The Design Team Challenge for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#411) is an inspiration Mood Board. There are a lot of take aways and I am taken with the image of the Umbrellas. Additional inspiration comes from Just Add Ink (646): The Cookies led to the colors chosen – Pink, Yellow and Orange as well as theContinue reading “Graceful Tiles – Because of You”
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Holiday Berries
Welcome back! It is the end of the week, and I am getting prepped for my weekend but before I do, I have a no sentiment Holiday card for you. Playing with the colors suggested by the Facebook Colour INKspiration (#131) challenge along with the sketch from Sunday Stamps (#294) tying in elements from theContinue reading “Holiday Berries”
Inspired Thoughts – You Make a Difference
Happy Tuesday. Time again for the Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge! Be sure to check out all the great projects made by the Design Team. This week, the theme is “Get a Little Dirty”, and we mean for you to add some Grunge and/or Distressing to your project. Cannot wait to see what you will create.Continue reading “Inspired Thoughts – You Make a Difference”
Forever Friendship – Time For A Card
An interesting challenge issued by the TGIF Team this week. A Few of Your Favorite Things… How do you pick? Giving the matter some thought, here are a few: Earthy Colors. Texture. Heat-Set Embossing (a definite go-to for me). A Stamp Set that is versatile. A pun that is not too cute, but elicits aContinue reading “Forever Friendship – Time For A Card”
Biggest Wish – Happy Birthday
We have a really fun challenge for you today at Cardz 4 Guyz! How many of you collect/keep odds and sods because you just know that you can repurpose them into something great. Do you, do it? Pull them out and play along with us: RECYCLE SOMETHING! I selected a few challenges to help meContinue reading “Biggest Wish – Happy Birthday”
Better Places – Happy Father’s Day
Our current challenge at CARDZ 4 GUYZ (#294) is to create a Tag or add a Tag to your card. Bringing it all together, I was inspired by: Time Out Challenge (#211) Outdoor Theme; Just Add Ink Challenge (#599) – Favorite Animal; and Case-ing Tuesday Facebook Challenge (#352) for the Slim-Line Sketch. Here is theContinue reading “Better Places – Happy Father’s Day”
Enjoy the Moment
Welcome back! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Today I am playing with the current sketch over at CAS Colours & Sketches (#460). The stamp set, Enjoy the Moment, hasn’t seen a lot of love lately and I was looking for an opportunity to use it. This sketch seemed ideal. I picked the current colorsContinue reading “Enjoy the Moment”
Jar of Flowers – Forever Fern – You Can Do This!
Playing with a few more challenges: Sketch: Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#440), Theme/Colors: The Card Concept (#160) and Sentiment: The Alphabet Challenge (M). Here is the result: Steps: For the Sunflower element, I stamped the Sunflower image from the Jar of Flowers stamp set with Early Espresso ink on to a scrap of Basic WhiteContinue reading “Jar of Flowers – Forever Fern – You Can Do This!”
Frightening Feline – Happy Hallowe’en
Over at Tic Tac Toe, the current challenge (#129) has a decidedly Fall and/or Hallowe’en theme. Thought I would play with the diagonal line…Purple, Orange and an Interactive Element. I decided to throw in a Cat because I like them better than Pumpkins or Footballs… Here is the result: Steps: For the interactive element, IContinue reading “Frightening Feline – Happy Hallowe’en”