Next stop on our vacation was Cooperstown, New York … home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Our home base was the amazing Landmark Inn. We enjoyed our lodging, our dining, and the company of the owners and staff. And the art throughout the home was amazing including this lovely mantle top display. We … Read more
It’s the time of year I pulled out my container of patriotic paper products and have some fun. I’ve got years worth of papers and stickers that I store together in a 12″ scrapbooking container (it’s just about exceeded it’s capacity, so I think that means I need to mail lots of cards). For this … Read more
Usually after I travel, it takes me a while to get back into the creative groove. However, today the rain is really putting a crimp in my usual multi-mile Sunday walk, so thankfully the creativity is flowing in the studio. When I saw the current Inspired By … Fish Challenge, I was really drawn to … Read more
The new challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is R is for Rainbow. Since we’re all about “two birdsing” as we call it at our house (always trying to accomplish two things with one activity … for example walking-up the stairs for exercise while you take up items that needs to go upstairs), I also … Read more
My card is inspired by The Outdoors Challenge at The Male Room. It was the perfect opportunity to pull together ephemera and stickers from the Simple Vintage Woodlands Collection by Simple Stories. I really love those colors. I finished with a stamped sentiment from Scrapbook.com Mini Circle Sentiments II. I’m also linking-up at the Simon … Read more
After visiting family, we made several stops in Ohio as we worked our way westward. We started our first destination a lovely house in Hocking Hills State Park. When I had mentioned to a friend the stops I had planned, she send me links to several guest houses in this lovely park, so we decided … Read more
With this week’s Flat Feliz Navidad prompt at Jingle Belles, we are asking that you make a one layer (or some call it “no layer”) card … which means that everything should be directly on the card base, with no additional layers on top of that. I layered stencils from Kristina Werner’s Simple Christmas Stencil … Read more
In case the title didn’t already give it away, the newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is KRAFT-astic – to create a card featuring kraft cardstock. This one uses one of my favorite kraft cardstocks, Desert Storm by Neehah. I paired it with Pinkfresh Studio Whispering Daffodils Washi Tape. I layered three of the floral … Read more
We’re still creating in an Ombré Wonderland at Jingle Belles this week. Rather than blend ink, I started wotj a piece of Ombré designer paper from The Simple Thing collection by Pinkfresh Studio. I paired the rainbow colors with a rainbow of clear snowflakes and rainbow decorated holiday tree from Doodlebug Design. I finished with … Read more
