Welcome back! Looking for ideas to spark your creativity? Hunt out a few challenge blogs…there are links to several in my blog posts. Another challenge mash-up: Cupcake Inspiration (#566) for the theme; Global Design Project (#389) for the color choices; and Sunday Stamps (#306) for the sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elementsContinue reading “Happy Labels – Celebrate Sunflowers”
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Something Special – Happy I Found You
Still raining…still playing… Simple cards, so easy to create are sometimes forgotten as we get better at cardmaking. For this card, I kept it very simple and let the pretty patterned paper do all the work. Over at Double Trouble (#135), the challenge is to use Rainbow Colors and they are in cahoots with TuesdayContinue reading “Something Special – Happy I Found You”
And They Came 2 x 2 – Count Me In
Welcome back! What a busy week. Glad to have some time to play but those darn deadlines keep creeping up… So today, I was inspired by Paper Players (#634) for the theme; Color Dare (#541) for the colors chosen; TGIF (#414) for the materials used; and bringing it all together the current sketch layout atContinue reading “And They Came 2 x 2 – Count Me In”
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”
Potted Geraniums – Happiness
Another Sunday deadline…so glad that I have time to play in the Studio! Working with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#493) and the Color Throwdown Challenge (#713). Here is the result: Steps: All of the elements were arranged on the card base to resemble the sketch. The Flowers were popped up with Dimensionals. Love itContinue reading “Potted Geraniums – Happiness”
Amazing Phrasing – Lookin’ Good, You Two!
Friday! The weekend is almost here. Hoping you have some awesome plans… An Anniversary card for you today. Celebrating a special day with some friends. Sketch – Atlantic Hearts (#485); Color/Theme/Tools/Materials – Tic Tac Toe (#174); Additional Color – Color Dare (#509). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”)Continue reading “Amazing Phrasing – Lookin’ Good, You Two!”
Animal Outing – Together We Make a Great Pair
Hi! Welcome back. Sundays are always great days to play in the Studio. The only drawback is that if I get busy during the week, all of the challenges (mostly sketches) that have Sunday deadlines are set up in the cue. Noon means Noon and Three means Three. Decided not to do the Noon challengeContinue reading “Animal Outing – Together We Make a Great Pair”
Watercolor Words – Love Hearts
Our current challenge at HANDSTAMPED SENTIMENTS (#383) is a Sketch. I decided to employ the *KISS* Principle – Keep It Simply Simple! I picked one color to tie into the selected Designer Series Paper pattern and the Tools / Theme from Dies “R” Us Challenge (#187) and the Shapes from the Make My Monday ChallengeContinue reading “Watercolor Words – Love Hearts”
Intricate Leaves – Happy Anniversary
A few more challenges…Wedding White with gold and/or silver just won’t cut it with my husband…something a little more down to earth is more his style. The optional element for the current Try Stampin’ on Tuesday’s Sketch challenge (#522) was Anniversary. Down to earth is clean and simple so I selected one of the linesContinue reading “Intricate Leaves – Happy Anniversary”
Dragonfly Garden – You Mean So Much
Welcome back! There are a lot of theme and color challenges this coming week and very few sketches. Isn’t that the way it goes…feast or famine. What I always find very interesting is that with so many choices out there, the collective universe always seems to be on the same wave length…so, I am goingContinue reading “Dragonfly Garden – You Mean So Much”
The Inque Spot Studio 