SmilynStef 
I absolutely love this week’s Freshly Made Sketch. I had already been playing with GelliArts prints making my 4″ square collage for the mini.collage.collective challenge for International Collage Day. I matted it on a metallic copper painted GelliArts print to turn it into a card. I used a 1″ square punch for my sketch card. … Read more
A few weeks ago, I saw a woman on Instagram using a tool to help align squares. I went hunting for it, and found out it was a book binding tool. Today I gave it a try together with 1 1/4″ squares punched from Gelliarts Prints. I paired the squares with a stamped sentiment from … Read more
For our next prompt at Jingle Belles, we’re asking you create projects that celebrate the white fluffy flakes of snow … it might be snowmen, snowflakes or just snowfall, but include some snow on your cards. I decided to die cut the entire set of Kristina Werner Snow Flurries Dies from Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust … Read more
I’ve had this Unity Stamp Company / Decofoil Butterfly Fly Away foiled panel on my desk for a very long time. When I saw the Simon Says: Make It Colorful Challenge (and Simon Says Instagram Challenge Bright & Colorful), I knew it was time to turn it into a card. Since the challenge was sponsored … Read more
I love the large size of the new Collage papers from STAMPlorations. For today’s cards, I trimmed two different STAMPlorations Botanical Beats Collage Papers down to 5″x7″ for two large cards with lots of room to write a note. For the first one, I covered the card base with the Collage Paper and then topped … Read more
The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Man’s Best Friend – creating a card featuring an animal one might keep as a pet. Growing-up, our pet was a black and white beagle named Snoopy. She was an incredible partner. I particularly loved having her run beside me as I rode my bicycle around the … Read more
The current Inspiration photo at Inspiration Station is a graduation memory. I used it as inspiration for a Graduation Card I needed to make for a lady who will be going to college on a Bowling Scholarship. I started with some bowling pin designer paper topped by a postage stamp cut piece of vellum. I … Read more
The May Pinkfresh Studio Challenge is Striking Stripes. My original thought was to find designer papers in the colors of the inspiration photo and cut some strips to turn into stripes. However, the first light blue paper I found was a striped paper, so I decided to see how many striped papers I could find … Read more
The flowers I send for Mother’s Day are usually of the paper variety … in this case, the Doodlebug Design Roses are Red Doodle-Pop. I used the Pink & Main Stitched Pointed Banner die to back the flowers and positioned it on top of what I believe is a scrap of holiday designer paper, but … Read more
