Welcome to a new TGIF Sketch Challenge! I love sketch challenges, because they encourage me to try new layouts!!! For this one, I focused the majority of the card the Countryside Corners Bundle and Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper. I love all the blue tones in this suite and knew they would be perfect for my mother-in-law for Mother’s Day. She loves blue and white! I also figured that the… Read More »
Welcome to the April Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. This month, our theme is “From Little Seeds” including projects that focus on Spring or Fall depending on where you live in the world. I took the opportunity to use my March Paper Pumpkin Kit, “10 Years of Growth,” to create some alternate projects. Paper Pumpkin is always fun, but my absolute favorite kit of the year is always the March one.… Read More »
Welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop for May! This month, we have a beautiful color combination that includes Poppy Parade, Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party and Bumblebee. These colors immediately made me think of lovely, bright Spring flowers!!! I decided to create a Mother’s Day card for my Mother-In-Law using the In Bloom Bundle. This is one of those bundles that has grown on me the more I’ve used it.… Read More »
Hey Friends, it’s Friday and that means TGIF Challenge day! This time, we have a “Designer’s Choice” challenge, brought to you by the fabulous Charlet Mallet. She is such a talented artist! I had the pleasure of meeting her in Orlando at the Stampin’ Up! Convention a couple years ago, and she’s just the nicest person! Charlet’s choice is “Oh My Ombre’.” I love creating ombre’ backgrounds, but you could… Read More »
Hello Stampers! It’s TGIF Challenges time!!! This week, we have a technique challenge to create projects with belly bands. Belly bands work great for wrapping around cards or boxes to secure them closed. What’s even better is that they slip off easily, so upon opening, your lovely artwork stays intact. My favorite use for belly bands is wrapping boxes. On this gift box, I cut a strip of Bird Ballad… Read More »
I’m a little behind! It’s already April, and I’m just writing about the March Paper Pumpkin kit!!! I do not know where the time went. Anyway, I finally got a little time last weekend to work on some alternative ideas for the kit. If you follow my blog regularly, you might remember that I had an earlier post where I used some of the March Paper Pumpkin supplies. You can see… Read More »