Big Birthday Cake

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

Repetition Birthday

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

Make Merry

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

Mr. Snowman

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

Savvy So Thoughful

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

Vintage Buttons & Memories

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

Inky Christmas Muse

I wanted to get Inky this morning (which is a nice way of saying I made a mess) with Kimberly Wiener's Inspiration at the Muse: Christmas Visions Challenge.  Here is her inky masterpiece: I picked four stamps that I thought I could make work with the grid pattern (although I ended-up going with a sort … Read more

Tag You’re It!

I'm joining the fun at the new challenge blog, Tag You're It!  This week the inspiration comes from the talented Laura Basson. I wanted to capture the gradiation of color with a white resist on the background and the pop of black … here are the results. I folded a card base & die cut … Read more