Sip & Celebrate – Happy Holidays

A favorite style – clean and simple.  Creating some Holiday Happiness. Theme: CAS on Friday (#271) Christmas with Less Is More (#497) Deck the Halls.  Colors: If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (#187) Silver & Gold and the Layout: CAS Colours & Sketches (#526). Here is the result: Steps: All elements were added toContinue reading “Sip & Celebrate – Happy Holidays”

Fun & Festive – Happy Christmas Wishes

Welcome back!  It’s Tuesday…Design Team Day… I don’t know about you, but I often think that a card for a fellow is generally best if it is clean and simple. So, I am combining Cardz 4 Guyz (#336) Festive Creatures with the Hand Stamped Sentiments (#428) Sketch and sharing with Just Us Girls (#707) forContinue reading “Fun & Festive – Happy Christmas Wishes”

Sending Birthday Wishes

Hi! Catching up with a few more deadlines…for a sweet feminine birthday card. How about matching up the Color Throwdown (#769) Colors with the Freshly Made (#612) Sketch? Here is the result: Steps: Keeping the card clean and simple, all elements were adhered to the card base resemble the sketch. Thanks for spending some moreContinue reading “Sending Birthday Wishes”

Joy of Noel – Season of Sparkle

Welcome back!  I missed you.  I had a very lovely but busy weekend with friends and family. I am happy to be back in the Studio.  Today, I am playing with Inkspirational (#303) for a Season, and I chose Christmas; As You Can See It (#312) for a Holiday themed card; CAS Colours & SketchesContinue reading “Joy of Noel – Season of Sparkle”

Floral Celebration

One last card for today.  I have plans for tomorrow and may not be able to get into the Studio… Back to my favorite style, clean and simple, for this card.  I am playing with the current Tic Tac Toe (#235) Board bottom line – Sparkle, Flowers, and Celebrate.  I chose the Facebook Colour INKspirationContinue reading “Floral Celebration”

Festive Ornament – Holiday Cheer

Welcome back!  I have been invited to be a Guest Designer for Ellibelle’s I Spy with My Little Eye Challenge for this month and I had some fun creating this card.  Getting in the Holiday mood with Sparkle and/or Shine. My choices were inspired by the Tic Tac Toe (#234) Line – Vanilla, Festive, andContinue reading “Festive Ornament – Holiday Cheer”

Poppy Gratitude – A Tribute

Coming up very quickly is Remembrance Day and this is my very clean and simple acknowledgment. My choices were influenced by the inspiration listing provided by Festive Friday (#146). I opted to use today’s Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#433) sketch and share with Colorful Options (November) and Simply Clean & Simple (#5). Here is the result:Continue reading “Poppy Gratitude – A Tribute”

Gorgeously Made – Holiday Card

Welcome back!  I thought I would share a card I have designed for my Christmas card class series. I was inspired by a several challenges: TGIF (#444) for a Layered Leaf design; Inspired By (#261) for the Neutral color palette and texture; Tic Tac Toe (#232) for the Copper color choice and embossing; and amContinue reading “Gorgeously Made – Holiday Card”

Handcrafted Ornament – Holiday Card

Welcome back!  I thought I would share one of the cards we created in class today. I was inspired by a couple of color challenges, both very similar, Sunday Stamps (#321) and Shopping Our Stash (#508).  I was drawn to the blue/green and yellow/gold tones.  For my overall design, I chose Just Us Girls (#703)Continue reading “Handcrafted Ornament – Holiday Card”

Fun & Festive Christmas

Welcome back!  Wishing you a wonderful Sunday. Today, I am playing with the colors suggested by Facebook’s Colour INKspiration (#153) challenge.  I decided to make a Holiday card using the Fun & Festive stamp set.  All of the Critters in this set make me smile. Sharing this card with Jingle Belles (#2322) for featuring aContinue reading “Fun & Festive Christmas”