This week's SCS Inspiration Challenge comes from the home and gift website Grandin Road. I was particularly inspired by the art section, and I really love the idea of having art that you can hang outside. My first card was inspired by this fabulous Postal Collage. I love the dimension of the collage design. For … Read more
I love Dawn's inspiration picture for her week 3 Raspberry Suite Color Challenge, but I found combining the different shades of pink and red to be more than a bit challenging for me. I knew I wanted to use my new Martha Stewart layering daisy punch, so I started out by making daisies from each … Read more
This week's SCS Inspiration Challenge comes from a fun homewares website ~ French Bull. I loved the great graphic design and bold color combinations found in these Floral Trivets. I used my Creative Memories Circle cutter to make a 6" circle for the base. I used a combination of oval punches and circle punches to … Read more
I used CPS Sketch 109 to make a masculine birthday card for my younger brother. These cool papers are from the Black Market Rhythm collection that I picked up from Gina K. The background is stamped with SU Dotted Background. The main sentiment is from Hero Arts All Occasion Messages with a small SU stamp below.
This card is for the One Layer card challenge at the Hero Arts blog. I started by stamping the sentiment from I Care Frame Messages in white ink and clear embossed. I made a quick post-it note mask by re-stamping the image and cutting around the inside of the scallops. Since the scallops were solidly … Read more
This is another fun card I put together using the Hero Arts Asian Frames and All Occasion Messages stamps that Hero Arts provided to the Caardvarks team for the Hero Arts sponsored sketch challenge. The floral vine stamp in the Asian Frames set is so versatile. With the clear acrylic stamp, I was able … Read more
This was one of my favorite cards that I made for the Hero Arts / Caardvarks gallery using stamps from the 2009 catalog. I love the look of stamping on designer paper. This 5 1/4" square card combines K&Company Que Sera Sera designer papers with Hero Arts Design Block: Bold Flourish and sentiment from Thoughtful Messages stamped in … Read more
Here are a couple more cards I made with Hero Arts stamps from the 2009 catalog (with a big thank you to Hero Arts for the free stamps they sent the Caardvarks design team … have you made your sketch card yet??? what are you waiting for???) The first one is a kraft paper scrapling … Read more
Have you checked out the Caardvarks Hero Arts sponsored design team gallery … I am so lucky to get to create with such a talented group. There are some jaw-dropping cards and projects … so much eye candy to behold. This card combined the Hero Arts Heart Winged Butterfly with a sentiment from All Occasion … Read more
This week's SCS Inspiration Challengecomes from an adorable Etsy store called Little Daisy Designs. My card was inspired by this cute little Wild Fruit Apron Skirt. Of course, when I went to link to it tonight, it was already sold out of the store (something this cute couldn't be expected to last long). It combined … Read more