{enjoy today}

This card is for Sue's 52-Card Pick-up Challenge.  This week's thoughts were about the importance of being present in the day-to-date experience and not letting business take over our lives … in other words, enjoy today. I also wanted to give the 100th Color Throwdown Challenge a try (have you seen the prizes up for … Read more

Something Beautiful Remains

I wanted to make a card tonight for a friend who lost one of her canine companions she has had for many years.  I started with Max & Whiskers papers from Basic Grey, since they were dog-themed, but the papers with dog images on them seemed to happy for the occasion, so instead I used … Read more

Got Snow? in July

I thought I'd work on a little Christmas Card Catch-up in July to increase the number of holiday cards in my stash.  I used Jen's Sketch for You to Try (a big Verve gift certificate up for grabs) with some Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses papers. I used my favorite May Arts Ribbon, a favorite sentiment … Read more

Urban Prairie Apron

I've been mulling over this week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger picture of the vibrant Pahala Halter from Anthropologie all week thinking about several possibilities.  I wanted to try to create the same bright contrast against a black background for my design.   When I saw this week's Res-Q challenge to try Emboss Resist, I thought that might … Read more