Gift of Joy – Just Because

Welcome back!  Hope you have some time to be creative today… I have a quick little love card for you this morning for the Alphabet Challenge – Letter L. Here is the result: Steps: A sweet card to brighten someone’s day! Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda! Need aContinue reading “Gift of Joy – Just Because”

Autumn Leaves – Thanks

Hi again!  I have some more time to create…so let’s play… Inspired By (#354) Hello Autumn for colors, metallics and a variation of the sketch. Additionally, Make My Monday (#261) also an Autumn theme; and Addicted to CAS (#292) for Leaves and Style.   Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to theContinue reading “Autumn Leaves – Thanks”

Peaceful Garden – Celebrate

Welcome back! Design Team Time for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#648).  Lots of possibilities with this one especially if you want to play with Patterned Papers. Design influences: Inspire Create (#201) Shades of Blue and Green and more specifically Colour Hues (#118) Smoky Blue and Sage Green. and sharing with Love Those Pretty PapersContinue reading “Peaceful Garden – Celebrate”

Joyful Tidings – You’ve Been On My Mind

Design Time: For the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#531) Sketch. My design choices were influenced by: Festive Friday (#193) opting to use Patterned Paper, Rhinestones, Sentiment, Punch and a Coloring Technique and the Just Us Girls (#793) Mood Board for the Fall Motif and Orange Color. I am sharing this card with Can You Handle TheContinue reading “Joyful Tidings – You’ve Been On My Mind”

Friendly Hello – Cycling Surprise

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday.  Finding a few creative moments among the chores…  Two challenges:  Cupcake Inspirations (#626) has a Sports theme.  I don’t really have anything in my stash for those sports played in School, so I chose Cycling and a favorite retired stamp set.  I picked the color palette suggested by Color Throwdown (#840)Continue reading “Friendly Hello – Cycling Surprise”

Winter Scenes – Thinking of You

This week at Just Add Ink (#768), we have a sketch.  Taking liberties, I flipped the sketch to the vertical position.    Sketches are starting points, and my design choices were influenced by: Christmas (or not) Bingo (#15) Letter G selecting Kraft, Wood and Hand Colored Image along with the Farm Quest Country Christmas (#24)Continue reading “Winter Scenes – Thinking of You”

Etched Autumn – Autumn Wishes

Design Time: For the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#529) Sketch.  Today’s sketch is the first one of many from the new Fall Mini Catalog.  Have fun with it! Two other Facebook challenges that influenced my design choices were: Stampin’ Through The Catalog stamp set for today – Etched Amber, an On-Line Exclusive product that coordinates withContinue reading “Etched Autumn – Autumn Wishes”

Rustic Centerpiece – Blank Note Card

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday. I have a lovely Fall themed card for you this morning.  I chose to leave it blank so it could be used for any occasion. The challenges: Inspired By (#352) Apples; Triple B (September) Sunflowers; Four Seasons (September) Fall including Sunflowers; and Paper Craft Crew (#637) for their Fall theme. HereContinue reading “Rustic Centerpiece – Blank Note Card”

In The Moment – Birthday Wishes

Hi again!  Chasing a deadline and creating in my favorite style – clean and simple. Retro Rubber (#262) has a Book theme, and I chose the retired In the Moment stamp set. Playing with Simply Clean & Simple (#27) with a Birthday twist and the Alphabet (Letter K) for “Keeping” it Simple. I also choseContinue reading “In The Moment – Birthday Wishes”

Peaceful Garden – Thanks

Welcome back!  Friday already…where did the week go? With the new Fall Mini Catalog that just launched this week, I am exploring some of the products.  I love Autumn and its warm slate of colors but today, the Peaceful Garden Designer Series Paper was calling out to me.  The predominant colors are Secret Sea andContinue reading “Peaceful Garden – Thanks”