Welcome back to a new week! Playing around with the CAS Colours & Sketches (#489) sketch today. I have incorporated the themes from Alphabet (Letter M) and CAS on Friday (#241) using the colors suggested by Just Add Ink (#623). Here is the result: Steps: The completed clean and simple panel was added to theContinue reading “Magical Spirit – Stars of Light”
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Eden’s Garden Wreath – Hello
I am delighted to be invited to be a Guest with the Tic Tac Toe Team this week. I was given Challenge (#179) and I selected the Center Vertical Column: Wreath, Wood and Patterned Paper. Let the fun begin…I selected a number of concurrent challenges to inform my selections. Starting with the Alphabet (Letter L)Continue reading “Eden’s Garden Wreath – Hello”
Count On Me – Love
Welcome back! I just got back from the New Orleans Stampin’ Up! BackStage conference. What an interesting city. What a great conference! Anyhow, happy to be back in the Studio and I am catching up with a few challenge deadlines. Sketch: CAS Colour & Sketches (#484), Festive Friday (#116) for the Materials and the AlphabetContinue reading “Count On Me – Love”
You Can Do Anything – So Hoppy Together
Welcome to the weekend! We had a lovely visit to a local Winery this afternoon. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend City Scape Winery. But before we left, I created this card for the following challenges: Sketch: Freshly Made (#485), Theme: Alphabet Letter “J” and Color: Facebook Color INKspiration (#127). AContinue reading “You Can Do Anything – So Hoppy Together”
Oriental Brushstrokes – Tranquility
How about we pull out the one stamp set that made me swoon when I flipped through the very first catalog I ever saw. Oriental Brushstrokes. It had retired by the time I started buying Stampin’ Up! products and it took me a few years to find it. I think it will be part ofContinue reading “Oriental Brushstrokes – Tranquility”
Go Fly a Kite
How about CAS (Clean and Simple) today? One of my favorite styles of card to make using stuff in my stash. Several current challenges that fall within a similar theme: Kids – Paper Players (#600) and Addicted to CAS (#224), Words (Themes) – CASology (#405) and Alphabet (Letter H), and bringing it all together RetroContinue reading “Go Fly a Kite”
Hippest Hippos – Let’s Flirt!
Have you had a chance to get your hands on those ever so cute Hippos from the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-bration Brochure? Not yet? Well, the stamp set, Hippest Hippos and coordinating Hippo Dies, can be yours free with a qualifying purchase. I couldn’t resist using them for the current Alphabet Challenge – Letter G: “G”Continue reading “Hippest Hippos – Let’s Flirt!”
Hand-Penned Petals – Perfectly Penciled Friendship Card
One more… Sketch: Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge (#661), Theme and Colors: The Flower Challenge (#69) and Sentiment: The Alphabet Challenge (Letter “F”). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Balmy Blue cardstock. Background Panel: (5” x 3¾”) Black Dotted patterned piece of paper from the now retired Pattern PartyContinue reading “Hand-Penned Petals – Perfectly Penciled Friendship Card”
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”
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”