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Monday, March 18, 2024

*Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #569*

 It's time for a great new sketch at Atlantic Hearts...  


I've been having a lot of fun with this new Paper Rose paper pack...  this time I took the scraps from the fussy cutting of the floral swag and used them for my card.  The papers are double sided and while that floral wreath that I cut up was the whole reason I bought the paper package, the back sides are all pretty fabulous too!

Card Info
*Paper:  Paper Rose Studio Rainbow Twirls
*Images:  The Ton Easy Expressions
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  Hero Arts Infinity Hearts; The Ton Easy Expressions
*Etc:  foam adhesive

Saturday, March 16, 2024

*Addicted to CAS #254*

 It's time for a new challenge with Addicted to CAS... a perfect one as we head in to spring!


Floral cards are NOT a problem for me... I love to create with beautiful blooms!  For my card today, I did something a little different.  I purchased a 6x6 paper pack a few weeks ago and some of the designs just won't work on a card... unless you get creative.  I took one of the pages and cut out a portion of a rainbow floral wreath and used it with an oval frame to create my card.  As I was busy cutting this out, I was taken back to my childhood... I remember my Mom, sitting at the dining room table, doing Paper Tole... she'd purchase these packages of images where there were different elements with different layers to cut and then she'd use some sort of dimensional adhesive (silicon maybe?) to layer up the different parts of the image to create a 3D piece... and then she got them framed in deep frames to show off all of that dimension.  My Mom LOVED her Xacto knife!  I do not LOL!

Card Info
*Patterned Paper:  Paper Rose Studio Rainbow Twirls
*Cardstock:  Spellbinders Gold Foil
*Images:  MFT Something for Everything
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  Stampin' Up! Layering Ovals; MFT Something for Everything
*Challenges:  Addicted to CAS #254


Friday, March 15, 2024

*CAS on Friday #275*

Happy Friday, creative friends!  It's time for an EASTER themed challenge over at CAS on Friday!  It's so hard to believe that Easter is only a few weeks away... it's SO early this year!

I honestly didn't have any truly Easter themed stuff in my stash so I had to go shopping ... and I found these great bunny dies.  I cut them out of my white panel and layered the patterned paper behind them.  For my sentiment, I found one in my stash that says "happy days are here again" and didn't stamp the "a" in happy... and hand wrote the letter "o" in the spot that was left...

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Granny Apple Green
*Paper:  MFT Dots & Stripes
*Images:  Picket Fence Studio Good Vibes
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  Carta Bella Bunny Buddies
*Challenges:  CAS on Friday #275


*AAA Colourful #2*

 I hope you enjoyed playing along with the first ever challenge at AAA Colourful!  We are back each month on the 15th with a new inspiration for you...


Don't you just love those deep and delicious colours in the colour board for this month?!   You don't need to use all of those colours... just something that inspires you from the photo.

I did use many of the colours from the inspiration board... and had fun with some multi-step stamping!  To create the perfect coloured mat, I dragged the Flirty Fuchsia ink pad along the edges of a piece of white cardstock.  And to get the two tones on each images, I used the second generation to get the lighter colour.

Card Info
*Images:  Altenew Fabulous Florets; Honey Bee Stamps Best of Everything
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocture:  Catherine Pooler Glitz, Suede Shoes, Grape Crush, Flirty Fuchsia
*Dies:  Altenew Fabulous Florets; Honey Bee Stamps Best of Everything
*Tools:  Perfect Layers
*Challenges:  AAA Colourful #2


Thursday, March 14, 2024

*Time Out Challenges #259*

We have a fun and special addition to our challenge at Time Out Challenges this week... for challenge #259, we are partnering up with Just Us Girls!  This means that you can play along with EITHER challenge (or both) and your card will eligible to win on both blogs!  The Linky Tool on each challenge will link your card up to both challenges.

Here is our challenge graphic for our current challenge...


As always, we allow for interpretation of our themes...  so we can see birds, feathers, nests....  but something that is inspired by "birds of a feather".

