When I saw the July Unity Challenge was to create a card featuring wings, I knew I would have no trouble finding stamps in my collection. Actually, the trouble was narrowing down what to use. From the first drawer (of six drawers) I found 6 stamp sets, so I stopped there and narrowed … Read more
The July Memory Box Challenge is It's Not Easy Being Green – to create a card featuring the color Green. I found this Memory Box Easy Peasy Stamp Set in my stash that had never been inked, so now seemed like the perfect opportunity. I smooshed Mowed Lawn and a bit of Twisted Citron Distress … Read more
The July Challenge at Pinkfresh Studio is to add Geometrics to your project. I was just thinking on Friday when I was looking back through some of my cards that it was about time to revisit my Hexagon punch, so this was the perfect opportunity. I punched Hexagons from one of the papers … Read more
I needed a Thinking of You card to send in the mail to my current Chemo Angel assignment. I'm linking-up at the Just Us Girls Thinking of You Clean & Simple Card Challenge. I stamped the sentiment from Catherine Pooler Notable & Quotable Stamps in Catherine Pooler Crushed Violet. Next I added strips … Read more
Last night I made a few more cards with my Gelli Prints using a couple of Sketch Challenges. The first one uses the packing tape I made with a Gelliprint together with the layout from the Sunday Stamps Challenge. I used a sentiment from Concord & 9th Greatest Hits. The Tuesday … Read more
As I've been participating in the #birgitkoopsengelprintingchallenge with GelliArts on Instagram this month (if you're not following me on Instagram yet, please do @SmilynStef), clearly I'm amassing a collection of prints quite quicker than I'm able to turn them into art, so today I decided to focus on that a bit. Day 18 was Fabric. … Read more
The newest Challenge at Shopping our Stash is You're So Sweet – create a card featuring something sweet (ice cream, cake, cookies, fruit … basically my 5th food group). I decided to go with Rina K's Sweet Stuff Stamps, Dies & Stencils for a cool delicious ice cream cone. I combined it with … Read more
The May Challenge at Pinkfresh Studio is all about the Rainbow. I thought the Pinkfresh Studio Geo Arch Stencils reminded me of rainbows, so I used four Pinkfresh Ink colors and overlapped to get all of the rainbow hues. I decided to go simple with the card design, so the rainbow … Read more
The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Fold It Up – create a Card that features a non-standard Fun Fold design (easel card, gatefold, stair step, side step, trifold, etc) OR a card with interactive elements (shaker, mechanical, spinner etc). I went with both a fancy fold & interactive with the Pinkfresh … Read more
When I saw the Taylored Expressions April #TEMakerChallenge Sketch, I thought about lots of possibilities for those circles. I decided to try punching 1 1/4" circles from one of my "rejected" Gelli Press prints from this card and arranged the circles on a white card base. This is a lesson in why I … Read more