Welcome back! Back at work in the Studio… Playing with the Festive Friday (#111) and CAS Colours & Sketches (#474) Challenges this morning for a sneak peek of some of the products from the Splendid Day Suite featured in the upcoming Holiday Mini Catalog. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scoredContinue reading “Botanical Prints – Splendid Day”
Category Archives: Tools Challenge
Daring Adventure – Guy Greetings
More testosterone…with Father’s Day around the corner, many, many masculine challenges abound. So here is one more… Double Trouble (#113) partnering with Try Stampin’ On Tuesdays (#559). How about adding elements from Tic Tac Toe (#166) and Inspiration Station (#31). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Very VanillaContinue reading “Daring Adventure – Guy Greetings”
A Nice Cuppa – With a Friend
Welcome back to the work week. I have a bright and bold card for you today! I got to make choices: Just Add Ink (#607) and Tic, Tac, Toe (#165). And I chose the colors from Cupcake Inspiration (#546) and loosely based the layout on the Inspire Create (#118) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “A Nice Cuppa – With a Friend”
Bubble Over – Birthday Celebration
Welcome to the weekend! I hope you find some time to play with your crafty stuff. Today, I am playing with the sketch from Try Stampin’ On Tuesday’s (#558) and for my theme I opted for As You Can See It (#276). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”)Continue reading “Bubble Over – Birthday Celebration”
Crafting Forever – Everyday Creativity
Welcome back! Catching a deadline or two before I get ready for tonight’s class. At Just Us Girls (#635), the word of the day is Paintbrush and that took me to the retired Crafting Forever stamp set. The color choice was inspired by CAS Colours & Sketches (#473). Additional choices for tools used came fromContinue reading “Crafting Forever – Everyday Creativity”
Botanical Prints – Here For You
Can you stand another one? I am catching up… Over at CAS on Friday (#232), the theme is Fruit. I selected the retired stamp set Botanical Prints for the Rosehip image. I chose to use the 1970’s inspired colors suggested by Retro Rubber (#184) and to bring these ideas together, I selected the current sketchContinue reading “Botanical Prints – Here For You”
Charming Sentiments – Just For You Butterfly Surprise
Welcome back…a few more challenges…keeping it clean and simple and black and white. Sketch: Just Add Ink (#606); Theme, Tools and Technique: Can You Handle the Pressure (#8); Tools and Technique: Alphabet Challenge (Letter “E”) and Use Your Stuff (#449) for Anything Goes. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored atContinue reading “Charming Sentiments – Just For You Butterfly Surprise”
Limited Edition – Paper Hug Birthday
A lot has been happening in the House of “J” and as a result it has been difficult to play in the Studio. So I am trying to hit a few birds with one stone… Sketch: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#359); Colors: TGIF (#371); Sentiment and Tool: Seize the Birthday (#239) and Theme: Paper Players (#594).Continue reading “Limited Edition – Paper Hug Birthday”
Perfectly Penciled – Sending Birthday Wishes
Hello and welcome back. Our current challenge at HANDSTAMPED SENTIMENTS (#390) is Color. Other Tuesday Team Challenges and deadlines are combined with today’s card. Sketch: Case-ing Tuesday Facebook Challenge (#358); Theme, Tools and Materials: Paper Craft Crew Challenge (#472); and I am sharing this project with the Colour INKspiration Facebook Challenge (#122) and the AlphabetContinue reading “Perfectly Penciled – Sending Birthday Wishes”
Winds of Change – You Make Me Smile
Over at Time Out, Challenge (#213) they are looking for a vacation related theme. What is your ideal vacation? Sun, Sand, Surf? Or like me, the cobbled streets of Europe. My ideal is cycling through the tulip fields in the Netherlands… Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) SoContinue reading “Winds of Change – You Make Me Smile”
The Inque Spot Studio 