Tonight I made a sympathy card inspired by this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge, which was a Color Splash of Yellow. Once again, Pink Paislee's Queen Bee papers come through for me. I combined the greys and a splash of yellow with a sketch from Just Add Ink. I used the EK Success Fleur … Read more
I loved this week's Play Date Cafe inspiration art work by Bonnie Rose of A Life Unrehearsed, so I wanted to play along … such fabulous colors. First I started by coming spray inks in those colors to try to mimic her background, but it was a bit to heavy on color to work with … Read more
I used the colors from this week's Play Date Cafe together with this week's Unscripted Sketch for a delicious cupcake birthday card. The Hero Arts You Deserve Card stamp was paper pieced with scraps of the background papers, and I added some glitter pen for the candle flame. The tiny sentiment is from Inkadinkado's Let's Celebrate, … Read more
The Play Date Cafe is celebrating their 1 year anniversary with another great color combination ~ yellow, orange & pink. I used this week's Sketch for You To Try and Artistic Outpost's Bloom & Grow stamps for my card. This is the first mounted set I've purchased from Artistic Outpost. The images are mounted on … Read more
There's a whopper of a prize up for grabs at the Play Date Cafe, so I wanted to make sure I played along this week. Also, I love this week's color combination of white-melon-green. I thought the Hero Arts Dogwood would look lovely in Melon, however I had a heck of a time getting the … Read more
Last month, I was tearing apart a Kleenex box to throw it into the recycle bin and noticed that the inside of the entire box was metallic silver instead of the usually chipboard kraft. So I decided to save the box, thinking that surely I could figure out something to make with metallic silver chipboard. … Read more
My designer paper scrap box is overflowing & seriously in need of a purge, so I've decided to see how many cards I can make this week only using my scraps. The first one is for the Play Date Cafe Challenge using this week's CPS Sketch. My process was to go through my scraps and … Read more
For this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge I pulled out some new stamps from one of my favorite companies ~ CatsLife Press. I wanted to incorporate some woodgrain to go with the wonderful texture of the wine barrels, so I started with a Tim Hotz Texture Fades Woodgrain embossing folder on my favorite Hobby … Read more
This week's Play Date Cafe Color Story is inspired by this row of resting camels. I love the contrast of the camels against the rich brown of the earth. It was a perfect color combination for a masculine birthday card I needed to make. The card is a group birthday card for a co-worker that … Read more
I was thrilled to see that my Season to be Jolly card made the Cream in my Coffee (honorable mention) at the Play Date Cafe last week. This week Julie Ranae (who is also our Guest-Designer at the Etsy Inspired Challenge for August) is taking us on a tour of Positano, Italy for our … Read more