Just us Girls is sharing a Spring Mood Board this week for inspiration. I combined it with the Sketch at TGIF Challenges using five different designer paper inspired by the Mood Board. I die cut three Alexandra Renke greenery pieces inspired by the greenery in the Mood Board, and finished with … Read more
I need to re-stock my sympathy card stash, so this week's TGIF Challenge Sketch was the perfect starting-off point. I pulled out papers from Alexandra Renke and a vintage 2003 Hero Arts Woodblock stamp Difficult Time. I just love combining those gorgeous papers and stamping on top of the floral image.
If you look around my world, you won't see a lot of pastels. I'm a full on bright color girl, so I always love the challenge of creating in a color palette I usually don't embrace like these sweet pastels at Sunday Stamps Challenge. I found scraps of cardstock in all five colors … Read more
Saturday I took a Washi Tape class with Donna Downey and had fun stretching my Washi Tape Muscle. I started with three different half sheets of cardstock – 2 colors of kraft and one white. (I was so into the creative process, I forgot to take in-process photos). I seldom use washi on kraft, but … Read more
Tonight's creativity is brought to you by another Crushing on Cardstock Class. I'm no Debby Hughes, but tonight it was fun to try to channel some of her design skills into my creation. I used Gesso to stencil on stone cardstock. Next, I created my "wreath" with Circle Shaped Dies from Studio Light and Ivory … Read more
As I was cleaning my studio table this morning, I found several Alexandra Renke Bookmarks, which I thought would make lovely clean & simple cards. I started with inspiration from this week's Just Add Ink Inspiration Challenge for my yellow floral design. The bookmark layout also calls a bit to the vertical door element in … Read more
This week's Wanderlust lesson felt a lot more in my wheel house than the previous ones. It started by cutting apart pieces of paper bag (I also used two different kraft papers I had on rolls) and painting them with gesso. Once the gesso dried we added Watercolor paint (I used my new Kuretake Gansai … Read more
This year for Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas she is using Christmas Songs are her inspiration. Day 1 is Silver Bells. I chose Ardyth's lovely tag as my inspiration. I pulled out my favorite silver recycled material … the inside of a Puffs Plus Vicks Tissue Box (seriously best silver cardstock) and … Read more
We're still creating cards inspired by our Jingle Belles Blog Header at Jingle Belles this week. This week's card design is a bit less literal and more organic. I started with red glitter Jingle Bells cut with a new Bells Die from Alexandra Renke and built the rest of my card using Renke … Read more
Still working on Mother's Day Cards with beautiful Alexandra Renke papers … this one uses the layout from Try Stampin' on Tuesday. Handmade paper, 3-D butterfly sticker, beautiful bling and stamped sentiment from Simon Says Stamp. Shopping our Stash is all about Mother's Day this week.