Snow Front – With Love

Welcome back!  A brand-new week and we are off to a start in my favorite style – Clean and Simple. Combining: Paper Players (#769) Signs of Winter theme with the CAS on Friday (#325) Snowman theme.  Choosing the CAS Colours & Sketches (#576) Palette and sharing with Krafty Chicks (#803) and AAA Cards (#306) forContinue reading “Snow Front – With Love”

Layers of Beauty – Lovely Arrangements

Welcome back!  Such a dreary day so, I decided to create something pretty and fresh.  Today’s challenges: Beautiful Blossoms (#36); Ellibelle’s Garden Party (#11); Facebook’s Colour INKspirations (#201); and bringing all my ideas together with the current Freshly Made (#718) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base toContinue reading “Layers of Beauty – Lovely Arrangements”

A Little Bird Told Me – You Make My Heart Sing

Design Team Time for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#663).  Lots of neat elements in this sketch and I went with a fun and playful interpretation. My design was influenced by: We Love Stamping (#2601) to play with something new (patterned paper & stamp set); Shopping Our Stash (#564) to play with something that wasContinue reading “A Little Bird Told Me – You Make My Heart Sing”

Weekend Adventures – Love This Place

Welcome back!  Happy Sunday.  Creativity abounds…with recycled materials. I love receiving Vintage Holiday cards.  They are saved and when the right project comes along, I am willing to chop it up.  In this case the Winter Scene with Bird was the latest victim.  The challenges: Farm Quest Country Christmas (#27) Winter Cabin; Triple B (#2601)Continue reading “Weekend Adventures – Love This Place”

You Are So Lovely – Lovely Arrangements

Welcome back!  Hoping that you have some time to be creative this weekend.  Happy Saturday.  Further to my Studio clean up, I came across some retired pretty paper that had been pre-cut for a class at the Public Library a few years back. I really don’t buy too much for Valentine’s Day but the sweetContinue reading “You Are So Lovely – Lovely Arrangements”

Lovely Arrangements – Love You Birthday

Welcome back!  What fun to create with some new products… Playing with the Global Design Project (#528) challenge to CASE (copy and selectively edit) a card created by Ann Alexander. Takeaways: Layers, Die Cuts, Embossing, Florals, and Layout. Additional influences: Christmas (or not) Bingo (#17) Letter ‘O” for Rectangle, Stitching, Patterned Paper and Dies forContinue reading “Lovely Arrangements – Love You Birthday”

Sweet Thoughts – I Love You

Welcome back!  A New Year and a bit of Studio reorganization.  I came across a lot of retired but delightful favorite stuff.  Put it away or play? Play was the order of the day, so I created a card catching up with the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#543) Sketch that I didn’t have time to doContinue reading “Sweet Thoughts – I Love You”

True Blue Floral – Friendly Foliage – In My Heart

Design Team Time for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#662).  A pretty sketch with lots of possibilities to showcase your florals and more. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  A few Basic White Moody Palette Glossy Dots, a new On-Line Exclusive product, were addedContinue reading “True Blue Floral – Friendly Foliage – In My Heart”

Gift of Joy – Just Because

Welcome back!  Hope you have some time to be creative today… I have a quick little love card for you this morning for the Alphabet Challenge – Letter L. Here is the result: Steps: A sweet card to brighten someone’s day! Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda! Need aContinue reading “Gift of Joy – Just Because”

Extraordinary Flora – With Love

Welcome back!  Hoping you are having a wonderful Friday.  Play time!  The challenges: Double Trouble (#199) and the 3-2-1 game (Layers, Images, Aperture) with a twist to add an image to the Aperture Opening and use the Try a Sketch on Tuesday (#678) layout. Additionally, I was influenced by Stampin’ Up! Only (#384) for theContinue reading “Extraordinary Flora – With Love”