Bella & Friends – Birthday

Indulge me…Stampin’ Through The Catalog featured Artisan Constanze Wirtz yesterday and we are invited to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) her card. Constanze created a CAS (clean and simple) card, a favorite style of mine, featuring Animals, Die-Cut Framing, soft coloring and a ribbon.  These are my takeaways. My design choices were influenced by: FarmContinue reading “Bella & Friends – Birthday”

A Fun Day – Fiesta

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday…and a fun bright party card for you this morning. Having a play with the Addicted to CAS (#282) Word: Fiesta with the Just Add Ink (#750) Colors and the Atlantic Hearts (#628) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  TheContinue reading “A Fun Day – Fiesta”

A Little Bit Festive – Let’s Celebrate

Design Team Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#490) where we CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Today?  The card can be found on page 19 of the Sep – Dec Mini Catalog.   What fun to mix and match with current products and those in your stash…and we all know thatContinue reading “A Little Bit Festive – Let’s Celebrate”

Epic Celebrations – Awesome

Having some fun with a couple more clean and simple challenges: AAA Cards (#247) theme and Less Is More (#490) color. Here is the result: Steps: Simple, clean and perfect for a teenager. Thanks for spending some more of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda! Need a card? Ask me and I can createContinue reading “Epic Celebrations – Awesome”

On the Water – A Fun Day

Welcome back!  It is officially Summer…but I have yet to see the sun for the past few rather rainy days.  However, several challenges are running with a summer theme, so let’s have some fun! Make My Monday (#203); AAA Cards (#242); Just Us Girls (#684); Retro Rubber (#209); The Four Seasons (June); and bringing itContinue reading “On the Water – A Fun Day”

Itty Bitty Birthdays – Another Year Older!

Is it only me that cannot believe how fast the world turns?  You blink and another year has gone by… Inspiration from the following: SKETCH: Fab Friday Challenges (#217) and COLOR: CAS Colours & Sketches Challenges (#427). Here is the result: Steps: Background Panel: (5⅜” x 4⅛”) Crushed Curry cardstock double dry-embossed.  Bottom inch withContinue reading “Itty Bitty Birthdays – Another Year Older!”

Wild About You – Happy Birthday

No end of wonderful challenges to keep me busy… Sketch – Try Stampin’ on Tuesday (#304); Subject – Seize the Birthday (#213) and Theme – Paper Players (#539). And this is the result: Steps: For my Furry Friend, I chose the Lion from the retired Wild About You stamp set.  I tilted the Basic WhiteContinue reading “Wild About You – Happy Birthday”

Beautiful Moments…By the Tide – Happy Day

The theme challenge selected by the Global Design Project team, GDP874, is “by the sea”.  I decided to use the current sketch challenge over at The Spot Creative Challenge – #157 for the layout of the card. And this is the result: The two little girls and their pails reminded me of searching for shellsContinue reading “Beautiful Moments…By the Tide – Happy Day”

Scrap Strips…We all have them.  Let’s Make Cards!

This week’s Weekend Challenge to keep you stamping is another Simple Sketch intended for you to use up some of those half-inch scraps you keep for another day project.  Well today is the day! All of the cards I made use some manner of scrap strips from my bins.  Where the scraps originally came fromContinue reading “Scrap Strips…We all have them.  Let’s Make Cards!”