I am still Guest Designing at Challenge Up Your Life, and this week's theme is to make a card inspired by a song. I chose one of my favorite love songs by Ben Folds. Impression Obsession's Love Songs 1 Stamps have a stamp with some of the lyrics. I combined them with the fabulous new … Read more
The current Mix-It-Up Challenge at Essentials by Ellen is Winnie & Walter. I had fun inking-up my new Winnie & Walter In Bloom – Eva's Favorite Flowers with all sorts of Rose & Orange inks. I added a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Totally Awesome in the darkest ink hue (Ranger Archival Monarch Orange). I … Read more
On Ellen Hutson's Facebook page, she asked what your go to products were in the Essentials by Ellen Collection. For me, two of them are the 12 Days Companion Greetings and the Bold Blossom Stand Alone Dies. Since those two were on my mind, I decided to pull them out and make another card … this time … Read more
Don't you love the fun colors in the Photo Inspiration at Addicted to Stamps and More. I immediately wanted to break-out my Popcorn Brads and have some fun. I started building my design using this week's Freshly Made Sketch. My original thought was to use *Date Night* as my sentiment, … Read more
I love all of the bright springy colors in the April Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights Challenge. I pulled out some greens, pink and a purply-hued-grey as well as those gorgeous blooms for my anniversary card design. The Essentials by Ellen Bold blooms are some of my favorite die cuts … so perfect for lots of occasions. … Read more
Just Add Ink is featuring one of my favorite color combinations this week. It is also the colors featured in Authentique's Classique: Beauty Collection, so this card came together quickly when I combined three scraps of paper. I added a few flowers crowned with gemstone brads from the Eyelet Outlet (flower #2 was added to … Read more
The Mix-It Up Challenge at the Ellen Hutson blog is one of my favorite challenges. I love trying to combine stamps from two different companies in unique and preferable punny ways (okay, I realize sometimes I'm probably just amusing myself). This month's company is a favorite … My Favorite Things. My process is to … Read more
Julie Comstock has a new line called Creative Girls that you can pick-up at JoAnn's. I placed an online order last week and added one of the small water-color resist pads to my shopping cart. My first card was inspired by this picture from today's Splitcoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge. It's doing a resist design with … Read more
Making an anniversary card was on my list for the weekend … so inspired by the Curtain Call Challenge, I broke out some of my hoarded Dear Lizzy Mason Jar Paper. I loved the text in two of the jars on this row, so I let that be my focal image. For the third jar … Read more
The colors in today's Fusion Card Challenge are some of my favorite. I started by creating my focal flowers using Paper Smooches Poinsettia Dies with white & yellow cardstock and a grey epoxy dot center. I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Paper Smooches. The background paper is from BasicGrey Spice Market (I wish they … Read more