By The Dock – The Living is Easy in the Summer

Design Time: Cardz 4 Guyz (#388) with a Summer Time theme and I kept really simple! Additional influences: Inspire Create (#220) Single Layer; Krafty Chicks (#829) Clean & Simple; Colorful Options (#2607) Red, White & Blue; and Addicted to Stamps & More (#521) Make Your Mark – Coloring Technique. Here is the result: Steps: AContinue reading “By The Dock – The Living is Easy in the Summer”

Pretty Pink Posies – Birthday Card

Time again for the Hand Stamped Sentiments (#493) and the Case-ing Tueday (#574) Design Team Challenges.  This round, we have a Color Board and a very nice Sketch. I am also sharing this card with AAA Birthday Cards (#87) and Little Red Wagon (#867). Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to theContinue reading “Pretty Pink Posies – Birthday Card”

Bachelor Buttons – Birthday

Design Time: Cardz 4 Guyz (#387) with a Gardening theme and I kept really simple! Here is the result: Steps: A fun little ‘gift” card for the guy that like to do a bit of gardening. Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda! Need a card? Ask me and IContinue reading “Bachelor Buttons – Birthday”

Woodland Wishes – Christmas Cheer

A clean and simple single layer holiday card for you today. Smashing together several challenges: Jingle Belles (#2611) and Krafty Chicks (#824) with Facebook’s Global Design Project (#551) and Critter Crazy (#111) along with Alphabet (Letter D). Choosing to add a frame for Addicted to CAS (#310) and the palette suggested by Color Dare (#707).Continue reading “Woodland Wishes – Christmas Cheer”

Woodland Wishes – Christmas in July

Design Team Time for The Card Concept (#228b) Inspiration Board for both theme and colors for a clean and simple holiday card. Sharing with Christmas (or not) Bingo (#19) Letter N. Here is the result: Steps: I am looking forward to seeing how you were inspired by The Card Concept Inspiration Christmas Photo / ColorContinue reading “Woodland Wishes – Christmas in July”

Far Away Landscapes – Christmas Wishes

Welcome back!  This week is just flying by… Creating a holiday card for Farm Quest Country Christmas (#32), always a rural winter theme and sharing with The Male Room (#211) looking for an Outdoors type card. I selected the right card sample on page 33 of the May – August 2026 Stampin’ Up! Catalog forContinue reading “Far Away Landscapes – Christmas Wishes”

Sailing Home – All the Best

Hi again!  Chasing a deadline or two… Addicted to CAS (#308) for a clean and simple card featuring Travel. Choosing CAS Colours & Sketches (#586) for the Palette and Sunday Stamps (#386) for the Sketch. Adding in Just Us Girls (#825) to use Stencils and going Masculine for Krafty Chicks (#822) and TGIF (#579). HereContinue reading “Sailing Home – All the Best”

Textured Grunge – Delightful Day

Welcome back!  I have a fun card with lots of elements from a variety of stamp sets. My mash up for today: Retro Rubber (#272) with a Sketch; Just Add ink (#786) looking for Polka Dots; Alphabet (Letter C) looking for Circles; Double D (#260520) looking for Splatter; and Little Red Wagon (#860) looking forContinue reading “Textured Grunge – Delightful Day”

Time for Celebration – Noel

Welcome back!  Happy to find some time to visit the Studio… I am playing with Jingle Belles (#2610) for an Ombre Wonderland, choosing the Creative Colours (#242) Palette with the Paper Player (#787) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Snowflakes were poppedContinue reading “Time for Celebration – Noel”

Fragrant Layers – Thank You

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday.  Hoping your day is wonderful. Simple stamping, just stamps, ink and paper for a quick Thank you card for TGIF (#577) and Creative Colours (#240). Here is the result: Steps: Adhere card front to card base and then we are done…add a few clear Dewdrops Embellishments for a little sparkle. AContinue reading “Fragrant Layers – Thank You”