In a Single Word

For some reason, I didn't pull out my red, white and blue paper collection this year (I keep it in it's own container in my studio), so today I'm pulling it out and pulling together some cards that I feel like would be okay to mail after Independence Day. I started out with the Color … Read more

Be You, Bravely

I broke out my patriotic paper collection for this week's color challenge at The Paper Players.     I loved these fun little inchies from the Doodlebug Land that I Love Collection, so I mounted them with foam tape on silver metallic cardstock for contrast with the background paper from the same collection.     … Read more

Have a Blast!

When I saw the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch, it made me want to go cut strips of paper from my cardstock scraps … so I did, using the color inspiration from the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge.     It was the perfect opportunity  to break out my stash of 4th of July papers and have some … Read more

USA Fireworks

The theme at The Male Room is Fireworks, which is the perfect inspiration to make some patriotic cards. I started with the sketch from Retro Rubber and We R Memory Keepers Red, White & Blue Collection (one of my all time favorites for Independence Day).  I used two different papers with beautiful fireworks designs. My … Read more

America the Beautiful

In honor of Memorial Day, I made a patriotic tag inspired by the Tag You're It Challenge. I used a journaling card as my base and added some ribbon to create a tag.   I embellished with foam glitter star stickers.