Spring Tea – Good Friends

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday. Blending a number of similar challenges for a lovely friendship card. Starting with the Just Us Girls (#811) Mood Board with a sweet “drink” image in soft pinks and tying in the Inspired By (#366) Tea Garden Inspiration Photo. Adding in some Chocolate for As You See It (#366) with aContinue reading “Spring Tea – Good Friends”

Much Luck & Good Fortune

Welcome back!  Celebrating Chinese New Year I am playing with: Festive Friday (#203) incorporating several of the required elements for a clean and simple shaped card for Krafty Chicks (#808) and Shopping Our Stash (#567). Here is the result: Steps: The elegant gold stamped Arch was popped up with Dimensionals onto the Shaped Card Base,Continue reading “Much Luck & Good Fortune”

Berry Blossoms – Sharing Sweet Thoughts

Hi again!  Popping in with a quick card for a challenge deadline. Inspired By (#375) has a Berries theme… and I chose the Paper Craft Crew (#661) Sketch, which I flipped. I just needed to dig out a collection of Vintage papers from my stash. Here is the result: Steps: Letting the patterned paper takeContinue reading “Berry Blossoms – Sharing Sweet Thoughts”

Winter Blossoms – Friendly Foliage

Welcome back!  Monday and the start of a brand-new week. Several challenges are sporting the color Red. Inspiration Station (#82) Mood Photo reminded me that I had some pretty blossom dies in the retired Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies set, so I dug it out and paired it with the Paper Craft Crew (#660) Sketch. ThisContinue reading “Winter Blossoms – Friendly Foliage”

Fabulous Friend – Fabulous Sayings

Hi! Welcome back to Tic Tac Toe.  I am pleased to let you know that I have joined the Design Team.  Tic Tac Toe is one of my favorite challenges.  Eight possibilities and so much choice. For the Board (#286), I selected the center column: Die Cutting, Ink Blending and Friendship to create a cleanContinue reading “Fabulous Friend – Fabulous Sayings”

Bloom with Hope

Welcome back!  Delving into my personal stash as a happy paper hoarder for this one… Playing with the Freshly Made (#723) Sketch. My design was influenced by: Retro Rubber (#265) Tic Tac Toe – Die Cut / Pearls / and Pretty Papers for my free choice; Paper Players (#772) for the Colors; and choosing aContinue reading “Bloom with Hope”

Beautiful Blooms – Spring Tulips

Welcome back!  Middle of the week loveliness… Several clean and simple challenges…my favorite… The Line Up: Double Trouble (#209) with a 3-2-1 Ingredient List; Addicted To CAS (#301) featuring Pink; and CAS On Friday (#327) Anything Goes. Here is the result: Steps: Keeping it simple, all elements were adhered to the card base with theContinue reading “Beautiful Blooms – Spring Tulips”

Good Things – The Right Words

Design Team Time for both The Card Concept (#224) Inspiration Board and I chose the colors and pairing it with the Atlantic Hearts (#668) Sketch.  My design choices were influenced by Time Out (#306) to Pick Two – Aperture and Twine and Make My Monday (#271) to use Dies. Creating a clean, layered and graphicContinue reading “Good Things – The Right Words”

Time to Celebrate – Spring Tulips

Hi again!  Chasing another deadline…and I am playing with the As You See It (#365) Rhapsody in Red Recipe, where all the ingredients need to be used. I have added an Envelope for Inspired By (#374) and Polka Dots for Love Those Pretty Papers (#2602). Here is the result: Steps: All ingredients accounted for.  TulipsContinue reading “Time to Celebrate – Spring Tulips”

Sure Do Love You – Heart Happiness

Welcome back!  Monday and the start of a brand-new week. I can no longer ignore the Valentine push.  I only truly make but one valentine card for my husband yet, the challenge blog world is forcing my hand…that said, I went to my stash of retired goodies for this one. Starting with Festive Friday (#202)Continue reading “Sure Do Love You – Heart Happiness”