There’s a new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash – Back to School. We’re asking you to make a card that features something you would see at school … pencils, paper, alphabet, lockers, playground equipment, school bus … or a card for a teacher or student. I used never-before-used-schtuff (so I’m Linking Up) Big Bus Wafer … Read more
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