The Open Sea – Ahoy!

Design Team Time for Hand Stamp Sentiments (#487), a color board and Atlantic Hearts (#679), a sketch which I turned into an A2 portrait format from a square layout. My design choices were influenced by: The Male Room (#209) for Transport; Cupcake Inspirations (#636) with a Travel theme and sharing with Krafty Chicks (#817) forContinue reading “The Open Sea – Ahoy!”

Moon Lake – The Best Day

Design Time: Cardz 4 Guyz (#385) for a clean and simple styled card choosing the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#561) sketch. Design influences: Farm Quest (#82) for a Pond scene; Time Out (#311) Pick Two: Trees and Earth; with the colors suggested by Facebook SU! Colours (#2604). Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adheredContinue reading “Moon Lake – The Best Day”

Misty Winter Sighting – Peace & Happiness

Welcome back!  Happy Saturday.  Quick and simple, just stamps, ink and paper… The challenges: Little Red Wagon (#852) for a Masculine card; Addicted to Stamps & More (#514) Any Occasion; and Farm Quest Country Christmas (#30) creating a masculine Christmas card. Here is the result: Steps: Simply elegant and very masculine in tone and colorContinue reading “Misty Winter Sighting – Peace & Happiness”

Rock & Roll – Enjoy

Time again for the Hand Stamped Sentiments (#485) Challenge.  This round, we have a great sketch for you. My reverse clean and simple design was influenced by several similar challenges: Alphabet (Letter X) for X-Ray featuring a black and white color scheme; Little Red Wagon (#851) with a Retro Rock & Roll theme; Krafty ChicksContinue reading “Rock & Roll – Enjoy”

Far Away Landscapes – To a Great Guy

Design Time: Cardz 4 Guyz (#384) with a suggested color palette of light blue and brown. Playing along with several other current Masculine Challenges: Inspire Create (#211); Little Red Wagon (#849); The Male Room (#208) also asking for blue and brown. Sharing this card with Make My Monday (#272) for their All Tied Up theme.Continue reading “Far Away Landscapes – To a Great Guy”

Beautiful Motifs – Thinking of You

Welcome back!  Happy Wednesday.  Chasing a few deadlines with challenges that have a similar theme. March is here and so is green… Starting with: Just Us Girls (#813) to use Dies with a Twist to use the color, Green; Triple B (#2603) with a Green Twist featuring Blooms, Birds and/or Butterflies; If You Give aContinue reading “Beautiful Motifs – Thinking of You”

Cutest Crew – Happy Birthday

Welcome back!  Friday has arrived…already the end of the week… Today, I am playing with Make My Monday (#271) for a Masculine card for a little fellow; Little Red Wagon (#848) to include an Animal; Krafty Chicks (#810) for the Sentiment: Creative Colour (#230) for the neutral Palette; and bringing it all together with theContinue reading “Cutest Crew – Happy Birthday”

Friendly Foliage – Wishing You All The Best

Welcome back!  Happy Saturday.  Here’s hoping that you have some time to be creative today… The brief: CASE a card created by Leah Dixon for this week’s Facebook’s Global Design Project (#536) incorporating Volume for Alphabet Letter V using colors suggested by Creative Colour (#229) and creating a card suitable for a fellow for Krafty Chicks (#809).Continue reading “Friendly Foliage – Wishing You All The Best”

Fabulous Sayings – Swirled Designs

Design Team Time. For: Cardz 4 Guyz (#383), we are suggesting a Monochromatic Color Palette, and I chose Facebook’s SU! Color (2602) suggestion. For: Hand Stamped Sentiments (#482), we have sketch that has lots of possibilities and I chose to go clean and simple and share with The Male Room (#207). Here is the result:Continue reading “Fabulous Sayings – Swirled Designs”

Good Things – The Right Words

Design Team Time for both The Card Concept (#224) Inspiration Board and I chose the colors and pairing it with the Atlantic Hearts (#668) Sketch.  My design choices were influenced by Time Out (#306) to Pick Two – Aperture and Twine and Make My Monday (#271) to use Dies. Creating a clean, layered and graphicContinue reading “Good Things – The Right Words”