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: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Daffodil Delight cardstock. Background Panel: (4”Continue 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”

Beautifully Adorned in Gold

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday.  Hoping you are well and taking the opportunity to celebrate International Women’s Day. Today, I am playing with: Shopping Our Stash (#568) for the color Gold and Festive Friday (#204) incorporating several of the suggested elements for a clean and simple styled card created for CAS on Friday (#329). Here isContinue reading “Beautifully Adorned in Gold”

Fully Flowering – Hello

Welcome back!  It’s Saturday and I am hoping you will find some time to be creative today… Using the lovely color palette for the Facebook Color INKspiration (#204) with the Stampin’ Up! Only (#396) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Flirty Flamingo cardstock. Background Panel: (4” xContinue reading “Fully Flowering – Hello”

Cutest Crew – Happy Birthday

Welcome back!  Friday has arrived…already the end of the week… Today, I am playing with Make My Monday (#271) for a Masculine card for a little fellow; Little Red Wagon (#848) to include an Animal; Krafty Chicks (#810) for the Sentiment: Creative Colour (#230) for the neutral Palette; and bringing it all together with theContinue reading “Cutest Crew – Happy Birthday”

Faerie Dust – Happy Birthday

Welcome back!  Happy Thursday… It is March and the time for green and gold with a little magic thrown in.  That said, this card was created with a few challenges in mind. Paper Players (#775) Mythical Creatures and mine is a Woodland Sprite, Seize the Birthday (#321) Anything with Wings, and Retro Rubber (#266) withContinue reading “Faerie Dust – Happy Birthday”

Celebrate Spring – Easter Joy

Hello there!  Another Design Team Challenge: The Atlantic Hearts (#671) Sketch.  My design choices were influenced by: Time Out (#307) with the Fabric Bag as inspiration and Four Seasons (#2603) for the Tulips and fun colors.  Just perfect to showcase the new Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base:Continue reading “Celebrate Spring – Easter Joy”

Winter Scenes – The First Noel

Hi again!  Design Team Time for Facebook’s Case-ing Tuesday (#554).  Where we select cards from the Catalogs and remake them as we are inspired.  Today’s inspiration can be found on the front cover of the Jan – Apr Mini Catalog. My design was influenced by: Farm Quest Country Christmas (#29) for a rural winter sceneContinue reading “Winter Scenes – The First Noel”

Beautiful Blues – Hello

Design Team Time for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#483) with a lovely Mood Board of pretty blue and white images.  I opted for the Floral Tile. Over at TGIF (#566), we are asked to give a spin on the curated crafting kits available from Stampin’ Up!   Given the blue and white mood board, I selectedContinue reading “Beautiful Blues – Hello”