The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a card that includes NO WHITE. I started by using a Spellbinders Plaid Embossing Folder with yellow cardstock for my card base. I added a vintage 3-D Chick Magnet sticker together with a woodblock Stampin’ Up Small Sayings sentiment from 2006 to finish a cute … Read more
It's still Fa-La-La-La-La at Jingle Belles – making a holiday card that incorporates music, a musical instrument, or a holiday song title or lyrics. I found a piece of sheet music for a Christmas carol that was perfectly sized for a card front. I topped the music with piece from a vintage Christmas … Read more
It's time for another Woodblock Wednesday (on Thursday) with Amy T. I chose a few oldies for my card today – a Stampin' Up sentiment from 1993 and a John Lennon image from Viva Las VegaStamps. The layout is this week's Sunday Sketch In the Corner.
It's time for another Woodblock Wednesday with Amy T. What comes after Christmas Cards … Thank you cards of course. I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch together with FOUR different Woodblock Thank You stamps from (top to bottom on the card – the fourth one kept falling over when I tried to … Read more
The October Lunar New Year Challenge has the additional option to create a card for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I was not familiar with that holiday, so I did some research. I learned that it is a harvest festival celebrated on the night of a full moon. The festival is based on the legend of … Read more
I had fun playing Tic-Tac-Toe with Retro Rubber. I went with Horizontal along the bottom with my choice being embossing. I embossed teal cardstock with the Retro Cuttlebug Decorative Tile Set embossing folder (I sort of miss my Cuttlebug … so simple and effective). I used the Die-Versions Solo Happy Birthday Die (that … Read more
When I saw today's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge, I smiled because they were the same colors for today's #colorconspiracy24 GelliArts print. I started by making my print using the Mirror Mirror Mask from the Klimt Collection by Elizabeth St. Hilaire for Joggles. I trimmed my panel down to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" … Read more
It's time for another Woodblock Wednesday with Amy T. Birthday Stamps are some of the Woodblock Stamps I save the most of. This Stampin' Up Woodblock was part of a set called Four Square, but this is the only stamp I still have. I added it to a collage that I personalized for … Read more
My card started with wanting to join the Seize the Birthday Embossing Challenge. Next, I saw the Color Challenge at The Paper Players, so I embossed some hot pink cardstock to go with my black & white. I combined four vintage woodblock stamps from A Muse, Impress and Stampin' Up for … Read more
The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a card where the Sentiment is the Star. Pull out those quotes or sentiment stamps or dies – or maybe look into your already stamped/printed stack and see if you have any waiting to be used (avoid stamping images … we want the sentiment to … Read more