Welcome back! A clean and simple card for you today. How refreshing! The challenges: AAA Cards (#241) Drinks; Addicted to CAS (#239) One Layer; Retro Rubber (#208) Summer Colors; and the Freshly Made (#589) Sketch flipped horizontally to bring it all together. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”)Continue reading “Sip, Sip, Hooray – Summer is on its way…”
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Brave, Strong, Smart & Loved
Welcome back! A quick little clean and simple card to celebrate that guy in your life. Challenges: Inspired By (#240) and Inspire Create (#144) and sharing with Shopping Our Stash (#498). I was drawn to the overall impression of the muted colors of the cabinet, the wall treatment and the metallic adornments on the cabinet. Continue reading “Brave, Strong, Smart & Loved”
Christmas Cheers – Merry Cafe
A fun Christmas Coffee card for you today. Which means pulling out some retired favorites. Loving the Multi-colored Ornaments and the bright blue for a man with a modern sensibility. A lot of challenges: Jingle Belles (#2312) partnering with Caffeinated Christmas (#18) for the themes. Adding to Inkspirational (#291) for a seasonal card and HappyContinue reading “Christmas Cheers – Merry Cafe”
Copper Vases – Birthday Card
Welcome back! A brand-new week… Playing with another Creating Connections Simple Stamping Template. A clean and simple card with both Masking and Embossing Techniques. I created a Birthday card using the both the Waves of Inspiration and Dainty Delight stamp sets with Copper Embossing Powder and the Stylish Shapes Dies for Time Out (#239) pickingContinue reading “Copper Vases – Birthday Card”
Can You See…Home of the Brave
Welcome back! Happy Friday. Have any great weekend plans? Today, I am playing with The Card Concept (#196) theme, flowers and colors with the Sunday Stamps (#310) sketch. I am also sharing this card with Krafty Chicks (#666) to use a stamp and Use Your Stuff (#485) for anything goes. Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “Can You See…Home of the Brave”
Off to the Sea to Swim with the Fish
Welcome back! Thursday and a few challenges that are pending…how does that happen? Never enough time in the day to get everything you want/need to get done. Over at TGIF (#422) the challenge is what would you do with a Navy background? Me? I went to the Sea. Over at Tic Tac Toe (#210), IContinue reading “Off to the Sea to Swim with the Fish”
Hanging Garden – Lovely You
Welcome back! One more card today for a deadline… Inspired By (#239) Lilacs for the colors and the suggested sketch for a clean and simple card. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Highland Heather cardstock Background Panel: (4¼” x 5½”) Highland Heather cardstock dry-embossed with the retired SubtleContinue reading “Hanging Garden – Lovely You”
Boho Floral – You Are Wonderful
Welcome back! Mid-week hump day. Will you be able to carve out some creative time for yourself today? A little inspiration: As You See It (#299) gives us a recipe to follow…just collect your pieces and put it together. I selected to CASE (copy and selectively edit) the card layout from Krista Frattin as suggestedContinue reading “Boho Floral – You Are Wonderful”
Cheerful Daisies – You Made My Day
Welcome back! Happy Sunday. Continuing to play with new goodies…today, a clean and simple (CAS) card using the Cheerful Daisies Bundle. The challenges: Less Is More (#484) for a single layer floral card using colors inspired by the current Inkspirational (#290) Mood Board with the Freshly Made (#587) sketch. Here is the result: Steps: CardContinue reading “Cheerful Daisies – You Made My Day”
Pretty Pink Posies – Paper Florist Dies
Welcome back! I wanted to play with a few goodies that are in the new catalog…mostly making Paper Flowers with the Paper Florist Dies and I chose to add some to this card I made today. The challenges: Try Stampin’ on Tuesday’s (#607) sketch and inspiration with the colors suggested by Color Throwdown (#744). TheContinue reading “Pretty Pink Posies – Paper Florist Dies”
