I had a blast getting inky today … when I saw this awesome Inspiration from the Inspired By Challenge, I knew immediately how I wanted to create my background (which I should have photographed before I covered most of it up). The technique is also perfect for the My Time to Craft Challenge to use … Read more
The March Challenge at Crafter's Companion is Vintage … all you have to do is link-up a creation featuring at least one Crafter's Companion stamp and you'll have a chance to win a $30 gift certificate. The Stamp-It Australia images are perfect for vintage collage stamping. I combined images from Birds & Butterflies, French Travels and Sentiment Swirls. After … Read more
This week's SplitCoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge comes from the fabulous designs of Spoonflower where you can design your own fabric, decals or wallpaper. I chose this Fabric Border from the C'est La Viv Collection to inspire my design. I started my design with the front of a vintage get well card. I bought a large scrapbook … Read more
I wanted to make another card for the Love & Lace Challenge at the Hero Arts Blog. I pulled a wide panel of vintage lace from my stash and adhered it to pink cardstock for the base of my design. I used the colors from this week's Play Date Cafe, since I thought they had … Read more
My mother-in-law is downsizing to a smaller living space, so she gifted me with a vintage scrapbook from her youth. It is filled with all sorts of papers cut from advertisements and packaging. I wanted to use one of the post cards I found in the stash (the back said it was a sample mailed … Read more
For my Postal-themed JIngle Belles card this week, I created my own *vintage* post card using three different holiday stamp sets by Artistic Outpost and lots of Distress Ink sponging. I love that the tiny little dear is delivering the mail. I used the Saturday Card Sketch from Two Peas, which suggested that you use … Read more
I used another vintage holiday card from my stash for this week's Vintage Style card for Jingle Belles. The main image and the sentiment were cut from the front of the same card. I added a bit of Tea Dye ink to the sentiment to tone down the brightness a bit with the darker image. … Read more
This week at Less is More, they're creating projects inspired by their blog header. I loved the two-tone color palette, the flourishes and musical elements. I started with beautiful paper and elements from the Simple Stories Documented Collection (I love how they have shrunk down the pages of journaling cards in the 6×6" pad). … Read more
We have the oh-so-talented Linda Brun joining us as our lovely guest star at Jingle Belles. Linda has lots of vintage photos and Christmas cards, so she thought Vintage Style would be a great creative holiday theme (and she's even giving you two vintage images to download at the Jingle Belles Blog). Last year, I … Read more
We're celebrating border punches at the Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply Challenge. Our wonderful sponsor this month is Retro Cafe Art Gallery, and they provided the Design Team with fabulous vintage images. For my creation, I used Vintage Garden Images and ATC Size Collage Sheet from Retro Cafe Art Gallery The quality of their images was amazing … I adore … Read more