Everyday Greetings – Love You

Sneaking in another CAS (clean and simple) card for you. Playing with Just Us Girls (#760) where we are challenged to CASE a Design Team Member’s card.  I selected Carol Mayne’s masculine card with sneakers flipping her layout and swapping blue for red. Additional influences: Inspired By (#321) for the colors, red, white and grayContinue reading “Everyday Greetings – Love You”

In the Country – Birthday Card

Welcome back!  Almost the start of the weekend.  Do you have any creative plans? A masculine birthday card for Crafter’s Café (#315) and Krafty Chicks (#752) based on the Farm Quest (#67) Country Roads theme and bringing it all together with the Atlantic Hearts (#613) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adheredContinue reading “In the Country – Birthday Card”

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”

Merry Merry Sparkle

Design Team Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#489) where we CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Today?  The card can be found on page 24 of the Sep – Dec Mini Catalog.   So much inspiration…similar colors and themes and I just had to use pretty papers in my stash:  .JingleContinue reading “Merry Merry Sparkle”

Changing Leaves – Thinking of You

Design Team Time: This round at Cardz 4 Guyz (#356), the challenge is to use Embossing Techniques – Wet, Dry or both and at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#447), we are given a Hello Fall Mood Board for inspiration.  I chose to combine the two. I chose the Sketch Saturday (#759) layout flipped to the verticalContinue reading “Changing Leaves – Thinking of You”

The Traveler – Celebrating You

Happy Saturday…Welcome back!  A few deadlines and a several complimentary challenges: As You See It (#300) with the theme Adventure; Tic Tac Toe (#211) with a line that includes a Travel theme, a Die-Cut and something Antique; and choosing masculine Sepia tones for Paper Craft Crew (#522) Masculine theme; bringing it all together with theContinue reading “The Traveler – Celebrating You”

Hand-Penned Petals – Perfectly Penciled Friendship Card

One more… Sketch: Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge (#661), Theme and Colors: The Flower Challenge (#69) and Sentiment: The Alphabet Challenge (Letter “F”). Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Balmy Blue cardstock. Background Panel: (5” x 3¾”) Black Dotted patterned piece of paper from the now retired Pattern PartyContinue reading “Hand-Penned Petals – Perfectly Penciled Friendship Card”

Inspirational Dandelion – Sending Thoughts Your Way

Who hasn’t, in their youth, picked a bunch of pretty bright yellow Spring Dandelions for their mother? Such innocence. And just as quickly you are taught to send fluffy Dandelion heads along their way, carrying a myriad of your wishes…on the wind. Keeping it very simple and clean, these are the challenges I worked withContinue reading “Inspirational Dandelion – Sending Thoughts Your Way”