The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is a Sketch Challenge. I started with a doily for the circular image and some vintage Big Corn Trading Stamps for the vertical element. I thought the corn stalks sort of looked like Christmas Trees, so I went with a holiday theme. I used a combination of holiday … Read more
I love the colors in the new Sunday Stamp Challenge. And when I saw the Inspire.Create.Challenge was to Use Up Your Scraps, I thought it would be fun to shop my scrap box to see if I could find papers in these hues. I cut a bunch of papers into 1/2″ strips and attached them … Read more
This weekend was filled with watching sports at our house with the return of the Premier League Soccer Games on Saturday and Sunday (paired with our usual baseball watching of the St. Louis Cardinals). As I was searching for something in my studio, I found a bag of soccer stickers that I remembered picking-up for … Read more
The current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge is Fun with Food. I needed a birthday card, so I decided nothing says birthday quite like a row of ice cream cones from Lawn Fawn Simply Celebrate Summer. I attached rows of Lawn Fawn Birthday Candles Washi Tape on top of Plaid paper from Lawn Fawn Favorite Flannel Fall … Read more
This morning I had fun using stickers and ephemera from Simple Stories Simple Vintage Woodlands Collection to make a birthday card for a nature lover. I started with the larger pirece of ephemera with the squirrel on top of a piece of grid paper from my scrap box. Next I added some words with foam … Read more
We’re still celebrating Masculine Merriment at Jingle Belles. When I thought about possible masculine themes, a car came to mind … and I had just the die cut in my yet-to-be-used pile – Cottage Cutz Snowman Reindeer Car. I will confess, it’s a bit futzy with a single die (having to cut it from each … Read more
STAMPlorations has released another awesome stamp and ephemera combination – STAMPlorations Perfect Pairs – Classic Christmas. If you follow me at all, you know I make Christmas all year long, so I can get them into the mail and delivered to my large work team in December, so I was thrilled. I really love how … Read more
I just returned from a long weekend in Kansas City with my sister … seriously, nothing fills my bucket quite like extended time with her. The start was a concert at the new Morton Amphatheater … Matt Nathanson, Barenaked Ladies & Train. It was so stinking hot. Matt said it was like “singing in soup”, … Read more
The newest prompt at Jingle Belles is Masculine Merriment. We’re asking you to create a holiday card for the men in your life … might be your Dad, Brother, Boyfriend, Husband, Uncle, Co-Worker, Mail Carrier or any other man in your life who deserves a special holiday card. I make holiday cards for my large … Read more
