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
One of my favorite things about the holiday meal is the leftovers … I always enjoy a little stuffing and cranberry sauce on my ham sandwich. So this week we're celebrating Holiday Leftovers at Jingle Belles by creating cards using all of those little leftover pieces of paper, alphabet letters, stickers, ribbon … you know … Read more
The April Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to use the Reverse Stenciling Technique. I did a blend of Sea Glass & Ocean Mist Ink before applying black ink with the Gina K. Designs Ornamental Fans Stencil, using the colors from the Less is More Challenge. After stenciling, I used … Read more
For this week's CLEAR prompt at Jingle Belles, I decided to give a shaker card a try. I thought the Ornaments from Taylored Expressions Beauty Lies Within 3 would make a cute shaker (without clearly thinking through the challenge of getting my foam strips curved around that very thin little circular border … but I … Read more
We're still having fun with texture embossing at Jingle Belles for our current holiday card prompt. I love Gina K. Designs embossing folders, so I started with her Holiday Flora Embossing Folder on brown Core'dinations cardstock (with a light blue core). I did some extra sanding with a nail file to bring out the texture. … Read more
The January Unity Stamp Company Challenge is all about Cozy Winter Colors. When I saw the gold & the pink, I thought one of my new Winnie the Pooh stamps would be perfect. I chose Unity Stamp Company Winnie the Pooh How do you spell love?, which I stamped & colored with my … Read more
The January Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to watch a video of Gina K. making a card using White Colored Pencil Resist technique and then make one of your own. When I first started stamping, I was utterly fascinated by techniques. I had so much fun following tutorials and then creating the … Read more
The Jingle Belles – aka me and Lauren – are back for our 13th year of holiday mayhem. We hope you'll join us for another year of taking back December one holiday card at a time. We're starting the year with – What Did Santa Bring You? – creating cards with new products Santa brought … Read more
The December Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is – Let It Snow. I stamped all of the snowflakes from Gina K. Designs Blizzard stamp set in Medium Lilac Ink on lilac cardstock using my MISTI and then trimmed it into a slimline card. I added some enamel dots in … Read more
The November Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to make a shaker card. I believe I could count the number of shaker cards I've made on one hand (and most of those have been in classes), but for Gina, I'll give it a try on my own. Thankfully my newly acquired … Read more