Welcome back! A clean and simple card for you today. How refreshing! The challenges: AAA Cards (#241) Drinks; Addicted to CAS (#239) One Layer; Retro Rubber (#208) Summer Colors; and the Freshly Made (#589) Sketch flipped horizontally to bring it all together. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”)Continue reading “Sip, Sip, Hooray – Summer is on its way…”
Category Archives: Theme Challenges
Brave, Strong, Smart & Loved
Welcome back! A quick little clean and simple card to celebrate that guy in your life. Challenges: Inspired By (#240) and Inspire Create (#144) and sharing with Shopping Our Stash (#498). I was drawn to the overall impression of the muted colors of the cabinet, the wall treatment and the metallic adornments on the cabinet. Continue reading “Brave, Strong, Smart & Loved”
Christmas Cheers – Merry Cafe
A fun Christmas Coffee card for you today. Which means pulling out some retired favorites. Loving the Multi-colored Ornaments and the bright blue for a man with a modern sensibility. A lot of challenges: Jingle Belles (#2312) partnering with Caffeinated Christmas (#18) for the themes. Adding to Inkspirational (#291) for a seasonal card and HappyContinue reading “Christmas Cheers – Merry Cafe”
Perched in a Tree – Kindness
Hi! Welcome back. Working with this week’s Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#411) sketch. Having a play with the Perched in a Tree stamp set and mixing in the new neutral color Copper Clay for the challenges Can You Handle the Pressure (#32) and incorporating additional colors for Color Dare (#550). Here is the result: Steps: CardContinue reading “Perched in a Tree – Kindness”
Epic Celebrations – Musical Interlude
One more deadline for the day…welcome back! It is June and there are several Masculine challenges about. So, for Paper Players (#643) and Just Add Ink (#655) I created this card with the colors from Just Us Girls (#682) and the sketch from Tuesday Morning (#709). Let’s have some fun! Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “Epic Celebrations – Musical Interlude”
The Traveler – Celebrating You
Happy Saturday…Welcome back! A few deadlines and a several complimentary challenges: As You See It (#300) with the theme Adventure; Tic Tac Toe (#211) with a line that includes a Travel theme, a Die-Cut and something Antique; and choosing masculine Sepia tones for Paper Craft Crew (#522) Masculine theme; bringing it all together with theContinue reading “The Traveler – Celebrating You”
Cheerful Daisies – Bright Birthday
Welcome back! Snagging a little time in the Studio in between a few chores… A little while back, Stampin’ Up! created a series of webinars for new Demonstrators called Creating Connections. You have your Kit, but now what? As part of getting started, challenges are given to participating new Demos and it is always recommendedContinue reading “Cheerful Daisies – Bright Birthday”
Can You See…Home of the Brave
Welcome back! Happy Friday. Have any great weekend plans? Today, I am playing with The Card Concept (#196) theme, flowers and colors with the Sunday Stamps (#310) sketch. I am also sharing this card with Krafty Chicks (#666) to use a stamp and Use Your Stuff (#485) for anything goes. Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “Can You See…Home of the Brave”
Boho Floral – You Are Wonderful
Welcome back! Mid-week hump day. Will you be able to carve out some creative time for yourself today? A little inspiration: As You See It (#299) gives us a recipe to follow…just collect your pieces and put it together. I selected to CASE (copy and selectively edit) the card layout from Krista Frattin as suggestedContinue reading “Boho Floral – You Are Wonderful”
Earthen Textures – Appreciated and Celebrated
Tuesday! Design Team Challenges for Cardz 4 Guyz (#323) and Facebook Case-ing Tuesdays (#410) showcasing the wonderful Earthen Textures Stamp Set and Dies Bundle. I chose a vertical or portrait style card to better suit my choices. Inspiration for the card design came from: Double Trouble (#139) partnering with Festive Friday (#135) and choosing theContinue reading “Earthen Textures – Appreciated and Celebrated”
