Welcome back! Wishing you a wonderful Friday. Today I have a clean and simple card for a number of different challenges. Tic Tac Toe (#273) left line: Love, CAS, and Scoring; Paper Players (#742) CAS with a Fruit theme; Krafty Chicks (#773) for their CAS week; and choosing the Freshly Made (#691) Sketch which isContinue reading “Perfectly Pears – A Perfect Pair”
Category Archives: Technique Challenge
Botanical Prints – Here For You
Storms rolled through and we are powered by a generator. More important that the freezer and the refrigerator are plugged in than my computer. Let’s revisit a post and card created in June of 2022. I hope you like it as much as I do. Cheers, Jolanda Over at CAS on Friday (#232), the themeContinue reading “Botanical Prints – Here For You”
Spring Corners – Thank You
Welcome to my Studio offerings! Back in the clean and simple groove with a pretty little thank you card… The challenges: CAS on Friday (#310) adding an embossed element; The Flower Challenge (#103) to also do some embossing; Color Dare (#653) with a purple and aqua duo; and bringing it all together, the Stampin’ Up!Continue reading “Spring Corners – Thank You”
Beautiful Motifs – Love & Happiness
Welcome back! Already the middle of the week. Hope you have a great day! Wedding & Engagement season is upon us…and I created a pretty monochromatic floral card. The challenges: TGIF (#525) Paper Flowers; Double Trouble (#191) Wedding / Anniversary; Color Dare (#651) Jade (Lost Lagoon) plus one (Pretty Peacock); and sharing with Ellibelle’s CraftyContinue reading “Beautiful Motifs – Love & Happiness”
Let It Ride – Happy Retirement
Design Time: Facebook’s Case-ing Tuesday (#511) CASE-Ing Challenge where we copy and selectively edit a card found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs. Today? The card can be found on page 134 of the May 2025 – Apr 2026 Annual Catalog. Two challenges influenced my design choices today: Festive Friday (#183) with a list of particularContinue reading “Let It Ride – Happy Retirement”
Textured Botanicals – Happy Birthday
Welcome back! A new day and a few new challenges…and the end of the month. Both Just Us Girls (#772) and Seize The Birthday (#304) have technique challenges to use Stencils. Over at Addicted to Stamps & More (#491), we are challenged to Make Our Mark, and I am making mine with a few self-madeContinue reading “Textured Botanicals – Happy Birthday”
Petal Promenade – Friends
Welcome back! Happy Sunday. Over at Time Out (#284), we are challenges to create inspired by Red Carpet Fashion. I opted for a lovely floral dress worn by Zendaya at the 2023 SAG Awards. Additional influences related to my design were: Ellibelle’s Garden Party (#1) for anything in or from the Garden; Love Those PrettyContinue reading “Petal Promenade – Friends”
Painted Posies – Celebrate
Design Time for The Card Concept (#215) and we have a lovely floral cake for our inspiration this month. I loved all the texture and the white space, so I chose to create a clean and simple, yet textured card. I am sharing this card with the CAS on Friday (#304) for water coloring andContinue reading “Painted Posies – Celebrate”
It’s Your Day
I am delighted to be the featured as the Crazy Cousin Guest Designer for Double Trouble this month. First Up: Double Trouble (#186) 3-2-1 for three colors – Green, Gold and White; two stencils; and one sentiment. The challenge includes a twist – to add a shamrock or two and partner with Try A sketchContinue reading “It’s Your Day”
Helping Me Grow – Hello
Welcome back. Friday again…Do you have creative plans for the weekend? Let me provide you with a little inspiration… Over at Inkspirational (#335), we have a lovely mood board, and I was taken with the pretty flowers – Hyacinths and the Aqua tones. I opted to add a bit more color and chose the colorContinue reading “Helping Me Grow – Hello”
The Inque Spot Studio 