Delicate Forest – Best Birthday Wishes

Design Team time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#473).  The weekly Catalog CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) of cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  The card today?  Found on page 127 of the Annual Catalog.   We invite you to re-create it any way you like. Keeping the layout pretty much the same, I chose to playContinue reading “Delicate Forest – Best Birthday Wishes”

Daring Adventure

Welcome back!  A brand-new week…hope it will be a good one. A few guy challenges are about.  Over at Inspire Create (#174), the theme is Men; The Male Room (#189), a site for guy cards, is asking us to employ mixed media styling; Park Hopping (August) have Harry Potter – Steam Punk themed inspiration photos;Continue reading “Daring Adventure”

Happiest Day – Dragon Fly Birthday

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#702) challenge.  This week, Jan has a sweet color combination for us to play with.  Inspiration for my design: Alphabet (Letter J) for Juvenile…make a kid suitable card; Facebook Stampin’ Through The Catalog – upcoming featured stamp set – Happiest Day; and bringing it all together, theContinue reading “Happiest Day – Dragon Fly Birthday”

Greetings Of The Season – Holiday Card

Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#472) Design Team.  Our weekly Catalog CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) of one the cards found on page 120 of the Annual Catalog.   We invite you to re-create it any way you like. Inspiration: Jingle Belles (#2416) to use “Leftovers” – Holiday Bits and Bobs lying about and Colors selected from theContinue reading “Greetings Of The Season – Holiday Card”

Inspiring Iris – Sunset Hello

So many deadlines fall on a Sunday.  If I have a busy week, it means I get to spend time in the Studio catching up.  Which is a very good thing! So, for the Atlantic Heart’s (#588) Sketch, I chose the Color Throwdown (#804) Palette for a summer sunset hello.  I am sharing this cardContinue reading “Inspiring Iris – Sunset Hello”

Simply Zinnia

Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#471) Design Team catch-up.  Our weekly Catalog CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) of one the cards found on page 100 of the Annual Catalog.   We invite you to re-create it any way you like.  Inspiration and Color for my design: Facebook SU! Colour (July). Here is the result: Steps: All elements wereContinue reading “Simply Zinnia”

Friends For Life – Hi

Chasing another deadline…this time for Color Throwdown (#803) and choosing the Just Add Ink (#712) Sketch. The theme:  Bobbing along on the Ocean blue comes to mind based on the color inspiration photo. Here is the result: Steps: Another fun summer bright card but this time for a friendly Hello. Thanks for spending some moreContinue reading “Friends For Life – Hi”

Happiest Day – Tropical Thinking of You

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#700) challenge.  This week, LeAnne has a super sketch for us.  Three basic shapes and lots of possibilities. Inspiration:  If You Give A Crafter a Cookie (#194) Aloha Hibiscus; Beautiful Blossoms (#19) for their Tropical Floral Mood Board; and choosing four of the Color Dare (#610) SixContinue reading “Happiest Day – Tropical Thinking of You”

Changing Leaves – Thank You

Design Time: This round Hand Stamped Sentiments (#443) has a great sketch…lots of possibilities and Cardz 4 Guyz (#352) is asking us to use Metals in some way and I decided to combine the two. Additional inspiration: Festive Friday (#164) incorporating some of the elements from their Summer Olympics List and the Paper Craft CrewContinue reading “Changing Leaves – Thank You”

Poised Peony – Best Birthday Wishes

Hello again! Today is the day that Facebook’s Stampin’ Through the Catalog invites us to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) a Designer’s Card.  The original card was created by Narelle Farrugia, who is one of Stampin’ Up!’s Artisan Designers.  Her card is lovely. My take-aways from Narelle’s card are: Focal image, Distressed Layers, a LabelContinue reading “Poised Peony – Best Birthday Wishes”