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
At our home, winter sports aren’t ones played outside, but instead the sports played inside. This card celebrates the three sports we watched yesterday. I decided to challenge myself to use shades of blue for the Inkspirational Challenge, and I loved how it turned out. I don’t know if you can tell, but I even … Read more
The new Lawn Fawnatics Challenge is Let’s Celebrate. To me, nothing says celebration quite like cake. I’m also joining the Simon Says Something New Challenge with everything on my card being new except for the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Die. I used the Lawn Fawn Cake It Easy Add-on Bundle stamps with coordinating Lawn Clippings … Read more
This month is the final Lunar New Year Challenge, so I knew I had to use the final Snake product I purchased for 2025 – the Lovely Layers Curious Critters from Honey Bee Stamps. I used four different colors of olive cardstock for my snake and then added some ink blending on top to try … Read more
When I made yesterday’s retirement card, I originally embossed the Waffle Flower Happy Retirement sentiment in a silver glitter embossing powder, but it did not show-up as well as I had hoped, so I set it aside. Since it was still on my table, I decided to make a second masculine retirement card for another … Read more