Friendly Seagulls – Fun Fold Card

Indulge me with another card – so many deadlines today… Playing with Inspire Create (#184) looking for a Fancy Fold…not a style of card that I make very often and sharing with Creative Creases (#99). I chose to participate in the Stampin’ Through The Catalog stamp choice for today – Friendly Seagulls and use theContinue reading “Friendly Seagulls – Fun Fold Card”

Double Fun Fold – Quilt Card

Welcome back!  Lots of inspiration for this card… Over at Stampin’ Through The Catalog today, Teri West was invited to be a Guest Designer and we are invited to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) her card.  My Take-aways were the overall card layout design, quilt element, and floral die-cut. I selected three colors from theContinue reading “Double Fun Fold – Quilt Card”

Pretty Petals – Thanks

Welcome back. No WIFI today, so excuse any operator errors as I create this post via my phone. The challenges: Facebook Stampin’ Through the Catalog – today’s selection: Pretty Petals, an On-Line Exclusive product; TGIF (#505) Thank You theme; Color Dare (#632) palette choices – Gorgeous Grape, Lost Lagoon, Moody Mauve and Pool Party; andContinue reading “Pretty Petals – Thanks”

Happiest Day – Dragon Fly Birthday

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#702) challenge.  This week, Jan has a sweet color combination for us to play with.  Inspiration for my design: Alphabet (Letter J) for Juvenile…make a kid suitable card; Facebook Stampin’ Through The Catalog – upcoming featured stamp set – Happiest Day; and bringing it all together, theContinue reading “Happiest Day – Dragon Fly Birthday”

Country Flowers – You’re The best

Hi again!  A quick little clean and simple #simple stamping card…just stamps, ink and paper. Every week, the Facebook Stampin’ Through the Catalog team chooses two stamp sets from the current Catalogs and/or On-Line Exclusive offerings to play with.  I don’t always have them, but I do have Country Flowers, which is the selection forContinue reading “Country Flowers – You’re The best”

Changing Leaves – Thank You

Design Time: This round Hand Stamped Sentiments (#443) has a great sketch…lots of possibilities and Cardz 4 Guyz (#352) is asking us to use Metals in some way and I decided to combine the two. Additional inspiration: Festive Friday (#164) incorporating some of the elements from their Summer Olympics List and the Paper Craft CrewContinue reading “Changing Leaves – Thank You”

Poised Peony – Best Birthday Wishes

Hello again! Today is the day that Facebook’s Stampin’ Through the Catalog invites us to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) a Designer’s Card.  The original card was created by Narelle Farrugia, who is one of Stampin’ Up!’s Artisan Designers.  Her card is lovely. My take-aways from Narelle’s card are: Focal image, Distressed Layers, a LabelContinue reading “Poised Peony – Best Birthday Wishes”

Poised Peony – Hello

Stampin’ Through the Catalog is featuring Poised Peony (page 28) today, Thursday June 27th and I decided to play along. So, I selected the Atlantic Hearts (#583) Sketch and to use a Stencil for Just Us Girls (#733) to design my card. Here is the result: Steps: A pretty Hello card. Thanks for spending someContinue reading “Poised Peony – Hello”

Spotlight on Nature – It’s Your Day

One more card for today…  Stampin’ Through the Catalog is featuring Spotlight on Nature (page 69) for Tuesday and I am getting a head start by combining it with a number of other challenges. How about a clean and simple card? One of my favorite styles.  Addicted to CAS (#261) theme – Critter; CAS onContinue reading “Spotlight on Nature – It’s Your Day”

Simply Said – Birthday Celebrations

Welcome back!  A Stampin’ Up! Challenge…the Facebook Group Stampin’ Through The Catalog is featuring the new stamp set Simply Said today. I chose the TGIF (#476) Colors, the Sketch Saturday (#752) Layout and the Just Us Girls (#731) Word – Celebrate by choosing the Let’s Celebrate stamp to work with among others from the stampContinue reading “Simply Said – Birthday Celebrations”