Welcome back! Happy Saturday. Hoping you will find some time to be creative today. A few challenge themes: Paper Craft Crew (#608) Treats and Caffeinated Christmas (#38) Add a Heart. With the Color Throwdown (#826) Palette and the TGIF (#512) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base toContinue reading “Iced Gingerbread & Coffee – Made with Love”
Category Archives: Theme Challenges
Perfect Pomegranate – Let’s Celebrate
Welcome back! Presented with the selection of Creative Colours (#180) falling within the Pink family and the Facebook Global Design Project (#483) theme of Fruit, I chose Pomegranates. I took a dive into my stash to locate the Perfect Pomegranate stamp set from a few years back. I chose the Just Add Ink (#738)Continue reading “Perfect Pomegranate – Let’s Celebrate”
Winter Birthday – Sentimental Park
Welcome back! Friday again. Where does the week go? Back in my happy place with a clean and simple card created for my country loving friend. The challenges: AAA Cards (#238) for the colors – Mossy Meadow, Boho Blue, Soft Sea Foam and Smoky Slate; AAA Birthday (#70) for the technique; Addicted To CAS (#276)Continue reading “Winter Birthday – Sentimental Park”
Vintage Romance – Layers of Beauty
Design Time for The Card Concept (#214) and we have a very pretty inspiration photograph. The image felt so shabby chic and vintage to me that I was inspired to create a collage style multi-layered card in the colors suggested. I am sharing this card with the Alphabet Challenges – Letter “V” for Vintage; TheContinue reading “Vintage Romance – Layers of Beauty”
You Are Fantastic – Everyday Arches & More
Design Time for the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#499), where we CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs. Today? The card can be found on page 33 of the Jan – Apr Mini Catalog. I chose to mirror the sketch and play with today’s Stampin’ Through the Catalog stamp set selection,Continue reading “You Are Fantastic – Everyday Arches & More”
Floral Heart – Happy Thoughts
One more card for you today… Playing with the Inspired By (#322) Puffy Hearts theme: Creating Puff using a Floral Fabric and the Heart Design. I am also sharing with Park Hopping (February) for their Heart Valentine theme and Can You Handle The Pressure (#73) with the Optional Letter “F” Twist for Fabric. Here isContinue reading “Floral Heart – Happy Thoughts”
Winter Magic – Tree Shaped Card / Tag
Welcome back! A brand-new week and I am thinking Winter… Today I am playing with the Jingle Belles (#2503) suggestion to make a “Shaped” card and sharing it with the Four Seasons (February) Anything Goes Winter. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base creating a nice little Shaped Card/Tag.Continue reading “Winter Magic – Tree Shaped Card / Tag”
Anniversary – Love
Welcome back! I have a sweet little love card for you today. Over at Facebook’s Colour INKspirations (#180) the colors were a bit challenging, but I was inspired by the Make My Monday (#244) Gnome theme. As mentioned in the past, I do not have any Gnome stamp sets, so I perused Pinterest for anContinue reading “Anniversary – Love”
Birthday Greetings – Wetlands
A nice birthday card for the men in your life… Playing with the Retro Rubber (#247) Color Palette and choosing the purples to create a Monochromatic card for The Male Room (#195) and selecting the Birthday theme from Krafty Chicks (#754). Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base andContinue reading “Birthday Greetings – Wetlands”
Sending Love – Hooray For Surprises
The Valentines just keep coming… I am creating with Ann’s theme at Paper Players (#723) Love is in the Air in mind and selected the current sketch from the Facebook Global Design Project (#482) for my general layout and choosing the colors pink and red as suggested by the collaboration between Color Hues (#103) andContinue reading “Sending Love – Hooray For Surprises”