Welcome back! Happy Sunday. Hoping you are doing okay with the winter storm. So far, we still have power and I am taking advantage of that… Today’s card was made with the Freshly Made (#720) Sketch in mind and playing with the Watercolor in Bloom December 2025 Paper Pumpkin Kit in a clean and simpleContinue reading “Watercolor in Bloom – Loved”
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Weekend Adventures – Love This Place
Design Team Time for The Card Concept (#223b), giving you an additional Inspiration Photo and a set of Colors more geared to Valentine’s Day. For my clean layered styled card, I opted for the Love Nest theme and general Color scheme for my Winter Get-Away design utilizing a recycled Holiday card. Here is the result:Continue reading “Weekend Adventures – Love This Place”
Piet Mondrian – Big on Birthdays
Welcome back! Happy Thursday…a clean and simple masculine birthday card for you today. Simple stamping at its best – just stamps ink and paper! The challenges: Little Red Wagon (#842) Keep it Simple; Krafty Chicks (#804) Masculine; Creative Colours (#224), with the primary palette inspiring the Piet Mondrian layout; and sharing with Creative Crafters (#96)Continue reading “Piet Mondrian – Big on Birthdays”
Snow Front – With Love
Welcome back! A brand-new week and we are off to a start in my favorite style – Clean and Simple. Combining: Paper Players (#769) Signs of Winter theme with the CAS on Friday (#325) Snowman theme. Choosing the CAS Colours & Sketches (#576) Palette and sharing with Krafty Chicks (#803) for their CAS week. HereContinue reading “Snow Front – With Love”
Oh Joy – Snow
Welcome back! It is cold in the Upstate and we have a chance of flurries as it is snowing just north of us in the mountains. With that, today’s card is made with a few challenges in mind: Just Add Ink (#777) Something Seasonal; Inspired By (#371) Snowflakes and Colors; and bringing everything together, theContinue reading “Oh Joy – Snow”
Fragrant Layers – Happy Birthday
Welcome back! I have a pretty birthday card for you today… Celebrating Double D (#260107) and their 10th Anniversary in the blog world. My design was influenced by: Creative Colour (#223), colors which were similar to those in the Double D inspiration photos and choosing the Facebook Global Design Project (#530) Sketch for a regularContinue reading “Fragrant Layers – Happy Birthday”
Lovely Arrangements – Sending Smiles
Hi again! Chasing a deadline… The not to be forgotten color challenge over at Color Dare (#685) picking up on the Yellow, Green and Blue tones. Choosing the Stampin’ Up! Only (#392) sketch to complete my card. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch. TheContinue reading “Lovely Arrangements – Sending Smiles”
Fragrant Layers – Hello
Welcome back! Already Thursday…where did the week go? Today I am playing with: Paper Players (#768) for the color selection; Inkspirational (#358) for something shiny and Time Out (#304) for something that glitters; bringing it all together with the current TGIF (#559) sketch and sharing with Shopping Our Stash (#565) for something new with somethingContinue reading “Fragrant Layers – Hello”
Winds of Change – Life
Welcome back! Time again for the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#547) Sketch. The sample can be found on page 38 of the Jan – Apr 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 areContinue reading “Winds of Change – Life”
Holiday Delight – Joyful Tidings
Welcome back! Almost mid-month and the Holiday Blog Challenges continue, getting you ready for the 2026 Christmas season. So, today, I am playing with: Jingle Belles (#2601) to reuse or repurpose Gift Wrapping for creating a card and Krafty Chicks (#802) for their Christmas theme. I chose the colors suggested by Color Hues (#124) andContinue reading “Holiday Delight – Joyful Tidings”