The current Challenge at Make My Monday is Two Favorite Colors … while I have lots of favorite color combinations, one of my favorite two-color combinations for cardmaking is grey and yellow, especially for sympathy cards, which is what I neeed tonight. I picked-up a pad of yellow and grey papers at Hobby Lobby called … Read more
I love the colors in the current Fusion Card Challenge … they are the colors of my home. I thought orange was perfect to feature my new little My Person {Fox} from Unity Stamp Company, which I colored with Spectrum Noir Blendable Colored Pencils. Papers are from BasicGrey's Hey Boy Collection … I finished with a … Read more
I got some new Unity Swagger in the mail today, so I had to play. I paper-pieced the fun little chick using this week's Freshly Made Sketch … how do you not smile when you see that round little guy. I'm also joining the CASology Challenge where the theme is HOT … because what is hotter … Read more
I love the serene colors in the January Unity {be inspired} Challenge. I decided to combine the colors & the card sketch … as well as stay with the sympathy theme of the featured stamp set. I inked the butterflies from Dream Big once in Purple & a second time in Blue. Then I used … Read more
I dug out my Crimper to join the Challenge at the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog. I also used a long time favorite stamp from my stash … Unity's Candles and Cake (perfect for the Friends with Flair) stamped in Gina K Designs Cranberry Tart Ink. The layout is this week's Mojo Monday Sketch, flipped for a … Read more
This stamped Unity Sorry Love & Prayers sentiment (a reject from this project) has been sitting on my studio table for much too long … so with this card, it finally found a home. Lawn Fawn's Earmuffs paper from their Snow Day Collection is one of my favorites for the year … I love the color … Read more
I finally had the chance to play along at the Friends with Flair Challenge at Unity Stamps … the first of 2015. I used the Tall & Skinny Sketch at Mojo Monday (mine is 4" x 8 1/2", which fits in a standard business sized envelope) together with Unity's Quiet Voice, which is a quote … Read more
I loved the colors in this week's Runway Inspired Challenge … sort of a peachy rose to orange ombre with gold accents. I inked my Unity Reversed Punchinella with Orange and Rose ink overlapping slightly in the middle. I stamped a sentiment from Unity I am Woman in Delicata Golden Glitz Ink and embossed with Gold … Read more
When I saw the {be inspired} Color Challenge at the Unity Stamp Company, I wasn't quite sure about it … I pretty much never combine two shades of red when I design. I held my Spectrum Noir marker sheet-up to the computer screen to try to match the reds as closely as possible (which turned … Read more
Tonight I wanted to make a card inspired by the October UNity {be inspired} Challenge. I already had the sympathy stamp in teal left over from a prior project, so that's where I started, using both the sketch and the colors. Not my best work, but I found a way to put make it work … Read more