Gift of Joy – Wrapped in Love

Design Team Time: This round at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#475), we have a set of pretty cool colors. My design was influenced by: Facebook’s Stampin’ Through the Catalog stamp set selection for today – Gift of Joy; AAA Cards (#302) to CASE Karen Roger’s card; and I am sharing this with Cupcake Inspirations (#629) forContinue reading “Gift of Joy – Wrapped in Love”

Perfectly Pears – Celebrate

Design Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#525) Sketch. Today’s card can be found on page 133 of the May 2025 – Apr 2026 Annual Catalog.  CASE: (Copy and Steal Everything) Making it exactly the same; (Copy and Slightly Edit) Almost the same with a little variation; (Copy and Selectively Edit) Changing things.  You are welcome toContinue reading “Perfectly Pears – Celebrate”

Natural Botanicals – Missing You

Design Time: Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#508) CASE-Ing Challenge where we copy and selectively edit a card found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Today?  The card can be found on page 19 of the Jan – Apr Mini Catalog. As it happens, Facebook’s Stampin’ Through the Catalog is featuring the stamp set Natural Botanicals today andContinue reading “Natural Botanicals – Missing You”

Soft Spring – Simply Said Hello

Design Team Time: This round at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#459), we have a wonderful inspiration board.  I was drawn to the Lavendar Patch photograph on the right. The Christmas (or not) Bingo (#12) Board – Letter “B” influenced how I created the card. Here is the result: Steps: I always enjoy the opportunity to doContinue reading “Soft Spring – Simply Said Hello”

Pretty Petals – Thanks

Welcome back. No WIFI today, so excuse any operator errors as I create this post via my phone. The challenges: Facebook Stampin’ Through the Catalog – today’s selection: Pretty Petals, an On-Line Exclusive product; TGIF (#505) Thank You theme; Color Dare (#632) palette choices – Gorgeous Grape, Lost Lagoon, Moody Mauve and Pool Party; andContinue reading “Pretty Petals – Thanks”

Butterfly Thank You

Wow!  It is already Thursday…time just flies. Playing in the Studio with a few challenges:  Alphabet (Letter E) for an Easel card; so why not, Creative Creases (#58) for Fun Fold cards; selecting the Summer Bright colors suggested by Facebook Colour INKspiration (#144); and bringing it all together with the flipped Try Stampin’ On TuesdayContinue reading “Butterfly Thank You”

Delicate Dahlias – Fragrant Blossoms

Hi! Welcome back.  I have a lovely floral card for you today.  A friend asked me to create a card for someone really special.  Her favorite flowers are Dahlias and specifically pink ones… Several challenges inspired my creation: Retro Rubber (#182) Flower Power; Just Us Girls (#631) Word Week – Flowers; The Card Concept (#175)Continue reading “Delicate Dahlias – Fragrant Blossoms”

Biggest Wish – Hello

Welcome back and welcome to October! Knocking off a few challenges today…Sketch: Paper Players (#560), Color/Theme/Tools: Retro Rubber (#168) and Theme: Global Design Project (#311). Here is the result: Steps: For the Retro Rubber Challenge, I selected the retired stamp set Totally Trees (circa 2016).  Several of the Trees look like Foliage Leaves.  Three differentContinue reading “Biggest Wish – Hello”

Soft Spring – Thank You

Had a great group of Girls over for class today.  We had a lot of fun! But it is time to get back to business…challenge deadlines are looming… A sweet little sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches (#619) led me to a favorite retired stamp set, Soft Spring.  I picked the colors from the FacebookContinue reading “Soft Spring – Thank You”

Nothing’s Better Than…Coffee:  Let’s Have Some!

Sitting here this morning enjoying my cup of coffee and decided to use that as inspiration for the card I created for these two challenges: Layout: Freshly Made Sketches – FMS481 Color: Just Add Ink – JAI550 And this is the result: I chose to use the Nothing’s Better Than stamp set.  I stamped nineContinue reading “Nothing’s Better Than…Coffee:  Let’s Have Some!”