It’s Tuesday! Time for the Facebook Tuesday Case-ing the Catalog challenge (#382). My choices were influenced by many current challenges: Theme: Use Your Stuff (#47) Winter/Snow, Inkspirational (#278) Carolers in a Snow Globe and Critter Crazy (#68) for the Cute Mice; Colors: Color Dare (#521); Water Coloring Technique: Happy Little Stampers and Colour Crazy CraftContinue reading “Fa La La – Caroling Mice”
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Grace’s Garden – Healing Thoughts
Time again for the Facebook Tuesday Case-ing the Catalog challenge (#381). Have you realized what a fabulous resource our Stampin’ Up! Catalogs are? So many great ideas… Several Challenges influenced my design: Just Us Girls (#657) lead to the choice of the retired Grace’s Garden stamp set; Just Add Ink (#628) for the Colors;Continue reading “Grace’s Garden – Healing Thoughts”
True Friend Floral Card
Happy Tuesday and welcome to the Facebook Tuesday Case-ing the Catalog challenge (#377). My card was influenced by the following challenges: Theme: Time Out (#224), Color: Color Dare (#516), Tools Technique: Inkspirational (#275), and Medium: Happy Little Stampers Watercolor (October). Here is the result: Steps: All of the elements were adhered to resemble the sketch.Continue reading “True Friend Floral Card”
A Fish & A Wish – Hey, There!
Welcome to the Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge (#396) launching today! This week, we have a Color Challenge for you. I am looking forward to seeing what you will create with them. I chose the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#370) Sketch Challenge for this week and the A Fish & A Wish stamp set to showcase theseContinue reading “A Fish & A Wish – Hey, There!”
Perfectly Penciled – Just Because its your Birthday
A color challenge deadline is approaching, Just Add Ink (#613)…such a pretty combination, Fresh Freesia (soft purple), Starry Sky (vibrant blue) and Mint Macaron (lovely shade of green). But what to do with them? I pulled out the super pretty Black and White Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper and opted to watercolor one of theContinue reading “Perfectly Penciled – Just Because its your Birthday”
A Fish & A Wish – Hey There!
Productive day! Indulge me in another project… Over at Paper Players (#599), this week is color. I chose the Sketch Saturday (#704) layout for a very clean and simple card using the stamp set A Fish & A Wish. For some fun, I played around with one of the newer stencils from the Artistic DecorativeContinue reading “A Fish & A Wish – Hey There!”
Forever Friendship
Have you seen the new Forever Friendship stamp set in the new Holiday Mini (Jul-Dec) Catalog? It was one of my first “Must Haves”. Such fun images and fun sentiments. I have used the Collection of Plants image and married it up with the current Color Throwdown (#700) colors and the current Atlantic Hearts SketchContinue reading “Forever Friendship”
Happiness Abounds – Just Because
Hi and welcome back to the Studio! A number of current challenges involve color and specifically the new Stampin’ Up! 2022 / 2024 In-Colors. CAS Colours & Sketches (#475); Sunday Stamps (#285); and Inspire Create (#119): So, I have combined them with the current Global Design Challenge (#348) to case the layout of a cardContinue reading “Happiness Abounds – Just Because”
Botanical Prints – Here For You
Can you stand another one? I am catching up… Over at CAS on Friday (#232), the theme is Fruit. I selected the retired stamp set Botanical Prints for the Rosehip image. I chose to use the 1970’s inspired colors suggested by Retro Rubber (#184) and to bring these ideas together, I selected the current sketchContinue reading “Botanical Prints – Here For You”
Winds of Change – You Make Me Smile
Over at Time Out, Challenge (#213) they are looking for a vacation related theme. What is your ideal vacation? Sun, Sand, Surf? Or like me, the cobbled streets of Europe. My ideal is cycling through the tulip fields in the Netherlands… Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) SoContinue reading “Winds of Change – You Make Me Smile”
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