Hello my Thursday friends! Time for a new Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest challenge – Super cool sketch to work with! I decided to pair the beautiful Wishing You Well stamp set and the shimmery Frosted Floral Designer Series Paper together – Wouldn’t you love to receive just a… [Read More]
it’s Halloween! eeeek
Did you see the September Paper Pumpkin, Frights & Delights? It’s sooooo cute! The kit shows to make treat bags. But, don’t get fooled – get creative! It’s not limited to treat bags at all! I’ve made another card using the kit contents, plus a few supplies – There is shiny silver behind the pumpkin… [Read More]
Here’s to Celebrating YOU!
Happy Tuesday! Time for a Design Team card created for Try Stampin’ on Tuesday. We have a color challenge to inspire you today! Perfect colors to create a (late) birthday card for a former co-worker – I’ll admit, it was hard to part with this card! I love the way it turned out! Don’t you? I… [Read More]
Happy Birthday, Pumpkin
Lol! Even people who have fall birthdays love pumpkins! This card is perfect for those people! Believe it not, the pattern paper is from a Halloween pack of paper! It’s the Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! It works perfectly here for this fall birthday! It also works perfectly for The Color… [Read More]
Spooky Halloween Card – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Welcome to the weekly, Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a Spooky Halloween Card! Halloween is such a fun holiday to create for! An even better holiday to send out cards – it’s unexpected! I created a card using the Winter Woods stamp set agin! Doesn’t it make a striking,… [Read More]
Grateful Leaf
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Great colors to create this – I was so excited to play around with the tree looking stamp from Winter Woods stamps set. I repeated the inking and stamping of this set to create the background. Very simple!… [Read More]
Halloween Favor – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a Halloween Favor. This is perfect as Halloween will be here before we know it! I created a little dual holder for a gift card or a flat chocolate treat – Opened, it has a little gusset that expands. The gusset… [Read More]
Beautiful Birthday Promenade
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Our newest challenge is simply wonderful! I know, which ones are not?? I was inspired to play with the Beautiful Promenade stamp set and this gorgeous new peachy pink color, Petal Pink creating a lovely birthday card – The flowers were stamped and cut using the… [Read More]
See Ya Soon Sweet friend
This past Sunday was a dear co-workers last day to work with us. It was bitter sweet. I had to make her a card. The Buffalo Check background was sitting on my desk, ready to go. I just needed something sweet to add to it. Since we are in Pearland, we collect lots of pear… [Read More]
World Card Making Day
Happy World Card Making Day, which is October 6. Stampin’ Up! is having a sale on a few things that’d make your creating much more cost effective! Take a look at these stock up on items on the website! What can I order for you?
Stitched Christmas Greetings
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! We are showing off cards with ‘stitching’ on them. That can be any kind of stitching, real or faux. Such a great idea! I decided to go with faux stitching! I love sewing and cross-stitch, but this was the best for me. And, a great way to show off this adorable… [Read More]
Happy Birthday, Hillary!
October 1st. The last (and most important) post today! This is to celebrate my oldest daughter, Hillary, and her birthday! I always create a special card, banner, and gift wrap to mail to her. Who doesn’t love happy packages in the mail?? This is this years spread – Lovely, isn’t it? Everything was made from… [Read More]
We Create – Halloween Blog Hop
Happy October 1!!!! Got a lot of creatin’ going on today! This post is for a group of us known as We Create. Theme this month is : Halloween I loved the September Frights & Delights Paper Pumpkin! Here is the kit assembled as the instructions indicate – Awesome treat holders. But, we don’t always… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – October
Happy October! Time for lots of creatin’ today! My first post is for – Nice that our theme can be anything we’d like! I chose to play with the September Paper Pumpkin kit, again! I created a sweet little home decor item – I absolutely LOVED how it turned out! Super quick. Super easy. And,… [Read More]
Cute or Sweet Halloween Card – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! We’ve always got a round of great ideas to inspire you! Our theme this week features a Cute or Sweet Halloween card. Mmmmm. Sweet? Cute? Halloween? Candy Corn is sweet, and cute because it’s little! Candy Corn on a card? Why not? This is a great… [Read More]
Celebrate Around the Corner
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! I’m ready for a celebration! Nice card, right? It uses the nifty, Around the Corner stamp set. It literally stamps in an ‘L’ formate! Which is a perfect card for using our Stamparatus! (Stamp-a-what? Stamparatus a positioning tool to make perfect stamped images that are… [Read More]
Frosted Floral Special Day
Happy Tuesday my Try Stampin’ on Tuesday friends! Sharing this beautiful card suitable for a birthday, wedding, or maybe even an anniversary! I love this Frosted Floral Designer Series paper – it is so beautiful! All of it! It’s all shimmery! I stamped my sentiment on Shimmery White card stock which complimented the paper quite nicely, softer than… [Read More]
Hello Fall – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Happy Fall!!! And, welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a ‘Hello Fall’ card. I went with a thank you fall because I’m so grateful for the season of fall! This all started with the Buffalo Check background. It is Crumb Cake on Very Vanilla. I added the… [Read More]
