The current challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create something featuring your oldest embellishment. After a treasure hunt through my studio, I found these Poemstones by Sharon Soneff that I believe I've had for at least 10 years. They are so old that the epoxy has curled and the adhesive is mostly gone … Read more
There are several challenges this week that are encouraging the same *negative* behavior … Crazy 4 Challenges is Being Negative … Just Us Girls has a challenge to use the negative of a die cut … and the Moxie Fab World Blog has an Accentuating the Negative Challenge. Since I was going *negative* I decided … Read more
Tonight I made a 50th Anniversary Card for a couple who still likes to put on their boots and dance. The boots & numbers are stickers, combined with some Vintage Cosmo Circket Halfway Cafe (which I hang on to specifically for cowboy-themed cards just like this). I added a wrap of baling twine from … Read more
There's an Alphabet Sticker Challenge going on at the Moxie Fab World blog, so I wanted to join the fun. I combined black foam Thickers with some pink chipboard glittery letters for this fun design. I punched a black heart and added a tiny heart sticker to complete the design … the background is a … Read more
Playing with some new Authentique stamps by Unity and this month's Authentique Color Challenge. Papers are from Authentique's Wonder & Celebrate Collections togehter with coordinating Diction Stickers. Layout is from Chick Challenges with {Ippity} … the designer paper also hangs over the edge of the card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge. I finished with a … Read more
This week's SplitCoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge comes from the Galleria Arts & Crafts, the largest independently owned retail arts and crafts store in Canada. Their 9000 plus square feet of space is teeming with handmade Canadian crafts. I chose this photo of a Summer Storm from Brian R. Ewing to inspire my design. It reminded me … Read more
At the Bo Bunny Blog this week, the Card Challenge Tuesday sketch theme is love. This was perfect, since I needed to create an Anniversary Card. I used a combination of papers from Bo Bunny's Gabrielle Collection together with stamps from Creschendoh & Hero Arts, a rub-on sentiment from Random Words by EAD Designs, and … Read more
Tonight I needed a 50th Anniversary Card, so I started by going through all of my specialty papers looking for pieces of gold. I combined a wrinked gold paper with a natural fiber paper with gold threads. Elegant Stamps Happen sentiment was stamped in Versamark & embossed with gold detail powder. I used this week's … Read more
When I saw the current Paper Crafts Third Go-To Sketch Challenge, I decided to see if I could make one more card out of the circle stickers from the 7 Gypsies 97% Complete Collection (you can see the first two cards here). I found eight stickers related to love that I thought would work for an … Read more
I needed an anniversary card, so I combined Basic Grey's Sugar Rush Papers with the fabulous sketch from Everything But The Kitchen Sink … so perfect for using leftover coordinating paper scraps. Sentiment from Verses is stamped in Pure Poppy ink and clear embossed … and works for the Quotes Challenge at Gingersnap Creations. … Read more