My card is inspired by The Outdoors Challenge at The Male Room. It was the perfect opportunity to pull together ephemera and stickers from the Simple Vintage Woodlands Collection by Simple Stories. I really love those colors. I finished with a stamped sentiment from Scrapbook.com Mini Circle Sentiments II. I’m also linking-up at the Simon … Read more
A friend recently returned from a trip to New York City and brought me a gift of some gorgeous handmade papers. They have a lovely thickness to them, so I thought I would try spritzing a piece with water and embossing it … and it worked perfectly. I positioned it on top of a piece … Read more
I had fun using the ink smooshing with acetate technique with Distress Inks to “paint” my new STAMPlorations Color Me Blooms Spring Florals. I went in and added a bit of watercolor marker to some spots and then I spattered the blooms with Speedball Acrylic Calligraphy gold ink. I paired the blooms with the STAMPlorations … Read more
I absolutely love this week’s Freshly Made Sketch. I had already been playing with GelliArts prints making my 4″ square collage for the mini.collage.collective challenge for International Collage Day. I matted it on a metallic copper painted GelliArts print to turn it into a card. I used a 1″ square punch for my sketch card. … Read more
I love the large size of the new Collage papers from STAMPlorations. For today’s cards, I trimmed two different STAMPlorations Botanical Beats Collage Papers down to 5″x7″ for two large cards with lots of room to write a note. For the first one, I covered the card base with the Collage Paper and then topped … Read more
The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Man’s Best Friend – creating a card featuring an animal one might keep as a pet. Growing-up, our pet was a black and white beagle named Snoopy. She was an incredible partner. I particularly loved having her run beside me as I rode my bicycle around the … Read more
I looked thorugh my STAMPlorations stash and decided to make a coffee-themed card. I found various coffee-themed products in my stash, but I didn’t have a card front that coordinated, so I pulled out some ink and stamps, and altered one of the STAMPlorations Quick Cards #12 – Mixed Media A2 Card Fronts to make … Read more
This weekend, I had the joy of crafting with my people at Gather in Waunakee, Wisconsin. We took a little road trip to Creative Pals 30th Anniversary Celebration, where I picked-up this fun Umbrella Bloom Die by Spellbinders. It was perfect for Inspired by … April Showers, May Flowers Challenge. I tried using the three … Read more
This week at Shopping Our Stash the challenge is Up, Up and Away … creating cards with things you might see in the sky. It could be a balloon, bird, moon, sun, rainbow, plane … you get the picture. I decided to shop my paper stash for this week’s card and I landed on the … Read more
The newest TIME OUT Challenge is a Pick Two. I chose Pastels and Rain and took some umbrella inspiration from the Just Us Girls Challenge. I stamped the Essentials by Ellen Bear Wear Umbrella on three different colors of pastel cardstock. I positioned it one top of coordinating Washi Tape from 49 and Market Spectrum … Read more