Welcome back! It’s Friday!! Hoping you have a fantastic weekend and some time to be creative. We are having a lovely day with lower humidity which makes it a great time to be outdoors tending to the garden and the house plants. That said, I am playing with Farm Quest (#58) creating a Potting BenchContinue reading “Planted Paradise – With Love”
Category Archives: Theme Challenges
Let’s Go To The Beach – Friends
Hi again! Summer and summer vacations…trips to the beach… Playing with a number of CAS (clean and simple) challenges: AAA Cards (#271), Addicted To CAS (#264) and Simply Clean & Simple (#14) and selecting three colors , Wild Wheat, Pretty in Pink and Moody Mauve, from the Sunday Stamps (#341) line-up. Here is the result:Continue reading “Let’s Go To The Beach – Friends”
Love & Affection – Sending a Smile
Welcome back! So happy you came for a visit. A few deadlines: Double Trouble (#172) partnering with If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (#195) for a “Be Happy” theme and Color Dare (#612) Tic Tac Toe Board choices and I picked my favorites from the center vertical line. All three, bright and happy. InContinue reading “Love & Affection – Sending a Smile”
Lovely & Sweet – Floral Congratulations
Hi! I have a fun floral summer congrats card for you today. I must say I really struggled with coming up with a plan for each of these challenges. After a good long think and another cup of coffee…here is what I made. Over at Just add Ink (#714), a lovely set of bright colors…butContinue reading “Lovely & Sweet – Floral Congratulations”
Delicate Forest – Best Birthday Wishes
Design Team time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#473). The weekly Catalog CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) of cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs. The card today? Found on page 127 of the Annual Catalog. We invite you to re-create it any way you like. Keeping the layout pretty much the same, I chose to playContinue reading “Delicate Forest – Best Birthday Wishes”
Daring Adventure
Welcome back! A brand-new week…hope it will be a good one. A few guy challenges are about. Over at Inspire Create (#174), the theme is Men; The Male Room (#189), a site for guy cards, is asking us to employ mixed media styling; Park Hopping (August) have Harry Potter – Steam Punk themed inspiration photos;Continue reading “Daring Adventure”
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”
Everyday Details – Happy Thoughts
Welcome back! How does the week go by so quickly? No matter, I am playing in the Studio. Today’s combinations: Over at Stampin’ Up! Only (#357), we are tasked with CASE-ing a card found on page 64 of the Annual Catalog. I chose to take up the Stampin’ Up! (August) Creative Challenge to play withContinue reading “Everyday Details – Happy Thoughts”
Up & Away – Birthday Balloon Adventures
Welcome back! A little birthday card for you today… A couple of challenges are looking for Balloons: Shopping Our Stash (#527) and Crafter’s Café (#310). Then comes along a Sketch from Tuesday Morning (#768) that is ideal for a set of Balloons. Only thing left is the Color choice and I picked the happy brightsContinue reading “Up & Away – Birthday Balloon Adventures”
The Inque Spot Studio 