My card started with the Retro Rubber Challenge and thoughts of how I might incorporate those colors. Next, I looked at the Tic Tac Toe at The Paper Players, and decided I wanted to go horizontal across the center with designer paper, a die cut and enamel dots. That took my shopping in … Read more
At Jingle Belles this week, we're still creating cards inspired by this DIY Tinsel Tree Tutorial from White House Crafts. I wanted to try to recreate the tinsel effect using paper. I used some Fringe Scissors from my stash that I've had forever, but I'm not sure I've ever used on silver glitter … Read more
Today I'm joining Amy T for her Woodblock Wednesday Challenge. When I saw the colors at the Just Us Girls Challenge, I knew the papers from the Bo Bunny Whiteout Collection would be perfect. I chose a dark blue snowy paper for the background, and trimmed two ticket strips from another piece … Read more
Today I'm sharing a birthday card for a very special friend. We have a local store called the Create/Exchange where you can bring in your art supplies for store credit to buy other's art supplies. You never know what you might find. I found a couple of intricately cut pieces of paper that I thought … Read more
This week's Just Us Girls Challenge is all about Repetition. I started with this repeating circles Gel Press Print that to me just screams that it need to be a birthday card. I used this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday (or Not) Sketch and several vintage wood mounted stamps for a slimline … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles we're creating free-standing holiday tags … or using tags on cards. I don't wrap any gifts, so I don't need any free-standing tags … however I do hit all of the after-Christmas sales to buy up as many of the glittery fun tags I can find to use on next … Read more
The theme at the Inspired by Challenge is Mr. Snowman. I pulled out two vintage wood-mounted stamps for my card … Savvy Stamps Snowman and Impress Let It Snow. I added a red scarf and die cut my snowflakes from MFT Die-Namics Layered Snowflakes finishing with a blue epoxy dot and frames to … Read more
The current Mix-It-Up Challenge at Essentials by Ellen is one of the very first stamp companies I fell in love with … Savvy Stamps. I had fun digging through my drawers of wooden stamps to see how many Savvy stamps I still had in my collection. I decided to combine the Savvy Stamps So … Read more
It seems like the holidays make you miss loved ones even more than usual. When I saw today's Splitcoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge, I actually teared-up a bit because I had really been missing my step-mom this week (who was taken from us much too soon after her courageous battle with leukemia), and one of the … Read more
On Day 11 of the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist it was The Night Before Christmas. I loved the city-scape designs in both of the sample tags, so I incorporated that into my tag design. I started with a manila tag and layered on two different skyline die cuts from Hero Arts and Savvy. … Read more