Spring Floral Birthday – Here’s To You

Time again to catch up with the weekly Case-ing Tuesday Challenge #298.  This week the Sample and Sketch is from page 48 of the Mini Spring Catalog.  I decided to mix it up with the Paper Players #535 Challenge – Springtime Flowers. I hadn’t yet had a chance to play with my March 2021 PaperContinue reading “Spring Floral Birthday – Here’s To You”

Art Gallery – Quite Curvy Hello

Three Challenges: Materials:  Tic Tac Toe – TTC106 Technique:  TGIF – TGIFC309 Sketch:  Paper Players – PP534 How my brain works… Tic Tac Toe: Something Metallic, a Gray color and a Die Cut (??) TGIF: Create Your Own Designer Series Paper (Silver & Gray??) Paper Players:  Create all elements (??) and fit to match theContinue reading “Art Gallery – Quite Curvy Hello”

A Little Wild – Hello There, Baby Bear

Thought I would create a little card for the Paper Players Theme Challenge – PP533 today. Here is what I made.  Isn’t he the cutest little fellow? Sketch (Card) Elements: Card Base: (4¼” x 5½”) Balmy Blue Panel 1: (3¼” x 4½”) Basic White dry embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. Mat: (1¾”xContinue reading “A Little Wild – Hello There, Baby Bear”

Here’s A Card – I’m Here

This week’s Weekend Challenge to keep you stamping is a theme challenge.  I chose Butterfly -Things that Flutter and found this beautiful image of an iridescent butterfly to inspire you. To help me focus, I chose to use the current sketch from The Spot Team – Challenge #153 and to play along with the PaperContinue reading “Here’s A Card – I’m Here”

Daisy Lane – Smile

Playing around in the Studio with the Global Design Project Challenge – GDP282 and the TIC TAC TOE Challenge – TTTC103 options for inspiration. Here is what I created: Eight choices on a TIC TAC TOE board and I opted to use the right column:  Heat Embossing, Gold and Dry Embossing. To re-create this card:Continue reading “Daisy Lane – Smile”

You Earned a Visit to the Ice Cream Shoppe…

I don’t often tell a lot of stories here on my blog posts but I have one for you today!  Read on and I will tell you all about the reason I made this particular card. Three Challenges: Sketch:  Paper Players – PP530 Inspiration Theme:  TGIF – TGIFC305 Materials:  Tic Tac Toe – TTC102 HereContinue reading “You Earned a Visit to the Ice Cream Shoppe…”

Purr-fectly Happy – Come Sit With Me

Are you a Cat person or a Dog person?  Me – more of a cat lover and my significant other – of course, he is a dog lover! You know the cat won’t come to you, but is purr-fectly happy if you come to it! So, with that in mind, I pulled out an oldContinue reading “Purr-fectly Happy – Come Sit With Me”

Forever Gold – Happy Thoughts

Silver and Gold, Gold and Silver.  The Paper Players Team challenge– PP528 had me thinking about you! While I see now that the challenge suggested using Red or Pink with Black and White with Silver and/or Gold, I initially read it as Red and White or Black and White or Gold and Silver. All week,Continue reading “Forever Gold – Happy Thoughts”

Laced Hearts – Love Post

The Paper Players Team got me to make a Valentine’s Card with their current challenge– PP527. This is what I came up with… I pulled out all of the current pink/red toned cardstock from Stampin’ Up!  For my concept, I needed three to five colors.  Many of the pinks were too peachy compared to MagentaContinue reading “Laced Hearts – Love Post”

Treasured Medallions in Poppy Parade

This is my first TIC, TAC, TOE Challenge.  Offered up by the Paper Players Team – PP526, gave me lots of creative choices… How about DIE-CUT, RED and STENCIL?  Or, what about RED, EMBOSSING and SPARKLE? This is what I came up with… As mentioned in an earlier post, a new box of goodies arrivedContinue reading “Treasured Medallions in Poppy Parade”