Since blue & snowflakes worked so well for last week's Jingle Belles card, I stuck with it again this week. I tend to gravitate to blue & purple snow-themed paper collections (like BoBunny Woodland Winter). It also gave me the opportunity to layer on some felt snowflakes. The layout is the sketch from The Paper … Read more
This week Jingle Belles is joining Shopping our Stash for a Shop Your Stash Christmas … that means use products that have been in your stash for at least a year. In my case, since I was hanging out at Lauren's house for Art Camp, I got to shop her stash. I chose this D.O.T.S. … Read more
The Kraft Journal is looking for CAS Thank You Cards, which is right up my alley. I love kraft cardstock … and I love clean & simple. I also love a sketch that uses up scraps of paper on my studio table that would otherwise be going in the recycle … so the sketch at … Read more
Today I'm channeling the talented Christmas Muse Betty Wright and her gorgeous design. I loved the silver with green, the tag, and the pop of dark red, so those are the elements I incorporated into my card. I combined a silver doily, green holiday papers, a Penny Black Joy holiday sticker, sequins and an SRM … Read more
We're still celebrating all things Postal at Jingle Belles. I found some postage stamp die cuts in the clearance bin on my crafty adventures last week, so I decided to make my own postage stamp. I also found these rockin' googlie eyed Christmas Owls … I'd buy a stamp with Oliver the Red Nosed Christmas … Read more
At Jingle Belles we're making cards inspired by this wonderful picture of Cookies for Santa from the Bearfoot Baker. I wanted to create snowman card using these awesome colors, so I started by stamping my Vintage Frosty from Artistic Outpost's Frosty & Friends in Lawn Fawn Peacock Ink (love this color). I rounded the corners … Read more
The Challenge theme at the Impression Obsession Blog is Holiday Cards … any holiday. Since I picked-up the new Three Stooges Pumpkin stamp with my winnings from last month, I decided to go for Halloween. I stamped my Three Stooges in Dark brown and colored with my Spectrum Noir Blendable Colored Pencils. Halloween was … Read more
For some reason, tonight I wanted to play with Washi Tape. When I saw the Colour Me Monochromatic Challenge, i decided to see if I had enough types of Red Washi Tape to cover the front of a card … turns out I do. I cut my white cardstock base slightly larger than the finished … Read more
We're still creating with Cardstock at Jingle Belles. I used the sketch from A Blog Named Hero for my design. I used Hero Arts Stamp & Cuts Ornament together with a sentiment from Hero Arts Deer. I finished with some SRM Sticker Stitches.
As I looked through my backlog of saved challenges, this card came together. I started with Seize the Birthday where the theme is Nothing But Neutrals. Next-up is The Kraft Journal where the theme is Anything Goes – Masculine. Third, I decided to use the sketch from Match the Sketch (but I had to … Read more