The current Seize the Birthday Challenge is to create a card featuring the Signs of Spring. If you live in Iowa, you know one of the long awaited Signs of Spring is the re-opening of the Ice Cream shops. Many of them are just little walk-up/drive-through type stands, so they close for the winter months. … Read more
Masculine Birthday Cards … why am I always out of Masculine Birthday Cards. This card is inspired by the Tag You're It! Challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz. I stumbled across some Tag Paper from the Happy Cake Day! Paper Collection, which made it easy to pull this card together. I used the layout … Read more
The Make My Monday Challenge is to use Washi Tape. I chose a combination of pinks and greens which gave me a total 1980's vibe (yes, I wore pinks & greens) I chose this Essentials by Ellen Die Cut All the Feels sentiment that I thought had a fun 80's-like feel. I finished … 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
The current Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge is celebrating Sister Chris' new release at STAMPlorations. I pre-ordered her fun sets and am waiting for them to arrive. I combined the challenge with the current Fusion Card Challenge Bookshelf Challenge. I created my background using the Fusion Card Challenge Sketch and Eyelet … Read more
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Spring is in the AIR. I chose to build my card around the Cardinal Washi Tape from Eyelet Outlet. I combined it with other red & black washi tapes from my stash. And since Cardinals are thought to show up to give you … Read more
I took a more literal approach for my inspired Jingle Belles card this week … here's the inspiration photo from French Knot: I used the brick and blue wall and took my inspiration from stocking #5 – Meadow Stocking. I embossed a piece of Craft Consortium Essential Metal Texture paper with … Read more
It's the beginning of year twelve for the Jingle Belles, and we're once again taking back December one holiday card at a time. Lauren and I clearly enjoy making holiday cards together (we also enjoy going to obscure museums and binging on Bhindi together) … and we hope you will join us for … Read more
When I saw the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch, I knew I wanted to use my diamond punch on some paper scraps … I just had to go looking for inspiration … and I found it at the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge. I took the colors from the bottom right photo and punched out … Read more
This afternoon, I had fun inking the Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Snowflake Stencils on kraft cardstock. I just grabbed each color relatively randomly, but loved the end effect. You can see I got a little bit of a smear on the larger snowflake … nothing a little Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Bling can't … Read more