Gift of Love

Welcome back!  A brand-new week and I am off to a good start… Just Us Girls (#742) has challenged us to choose a Design Team member’s card and give it a bit of a make-over i.e. CASE (Copy and Share Everything). I selected Ina’s artsy floral card and gave it a softer color palette whileContinue reading “Gift of Love”

Wildflower Designs – Sending Happy Thoughts

Welcome back!  Here’s to a great weekend and hoping you have some time to be creative. Today, I am playing around with the Just Add Ink (#717) Sketch, the Color Throwdown (#808) Palette, and the Time Out (#271) and If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (#195) Themes. Here is the result: Steps: All elementsContinue reading “Wildflower Designs – Sending Happy Thoughts”

Mid Century Modern – Birthday

Hi again!  I needed a guy card.  Do you have trouble creating cards for guys?  I find that simple shapes and earthy colors are ideal to work with. I selected to create a Retro style birthday card for Seize The Birthday (#290) in a loose Frank Lloyd Wright interpretation of his famous window designs. IncorporatingContinue reading “Mid Century Modern – Birthday”

Sketched Butterflies – Thanks

Welcome back!  It’s Wednesday!!  Starting the Holiday Christmas Classes today, so it will be a busy one.  Getting this card out nice and early. The Global Design Project (#460) is asking for a CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) of a card created by Susan Wong.  Such a pretty card. My take-aways are the overall designContinue reading “Sketched Butterflies – Thanks”

Summer Breeze – It’s Your Day

Welcome back!  A fresh why not card for you today… Design Team Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#475).  The weekly Catalog CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) of cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Today?  The card can be found on page 86 of the Annual Catalog.   We invite you to re-create it any way youContinue reading “Summer Breeze – It’s Your Day”

Very Merry – Holiday Kitty Kat Koffee Kup

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#704) challenge.  This week, Jaydee has chosen a fun little Sketch for us to work with.  Lots of possibilities!  How about an unusually colored Holiday card? I selected the Facebook Colour INKspiration (#171) palette; Caffeinated Christmas (#32) looking for a cute Critter; and chose a Kitty KatContinue reading “Very Merry – Holiday Kitty Kat Koffee Kup”

Best Birthday Wishes

Welcome back!  A quick little clean and simple card for you this morning. Make My Monday (#232) is looking for something Metallic and CAS on Friday (#290) is looking for a Sentiment Only card. So, I picked the Tuesday Morning (#770) Sketch to bring everything together changing out the square shape for a circular shape.Continue reading “Best Birthday Wishes”

Hey – Happiest Day

Hi again!  One more card for you today.  In my favorite clean and simple style. So, over at Inkspirational (#322), they have this really cool Mood Board.  My take-aways were the colors and the suggested Shapes along with an Ombre effect. To complete my idea, I chose to use Stencils for Just Us Girls (#741)Continue reading “Hey – Happiest Day”

Waves of Inspiration – High Tide Shine

Design Time: This round Cardz 4 Guyz (#354) is celebrating the Dawn and the Dusk.  As an early morning riser, I went with Sunrise… The other challenges that informed my design decisions:  Tic Tac Toe (#254) for Sunshine, Birds and Beach and Addicted To CAS (#265) for the Technique. Bringing them together, I chose theContinue reading “Waves of Inspiration – High Tide Shine”

Special Moments – Thinking of You

Design Time: This round at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#445) we have an interesting set of colors to play with. Several other challenges informed my design decisions.  The AAA Cards (#272) Sketch for a clean and simple, single layer card; Just Add Ink (#715) to play with Shadows; and the Facebook Global Design Project (#459) forContinue reading “Special Moments – Thinking of You”