There are often Honor Flights our of our Airport to Washington DC. I was asked if I could make a Navy card for one of the participants. I used a combination of patriotic papers and a Navy sticker set, together with a hoarded SRM sticker sentiment. While I love ink and other mediums, … Read more
I love the challenge of converting scrapbooking layouts to cards, so when I saw the wonderful scrapbooking gallery of today's SplitcoastStampers Featured Stamper Oscar T. Grouch, I had to join the fun. I chose this wonderful Let it Snow Let it Snow layout as my inspiration. I started with a hot pink Gelli … Read more
It's our 500th Challenge at Shopping Our Stash (Wowza!) so we're Celebrating by the Numbers – make a celebration card that includes a number … it might be a birthday, anniversary, or whatever you want to celebrate. I decided to use the numbers on the new First Class Stamps from Essentials by Ellen. I … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles we're Stuck on You. Stickers were one of the very first things I started collecting when I began making cards … and I'm guessing you have some in your stash too. They might be fun little 3-D images or sentiment strips … whatever your sticker of choice, we're asking you … Read more
When I saw the sketch at the Make the Cards Challenge, it just screamed Washi Tape to me, so I grabbed my new Washi Tape collections from Vilit Design and my cart full of stickers, and just had some good old paper-crafting fun this afternoon. I started with the Pink Tapes on a pink … Read more
For this week's card prompt at Jingle Belles is Neutral Noel where we're asking you to create holiday cards which embrace only the neutral color palette – white, cream, ivory, ecru, black, gray, charcoal, obsidian, brown, tan, kraft, camel, oatmeal, sienna (you get the picture). There's also burlap, jute, paper bags, cork, chalkboards, sandpaper or … Read more
When I saw the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch, it made me want to go cut strips of paper from my cardstock scraps … so I did, using the color inspiration from the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge. It was the perfect opportunity to break out my stash of 4th of July papers and have some … Read more
On the Third Day of the 12 Tags of Christmas the Christmas Song theme is … Here Comes Santa Claus. I had several traditional Santa Claus Stamps on my studio table, but then I took a bit of a left turn with the Essentials by Ellen Bear stepping in for Santa. I started … Read more
I told you I might re-visit this week's CAS(e) this Sketch! … and tonight I did. After a long day of mentally taxing work, I wanted to create something easy (that was not mentally taxing) … so tonight that meant washi tape and a collection of stickers. I used Green for the Cute Card Thursday … Read more
Something that's pretty important to us ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ is to make sure our card-making festivities include EVERYONE who is special to us, whatever occasion or holiday in which they partake! So this week we're making cards for our friends who don't necessarily celebrate Christmas. Hanukkah is the most famous of the other winter holidays, and … Read more