I love monochromatic designs, especially when I can incorporate a range of shades. This is the time of year for Green … and that's the challenge them at the Heart 2 Heart Challenge in partnership with the Double Trouble Challenge. I decided to take them up on their optional TWIST to incorporate a wee bit-o-gold … Read more
I have so many great sentiment sets from Simon Says Stamp, and I wanted to use some of them for the current Freshly Made Sketch, since it just screams multiple sentiments to me. I gave my new Fern Green Paper Glaze from Picket Fence Studios a try using the Tumbling Leaves Stencil from Simon … Read more
Today's cards were inspired by Sam's new Use My Stuff – Sympathy Challenge and this gorgeous pile of sympathy cards that Chris Dayton shared using Alexandra Renke papers. I used images cut from her 12" paper called Blue Flowers with florals cut with a variety of Alexandra's floral dies. I used Alexandra's Square Grid … Read more
I couldn't resist playing with the new Making Faces Dies from i-Crafter when they arrived in the mail today. I wanted to make a girlfriend card. As I have aged (and experienced more life changes) many of my besties are now scattered across the US … and no longer on the same block. When I … Read more
For some reason when I saw the forest of trees in the Fusion Winter Inspiration Photo, it reminded me of some Suminagasi – Japanese black and white hand-marbled paper I made several years ago. I cut the half-circle from my marbled paper and attached it to a white card base. I used a darker … Read more
I have been a lover of gnomes long before they were popular … now you see gnomes everywhere. Here's a fun little gnome card I made in 2008. When I saw the Gnome Sweet Gnome Challenge at Shopping Our Stash, I knew I had to join the fun. I used my new L'il Gnome die … Read more
The timely Mini-Challenge at Unity Stamp Company is to make Thank You Cards. I'd been wanting to the try the big bold letters of Unity's … say it big on my Gel Press prints. I stamped it in black ink multiple times with my MISTI and then clear embossed … this is one of the … Read more
I just discovered the Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday Challenge, which for December is Snowflakes. I thought this lovely metallic Gel Press print would be the perfect background for a snowflake card. I die cut the Gel Press Print with the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles Die. I die cut two Simon … Read more
My pile of *never been inked* stamps has been growing much more quickly than I can use them, so my plan is to really start focusing on that pile and applying some ink. The Simon Says Stamp FlickR Challenge is an Anything Goes, so I grabbed the first Simon Says Stamp set in the pile, … Read more
I took a break from Christmas Tags to restock my stash a bit. There is a DieCember Challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Group to use some SSS Dies. I've had these lovely Simon Says Stamp Eucalyptus Leaf dies on my studio table ever since they arrive, so it was time to roll them … Read more