I needed some cards of encouragement this week, so I combined several STAMPlorations products for these cards. I started with the STAMPlorations Botanical Beats Collage Paper that I cut in half for the two cards. Next I found ephemera from the STAMPlorations Flowers & Coffee Focal Fronts that coordinated with each piece of collage paper. … Read more
The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Chicken! to celebrate National Chicken Month in the United States – we’re asking you to create a card that features a chicken. I had fun creating my background using the Taylored Expressions Spring Chicken Stencil & Clear Stamp Combo. I’m also joining the Simon Says: Make Your … Read more
When I saw the newest challenge at The Paper Players was to make a clean & simple card featuring a Bear, I tried to think if I had any bears in my stash … and then I remembered a classic bear from Unity Stamp Company. I stamped Winnie the Pooh and Piglet from Unity Stamp … Read more
The current Retro Rubber Challenge is a Sketch. I built my card around a bouquet from Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Mothers that I watercolored and die cut with a scalloped rectangle. That stamp set was released in 2021. I used two of my prints from the #abcprintingchallenge with GelliArts for the background elements. The sentiments … Read more
I’m still having fun pulling out my paints and gelliarts plate and printing for the Gelliarts #ABCprintingchallenge. for H is for Historic, I chose to print on a vintage book page. I tried doing an I is for image transfer on alternative surfaces, but they all failed (and I lost some good transfers on the … Read more
CASE-ing Christmas is still what we’re doing this week at Jingle Belles … we’re asking you to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) any card that either Lauren or Stephanie have made since Jingle Belles commenced in 2011. I was feeling paper-craftery, so I chose this sketchy card by Lauren from August 2018. I die cut … Read more
This week’s STAMPlorations cards both started with the one of the STAMPlorations Blushing Blooms ATC floral images. For the first card, I used the ATC itself as the focal image, pairing it with a Sentiment from STAMPlorations Inspirational #1 Clear Sticker Sentiments. For the background, I thougtht the leaves in the STAMPlorations Abstract Oats Stencil … Read more
The newest challenge at Inkspirational is Furry Friends … they mentioned the Abominable Snowman as a possibility, so I am creating with my favorite Furry Friend … a Monster. This little Halloween cutie is from Echo Park My Favorite Monster – Monsters Set 2. I had this scrap of halloween paper in my stash, so … Read more
I needed to restock my thank you card stash, and I thought the faux cyanotype botanical prints that I made for #ABCprintingchallenge with GelliArts would be the perfect starting point. I started by die cutting the prints using a stitched rectangle die cut. Next I found two strips of Lawn Fawn Blue Pastel Pearlescent Vellum … Read more
