At the Moxie Fab World Blog they're celebrating Mustache Month, so I couldn't resist playing along. The Vinyl Rub-on Mustaches from EAD Designs are just too fun. I paired a handle-bar mustache with vintage papers from Bo Bunny's Et Cetera Collection (I think watching Ken Burn's Prohibition while I crafted influenced my choices). I tried … Read more
The Moxie Fab World Blog is celebrating all things Botanical this month, which is near and dear to my heart. One of my treasuered finds from the Strand Book Store during my trip to NYC last year was Wild Flowers of America with 400 flowers in full color from the paintings of Mary Vaux Walcott … Read more
We're celebrating Steampunk at Gingersnap Creations in July, and our Spicy Supply Challenge is to use Gears, Cogs & Watch Bits. Our sponsor this month is DezinaWorld and they provided the Design Team with some great digital images to incorporate into our designs. My card also uses pages from a vintage 1950 Popular Science Magazine … Read more
I decided to combine this week's Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger … With this week's CASE Study Challenge Card from Sarah Martina Parker … I love the round plate and colors from the Moxie Fab Photo … not to mention cake … which to me always means a celebration. From Sarah's card I incorporated a simalar … Read more
Father's Day cards are on today's agenda. Since I have several fathers in my life who love music, I decided to make several cards centered around these great Rock Star Glitter rub-ons from Paper House Productions (that I picked-up at Hobby Lobby some time ago). The first one uses this week's Saturday Sketch and papers … Read more
I love this gorgeous kaleidoscope of butterflies at The Shabby Tea Room this week. I have been hoarding this wonderful botantical paper from K&Company / Spotted Canary, so I finally broke it out for a little butterfly beauty. I incorporated a scrap of Webster's Pages paper that was much too pretty to throw away and … Read more
The My Time to Craft Challenge this week is to create a card that features spots or dots. I love this dotted background paper from Graphic45's Curtain Call Collection. It works so beautifully with the image from Artistic Outpost's Flapper Fashion. I paired it with the sentiment from Paris Exposition … the joy of living. … Read more
Moxie Fab World is celebrating the newest special issue, 350 Cards & Gifts, with a Card Set Challenge. I knew I wanted my card set to feature this Dale Carnegie quote. I also wanted a classic design that would work for both male and female recipients. I decided to use different papers from the Bo … Read more
The Challenge at the Let's Get Shabby blog is an Easter or Spring card in the style of Beatrix Potter (ooops, just read the fine print that said it can't be combined with any other challenge … oh well, it was fun to make any way). Since one of the gorgeous samples from the … Read more
This week we are thrilled to have the fabulous Allison Fillo as our guest star designer at the Jingle Belles Blog. Alison created a one-of-a-kind sketch for us to design with. I love sketches that combine circles and straight lines. For me this was a perfect design to combine all sorts of different vertical elements. … Read more