Approaching Perfection – Happy Birthday

Design Team Time for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (#658).  All wrapped up with a tag.  Lots of fun possibilities with this sketch.  I changed the orientation to horizontal to better accommodate my sentiment. Design influences: Krafty Chicks (#796) Masculine and Alphabet (Letter Q) for Quote. Selecting the Facebook SU! Colours (December) suggestion and addingContinue reading “Approaching Perfection – Happy Birthday”

Festive Christmas

Welcome back! It has been a busy day and I am just getting a chance to get this card we made in class today posted. Design influences: Ellibelle’s I Spy (#32) Something Festive; choosing the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#539) Sketch; picking up the Cupcake Inspirations (#631) colors of Maroon and Gold and sharing with ColorfulContinue reading “Festive Christmas”

Winter Forest – Noel

Welcome back! A brand-new week. The holiday count down continues with several challenges. A companion card to the one I created last week. Clean and simple with a white-on-white treatment. For: Paper Players (#764) – Frosty Vistas; Facebook’s Global Design Project (#523) Keeping it Cold; and Farm Quest’s Country Christmas (#26) for a Rural WinterContinue reading “Winter Forest – Noel”

Beautiful Butterflies – Hello

Design Team Time: This round at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#469), we have a lovely Color Combination.   My choices were influenced by: Just Us Girls (#786) Case a Design Team Member.  I combined ideas from Ina Grehan and Lisa Elton. I am sharing this card with Triple B (August) and Critter Crazy (#101) as theContinue reading “Beautiful Butterflies – Hello”

Perfectly Pears – A Perfect Pair

Welcome back!  Wishing you a wonderful Friday. Today I have a clean and simple card for a number of different challenges. Tic Tac Toe (#273) left line: Love, CAS, and Scoring; Paper Players (#742) CAS with a Fruit theme; Krafty Chicks (#773) for their CAS week; and choosing the Freshly Made (#691) Sketch which isContinue reading “Perfectly Pears – A Perfect Pair”

Floral Collage – Textured Notes

Hi again!  Back with another clean and simple CASE (Copy and Share Everything) card. Over at Just Us Girls (#777), we are challenged to CASE a card created by the Design Team.  I selected Ina Grehan’s card.  I love everything about it.  It is clean and simple, it has a collage of images in aContinue reading “Floral Collage – Textured Notes”

Garden Meadow – Springtime Greetings

Welcome back.  It’s Saturday!  Hoping you find some time to be creative this weekend. Are you itching to get to your springtime gardening?  Really tempting with the tease of warmer temperatures… That said, I am playing with Festive Friday (#181) and selected Flowers, Pink (Bubble Bath) and Yellow (Lemon Lolly) from the List of optionsContinue reading “Garden Meadow – Springtime Greetings”

Easter – Spring Celebration

Welcome back! Happy Monday. Earlier this month I created a Tutorial for an Easter card using the fun Ephemera Mix & Match Packs – Spring Celebrations and Greetings For All. Lots of texture, a little bit of water coloring and die-cuts. My color choices were influenced by the Park Hopping (March) Inspiration Board and IContinue reading “Easter – Spring Celebration”

Hello – Thoughtful Moments

Sneaking in a card I created yesterday but ran out of time to post… This week at Stampin’ Through the Catalog, Nicole Peschke from kreatives_papierwunder, was the Guest Designer.  We are encouraged to be inspired by her design and CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) it. I loved her card, and my takeaways were the colors,Continue reading “Hello – Thoughtful Moments”

Happy Birthday – Celebration

Time again for Facebook Case-ing Tuesday, where we CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) cards found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Today?  The card can be found on the front cover of the Jan – Apr Mini Catalog.  But guess what!  This is the 500th CASE CARD Design that we have created.  What fun!!      So,Continue reading “Happy Birthday – Celebration”