I picked-up the Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Carnation Layering Die Set on a recent trip to my local store Scrapmania, so I wanted to give it a try for the July Altenew Inspiration Challenge, which also features Carnations. I die cut the large carnation from the darker pink (which I ink blended quite a bit) and the … Read more
I thought the Hero Arts Jean Jacket Layering Stencils were fun to use for Father’s Day Cards. I started with the front vew die cutting some gold metallic snaps with more of a chambrey denim coloring. I paired it with a sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Well Played Sir. The second card features the back … Read more
With this week’s Flat Feliz Navidad prompt at Jingle Belles, we are asking that you make a one layer (or some call it “no layer”) card … which means that everything should be directly on the card base, with no additional layers on top of that. I layered stencils from Kristina Werner’s Simple Christmas Stencil … Read more
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