I looked thorugh my STAMPlorations stash and decided to make a coffee-themed card. I found various coffee-themed products in my stash, but I didn’t have a card front that coordinated, so I pulled out some ink and stamps, and altered one of the STAMPlorations Quick Cards #12 – Mixed Media A2 Card Fronts to make … Read more
Ombré Obsession is the April Challenge at Pinkfresh Studio. Even though Pinkfresh discontinued many of their paper products, I still have one heck of a stash left to go through, and I remembered that several of the paper collections had some Ombre designs. I chose this green paper from Pinkfresh Studio Just a Little Lovely for … Read more
The January #monthlymixchallenge at Gina K. Designs is to create a card using 6 different ink colors. That seemed like the perfect opportunity to give my Color Cube that I got for Christmas a trial run. This is the card I chose and the Gina K. Designs inks to correspond – Sweet Mango, Sweet Corn, … Read more
The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is My Sweet Embossable You – create a card featuring heat embossing or pressure embossing (or both if you’re an over-achiever). I decided to use emboss resist technique. I started by stamping Kristina Werner’s Long Line Leaves Background stamp in white pigment ink and heat embossing with white … Read more
The August Challenge at Memory Box is Animal House. I already had an ask this week for some Halloween Cards, so I decided to build a card around the Memory Box Cave Bat Die. I tried quite a few papers before settling on this black paper that has a bit of a gold sparkle. … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles our theme is Flat Fleiz Navidad - it is generally called the One Layer Card; though some folks refer to it as the No Layer Card. What does that mean? It means your entire design is flat… your elements get stamped, drawn, embossed, etc, directly onto the card base; so basically you're … Read more
I really enjoyed spending time at the SCT Magazine With Love event. I didn't have time to finish all of the classes, but I did enjoy the ones I was able to do. One of my favorites was this one from Cathy Zielske's Class using stamps & coordinating stencils. This one from Cathy's … Read more
The February #TEMakerChallenge at Taylored Expressions is a Color Challenge. I chose Tropical Punch for my third color and used all three colors to ink-up the Taylored Expressions Good Hearted Background Stamp. Since I've never inked-up that heart stamp, I'm also linking-up at the NBUS Challenge. Next, I die cut … Read more
Gina K. Designs December Monthly Mix Challenge is Split Stencil – use two TWO different background stencils to create a card. Gina used her two stencils to create more of a landscape. Of course, I had to stretch the rules a bit and try layering two stencils … and I love how it turned out. … Read more
Gina K. Designs November Monthly Mix Challenge is to use her Stencil Spritz Technique. I chose Gina K. Designs Fizzy Stencil and paired it with the colors for the current Color Throwdown Challenge (which I translated to Tangerine Twist, Fresh Asparagus and Cranberry Tart in Gina's inks). I overlaid the Gina … Read more