The October Pinkfresh Studio Challenge is Fall Foliage. I looked through my Pinkfresh Studio Ephemera drawer and found several items featuring Oak Leaves including a Chipboard Frame and a Wood Accent from the Pinkfresh Studio Good Times Collection, so I built my card around those elements as a birthday card for a friend who lives … Read more
The October Challenge at Gina K. Designs is Pretty in Pink. Gina’s gorgeous example card was a Christmas one, so that’s the direction I took my design. First I die cut all three Gina K. Design Ornamental Trees from light pink cardstock and attached them to green glitter paper. Next, I stamped the sentiment from … Read more
I needed a Thinking of You card for my stash, so I thought the colors at the Retro Rubber be-leaf me! Challenge would be perfect. I went looking for some leaves that would work, and ultimately settled on Sizzix Layered Stencils Cosmopolitan Frond that was still in the original packaging and had never been used … Read more
I have a weekend list of cards I need to restock, and wedding is on the list. I decided to combine one of the October Sketch~N~Scrap World Cardmaking Day Sketches with gorgeous PS I Love You papers from Graphic 45. I was thrilled to find some slight green vellum in my stash to back the … Read more
For our next Jingle Belles prompt While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks, we’re asking you to break out the animals … it could be a sweet little sheep, a naughty kitty, or perhaps a Reindeer … okay, or even a monster or a Yeti if you’re in a Halloween mood and want to stretch the theme. … Read more
The newest challenge at Seize the Birthday is Geometric plus a Word Die. Since I needed several masculine birthday cards, this seemed perfect. In looking at the Design Team cards, I loved the idea of geometric embossing on the background with a word die sentiment. I pulled out a couple of Shaving Cream Marbled backgrounds … Read more
I love the new STAMPcuts Retro Gratitude from STAMPlorations … that font and those colors are perfection. I paired the first Retro Gratitude with a piece of Dry Wall Tape that I painted a variety of retro autumn colors using, and then I attached it to ivory cardstock. I attached them on top of one … Read more
The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is If the SHOE Fits – create a card featuring a shoe (or shoes). Well, you know I’m all about the shoes, so picking one was the challenge. Since we’re nearing Halloween, I went with an old Favorite from The Project Bin – Haunt It! While I was … Read more
The Penny Black Saturday Challenge has an optional theme of Bright Colors. I paired bright blooms from the Penny Black April in Paris Stickeroos with a coordinating cardstock base. I paired it with a sentiment from Penny Black Deepest Sympathy. to make the sentiment work with the tall image, I cut it into three pieces … Read more
