Iced Gingerbread & Coffee – Made with Love

Welcome back! Happy Saturday.  Hoping you will find some time to be creative today. A few challenge themes: Paper Craft Crew (#608) Treats and Caffeinated Christmas (#38) Add a Heart. With the Color Throwdown (#826) Palette and the TGIF (#512) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base toContinue reading “Iced Gingerbread & Coffee – Made with Love”

Vintage Romance – Layers of Beauty

Design Time for The Card Concept (#214) and we have a very pretty inspiration photograph. The image felt so shabby chic and vintage to me that I was inspired to create a collage style multi-layered card in the colors suggested. I am sharing this card with the Alphabet Challenges – Letter “V” for Vintage; TheContinue reading “Vintage Romance – Layers of Beauty”

Birthday Greetings – Wetlands

A nice birthday card for the men in your life… Playing with the Retro Rubber (#247) Color Palette and choosing the purples to create a Monochromatic card for The Male Room (#195) and selecting the Birthday theme from Krafty Chicks (#754). Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base andContinue reading “Birthday Greetings – Wetlands”

Simply Said – Happy Birthday

A quiet day for me and an opportunity to create another card. This time I am inspired by the Just Add Ink (#735) color suggestions – Black, White, a pop of color and some Gold.  Over at Just Us Girls (#759), this week we are challenged to use Stencils.  I selected two from the retiredContinue reading “Simply Said – Happy Birthday”

Winter Fun – Valentine

Welcome back! The Season of Love is nye… Today, I am inspired by the card created by Emma Goddard for the Facebook Global Design Project (#480) CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit). My takeaways: Small White Embossed Background, Centre Image/Sentiment and Ribbon detail. My choices were influenced by Retro Rubber (#246) for a Winter Fun themeContinue reading “Winter Fun – Valentine”

Happy Hibiscus – Thanks

Welcome back!  A quick little card for you today… Playing with the Just Us Girls (#758) Mood Board and choosing the colors: Poppy Parade, Smoky Slate, Pebbled Path and Crushed Curry for the Red, Light Gray, Darker Gray and Dark Cream colors and moving away from the winter theme (as it is too darn coldContinue reading “Happy Hibiscus – Thanks”

Sketched Butterfly – Sending Love

Welcome back!  Today, I created a clean and simple card for Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#495), where we CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Today?  The card can be found on page 59 of the 2025 Mini Catalog.   You know that my favorite style of card is clean and simple,Continue reading “Sketched Butterfly – Sending Love”

Heart Shaped – Guy Valentine

Welcome back! It is Saturday and the weekend is here! I have a little grungy masculine valentine for you today. Combining Just Us Girls (#757) and Creative Colour (#175) with the Facebook Global Design Project (#478) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble sketch with theContinue reading “Heart Shaped – Guy Valentine”

Enduring Beauty – Thanks

Welcome back! It is a snowy morning here today.  Just hoping it stays as snow without the sleet.  That said…I am thinking Spring! Combining Beautiful Blossoms (#24) and Alphabet (Letter T) with the Atlantic Hearts (#611) Sketch for a shabby chic type of card. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to theContinue reading “Enduring Beauty – Thanks”

Jolly Gingerbread – From Our House

Welcome back!  Catching up on a few challenges that I didn’t have time for during the Christmas week.  Ho, Ho, Ho! Design Team: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#492) where we CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Last week’s card can be found on page 47 of the Sep – DecContinue reading “Jolly Gingerbread – From Our House”