Perfectly Pears – Good Friend

Welcome back!  Welcome to Wednesday… Back to clean and simple for a few challenges this morning.  Claire’s Paper Players (#742) featuring a Fruit theme; CAS Colours & Sketches (#562) Nine-Block layout; and choosing the Creative Colours (#198) Palette. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketchContinue reading “Perfectly Pears – Good Friend”

Rainbow Bright – Beautiful Butterflies

Design Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#517) Sketch. Today?  The card can be found on page 41 of the May 2025 – Apr 2026 Annual Catalog.  This is a lovely Slim Line card.  Not such a fun of this style, I decided to create a horizontal A2 card. CASE: (Copy and Steal Everything) Making it exactlyContinue reading “Rainbow Bright – Beautiful Butterflies”

One More Year

Welcome back!  Monday already…where did the weekend go? Keeping it simple, clean and simple with a quick little card. Just Us Girls (#779) is featuring Numbers and Just Add Ink (#755) has a nice set of Colors. Bringing my ideas together with the AAA Cards (#292) Sketch suggesting any shape, any color and any numberContinue reading “One More Year”

Woof! – Christmas Scottie

Welcome back!  Wishing you a wonderful Sunday and hoping you find some time to be creative… Having a play with Festive Friday (#186) and their World Pet Memorial Day theme and list selection creating a Masculine Hello card for Crafter’s Café (#320). I selected the Freshly Made (#690) Sketch to bring my choices together. HereContinue reading “Woof! – Christmas Scottie”

Charming Days – Thanks

Well now…Facebook’s Global Design Project is celebrating challenge #500 with a special CASE a Design Team Member. I chose to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) a project created by Janneke De Jong. Additional influences: Simply Clean and Simple (#24) to add Pink and Stampin’ Up! Only (#378) for the lovely Flowers in the inspiration photo.Continue reading “Charming Days – Thanks”

Spring Corners – Stitched Sampler

Hi again!  A few more challenge deadlines are coming up and I wanted to play with them… Over at Sunday Stamps (#362) there is a really nice sketch, perfect for scraps and I flipped it to fit my design ideas. I selected the Paper Players (#741) Colors suggested by Stef and took a look inContinue reading “Spring Corners – Stitched Sampler”

Be Brave

Welcome back!  Happy Thursday. I need a card for a bright young girl embarking on her teens.  I thought the color palette over at TGIF (#528) was ideal and the bold design at Sketch Saturday (#777) would be perfect for my idea. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were added to the card baseContinue reading “Be Brave”

See The Good – The Right Words

Hi again!  A few deadlines to meet… The challenges: Cupcake Inspirations (#619) Colors and Shopping Our Stash (#540) Theme. Bringing my ideas together, the Atlantic Hearts (#633) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The top Pear was popped up with Dimensionals. Keeping itContinue reading “See The Good – The Right Words”

You Make Me Smile – Layers of Beauty

Design Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#516) Sketch. Today?  The card can be found on page 144 of the May 2025 – Apr 2026 Annual Catalog.  CASE: (Copy and Steal Everything) Making it exactly the same; (Copy and Slightly Edit) Almost the same with a little variation; (Copy and Selectively Edit) Changing things.  You are welcomeContinue reading “You Make Me Smile – Layers of Beauty”

Summer Blue – Seashells

Design Team Time: This round at Cardz 4 Guyz (#374), our theme is Seashells and at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#465) we have three lovely colored Mood Boards, and I selected the Blue Water one. I chose to use the sketch suggested by Retro Rubber (#256) slightly modified and to celebrate well-loved retired stamp sets toContinue reading “Summer Blue – Seashells”