Lots Of Love – Birthday Wishes

Happy Monday!  Having fun playing… Today’s Challenges: The Card Concept (#194) for the colors; Inspired By (#236) for the subject, sketch and colors; Seize the Birthday (#260) for the theme and Critter Crazy (#74) for the animals. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were arranged and adhered to the card base to resemble theContinue reading “Lots Of Love – Birthday Wishes”

Best Day – Have Cake

Tuesday!  Design Team Challenge for Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#405). Several challenges influenced my choices today: Facebook Stampin’ Through the Catalog – Best Day stamp set; Just Add Ink (#649) for the colors; Happy Little Stampers (April) for the Stencil; and The Male Room (#173) for Gender and Tools: Here is the result: Steps: All elementsContinue reading “Best Day – Have Cake”

Rainbow Bookcase – Enjoy the Moment

Is Reading a favorite pastime of yours?  It is one of mine.  Curling up with a good book is always a pleasure. Next up…Time Out (#236) theme – Books, Inspired By (#234) for the colorful inspiration photo and Try Stampin’ On Tuesday (#602) sketch and color inspiration. I did not have a stamp image inContinue reading “Rainbow Bookcase – Enjoy the Moment”

True Beauty – Just Because

So many Sunday deadlines… Next up…Facebook Colour INKspirations (#141) with the Atlantic Hearts (#521) sketch. I took a dive into my bins.  When a new catalog is around the corner, I look about for room to put new “treasures” and find old “treasures”. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the cardContinue reading “True Beauty – Just Because”

Fab Family Outing – Mom’s Birthday Present

Happy Sunday!  Hoping you will have some time to be creative today. First up…Tic Tac Toe (#205) Board Diagonal: Cute, Family, Coloring; Choosing Stampin’ Blends Alcohol Markers for Seize the Birthday (#259) and the Creative Colour (#85) colors with the flipped Freshly Made (#582) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: A cute family scene…a greatContinue reading “Fab Family Outing – Mom’s Birthday Present”

Love Bear – Count on Me

Tuesday!  Design Team Challenge for Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#404). I chose a board line suggested by Tic Tac Toe (#204) and the word “Adorable” for the Alphabet Letter (A) to inspire my choices. Here is the result: Steps: Both the Sentiment Flag and the Focal Panel were adhered to the card base.  Three Crumb CakeContinue reading “Love Bear – Count on Me”

Pretty Petals – Wonderful Mother

Hi!  Getting a chance to create another clean and simple, simple stamping card for a few challenges. Playing with The Flower Challenge (#79); Double Trouble (#136) partnering with Beautiful Blossoms (#4) and choosing the colors from Inspire Create (#140). Here is the result: Steps: The Focal Panel was added to the card base and theContinue reading “Pretty Petals – Wonderful Mother”

April Showers – Playing in the Rain

Wishing the very best on this Sunday… April!  April Showers are a popular theme this month.  Here is my take prompted by: Inspired By (#233) including colors and the suggested sketch layout; Shopping Our Stash (#494); and as I went with Rain Showers instead of Baby / Bridal Showers, Can You Handle the Pressure (#29).Continue reading “April Showers – Playing in the Rain”

Full of Love

Happy Saturday!  Welcome to the weekend.  I hope you have a chance to be creative… This morning I created a card for several open challenges:  Firstly, Inspiration Station (#48) for the photo of the big blue sky and the tulip fields.  Having a Dutch background, this speaks to me and tulips are my mother’s favoriteContinue reading “Full of Love”

Easter Lilies – Happy Spring

Hi!  There is a card style challenge over at AAA Cards (#237) to make a CAS (clean and simple) card in a shape other than a rectangle or a square.  Challenge accepted. I chose to use the colors suggested by the Facebook group SU! Only Colour (April) and the Easter theme for both AAA CardsContinue reading “Easter Lilies – Happy Spring”