This is my last challenge as a member of the Caardvarks Crew … and it was a fun one. The challenge is an easy one … make a tall card. The challenge is sponsored by Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker, and she's got lots of great prizes for the winner including a salloped chipboard album, acrylic font … Read more
This card combines stamps from Artistic Outpost's Serenity and Outpost plates with Memory Box papers and this week's Get Sketchy! sketch. I inked a portion of a sentiment stamp for the corners. The house and tree were colored with Pebbles Pearlescent Chalks to create an autumn landscape.
This week's challenge at the Order of the Opus Gluei is Blue Blue Blue … I decided to see how my new Outpost images from Artistic Outpost would look in shades of blue with Get Sketchy's Sketch #9. The top background is repeatedly stamped with text from the set. The tree and sentiment are stamped on Memory Box DP. I … Read more
I seldom make sets or repeat cards, however I really loved how this card turned out earlier this week using the Artistic Outpost 2nd Anniversary Sketch and their Geek is Chic plate, so I decided ot make a few more using Basic Grey Archaic papers (some of the best guy papers ever … why don't … Read more
I needed to make a masculine birthday card this weekend, and was thrilled to see a Sketch Challenge at the Artistic Outpost blog to make a birthday (or fall) themed card. To celebrate Artistic Outpost's 2nd Birthday, they are giving away a $25 gift certificate … this card features images from their Geek is Chic collection, which is … Read more
The Home set from Artistic Outpost is my go-to set for cards for my Dad … he loves vintage trucks and memories of country livin'. This card is inspired by today's SCS Featured Stamper jojot's Monochromatic Masculine design. These papers are from an old collection by Basic Grey / K&Company called Motifica. I omitted … Read more
Do you ever find that you really don't "see" your card until you get it on the screen to edit the photo. Sometimes it is only then that I realize changes that I could make to the design to improvie it. Sometimes I make the changes … sometimes (like tonight), I just call it a … Read more
Send in the Clowns was one of the first popular songs I remember memorizing … not sure why, and I'm sure I didn't grasp the meaning of the lyrics, but I can still sing it to this day (and yes, it is currently stuck in my head). So when I won a free set of stamps from … Read more