Winter Wonderland

The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Winter Wonderland – creating cards with a winter landscape or an all white card.       I die cut lots of white snowflakes from Essentials by Ellen Snowflakes and attached them to my white card base using foam tape for a few of them for dimension.   … Read more

Top 10 Favorites of 2023

Each year I enjoy taking a walk down memory lane and picking my Top 10 Favorite Non-Holiday cards of the year (you can see my 2022 Picks Here & my Top Five Holiday cards here). Here are the cards I've chosen this year in to no particular order. 1.  This Mother's Day Daisy Card was … Read more

Coffee Blog Hop Lookback

Amy's hosting a Coffee Lover's Lookback Challenge, so I thought I would join the fun (oops, when I went to link-up I was too late).  Regardless, I had a lot of fun hunting for my cards and remembering making them.   This fun stenciled card was for the Fall 2016 Coffee Lover's Blog Hop with … Read more

#dyicad Week 8

Here we are at week 8 of daisy yellow #icad challenge.     Day 50 was a Note to Self.  I found some affirmation-like sticker quotes and attached them to one of my discarded gelliprinted index cards.     Day 51 was Topiary, but I wasn't feeling that, so I did an off-topic clean-up collage … Read more

Celebrating by the Numbers

It's our 500th Challenge at Shopping Our Stash (Wowza!) so we're Celebrating by the Numbers – make a celebration card that includes a number … it might be a birthday, anniversary, or whatever you want to celebrate.   I decided to use the numbers on the new First Class Stamps from Essentials by Ellen.  I … Read more

End of the #marchprintingchallenge

There's something about making art every day … even if it's just one thing … that brings such joy.  So I'm always a bit sad when the #marchprintingchallenge with GelliArts comes to an end. Here's how I finished my prints. Day 19 was Lines.  I used paints and the Radiate Universal Background Stamp from Magnuson … Read more