Sweet Garden Floral – Happy Birthday

Welcome back!  What a busy Monday I have had.  Just getting around to making a quick and easy, #simplestamping, clean and simple card for a number of challenges, many sporting a similar theme. First off, a birthday card to celebrate AAA Cards (#265) 10th Anniversary…anything goes. I selected Just Us Girls (#726) Word – Garden;Continue reading “Sweet Garden Floral – Happy Birthday”

Ocean Beach View – Grand Birthday

Hi!  Round three as a Surprise Party Guest with the Seize the Birthday Team. The Party Topping (#284) this time is “Beach”. I took additional inspiration from: Retro Rubber (#230) for a Nautical element and Shopping Our Stash (#521) for the Water element and selected the colors suggested by CAS Colours & Sketches (#536) toContinue reading “Ocean Beach View – Grand Birthday”

Simply Zinnia – Hooray for Surprises

It is Tuesday and time to create for this week’s Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#459).  We have moved to the new Annual Catalog and first up is a card found on page 44.  The Facebook Stampin’ Through the Catalog group is featuring the On-Line Exclusive stamp set – Simply Zinnia today and I chose to createContinue reading “Simply Zinnia – Hooray for Surprises”

High Tide – By Your Side

Hi again!  One more for today… Playing with Color Throwdown (#789), a classic Red and Navy with Gold.  So very Nautical! I picked the square card design from Freshly Made Sketches (#632) to create my card. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch and theContinue reading “High Tide – By Your Side”

Bird’s Eye View – Thank You So Much

Welcome to the weekend!  Any wonderful plans?  Me?  Play time…among some laundry chores.  Today’s card is for Colour INKspiration (#163) and Atlantic Hearts (#753). Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch. Three blue / green Tinsel Gems were added for a bit of bling. HavingContinue reading “Bird’s Eye View – Thank You So Much”

Hats Off To You! – Guy Greetings

Welcome back!  Off to a good start this morning… Today’s combination includes: The Male Room (#185) to use employ Embossing techniques; Addicted To CAS (#256) for a clean and simple Monochromatic Color scheme; and bringing it all together, the TGIF (#468) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: A nice monochromatic clean and simple guy cardContinue reading “Hats Off To You! – Guy Greetings”

Feather Flight – New Adventure

Welcome to the newest round of the Cardz 4 Guyz (#345) and Hand Stamped Sentiments (#436) challenges. I have combined them… clean and simple with the suggested colors. My stamp set choice was influenced by Make My Monday (#223) for Birds and Alphabet (Letter A) for Adventure.  I am also sharing this card with SimpleContinue reading “Feather Flight – New Adventure”

Playing in the Rain – Beautiful You

Welcome back!  Friday…how did that happen?  Have any fun plans for the weekend?  We will be out and about and hoping for lovely weather, but I do think there is rain in the forecast. So, the Inspired By (#284) Inspiration photograph is a stroll in rain gear…and I opted for the retired Beautiful You stampContinue reading “Playing in the Rain – Beautiful You”

A Happy Hooray

A brand-new week.  Happy Monday! Yesterday, I was playing with the Color Throwdown (#787) colors.  These three make up a trifecta of my favorites, yet I struggled with them.  I love the imagery in the inspiration photo.  The color blocking is so Retro and that is where I got my inspiration. Here is the result:Continue reading “A Happy Hooray”

Sunshine and Rainbows

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#684) challenge.  This week, Anne Marie has given us a lovely colorful Inspiration Board entitled Sunshine & Rainbows.  Let’s have some fun! I combined this week’s challenge with a few others that have a similar theme: Inspired By (#283) for the Sketch, Colors and Umbrellas; Four SeasonsContinue reading “Sunshine and Rainbows”