Fab Family Outing – Mom’s Birthday Present

Happy Sunday!  Hoping you will have some time to be creative today. First up…Tic Tac Toe (#205) Board Diagonal: Cute, Family, Coloring; Choosing Stampin’ Blends Alcohol Markers for Seize the Birthday (#259) and the Creative Colour (#85) colors with the flipped Freshly Made (#582) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: A cute family scene…a greatContinue reading “Fab Family Outing – Mom’s Birthday Present”

Delicate Desert Terra Cotta Pots

Welcome back!  Had a great class this afternoon and I am catching up on a deadline or two… Post class, I played with the Stampin’ Up! Only (#324) Color challenge and the Global Design Project (#390) sketch using several layers, so adding the card to Use Your Stuff (#482). Here is the result: Steps: AllContinue reading “Delicate Desert Terra Cotta Pots”

Full of Love

Happy Saturday!  Welcome to the weekend.  I hope you have a chance to be creative… This morning I created a card for several open challenges:  Firstly, Inspiration Station (#48) for the photo of the big blue sky and the tulip fields.  Having a Dutch background, this speaks to me and tulips are my mother’s favoriteContinue reading “Full of Love”

Framed Fern – Best Wishes

Welcome back!  Another CAS (Clean & Simple) card for you today.  Less Is More (#480) for the colors, Make My Monday (#198) for an idea and Happy Little Stampers (April) as I chose to use Dies. Here is the result: Steps: The card was assembled.  Black and White with a pop of color!  Always aContinue reading “Framed Fern – Best Wishes”

Setting Sail into the Sunshine

Tuesday!  Design Team Challenge for Facebook Case-ing Tuesday Sketches (#403). Where we recreate and/or CASE (copy and selectively edit) the chosen Catalog sample card of the week. I picked the colors suggested by TGIF (#415) and the word of the week from Just Us Girls (#674) to create my design. Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “Setting Sail into the Sunshine”

Graceful Tiles – Because of You

The Design Team Challenge for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#411) is an inspiration Mood Board.  There are a lot of take aways and I am taken with the image of the Umbrellas. Additional inspiration comes from Just Add Ink (646):  The Cookies led to the colors chosen – Pink, Yellow and Orange as well as theContinue reading “Graceful Tiles – Because of You”

It Looks Like Spring!

Happy Sunday!  Hoping you have a chance to be creative…I have a lot of challenge deadlines today so I will be a busy rabbit! Playing with: Global Design Project (#387) for the theme; Creative Colours (#82) for the colors; and Tuesday Morning (#701) for the sketch layout. Additionally, I chose to watercolor for Happy LittleContinue reading “It Looks Like Spring!”

Beautiful Day – Graceful Tile

It has been a busy week.  Welcome back!  I have an elegant clean and simple card for you today for a few challenges. Inspired By (#231) for Colors, Patterns and Sketch, Just Us Girls (#672) and Less Is More (#479).   Here is the result: Steps: And that is it!  Using the sketch for designContinue reading “Beautiful Day – Graceful Tile”

Painted Floral – Sometimes…

Welcome back!  One last challenge deadline for today. Atlantic Hearts (#517) sketch with colors selected from the Fancy Five board over at Color Dare (#540). After a peruse through the catalogs, I settled on the Fancy Flora Designer Series Paper pack to match the colors I chose: Soft Succulent (for Sage); Evening Evergreen (for Pine);Continue reading “Painted Floral – Sometimes…”

Enjoy the Adventure – So Sweet Floral

Happy Sunday!  Hoping you have a chance to be creative today… Can you create a card without ink?  Just Add Ink (#645) is challenging us to create with no stamping. I opted for the current sketch at Tuesday Morning (#700) and to use the Enjoy the Adventure Memories & More Card Pack.  One of theContinue reading “Enjoy the Adventure – So Sweet Floral”