Once again, I needed to restock my masculine birthday cards. For the first one, I used this week’s Freshly Made Sketch and paired it with papers from Simple Stories Rustic Legend collection. The Happy Birthday stamp is an oldie from Catslife Press. For the next one, I joined the Retro Rubber Bold Summer! Color Challenge … Read more
I was asked to make a 90th birthday cards for a lady who loves flowers. I decided to use inspiration and the Sketch from the Inspired By … Daisies Challenge. I cut scraps of cardstock into the three strips in the Sketch using the three colors and positioned them on some 49 and Market Summer … Read more
The new challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is R is for Rainbow. Since we’re all about “two birdsing” as we call it at our house (always trying to accomplish two things with one activity … for example walking-up the stairs for exercise while you take up items that needs to go upstairs), I also … Read more
In case the title didn’t already give it away, the newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is KRAFT-astic – to create a card featuring kraft cardstock. This one uses one of my favorite kraft cardstocks, Desert Storm by Neehah. I paired it with Pinkfresh Studio Whispering Daffodils Washi Tape. I layered three of the floral … Read more
We’re still creating in an Ombré Wonderland at Jingle Belles this week. Rather than blend ink, I started wotj a piece of Ombré designer paper from The Simple Thing collection by Pinkfresh Studio. I paired the rainbow colors with a rainbow of clear snowflakes and rainbow decorated holiday tree from Doodlebug Design. I finished with … Read more
Adult Coloring Books have been all the rage with the return to the relaxation of childhood coloring. STAMPlorations offers lots of colorables that bring the same relaxation … and then you can turn the colored panels into a card. I had fun coloring the largest STAMPlorations Love Always Colorable (the pack has multiple sizes of … Read more
I’ve had this Unity Stamp Company / Decofoil Butterfly Fly Away foiled panel on my desk for a very long time. When I saw the Simon Says: Make It Colorful Challenge (and Simon Says Instagram Challenge Bright & Colorful), I knew it was time to turn it into a card. Since the challenge was sponsored … Read more
When I turned 13, for my birthday I got to update my bedroom and pick the colors … and I chose Navy and Pink. My Gran made me a new Navy Bedspread with pink flowers. Even my walls were painted pink (much to my sister’s chagrin as she later had to live in what she … Read more
Ombré Obsession is the April Challenge at Pinkfresh Studio. Even though Pinkfresh discontinued many of their paper products, I still have one heck of a stash left to go through, and I remembered that several of the paper collections had some Ombre designs. I chose this green paper from Pinkfresh Studio Just a Little Lovely for … Read more
When I saw the AAA Birthday Washi Tape Challenge, I knew I had to join the fun. I decided to see if I could use the colors from the TGIF Challenges (which resulted in multiple rolls of washi tape being permanently retired to the trash can … some brands do not age well), but I … Read more