The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a card that includes NO WHITE. I started by using a Spellbinders Plaid Embossing Folder with yellow cardstock for my card base. I added a vintage 3-D Chick Magnet sticker together with a woodblock Stampin’ Up Small Sayings sentiment from 2006 to finish a cute … Read more
A friend asked me for a wedding card for some upcoming nuptials. I die cut the the Die-Versions Wedding Canopy from gold glitter cardstock. I framed it using the Infinity Arches dies from Hero Arts and matte gold cardstock. I used foam tape to attach it to a debossed red card base. The sentiment is … Read more
I love the colors in this week’s Inspired By … Eggs Challenge … I thought they would be perfect for a masculine birthday card. I used Simon Hurley’s Create Bursts Stamps in various blues & green using this week’s Freshly Made Sketch layout. I finished with a Taylored Expressions Simple Strips – Birthday sentiment and … Read more
I was working on cleaning my studio (is that a task that will ever be complete), and I found a package of Bo Bunny Tuxes and Tiaras Washi Tape that was unopened. So, as I often do when my plan was to clean … I stopped and made a card instead. I keep all of … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles we’re still making cards that feature three of something … and being the over achiever that I am, I have 3 threes in my design that is an homage to my Grandma. When we were little, she had a desk in front of one of the windows in her living … Read more
I had a request for some Spring cards, so the STAMPlorations Color Me Spring ATCs were the perfect solution. I matted the butterfly and tulips ATCs with black cardstock, and then I went shopping my GelliArts Gel Printed backgrounds for coordinating designs. For the first card, I stamped the STAMPlorations Artsy Doodled Borders on each … Read more
I’m continuing to spend some time on the weekend gel printing for the #marchprintingchallenge. Here are a few of my favorites. For day 5 Geometric, I die cut some circles. Day 6 was Stamp … I used my friend Dori Patrick’s Big Girl Panties Foamies Stamps. For Day 9 Ombre Challenge, I combined Blue & … Read more
I thought the lovely floral sketch at TGIF Challenges would be perfect for a Mother’s Day card. I combined lots of Tim Holtz Flower Ephemera with a butterfly. I used designer paper and one of my Gel Prints for the card base. I finished with some gems and a Fancy Mom and Shadow Die Cut … Read more
The March #TEMakerChallenge at Taylored Expressions is an interesting one … Inverse Effect. It is a challenge to use the inverse of a die cut or foiling to make your card. I went through my entire collection looking for something that would work, and settled on the never-before-used Taylored Expressions Celebrate You die cut. I … Read more
