Keep Stamping – August 29th, 2020 This week my challenge is to use a color or two that you don’t use very often. There are no unfavorite colors in Stampin’ Up!’s collection. I love them all! However, if we admit it or not, there is always one or two colors that you rarely grab toContinue reading “Your Most Un-Used Color(s)”
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Friday Simple Stamping – Summer Remembered
August 28th, 2020 This week the theme for Simple Stamping is Summer Remembered. It’s the last true weekend of the summer. September begins next week! How did you spend your summer or summers’ past? This has been a summer season like no other. If you were like me and didn’t really get to go anywhereContinue reading “Friday Simple Stamping – Summer Remembered”
Paper Pumpkin Play Date – World’s Greatest
I created a couple of alternatives with this month’s Paper Pumpkin kit: WORLD’S GREATEST. A timely kit perfect for celebrating those who are great or have done great things for us. The designs suggested included Blue Ribbons, Trophies and Medals. I chose not to use these elements in the cards I created today. I willContinue reading “Paper Pumpkin Play Date – World’s Greatest”
True North
Case-ing Tuesday #266 Choose a card sample from the Catalog and Case! This card features the “Sailing Home” stamp set and the Watercolor Block stamping technique that I featured in an earlier post. (Saturday, August 22nd, 2020) I chose to use the colors Seaside Spray and Misty Moonlight and three different size “B” blocks. ItContinue reading “True North”
Sunday Sketch – SS017
August 23rd, 2020 When I contemplate what to do with a sketch, I look through what I have, push a few colors around and have a think…What image do I have that would fit on 3¼” square? The new copper colored Metallic Ribbon pointed me towards the Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP) becauseContinue reading “Sunday Sketch – SS017”
Saturday Keep Stamping – Inque a New Stamp Set
August 22nd, 2020 This week my challenge is to use a stamp set in your collection that had not yet seen ink. If that criteria did not apply, choose a stamp set you haven’t used recently. For me, that new un-inked stamp set was Queen Anne’s Lace. So pretty and delicate. One of my favoriteContinue reading “Saturday Keep Stamping – Inque a New Stamp Set”
Friday Simple Stamping
August 21st, 2020 – Stampin’ Up!’s Monthly Theme This week the theme for Simple Stamping is SPOOKY or WHIMSEY – as challenged by Stampin’ Up! for the month of August… After much consideration, I chose SPOOKY. I rarely make Halloween cards. Not sure if you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber…In July, we had the opportunityContinue reading “Friday Simple Stamping”
Paper Pumpkin Play Date
August 20, 2020 Today I played with the OCTOBER 2016 – SEASON OF GRATITUDE kit. A Fall themed kit replete with Shaker Cards. Using components leftover in this box, these were the cards I created. I do love the warmth of the fall colors and think that the touch of green adds just that muchContinue reading “Paper Pumpkin Play Date”
Boho Lace
Case-ing Tuesday Choose a card sample from the Catalog and Case!August 18th – Tuesday Case-ing #265 (Catalog page 11) “Boho Lace” As soon as I saw the Product Medley, Boho Indigo, I was smitten! Who could resist the all that fresh blue and white? The Medley has it all: Stamp set, dies, designer paper, embellishmentsContinue reading “Boho Lace”
Sunday Sketch – SS016
August 16th, 2020 “Primary Stitches” I wanted to play with the shape suggested by the sketch. What could I use to replace the “oval”? I recently acquired the “Stitched Rectangles Dies”. Could they possibly work? Well, I think they do! I wanted to create something fun and bright. It was rainy and dark when IContinue reading “Sunday Sketch – SS016”
The Inque Spot Studio 