I was excited to see I won the Sketch Challenge prize at Authentique Papers … so I jumped right in and made a card for September's Color Challenge. I thought the three colors would work perfect with the Hero Arts Sketch at Lily Pad Cards. For some reason, the color combination reminded me of babies, … Read more
The Flashback Friday challenge is to post the first card you blogged using Spring Colors (and there's awesome twine up for grabs for one lucky soul). I went all the way back to August 12, 2007 for this Split Negative Shower Card. I think this design holds-up almost 4 years later … I still … Read more
Tonight I needed a gender-neutral baby shower card big enough for a group of co-workers to sign. When I saw the Inspirational Challenge at the Lily Pad Card Blog, my eyes were immediately drawn to this Masculine Happy Birthday Card by Vicky. I loved the layout, kraft background, and colors, so I decided to use … Read more
It's the last day for Hero Arts Sketch Challenge this month, so I used a sketch to create a quick little baby card using Basic Grey's new Sweet Threads collection. Love that little elephant & sentiment from from Hero Arts Adorable Baby Girl.
I needed a card for a co-worker who just had a precious baby girl. Since I was going to use the baby stamps from Hero Arts, I decided to use one of their sketches for their April Contest. Papers are the new Ad Lib Collection from Bo Bunny … I love all of the positive … Read more
One more baby card for the shower stash using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch. Paper is Basic Grey Hopscotch … sticker is K&Company … ribbon is Martha Stewart's Walnut seam binding … and sentiment is Paper Trey Ink's Mixed Messages (always so perfect when you need a teeny-tiny sentiment to work in your space like this … Read more
Here's another little bit of baby love using Prima's Jack & Jill Collection with K&Company Stickers, Tim Holtz Styled Labels Die Cut, SRM Sticker Sentiments & this weeks Card Positioning Systems Sketch.
Next on my to do list is to make a stash of baby cards for several upcoming births in my corner of the world. For this one I used Valerie's Got Sketch? 113 and Hopscotch papers from Basic Grey. I loved how the borders turned-in on the sketch instead of the usually facing outward. … Read more
There are quite a few impending births in my world, so I needed some baby cards. I pulled out some October Afternoon Ducks Wildcards from my stash for the focal point of each design. The first one uses this week's Curtain Call Color Challenge together with a sketch from Just Add Ink. I knotted some … Read more
I was excited to see my Variations on a Theme Card won last week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, so I decided to celebrate by making a card using this week's sketch. I needed another group card for a children's book themed baby shower, so I started with a circle image cut from an old copy … Read more