Joyful Tidings – Twelve Days of Crafting

Welcome back! A dressed up clean and simple Holiday card for you today… Facebook’s Stampin’ Through the Catalog is asking us to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) a card created by Danielle Bennenk.  I really like the layout of her design and changed it to include the CAS Colours & Sketches (#572) Palette and toContinue reading “Joyful Tidings – Twelve Days of Crafting”

Christmas Greetings – Bells & Boughs

Welcome back! Happy Monday…a clean and simple holiday card for you today. Christmas in July and lots of CAS (clean and simple) challenges about with this theme: CAS on Friday (#313); Addicted to CAS (#287); and Addicted to Stamps & More (#497). Just Add Ink (#760) is sporting colors that definitely felt Christmasy and theContinue reading “Christmas Greetings – Bells & Boughs”

Christmas Joy is a Cup of Coffee

Sneaking in another card between the loads of laundry.  Sunday – it is a chore day. I have another Christmas card for you.  Playing with Jingle Belles (#2509) and their Christmas Color Board for Caffeinated Christmas (#41) highlighting Flowers. Additionally, I was influenced by Just Add Ink (#749) Choose Two: Circles & Coffee and JustContinue reading “Christmas Joy is a Cup of Coffee”

Holiday Treasures – Christmas Past

Welcome back!  So happy you came for a visit. It is Monday and the start of a brand-new week. Jingle Belles (#2417) is visiting Christmas Past with a vintage theme and As You See It (#330) also has a vintage / shabby chic style theme.  I thought the current Try A Sketch On Tuesday (#653)Continue reading “Holiday Treasures – Christmas Past”

Latte Love – Be Merry

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#689) challenge.  This week, Ann has selected a lovely set of colors for us to use plus adding a fourth.  I chose Smoky Slate as all the other three have a gray undertone.  Inspiration for this card was influenced by: Inkspirational (#315) to pick a Season andContinue reading “Latte Love – Be Merry”

Winter White Poinsettias

Welcome back!  Snuck in another card… Lots of inspiration for this card:  Heart’s Quest (#44) Poinsettia; Beautiful Blossoms (#12) Winter; Cupcake Inspiration (#584) Winter Wonderland; TGIF (#451) White Christmas; Shopping Our Stash (#512) Winter Holidays.  Opting for the Try Stampin’ On Tuesday (#637) Sketch with the Metallics option and sharing with Ellibelle’s I Spy (#10)Continue reading “Winter White Poinsettias”

Poinsettia Greetings

Welcome back!  I have a lovely Christmas card for you today. I am CASEING a card created by Ann Alexander, Design Team Member, for the Global Design Project (#420) challenge and selected this week’s colors suggested by Paper Players (#666). Instead of Posies, I elected to use Poinsettias.  One of my favorite Poinsettia images comesContinue reading “Poinsettia Greetings”

Stylish Christmas – Warmth & Good Cheer

Welcome back! CASE-ing another card from the Just Us Girls (#690) selection. Today’s card is a remake of Carol McFarland’s Fun Fold card for a single fold card. My take aways? Fold, Patterned Paper. My theme choice was influenced by Jingle Belles (#2316) Neutral Noel.  Additionally, I chose to play with Retro Rubber (#212) AnythingContinue reading “Stylish Christmas – Warmth & Good Cheer”

Frosted Window – Merry Christmas

Tuesday has come around again!  The Design Team Challenge for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#409) is a Sketch and I opted for a Holiday card.  What fun to delve into the Christmas Box.  I suspect many of the products used are retired.  Let’s play! The shape reminded me of a Window and over at Jingle Belles,Continue reading “Frosted Window – Merry Christmas”

Merry Birthday!

Love weekends, especially ones where you can carve out some time to craft. Let me tell you a little bit about this card for a grown up Christmas baby.  I love that I am able to combine stamp sets and custom create a special card. I was inspired by various challenges: Themes – Happy LittleContinue reading “Merry Birthday!”