The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Free is Good – to make a card using something you got for free. It might be an RAK from a friend, a freebie included with an order, something you got as a door prize at a crafty event, something gifted to you because people think you … Read more
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to make a card for a child. My card is for a little guy who is turning two and loved trucks and construction vehicles. I went way back into my stash shopping and found a woodblock dump truck stamp in my stash from 2001 by Double D … Read more
I’m sneaking in one last Snake card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. This one features fun icon stickers from Reminisce The Wild Collection. I decided to have a few friends join the snake for this birthday card. I finished by creating a tree from the border sticker (the trunk) and leaves. I finished with … Read more
The current Double D Challenge is to make a card for a kiddo, and they provided this mood board for inspiration. I used a Joe Cool Washi image with a little Woodstock ephemera. I paired it with a sentiment from Tim Holtz for a clean & simple design.
When I saw the new sketch at The Paper Players, I thought it would be fun to create the panels using some of the flash cards I had in my stash. One of my earliest memories is doing flash cards with my Grandma when she took me on my first airplane trip to visit my … Read more
The book at the Once Upon a Time Challenge Blog is Where the Wild Things Are. I remembered that on one of my trips, I had picked-up some scrapbooking papers in this theme, so I set-off on my own little wild adventure to try to find them … and thankfully I was successful … Read more
On my list of things to accomplish this weekend were some birthday cards. I used the March Sketch Challenge at Unity Stamp Company. I used my never-been-inked Winnie the Pooh Sweet Little Smiles for my focal image with the separate party hat stamp, so I'm also linking-up at the NBUS Challenge. … Read more
This week's Just Us Girls Challenge is all about Repetition. I started with this repeating circles Gel Press Print that to me just screams that it need to be a birthday card. I used this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday (or Not) Sketch and several vintage wood mounted stamps for a slimline … Read more
Saturday I took a Washi Tape class with Donna Downey and had fun stretching my Washi Tape Muscle. I started with three different half sheets of cardstock – 2 colors of kraft and one white. (I was so into the creative process, I forgot to take in-process photos). I seldom use washi on kraft, but … Read more
When I saw the Autumn Boldness Colors at the Sunday Stamps Challenge, I was pretty sure I had a piece of paint brayered paper in my stash from Art Camp (you can click through to see the process) in that exact color palette. And sure enough, my memory hasn't totally failed me (although … Read more