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”
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Seaside Wishes – Collecting Sand Dollars
Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#470) Design Team time. Our weekly Catalog CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found in the Stampin’ Up Catalogs. The card we are case-ing this week is on page 72 of the Annual Catalog. We invite you to re-create it any way you like. Inspiration for my design: Time Out (#268); AsContinue reading “Seaside Wishes – Collecting Sand Dollars”
Layers of Beauty – Wedding Card
Catching up with the Design Team for Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#463). The card we are case-ing can be found on page 61 of the Annual Catalog. I wanted to use the Color Dare (#602) palette to create a Wedding card for a few challenges that currently have that as a theme: Inspire Create (#169), Heart’sContinue reading “Layers of Beauty – Wedding Card”
Love Blooms – Birthday Wishes
Welcome back! Happy Sunday…a little red, white and blue for the Memorial Day weekend. Playing with the AAA Cards (#266) Sketch that included three shapes for clean and simple card. My choices were influenced by Just Us Girls (#728) to use Stencils; Just Add Ink (#703) to choose two – Bright Colors and a BirthdayContinue reading “Love Blooms – Birthday Wishes”
Layers of Country Roses
Wednesdays are always busy days in the Studio as that is Class Day and I sometimes do not have time to create for challenge deadlines. I wanted to play with the As You See It (#321) lovely Color palette (adding a green tone for my one neutral). But what to do with them? I selectedContinue reading “Layers of Country Roses”
Wild Ferns – Thanks
Welcome back! I finally had some time to play… The Global Design Project (#440) Team is asking us to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) a very pretty card created by Nicole Peschke. My take aways include Soft Color Blending, Sploosh Type Stamping, Light Image Stamping, White Die Cuts and General Layout. I selected to keepContinue reading “Wild Ferns – Thanks”
Nature – Earth Day – You’re in my Thoughts
Welcome back! Today I am celebrating Earth Day as there are several challenges…in the spirit of re-use and recycle, I pulled out an oldy but a goody stamp set: Lovely as a Tree. Festive Friday (#156); Double Trouble (#163) partnering with Inspiration Station (#60); Retro Rubber (#227) for the Colors of Nature; and bringing itContinue reading “Nature – Earth Day – You’re in my Thoughts”
Feeling Sentimental – Hello
Let’s play!! It is Tuesday and time to create for this week’s Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#452). The original card can be found on page 25 of the Jan – Apr Mini Catalog. So, I chose the Color Dare (#591) challenge to use Black and White and one other color – how about red, along withContinue reading “Feeling Sentimental – Hello”
Gorgeously Made – Butterfly Hello
Welcome back! It’s Saturday…are you able to play with your stamps, ink and paper? I hope so. This card was created for Stampin’ Up! Only (#346) based on the inspiration photo colors for the Tuesday Morning (#747) sketch which I kept clean and simple for Simply Clean and Simple (#9). Here is the result: Steps:Continue reading “Gorgeously Made – Butterfly Hello”
Snow Much Fun – Snowball Fight
Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#673) challenge. Claire has selected a clean & simple card style with a Winter Fun theme. Let’s have some fun! I selected the retired Snow Much Fun stamp set (Circa 2011) for the Retro Rubber (#222) theme, also Winter Fun and the Snowflake Stencil from the nowContinue reading “Snow Much Fun – Snowball Fight”