The newest challenge at Addicted to CAS is Postage. I found some postage in 49 and Market Ticket Essentials in Toast. I combined the postage stamps with the other two ticket designs in the collection on a kraft card base. I layered them vertically, and then I finished with two sticker sentiments. And into the … Read more
When I see a Sketch like the one at Atlantic Hearts Sketch, I immediate head to my designer paper scraps to see what I can pull together. I decided to pull out papers in Purple and Marigold for the current Color Hues Color Challenge (also my high school colors). I used one of the purple … Read more
I love the colors in this week’s Inspired By … Eggs Challenge … I thought they would be perfect for a masculine birthday card. I used Simon Hurley’s Create Bursts Stamps in various blues & green using this week’s Freshly Made Sketch layout. I finished with a Taylored Expressions Simple Strips – Birthday sentiment and … Read more
The March #TEMakerChallenge at Taylored Expressions is an interesting one … Inverse Effect. It is a challenge to use the inverse of a die cut or foiling to make your card. I went through my entire collection looking for something that would work, and settled on the never-before-used Taylored Expressions Celebrate You die cut. I … Read more
This is a fun birthday collage card for my brother (who is an amazing large scale collage artist) that I made with all sorts of bits and bobs from my stash. I pulled out my glue stick and did a glue-as-you-go method without much preplanning. I started with the Tim Holtz Flash Cards and built … Read more
My job has been seriously interfering with my creative time lately, so I didn’t have the chance to start the GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge until this morning. I took an hour or so and got lost in printing, and it was magical. Seriously, when I get into that kind of creative flow, it lifts my spirit so … Read more
Uniko is celebrating their 14th birthday as a company with a Birthday Card Challenge. I started with the never-before-used Uniko Geometric Happy Birthday stencil and three colors of blue Distress Ink – Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky and Prize Ribbon. In the center, I used the Prize Ribbon ink to stamp the Celebrate sentiment from Uniko … Read more
The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is – Bent Out of Shape. We’re asking you to make shaped cards (no squares or rectangles allowed). I went searching and found this fun neglected Cupcake Die by Stephanie Barnard for Sizzix in my stash that makes the absolutely perfect shaped card (the fold is under the … Read more
Almost a year ago, I participated in the Vintage Magazine Challenge at Contemporary Collage Magazine. I assume enough time has passed that they aren’t going to publish my images, so I thought I would share them here. I had a lot of fun challenging myself with this project. You had to do five collages on … Read more
January is the final Challenge at the Lunar New Year Challenge. Since 2026 is the Year of the Horse, and US New Year has passed, I used the Horse as the theme for a birthday card (since I believe at one point in time almost every US child wished for a horse or pony for … Read more