Saturday Keep Stamping – Vellum (Stained Glass)

 October 24th, 2020 This week?  Create a card using the Stained Glass technique with Vellum card stock. Today, I give you an autumnal and a festive card. Autumn Birthday I chose the both the Watering Can and Floral images from Country Home.  Silver embossed on to Vellum and then colored from the back with aContinue reading “Saturday Keep Stamping – Vellum (Stained Glass)”

Friday Simple Stamping – Harvest Thanks

 October 23rd, 2020 This week the chosen theme for Simple Stamping is Thank You in Harvest Colors.  The featured stamp set is Winter Woods along with By the Dock, Parcels & Petals and Country Home for the sentiments.  The chosen colors, Soft Suede, Bumble Bee and Cinnamon Cider evoke a Fall seasonal feel. Easy –Continue reading “Friday Simple Stamping – Harvest Thanks”

Paper Pumpkin Play Date – Many Manly Moments

October 22, 2020 The MAY 2016 – MANY MANLY MOMENTS kit included wonderful laser cut cards and a bunch of masculine sentiments.  I thought the cut outs were so great.  So many possibilities! I used only one item from the kit: a single card base with the triangle laser cut pattern. Joy I cut theContinue reading “Paper Pumpkin Play Date – Many Manly Moments”

Birthday Love

October 20, 2020 Case-ing Tuesday #274 (August – December 2020 Mini Catalog, page 39) Key elements from the sample in the Mini Catalog include a textured mat, a contrast panel, a label, a ribbon, cut shapes and some other embellishments. The mat background is the Many Medallions Die lace cut out in Blushing Bride.  The Whisper WhiteContinue reading “Birthday Love”

Thank you…you make a difference

October 17, 2020 Global Design Project #263 – #GDP263 – Theme Challenge Colour INKspiration #87 (Mango Melody, Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzazz, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand and Metallics) Case-ing Tuesday # 273 (August – December Mini Catalog, page 38) I used more leaves that I created when I was playing with Alcohol Painting. The colors chosen were forContinue reading “Thank you…you make a difference”

Sunday Sketch – SS025

 October 18th, 2020 Looking at today’s sketch, I was plum out of ideas.  Christmas, Birthday, Autumn…?? While I made the card for this sketch, all of the decisions were made by my husband, Blair. It has been a long stretch with the Covid-19 lockdown – 216 days and counting.  We have not been able toContinue reading “Sunday Sketch – SS025”

Best Year Yet…

October 17, 2020 Global Design Project #262 – #GDP262 – Sketch Challenge Colour INKspiration #87 (Mango Melody, Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzazz, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand and Metallics) This week, the Sketch went well with an idea I had to use Alcohol Painting to create leaves that would ring the circle. The Colour INKspiration for CI#87 fitContinue reading “Best Year Yet…”

Saturday Keep Stamping – Color Combo

 October 17th, 2020 This week?  Create a card using any combination of the colors suggested by the selected image.  Blushing Bride, Rococo Rose, Real Red, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Night of Navy, Gorgeous Grape and / or Whisper White. Happy Birthday I chose to substitute Cherry Cobbler for the Real Red because it toned soContinue reading “Saturday Keep Stamping – Color Combo”

Friday Simple Stamping – Seasonal Birthday

 October 16th, 2020 This week the chosen theme for Simple Stamping is Birthday using Seasonal Colors.  Featured are the stamp sets Happiest of Birthdays and Bloom & Grow.  Open line images beg to be colored and I used three different mediums for the coloring on these cards. Each card has a clean and simple esthetic. Continue reading “Friday Simple Stamping – Seasonal Birthday”

Paper Pumpkin Play Date – Bold Botanicals

October 15, 2020 The AUGUST 2016 – BOLD BOTANICALS kit was an interesting mix of the feminine and masculine.  The paper elements were decidedly masculine: bold swaths of strong color in Cajun Craze and Bermuda Bay while the stamp set: Three lovely floral images lends to a softer feminine feel.  Yet bold fonts were usedContinue reading “Paper Pumpkin Play Date – Bold Botanicals”