I am NOT a fan of birds (I had an incident with one in the house when I was a child and I've been kinda afraid of them since)... but I had some great feather dies that I thought would work.  I did some ink blending and cut them out...  and then used a friendship sentiment that makes me think of the words "birds of a feather"...

Card Info
*Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Twisted Citron and Salty Ocean
*Dies:  Picket Fence Feather Dies
*Etc:  Pink Fres Studio Foiled Sentiments

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

*You Bring a Smile to My Face*

 I am so happy that so many companies are now doing pretty sentiment stamps with matching dies...  I love to be able to cut out a sentiment in something other than a simple banner...  these stamps from Honey Bee are fabulous (even if a few of them aren't to my taste, the majority of them are awesome!)

My card today is using the current sketch over at Just Add Ink... and I managed to use up four pieces that were in my "bin of extras".  The only thing that wasn't in there was my die cut sentiment!

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Granny Apple Green
*Images  Honey Bee Stamps Best of Everything
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  Waffle Flower Nesting Circles; Honey Bee Best of Everything; Pink Fresh Studio Rainbow Daisies
*Etc:  Pink Fresh Studio Rainbow Daisies Washi Tape
*Tools:  ScorBuddy
*Challenges:  Just Add Ink #692



Monday, March 11, 2024

*Two Challenges, One CAS Card*

 I'm playing along with two challenges today...  the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and the colour combination at Color Hues.  I absolutely love this colour combination so I knew I had to play with it... and when I saw the sketch, this technique popped in to my head (but then it took me a while to remember how to do it!)

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Lemon Lime Twist, Tempting Turquoise
*Images:  The Ton Easy Expressions
*Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  Waffle Flower Nesting Circles; The Ton Easy Expressions
*Tools:  Perfect Layers





Tuesday, March 05, 2024

*CAS Colours & Sketches #532*

It's time for the first challenge of the month with CAS Colours & Sketches... and it's a colour challenge.


I never would have thought to put these colours together... but I love how they look!  The lighter blue just balances out the other two deep, rich colours.  So pretty!

I decided to go pretty super clean and simple with my card using these colours.

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Old Olive, Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue
*Images:  the Ton Easy Expressions
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  Spellbinders Petite Blooms & Sentiemtns; The Ton Easy Expressions
*Tools:  Perfect Layers
*Embellishments:  small clear drops from my stash

Monday, March 04, 2024

*Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #567*

 I am so very excited to share with you all that I am a new member of the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Design Team!  I will be sharing my creations with you every second challenge, starting with today!

Here's the sketch for this week...


As soon as I saw this sketch, I knew I wanted to play with flowers...  so I cut out some daisies in a soft rainbow of colour and put this card together for you...  I tried to put somewhat of a clean and simple spin on my creation, because that's who I am LOL!

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Pear Pizazz, Pool Party, Highland Heather
*Images:  Taylored Expressions Simple Strips
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design Daisies; Taylored Expressions Simple Strips
*Embellishments:  clear drops from my stash (that are hard to see but they are there)

Saturday, March 02, 2024

*Addicted to CAS #253*

 It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS...  a card that celebrates friends!


I had some fun with a new pack of patterned paper that I bought... the designs are super busy, but in small doses can still create a clean and simple card.  To create this card, I put the strip of paper directly on to the card base and then cut a piece of white cardstock about 1" shorter than the height of my card.  I then cut it in to two pieces and used foam adhesive to put the two pieces on, overlapping the patterned paper.  I adhered my die cut work only to the white panels to create dimension.

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black
*Paper:  Paper Rose Studio Rainbow Twirl
*Images:  MFT Anything But Basic Friendship
*Dies:  MFT Friend
*Etc:  foam adhesive
*Challenges:  Addicted to CAS #253

Friday, March 01, 2024

*{BYSHC} Sketch #43*

 Happy March, my friends!  It's time for a new sketch challenge at Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers!

I saw the sketch and knew I wanted to play with a snowflake as that big circular element... and of course I needed some embossed snowflakes too!  The photo doesn't really show off the great iridescent silver carddstock that is the strip across the middle of the card as it reflected all of the colours around it.

