. I do not have any Christmas style candle images to use but went instead with the feel of the photo (which for me was the Peace on Earth) and the greenery and berries. I kept my card very simple with the holly and berry …
Here is another of the cards I did for the CAS 200th celebration last weekend. The challenge was to use ribbon and bows on your card. Lately I’ve been into making paper bows (got the template from My Digital Studio – LOVE IT!!!) This is such a quick and easy card! The base of the card is Very Vanilla. I …
This was a card we did as a make and take. I promised my folks I would not only post it on my blog but also do a video (click here to access video) on how to make the paper pierced frame so they would have it as a reference. The base of the card is Pool Party. I took …
I hope you all are having a wonderful day today! Me…well, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for school! I am done next week! WOOO HOOO!!! (Oh course I have tons of work I need to get done during my 2 week break but I am soooo looking forward to a break…and maybe get …
I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season so far! When it comes to holiday cards, my very favorite color combination EVER is simple…white/silver. Yep…that really just does it for me! The CAS challenge on SCS is a fabulous sketch challenge. The sketch was actually a square but when I decided to use this tree I needed to go with …
Welcome everyone to the November Tour de Freaks where that very special group of Control Freak Swaps share with everyone some unique ideas! This month our theme is Chirstmas…HELLO…how can you resist that! If you are going forward through the hop, you arrived here from my friend Connie Babbert’s blog – Inkspired Treasures. Weren’t her project just ADORABLE? And just …
On Sundays Splitcoaststampers features and artist and their gallery. When I looked to see who it was this week, it was Jen Mitchell! Jen was on our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge team AND is one of my favorite CAS (clean and simple) stampers! I just couldn’t resist doing her card here (with my own twists of course). …
We have such a great sketch challenge on Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge this week! And since the sketch is perfect for small images, I decided to use my Joyous Celebrations Set! (This is one of the sets we will be showing in the Create with Connie and Mary Card “Create”tions Holiday Cards! Okay…I just absolutely LOVE this …
Just a VERY QUICK and easy card for the CAS challenge on SCS today. The challenge was to do a single layer collage. I LOVE CAS but this is a difficult one for me. I decided to do acrylic block stamping and then use some snowflakes (in honor of the FIRST posting of cards on Create with Connie and Mary …
And I couldn’t resist it one last time! (And I still have some of the dsp left…hehehehehe!) And look…I actually managed to use another print from that pack! There was this GREAT sketch on The Paper Players today so I just HAD to join the fun! As always some quick notes on my card…the base of the card is Lucky …
Can you tell that I LOVE this set? And I particularly LOVE this set with this dsp? I found this new challenge site CAS(E) this Sketch and just LOVED the challenge sketch and HAD to join in! The base of the card is Very Vanilla. I took a piece of the dsp and punched a 2 1/2″ hole in it. …
Mary Jo has such a GREAT sketch this week…so nice and simple! I knew as soon as I saw it that I would be using this set with it. Just PERFECT!!! I soooo love the Evergreen set! This is a quick and easy card. The base of the card is Lucky Limeade. I took a piece of Early Espresso and …
Did you know that Connie and I are at it again? This time we are are doing Create with Connie and Mary Card “Create”tions…3 week of cards, cards and more cards! 45 in all! And how can you find out more? Well FIRST…you want to go and check out my friend Connie’s Inkspired Treasures Blog. Why? Well…she is showing a …
WELCOME TO MY NEW BLOG!!! I am sooooooo excited to have you all here! Isn’t this new look WONDERFUL? I absolutely LOVE IT!!! And the really cool thing? Julie (of Webics Designs) has designed 3 looks for me – one for Fall (GORGEOUS!!!) and coming soon – Winter followed by my Spring/Summer look! I can’t wait! Then Randy (my DH) …
I hope you have enjoyed my week of the Merry Mini set. Well since the week is not over, I still have ONE MORE for you. This is a fun little favor that I made to go with my card set. We did this as a mnt at my workshop in October. I got the idea from p 10 of …
So…I did want to show each of the individual cards in my Merry Minis card set for the Create with Connie and Mary Card “Create”tions Edition. Check out Create with Connie and Mary to learn more! I will have to say, of the three I made with this set, this one was my favorite! First I LOVE Pool Party as …
There is such a wonderful sketch on Create with Connie and Mary this week! I like when we try ‘something new’ and diagonals are definitely not something we have in our sketches very often! Didn’t this turn out pretty? I thought so too! The base of the card is Lucky Limeade. I would LOVE to tell you the name of …
On Monday I posted a card from my Create with Connie and Mary Card “Create”tions set which used the Merry Minis set. You all LOVE it so I thought I’d share another of the three here today. Here is one of the other cards I made for my Merry Minis card set. This is pretty basic just using the fun …
Oh…it’s been awhile since I was able to do Mary Jo’s sketch challenge. When I saw this sketch my first reaction was ‘oh my’ but I tweaked it a little and it really worked! The base of the card is Cherry Cobbler. I took the blue/red print from the Festive Paper pack and added to the card front. Next I …
It’s Tuesday and time for another SUO Challenge. The theme this time is Any Kind of Animal. I don’t have any animal sets right now and figured birds are animals and I just LOVE this cute little Merry Christmas bird! Some quick notes on this. I used the Clean and Simple sketch for my card. I just love nice simple …
