The June Challenge at Jaded Blossom is to make a Masculine Card. I started with the Jaded Blossom Coffee Stain Stencil using Walnut Stain Distress Ink on Kraft cardstock. Next I stamped & detail cut two coffee cups from Jaded Blossom Gnome Brewed, coloring the cups dark teal. Both sentiments are from Jaded … Read more
The new Shopping Our Stash Challenge is an awesome Sketch. I needed a beer-themed Thank You card, so I pulled out multiple beer colored GelliArts prints to create the sketch layers. I die cut the Creative Expressions Three Cheers beer mug from white cardstock and a second time from a Gelliarts print to … Read more
The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is – How Does Your Garden Grow? We're asking you to shop your stash and create a card featuring something that grows in a garden or make a card with a gardening theme. This time of year, I always think about my Grandma and her rainbow garden that … Read more
The May Pinkfresh Studio Challenge is to incorporate Flowers – Flower Power! -, which was the perfect opportunity to open up my Pinkfresh Studio Artsy Floral Washi Tape. I used the Sketch from Just Add Ink with three different washi tape florals on green squares. I finished with a sentiment from … Read more
Here are my Yana Smakula Cards from the last Pinkfresh Studio event. I really enjoyed her creative style. I would have never thought to have used dark blue glitter paper as the base with these colors, but it really made them pop. I also loved the vivid ink blending on this one. … Read more
When I saw the Striped Challenge at the Time Out Challenge, it was just the push I need to use the Waffle Flower Skinny Stripes dies that had been sitting on my studio table for some time. I grabbed four scraps of paper also on my studio table (yes, I need to clean-up, … Read more
Since I had the Mintay Traveler papers out, and I needed to restock my thank you cards, I went ahead and used a few sketch challenges to create a few more. The first one uses the Sketch from The Paper Players. The Thank You sentiment is an unidentified wood mount stamps in my … Read more
I always appreciate those who take care of things for us while we travel, so I wanted to make a special Thank You card. I used lovely new Traveler Papers from Mintay paired with this week's Tuesday Morning Sketch. I dug out an old school Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix BigZ Elegant Flourishes Die … Read more
My plan for the long weekend was to continue cleaning the studio. I started with the Washi Tape drawer that was refusing to close … and once again, I got side tracked and instead made some washi tape cards (at least I also managed through my sorting and reorganization by colors get the tape adjusted … Read more
The final challenge of 2023 at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is J is for Jessi … cards to honor and remember former design team member Jessi. When I saw Sister Barbara's card, I remembered I had a few of Jessi's crocheted circles hoarded away in my stash. This seemed like the perfect … Read more