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”

Simply Said – Happy 60th Birthday

This week at Just Add Ink (#769), we are given a choice.  Pick Two: I selected Numbers & Neutrals. That is pretty wide open…so the following challenges influenced my design decisions: Style & Colors – CAS Colours & Sketches (#569) for a clean and simple card; TGIF (#542) for the Sketch; Addicted to Stamps &Continue reading “Simply Said – Happy 60th Birthday”

Beautiful Motifs – Hello

Welcome back! Design Team Time for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#647).  Lots of possibilities with this one. Design influences: Color Dare (#668) for a Red and Yellow pairing; Tic Tac Toe (#279) Top Line – Rectangle(s), Die Cut(s) and Stripes; and sharing with Ellibelle’s Garden Party (#7) for the Floral image chosen. Here isContinue reading “Beautiful Motifs – Hello”

Fall In The Meadow – Thinking of You.

Design Team Time: This round at Cardz 4 Guyz (#378), the theme is Autumn / Fall.   My design choices were influenced by: Inspired By (#353) Leaves; Inkspirational (#350) Word: Trees; Inspiration Station (#77) Autumn Inspiration Photo for the colors as well as the theme and sharing with Time Out (#297) as my favorite SeasonContinue reading “Fall In The Meadow – Thinking of You.”

Fanciful Fragrance – You are the Best

Design Time: For the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#530) Sketch and the Hand Stamped Sentiments (#472) Color Palette.  For my subject, I selected the Just Us Girls (#792) Word Prompt: Container.  I could have picked so many different containers but nostalgia brought me to perfume bottles. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered toContinue reading “Fanciful Fragrance – You are the Best”

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”

Christmas Cheer – Latte Love

Welcome back!  It is a glorious Saturday here, hoping it is lovely where you are….  Holiday play time!  The Christmas challenges: Krafty Chicks (#785); Jingle Belles (#2519) adding Metallic Elements; Caffeinated Christmas (#45) adding a Drink Element; and selecting the current Creative Colour (#210) Palette as a starting point. Here is the result: Steps: AllContinue reading “Christmas Cheer – Latte Love”

Extraordinary Flora – With Love

Welcome back!  Hoping you are having a wonderful Friday.  Play time!  The challenges: Double Trouble (#199) and the 3-2-1 game (Layers, Images, Aperture) with a twist to add an image to the Aperture Opening and use the Try a Sketch on Tuesday (#678) layout. Additionally, I was influenced by Stampin’ Up! Only (#384) for theContinue reading “Extraordinary Flora – With Love”

Autumn Hello

Design Time for The Card Concept (#219) and we have a Fall themed inspiration photo this month.  I opted for the colors this time around. I chose a clean and layered styling for this card influenced by AAA Cards (#298) to Follow the Leader and CASE a card created by Ceal Pritchett.  Here is myContinue reading “Autumn Hello”