My goodies arrived from my Hero Arts win, so I had to ink one up … the focal point for my Unscripted Sketch card is an image called Flower Medley, which is perfect for the Hello Spring Card Challenge at Hero Arts. I inked it with Ranger Cobalt Archival ink and clear embossed. I used … Read more
This week's SplitCoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge comes from the fabulous designs of Spoonflower where you can design your own fabric, decals or wallpaper. I chose this Fabric Border from the C'est La Viv Collection to inspire my design. I started my design with the front of a vintage get well card. I bought a large scrapbook … Read more
It's the 200th Sketch at Unscripted Sketches today & we're celebrating with a Piggy Back Challenge to use this week's Sketch to make something other than a card or scrapbook page. I decided to take this advertising magnet that I picked-up on one of my trips and recycle it into something much more lovely. First … Read more
There's still time to join the February Love is in the Air Challenge at the Crafter's Companion Challenge Blog … one lucky winner gets a $30 voucher to the Crafter's Companion store. Here's my card featuring the Rose Clock Stamp from Stamp-It Australia. I was fascinated by Chrissie's Ombre Technique where she painted with reinker, so … Read more
After papercrafting, photography is my next favorite creative outlet … so I had to join the Camera Craze at the Moxie Fab World Blog (obviously I'm staying ahead of the Moxie Fab curve since I made another favorite camera card right before the challenge posted). I cut into some new kraft woodgrain paper from Studio Calico … Read more
I had fun with this week's Studio Calico Sunday Card Sketch. I took several runs at it finally settling on this design. Since the second row of washi tape was printed on the designer paper, I added three more pieces on that side of the card. The yellow polka dots are from the Studio Calico … Read more
Lots of new stamp sets being released at Crafter's Companion this week (nine to be exact including a coordinating CD-Rom), so the US & UK Design Teams are joining to celebrate with an international blog hop. You can see all of the sets on the Crafter's Companion Blog. And one lucky random commenter will be … Read more
Crafter's Compaion is hosting this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge called Make Your Mark: CFC87: Use markers in your Clean And Simple Creation Remember… a little can go a loooong way! You can color an image, or an element, or get creative and show us some fun techniques! I used an abstract marker scribbling technique with Spectrum Noir Markers (similar … Read more