Rev Up The Fun – Birthday Card

Welcome back!  Having a play with an older stamp set: Rev Up The Fun (circa 2013) for a Masculine Birthday card. A bunch of challenges inspired this card.  Make My Monday (#201) Masculine; Global Design Project (#395) Birthday; Retro Rubber (#207) Anything Goes; Color Dare (#548) for Pewter with one other color choice; Color HuesContinue reading “Rev Up The Fun – Birthday Card”

All Kinds of Wonderful

Happy Thursday with a happy colored card! Several challenges involving rainbows…Time Out (#238) Quote with highlighted words Rainbow and Gold; Inspiration Station (#49) May Day Rainbow colored Ribbons; and Color Dare (#547) with a swirl of Rainbow Colors.  Bringing it all together, I chose the Freshly Made (#586) sketch. Here is the result: Steps: AllContinue reading “All Kinds of Wonderful”

A Classic – You’re the Best

Welcome back!  A few deadlines are on the horizon… Playing with Less Is More (#482); Inkspirational (#289); and using the colors suggested by Color Dare (#546) in their Tic Tac Toe Board. Here is the result: Steps: The completed panel was adhered to the card base and the sentiment label was added A clean andContinue reading “A Classic – You’re the Best”

A Thousand Well Wishes – Bamboo Beauty

Welcome back!  A few CAS (clean and simple) challenge deadlines are coming up.  My favorite… AAA Cards (#238) for torn edges and Less Is More (#481) for anything goes.  I chose to use the Triple Play colors suggested by Color Dare (#544). Here is the result: Steps: Two of my all-time favorite stamp sets.  IContinue reading “A Thousand Well Wishes – Bamboo Beauty”

May Flowers – Honeybee Home

You have all been so patient with me.  It is amazing what one can accomplish when you have the house to yourself… Last one…I Spy (#002) for the theme, Color Throwdown (#739) for the colors and Tuesday Morning (#703) for the sketch.  It just so happens that Color Dare (#545) is suggesting similar colors, soContinue reading “May Flowers – Honeybee Home”

Beautiful Hollyhocks – Birthday Wishes

Afternoon delight…more time in the Studio… A few CAS (clean and simple) challenges are on the board today.  Addicted to CAS (#235) Code Word: Garden and CAS on Friday (#254) Dots. I decided to make a birthday card for Happy Little Stampers (April) and chose three colors from the Lucky Seven board over at ColorContinue reading “Beautiful Hollyhocks – Birthday Wishes”

Perfectly Penciled – HB A’ La Mode

Happy Day to you all! Having a bit of a play before meeting friends for Easter dinner. Challenges: Freshly Made Sketches (#580), Color Dare (#543), Happy Little Stampers (April) and Stampin’ Up! Creative (April). Here is the result: Steps: All panels were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Flower adds aContinue reading “Perfectly Penciled – HB A’ La Mode”

And They Came 2 x 2 – Count Me In

Welcome back!  What a busy week.  Glad to have some time to play but those darn deadlines keep creeping up… So today, I was inspired by Paper Players (#634) for the theme; Color Dare (#541) for the colors chosen; TGIF (#414) for the materials used; and bringing it all together the current sketch layout atContinue reading “And They Came 2 x 2 – Count Me In”

Painted Floral – Sometimes…

Welcome back!  One last challenge deadline for today. Atlantic Hearts (#517) sketch with colors selected from the Fancy Five board over at Color Dare (#540). After a peruse through the catalogs, I settled on the Fancy Flora Designer Series Paper pack to match the colors I chose: Soft Succulent (for Sage); Evening Evergreen (for Pine);Continue reading “Painted Floral – Sometimes…”

Beside Me – Mother’s Day Card

Having a play with a few more challenges before I get ready for Wednesday’s class… Inspire Create (#138) to use the card created by Karen Farquhar as an inspiration springboard. The items chosen: Layout, Patterned Paper, Embossed Panel, Pansies, Tag Sentiment and Ribbon. The colors were chosen from the Color Dare (#539) Tic Tac ToeContinue reading “Beside Me – Mother’s Day Card”