Circle Sayings – Birthday Shaker Card

Welcome back!  Can you believe it is almost May?  I had a busy business day yesterday and will be catching up on some end of month challenges. First up – the Cookie Challenge (#191) with a Birthday theme.  The inspiration photo Sprinkles kept niggling at me so, I decided to push through and create aContinue reading “Circle Sayings – Birthday Shaker Card”

Sweet Thoughts – Circle Sayings

Welcome back!  It’s Saturday.  Will you have a chance to be creative?  This is the card I created today…for Just Add Ink (#696) Inspiration Photo – Cake and Colors, the Global Design Project (#439) Sweet Treat Theme and the Crafter’s Cafe (#306) Food Theme using the Atlantic Hearts (#571) Sketch.  I am also sharing withContinue reading “Sweet Thoughts – Circle Sayings”

London Calling

Welcome back!  Happy Wednesday.  One last deadline for today. Playing with the Inspired By (#274) theme. Here is the result: Steps: All layers were adhered to the card base to complete the card. Thanks for spending some more of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda! Need a card? Ask me and I can createContinue reading “London Calling”

Circle Sayings – Happy Birthday

Welcome back! A bunch of ideas have been percolating in my brain as I pondered what to do with sets of colors, some open themes, a tool usage and various sketches. These were the ones I settled on. Firstly, the colors: Facebook’s Colour INKspiration (#158); then the theme: TGIF (#456); thirdly using stencils for Just UsContinue reading “Circle Sayings – Happy Birthday”

Ocean Front – A Note of Thanks

Tuesday – Design time and today I am combining Cardz 4 Guyz (#329) theme with the Hand Stamped Sentiments (#421) colors.  A few other challenges are sporting a similar theme, so I incorporated their requirements into the card as well:  Festive Friday (#141) and Facebook Joy of Sets (August). Here is the result: Steps: AllContinue reading “Ocean Front – A Note of Thanks”

Floral Birthday

Design Time at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#420) and this fortnight we have an Inspiration Board.  Lots of pretty images to promote your creativity.  I was drawn to the bottom right Floral image. I selected the Sketch Saturday (#731) Layout and elements from the Paper Craft Crew (#529) Tic Tac Toe board.  I am sharing thisContinue reading “Floral Birthday”

Sweet Cupcakes – Celebrate

It’s Tuesday!  Design Team Challenge for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#415) and this fortnight it is Color!  It would be great if you decide to play along too.  For this card, I chose the theme from Shopping Our Stash (#497) and the sketch from Atlantic Hearts (#527). Here is the result: Steps:  All elements were adheredContinue reading “Sweet Cupcakes – Celebrate”

Christmas Joy – Festival of Trees

There are several blog sites that promote getting ready for Christmas early.  Today, that is what I am doing… Welcome back!  Happy Sunday everyone. Challenges: Jingle Belles Rocks Tic Tac Toe Board; Happy Little Stampers (May); Krafty Chicks (#663); Creative Colour (#88) for the colors chosen; and Tuesday Morning (#706) for the sketch that bringsContinue reading “Christmas Joy – Festival of Trees”

Birthday Celebration – Circle Sayings

A couple of other deadlines.  Let’s have some fun! Playing with TGIF (#419); Facebook Stampin’ Through The Catalog (Circle Sayings); Happy Little Stampers (Birthday) and Sketch Saturday (#725) to bring it all together. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Circle was popped upContinue reading “Birthday Celebration – Circle Sayings”

Circle Sayings – Season of Chic

Tuesday!  Design Team Challenges for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#413) – Sketch and Cardz 4 Guyz (#321) – Get Messy.  I chose the colors from As You See It (#297) and a watercolor technique that Linda Dalke, another Demonstrator played with. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resembleContinue reading “Circle Sayings – Season of Chic”