Far Away Landscapes – To a Great Guy

Design Time: Cardz 4 Guyz (#384) with a suggested color palette of light blue and brown. Playing along with several other current Masculine Challenges: Inspire Create (#211); Little Red Wagon (#849); The Male Room (#208) also asking for blue and brown. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base.  SomeContinue reading “Far Away Landscapes – To a Great Guy”

Touches of Texture – Get Well Card

Design Team Time for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#484) with a lovely Monochromatic palette of colors. My design was influenced by: Just Add Ink (#781) for a Winged element; Shopping Our Stash (#569) to include a Number; and Just Us Girls (#814) to add Embossed Elements and that list sent me to my stash of retiredContinue reading “Touches of Texture – Get Well Card”

Cutest Crew – Just a Little Hello

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday… Clean and simple is the order of the day. Playing with: Paper Players (#777) for a Floral card; CAS Colours & Sketches (#580) for the Palette, Freshly Made Sketches (#727) for the Layout; and sharing with Simply Clean & Simple (#2603) for the Anything Goes theme. Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “Cutest Crew – Just a Little Hello”

Friendly Foliage – Vintage Thinking of You

Welcome to the weekend!  Happy Saturday.  Hoping you are able to find a little time to be creative.  Over at Ellibelle’s Corner, Ellibelle’s I Spy With My Little Eye (#34) is asking us to feature something that we love and I chose paper!  I confess to being a collector of paper.  Almost everywhere I go,Continue reading “Friendly Foliage – Vintage Thinking of You”

Nature’s Symphony – Birthday

Welcome back!  Friday…the end of the week and catching up with all things green with a spot of gold. Today is mostly a color challenge day: Seize the Birthday (#322) using mostly Green; along with Color Hues (#128) Green & Gold; Inspiration Station (#83) with a Green & Gold suggestion photo. Additionally, I am playingContinue reading “Nature’s Symphony – Birthday”

Flowers Fair – Fabulous Friend

Welcome back!  So glad you joined me… Today, I am playing with: Color Dare (#693) for a Cherry Cobbler and Pretty Peacock combination; Addicted to CAS (#303) for the Garden theme; and bringing my ideas together with the current Global Design Project (#538) Sketch which I flipped to the vertical orientation. Here is the result:Continue reading “Flowers Fair – Fabulous Friend”

Beautiful Motifs – Thinking of You

Welcome back!  Happy Wednesday.  Chasing a few deadlines with challenges that have a similar theme. March is here and so is green… Starting with: Just Us Girls (#813) to use Dies with a Twist to use the color, Green; Triple B (#2603) with a Green Twist featuring Blooms, Birds and/or Butterflies; If You Give aContinue reading “Beautiful Motifs – Thinking of You”

Celebrate Spring – Sweet Greetings

Design Team Time for both The Card Concept (#225) Inspiration Board and the Atlantic Hearts (#672) Sketch, combining the two. and sharing with Paper Players (#776) as this card fits their Colors of the Rainbow theme. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The mattedContinue reading “Celebrate Spring – Sweet Greetings”

Lovely Blossoms – You are so Beautiful

Welcome back!  Design Team Time for Facebook’s Case-ing Tuesday (#555).  Where we select cards from the Catalogs and remake them as we are inspired.  Today’s inspiration can be found on page 19 of the Jan – Apr Mini Catalog. My design choices were influenced by the Sunday Stamps (#381) Color Palette which match up withContinue reading “Lovely Blossoms – You are so Beautiful”

Forever Florals – Thinking of You

Welcome back!  Monday and off to a “quick” start. I have taken up the As You See it (#367) Speed Challenge.  Create a card in less than 10 minutes featuring the color, Purple. Usually, I go for high speed with a clean and simple card.  Today, I wanted to try something different.  I chose toContinue reading “Forever Florals – Thinking of You”