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Night of Navy; Lawn Fawn Iridescent
*Images:  The Ton Easy Expressions Holiday
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies: The Ton Easy Expressions Holiday; Simon Says Stamp Marie Snowflake
*Embossing:  Simon Says Stamp Snowflake Visions
*Tools:  Perfect Layers
*Challenges:  {BYSHC} #43


*CAS on Friday #278*

 The challenge at CAS on Friday is "hello"... these are cards you can send to someone for no real reason... just an "I thought of you" type of card... and the theme inspired me to send off a couple of "hello" cards! I hope you'll go see what the rest of the design team came up with for their cards by heading to the CAS on Friday blog!

I chose a beautiful new (to me) floral stamp, stencil and die set from Altenew and a sweet sentiment to finish it off.  I added a little hint of gold to make it a little more special.

Card Info
*Cardstock:  unknown rose gold mirror
*Images:  Altenew Graceful Gardenias; Honey Bee Stamps Best of Everything
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Altenew Limeade, Lime, Fresh Leaf, Baby Pink, Fuchsia, Magenta
*Dies:  Altenew Graceful Gardenias; Honey Bee Stamps Best of Everything
*Stencils:  Altenew Graceful Gardenias
*Tools:  Taylored Expressions blending brushes; Perfect Layers
*Challenges:  CAS on Friday #278


Thursday, February 29, 2024

*Time Out Challenges #258*

The team at Time Out Challenges is back with a photo inspiration challenge to start off our 11th year of challenges!  A big thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate our 10th birthday with the last challenge!

Here is your photo inspiration...


As with all of our inspiration challenges, we want to know what you were inspired by, so please be sure to share that information with us when you post your creation!

I was inspired by the bright colours on the black background... and I wanted to use a critter of some sort...  I did a technique I haven't done before where I stamped and coloured my image on white cardstock and then used a black Copic to make the background black.

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stapin' Up! Real Red, Granny Apple Green
*Images:  MFT You're Rawr-some
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Copics
*Etc:  clear embossing powder
*Tools: Perfect Layers

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

*Christmas Craft Creations February*

 Welcome to the end of February!!  I don't have a clue where this month went!  We get an extra day but it still feels like it flew by!

It's time for me to share my card for the Christmas Craft Creations challenge...   Our February theme is 


I decided to once again let an embossing folder take the main stage for my card... and I got to use this fabulous frame stencil that my sister gave me for Chrsitmas!

Card Info
*Images: Hero Arts Joy Stamp & Cut
*Ink:  Versamark
*Embossing:  Spellbinders Notched Corner Pointsettia
*Etc:  Stampin' Up! gold embossing powder

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

*Birthday Bounce Instagram Hop*

 It's time for the second hop with the Birthday Bounce team... we are doing an Instagram Hop, so head on over to my Instagram page if you'd like to hop along and see what the other creators have done with our theme this month.

I struggled a bit with our theme this month... because I had it in my head that while I needed to do a SHAKER card (our theme) that I wanted to try to make a clean and simple shaker card.

I think I did ok....

I cut the butterfly out of my front panel.  My front panel is where the shaker is, so I used foam adhesive to get it all on the front of my card and added my shaker elements behind an acetate panel. I then took the butterly that I had cut out and glued it in to the negative space, but only glued down the centre part.  I then curved up the wings a big to add dimension and allow you to see the shaker stuff.

One tip with a shaker card panel like this?  Make sure you do your stamping before you add the foam adhesive!

Card Info
*Images:  Pink Fresh Studio Happy Birthday Sentiment
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  MFT Stitched Rectangles; unknown butterfly


Sunday, February 25, 2024

*A Simple Floral*

 I created this card way back in January and it kind of kept getting pushed back instead of being shared...  it's the only card I have in my stash to be blogged that isn't for a design team at the moment.  I had these great plans in February... I finished all of my design team work one weekend earlier in the month so that I could just play with whatever I wanted... and then I struggled to create at all LOL!

Anyway, finally sharing this beautiful floral frame card I created using som items that were in my bucked of extras.  I used two sizes of the hexagon dies to craete the frame to place my flowers on...