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”
Category Archives: Technique Challenge
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”
Jar of Love – For You
Welcome back! Already the middle of the week. Hoping it is shaping up to be a good one for you. Today’s Challenges: Inspired By (#324) Country Kitchen Colors with the Mason Jar and Retro Rubber (#249) Tic Tac Toe Board Line – Right (Die Cut(s) / Flowers / Embossing) along with a Vintage stamp set.Continue reading “Jar of Love – For You”
Floral Thinking of You
Welcome back! The weekend has arrived, and I am hoping you will have some time to be creative. For Just Add Ink (#739), I selected Thinking of You and Embossing from the three choices offered this week. I picked the suggested Facebook Stampin’ Up! Colour (February) Palette and the Freshly Made (#674) Sketch to bringContinue reading “Floral Thinking of You”
Hello – Thoughtful Moments
Sneaking in a card I created yesterday but ran out of time to post… This week at Stampin’ Through the Catalog, Nicole Peschke from kreatives_papierwunder, was the Guest Designer. We are encouraged to be inspired by her design and CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) it. I loved her card, and my takeaways were the colors,Continue reading “Hello – Thoughtful Moments”
The Inque Spot Studio 