Welcome back! A new work week and I am playing with a number of related challenges today. Critter Crazy (#83); Inspiration Station (#58); and If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (#189) all featuring animals and animal love. Working with Inkspirational (#309); Color Throwdown (#780); and Retro Rubber (#224) for hearts, colors and sketch layout.Continue reading “Joyful Life – Friendly Critters”
Category Archives: Theme Challenges
Hills of Tuscany – Great Friend
Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#677) challenge. Ann is asking us to create a Clean & Simple Friendship card this week. I have been influenced by CAS on Friday (#277) which is looking for a Masculine card and chose to CASE the overall layout design created by Elodie Ventroux for the GlobalContinue reading “Hills of Tuscany – Great Friend”
Thoughtful Expressions – Softly Sophisticated
Welcome back! It had been a couple of busy days, but I wanted to post the card I made inspired by Michelle Last who was profiled on the Facebook Stampin’ Through the Catalog as a Guest Designer on February 15th. She had a really cute card with an inside surprise. I took inspiration from TheContinue reading “Thoughtful Expressions – Softly Sophisticated”
Santa is Done – Time for Tea
Hi! Back again for the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#447) sketch. There are several Christmas challenges about. Never too early to build up your stash. For Jingle Belles (#2403); Caffeinated Christmas (#26); and Krafty Chicks (#702). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Real Red cardstock. Background Panel: (5” xContinue reading “Santa is Done – Time for Tea”
Epic Celebration – Bright Birthday Wishes
Welcome back! Let’s get messy… Today I created a teen birthday card inspired by a card created by Sarah Gray for Time Out (#256) and my take-aways are the Splatter / Ink Spot elements. After all, this is the Inque Spot Studio! Over at Seize the Birthday (#277) the optional twist is to add splatter. Continue reading “Epic Celebration – Bright Birthday Wishes”
Thanks A Latte – A Nice Cuppa and More
Shall we have a coffee, tea or hot chocolate? For the Inspired By (#275) theme, colors and sketch. Sharing with Coffee Loving Cardmakers for a Coffee Date with Laurel and Amy and using elements suggested by Just Add Ink (#688). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Basic WhiteContinue reading “Thanks A Latte – A Nice Cuppa and More”
Sitting Here – Come and Sit a While
Welcome back! Monday and a brand-new week…let’s have some fun. Over at Farm Quest (#45) the theme is Porch Furniture. I dug out an old favorite stamp set, Sitting Here for this. I selected the Color Throwdown (#779) suggested colors and took inspiration from the Paper Craft Crew (#556) sketch design which I flipped. MuchContinue reading “Sitting Here – Come and Sit a While”
Balloon Adventures – Happy Birthday
Welcome back! I am having a bit of fun in the Studio…pulling out some oldies but goodies for a few challenges. For the Global Design Project (#431), I picked Balloon Adventures and a few others to create my scene. I selected the colors suggested by CAS Colours & Sketches (#530) and the Try a SketchContinue reading “Balloon Adventures – Happy Birthday”
Just My Type
Welcome back! And the valentines continue… Just Us Girls (#713) loving on our men for The Male Room (#183). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Basic Black cardstock. Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Basic White cardstock underlay and Script Collage patterned piece of vellum from the retired VellumContinue reading “Just My Type”
London Calling
Welcome back! Happy Wednesday. One last deadline for today. Playing with the Inspired By (#274) theme. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Very Vanilla cardstock. Accent Mat (1): (4” x 5¼”) Pebbled Path cardstock. Accent Mat (2): (3⅝” x 4⅞”) Cherry Cobbler cardstock. The greeting, Warm Hello, fromContinue reading “London Calling”
