Beauty of Friendship

Happy Sunday! Welcome back.    A really quick clean and simple (CAS) card for you this morning for the following challenges. Sketch: CAS Colours & Sketches (#478), Style: CAS on Friday (#235) and Color: Crafter’s Café (#287). Here is the result:  Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Mango Melody cardstock. Bottom Panel:Continue reading “Beauty of Friendship”

Soft Seedlings – Hello

Welcome back!    Playing with a few more challenges this afternoon… Sketch: Try Stampin’ on Tuesday’s (#563) and Color: Creative Color (#45). Here is the result:  Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Gray Granite cardstock. The sentiment, hello, from the Soft Seedlings stamp set was stamped in Versamark ink and heat-set withContinue reading “Soft Seedlings – Hello”

Flowers of Friendship – Thanks

Hi!  Welcome back to the Inque Spot Studio. Playing with a few more challenges this morning… Sketch: Tuesday Morning Sketches (#665); Color: Color Throwdown (#701) and Tic Tac Toe (#170) for some of the elements. Here is the result:  Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Basic White cardstock. Background Panel: (5½” xContinue reading “Flowers of Friendship – Thanks”

A Fish & A Wish – Hey There!

Productive day!  Indulge me in another project… Over at Paper Players (#599), this week is color.  I chose the Sketch Saturday (#704) layout for a very clean and simple card using the stamp set A Fish & A Wish.  For some fun, I played around with one of the newer stencils from the Artistic DecorativeContinue reading “A Fish & A Wish – Hey There!”

Big On Birthdays – It’s Your Day

Happy Day!  More time to play in the Studio… Over at Retro Rubber (#186), this round is a sketch.  I chose to flip it to the vertical position to better fit my “RETRO” retired stamp image from Big on Birthdays (circa 2017) and I played around with this week’s Global Design Project (#351) challenge toContinue reading “Big On Birthdays – It’s Your Day”

Season of Chic – Best Birthday

Welcome back! I was thinking about the current TGIF (#376) Sketch overnight and somewhere in my dream state, I flipped it and thought the Waves of Inspiration stamp set would be a nice way to capture my feelings. I also thought it would be a nice way to present the Texture Chic Suite that IContinue reading “Season of Chic – Best Birthday”

Pretty Kitty – Jingle All The Way

Fa la la…Christmas in July.  A number of challenges are heading to the tree lot.  Do you smell the pine…are you thinking about the holidays? Over at AAA Cards (#119), the theme is a Christmas Pet.  I do not have such a stamp and chose to improvise.  My card is not strictly CAS (clean andContinue reading “Pretty Kitty – Jingle All The Way”

You’re Absolutely Amazing – Butterfly Brilliance

A quick little project for you today. I made this sweet little framed project for a good friend and I thought I would share it with the Inspire Create Challenge group. Here is the result:  Steps: Frame: (5½” x 5½” with a 4” opening) Black with Hanging Ribbon Background: (4” x 4”) Floral patterned pieceContinue reading “You’re Absolutely Amazing – Butterfly Brilliance”

He’s the Man – Congratulations

Wow!  Three Hundred Challenges and counting…so glad to be a part of this group, Cardz 4 Guys.  Such an Epic Milestone. I chose the current sketch over at Just Add Ink (#611) and the He’s the Man Designer Series Paper for today’s card. Here is the result:  Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored atContinue reading “He’s the Man – Congratulations”

Pretty Medallion – Just Because

Happy Tuesday and a few more challenges: Hand Stamped Sentiments (#393) and Facebook Case-ing Tuesday challenge (#364).  Over at Use Your Stuff (#452), the Mood Board had lots of elements.  I gravitated to the Watercolor and the Flower images and those influenced my choice to use a few watercolor techniques and select the Pretty MedallionContinue reading “Pretty Medallion – Just Because”