STAMPlorations Pop Art
I love the new Simple Expressions Series of Stamps from STAMPlorations. The ability to fill in the words with different colors of ink makes them endlessly versatile. For today’s card, I combined them with the STAMPlorations Pop Art Faces A2 Card Fronts … I love how it looks like they’re lovely lips are saying the … Read more
The Wheels on the Bus …
There’s a new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash – Back to School. We’re asking you to make a card that features something you would see at school … pencils, paper, alphabet, lockers, playground equipment, school bus … or a card for a teacher or student. I used never-before-used-schtuff (so I’m Linking Up) Big Bus Wafer … Read more
Shell-abrate
There were quite a few water/ocean/shell challenges, so I took that as a sign that I needed to pull out some Ellen Hutson Essentials by Ellen Inner Mermaid stamps and play today. My first source of inspiration were the seashells at the Inspired By … Seashells Challenge. I stamped the Mermaid Tail & Seashells on … Read more
Feather Sympathy & Birthday
When I saw that the Double D Challenge was Feathers, I used it as an opportunity to pull out my favorite hand-carved feather stamp by my friend Gina is Arty (she has her own book of art that you can buy if you’re interested). I inked it in two shades of purple for the Simon … Read more
Tree Skirt Tic-Tac-Toe with a Birdie
I’m back for another round of Tree Skirt Tic-Tac-Toe at Jingle Belles. This time I went diagonal down from the right corner with dry embossing, Red and Green, and a Die Cut. I used the Sketch from BYSH Cardmakers and made my wavy band by dry embossing with the Penny Black Geometric Embossing Folder (I … Read more
STAMPlorations Party & Wishes
STAMPlorations has released their new STAMPlorations Party & Wishes pair … gorgeous birthday ephemera paired with a fun two stamp set. I laid all of the ephemera out and moved them around until I decided to pair the big balloon bouquet with this yummy piece of chocolate cake with white frosting. I positioned them on … Read more
A Christmas Friend
Lauren & I (aka the Jingle Belles) are thrilled to be the Guest Elves at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the theme is – A Friend is for Life and Not Just Christmas. This seems rather appropriate since our cardmaking friendship started over 18 years ago. I decided to use the Festive Friday Card Challenge … Read more
Beautiful Backgrounds
Beautiful Backgrounds is the August Challenge at Pinkfresh Studios. I went through my collection of designer papers and pulled out ones that had the colors in the challenge palette. I used the Pinkfresh Studio Colorblock Stripes Die to cut each of the papers into thin strips. I used a scrap of thin cardstock and angled … Read more