I needed to restock my sympathy card stash, and Amy T’s Woodblock Wednesday was the perfect opportunity to pull out an old favorite woodblock Thoughts Are With You sentiment from Stampabilities. The Sketch at The Paper Players also takes me back to one I often used in my time of regular woodblock stamping. Those of … Read more
I needed a Thinking of You card for my stash, so I thought the colors at the Retro Rubber be-leaf me! Challenge would be perfect. I went looking for some leaves that would work, and ultimately settled on Sizzix Layered Stencils Cosmopolitan Frond that was still in the original packaging and had never been used … Read more
The Penny Black Saturday Challenge has an optional theme of Bright Colors. I paired bright blooms from the Penny Black April in Paris Stickeroos with a coordinating cardstock base. I paired it with a sentiment from Penny Black Deepest Sympathy. to make the sentiment work with the tall image, I cut it into three pieces … Read more
I love Autumn Apples, so I wanted to create a card insipred by the Apples at the Altenew September Inspiration Challenge. I discovered the Magnolia Ballerina stamp, layering stencils, embossing folder, and die cut that had never been opened, so I used them all on this card (when I do it again, I would skip … Read more
When I saw that the Double D Challenge was Feathers, I used it as an opportunity to pull out my favorite hand-carved feather stamp by my friend Gina is Arty (she has her own book of art that you can buy if you’re interested). I inked it in two shades of purple for the Simon … Read more
We did so many fun projects at Alabama Art Camp this year (Bev is seriously the best at finding artsy things to try). The first technique we tried was Faux Cyanotype inspired by @paintbyles. We started by water coloring our backgrounds. Once they dried, we used a stencil and oh-so-slightly damp sponge to pick-up the … Read more
In case the title didn’t already give it away, the newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is KRAFT-astic – to create a card featuring kraft cardstock. This one uses one of my favorite kraft cardstocks, Desert Storm by Neehah. I paired it with Pinkfresh Studio Whispering Daffodils Washi Tape. I layered three of the floral … Read more
The April Altenew Inspiration Challenge is this fun flamingo photograph. It reminded me of when my sister and I visited the flamingos on one of our Florida sisters trips. It was so fun to be able to get so close to those beautiful birds. I chose the peachy pink hue for my bloooms and several … Read more
The January #monthlymixchallenge at Gina K. Designs is to create a card using 6 different ink colors. That seemed like the perfect opportunity to give my Color Cube that I got for Christmas a trial run. This is the card I chose and the Gina K. Designs inks to correspond – Sweet Mango, Sweet Corn, … Read more
A friend lost her faithful companion, so I wanted to send her a card to let her know she was in my thoughts. I combined the dog silhouette from Paper Smooches Paws for a Cause with sentiments from Kristina Werner’s Loved and Missed Stamps and coordinating Dies. I used colors from the Color Throwdown Challenge.