Holiday Joy

Design Team Time: This round at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#478), we have a lovely set of colors. Perfect for Christmas. My design choices were influenced by: The Male Room (#205) to create a guy card with Red & Green; Simply Clean & Simple (#2512) to create a clean and simple card using Red & Green;Continue reading “Holiday Joy”

Best Wishes – Birthday Card

Design Time: For the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#535) Sketch.  Today’s card can be found on page 42 of the September 2025 – December 2026 Mini Catalog.  CASE: (Copy and Steal Everything) Making it the same; (Copy and Slightly Edit) Almost the same with a little variation; (Copy and Selectively Edit) Changing things.  You are welcomeContinue reading “Best Wishes – Birthday Card”

Modern Christmas – Winter Scene

Welcome back! Design Team Time for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#649).  A fun sketch featuring a scene.  Choose to create a scene like I did or do something else entirely.  I wanted to play with new Modern Christmas Specialty Designer Paper and the Decorative Trees stamp set, both On-Line Exclusive products, so I willContinue reading “Modern Christmas – Winter Scene”

Simply Said – Happy 60th Birthday

This week at Just Add Ink (#769), we are given a choice.  Pick Two: I selected Numbers & Neutrals. That is pretty wide open…so the following challenges influenced my design decisions: Style & Colors – CAS Colours & Sketches (#569) for a clean and simple card; TGIF (#542) for the Sketch; Addicted to Stamps &Continue reading “Simply Said – Happy 60th Birthday”

Thankful Garden

Welcome back! Design Team Time for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#644).  I selected the Color Dare (#665) palette for this card and am sharing with Addicted to Stamps & More (#500) selecting to use both stencils and dies. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch. Continue reading “Thankful Garden”

Have a Cup on Us – Merry Christmas

Welcome back!  Wishing you a happy Thursday.  Always chasing deadlines.  Where does the time go? Christmas (or Not) Bingo (#14), choosing B- Christmas, Brown and Plaid and Caffeinated Christmas (#44), always a holiday drink theme. Sharing with Love To Craft (#87) anything goes and Addicted to Stamps & More (#499) any occasion. I picked theContinue reading “Have a Cup on Us – Merry Christmas”

Gallery Blooms – Birthday

Welcome back!  Wishing you the best for your Sunday and hoping you find some time to be creative. I have a clean and simple, simple stamping card for you this morning for the CAS Colours & Sketches (#566) sketch which I flipped to the vertical position and Simply Clean & Simple (#26) anything goes. ChoosingContinue reading “Gallery Blooms – Birthday”

Christmas Greetings – Bells & Boughs

Welcome back! Happy Monday…a clean and simple holiday card for you today. Christmas in July and lots of CAS (clean and simple) challenges about with this theme: CAS on Friday (#313); Addicted to CAS (#287); and Addicted to Stamps & More (#497). Just Add Ink (#760) is sporting colors that definitely felt Christmasy and theContinue reading “Christmas Greetings – Bells & Boughs”

Let’s Set Sail – Summer Boating

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday.  Time for a little creative expression by escaping to the Studio on this very hot day. Order of the day – clean and simple for CAS on Friday (#311) with a Summer theme; Retro Rubber (#257) featuring older stamps with their Tic Tac Toe Board choices – right side: Stencil /Continue reading “Let’s Set Sail – Summer Boating”

Winged Whimsy – Happy Birthday

Design Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#514) Sketch. Today?  The card can be found on page 36 of the May 2025 – Apr 2026 Annual Catalog. Influences: Time Out (#289) Winged Thing – a sweet little dragon; Addicted to Stamps & More (#493) Birthday; and Color Dare (#652) with a bright palette perfect for fantasy. HereContinue reading “Winged Whimsy – Happy Birthday”