Happy Sunday! How about some Christmas inspiration? Our theme this month is Christmas! I went with a lovely gift card holder – This Brightly Gleaming Designer Series Paper just makes this stunning!!! Bonus as this uses a little over 1/2 sheet of card stock! Meaning you can make 2 from a single sheet of card… [Read More]
2019 Holiday Mini
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Holly Jolly Christmas
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a card with boughs, wreaths or evergreens. Of course, the All-Around Wreath Dies are just the thing – I started with the Gold Foil Edged Cards and layered Real Red, them the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper. The wreath is… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – New Year New You
Happy Friday! Welcome to another blog hop! Our theme this month is New Year New You I went with New Year – I used the beautiful Champagne Foil sheets as my starting point. These lovely, festive, Sip & Celebrate Dies are wonderful!!! I cut the bubbles out of black, backing them in the Champagne Foil… [Read More]
Sweet Christmas Wishes
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two-week challenge – Optional Theme : Winter Wonder Ok, how about using some more of this Let it Snow Designer Series Paper. I love this paper, but I really love it more when I have used it all up! Lol! It is a pretty sweet card,… [Read More]
We Create Neutral Collection Blog Hop
Happy December 1st! How about starting off the day with a couple of inspirational blog hops? This one is for – The theme this month is Neutrals. I combined the Stampin’ Up neutral color family and the theme of Christmas for this – I stamped the house and tree image in Smokey Slate. It is… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features Santa, Gingerbread, Elves, Penguin cards. I went with this adorable gingerbread house – It features coloring with Blends – my favorite! It was nice to take a break from the hustle and bustle of this busy season to just sit… [Read More]
Joy of Sets Anything Goes Blog Hop
Happy Saturday! What a busy day with two hops for me!! This is the second one today! Here, I’m hopping with the Joy of Sets – I decided to create a special card. How about a square card – Simple, but very elegant with all the layers on the card. This is a 4 1/4… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Non-traditional Christmas Colors
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features non-traditional Christmas colors. Purple isn’t a typical Christmas color for me, however, this is really pretty! I started by stamping 4 ornaments from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set. Memento Black on Whisper White and Highland Heather on Purple Posey. I… [Read More]
You’re So Cool
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I haven’t used this adorable Playful Penguins stamp in a while. I thought this was a cute play on the sketch! The penguin, sentiment and scarf are from one stamp set! I accented the Layering Circles with a… [Read More]
Grateful for Your Kindness
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – What wonderful colors to create a lovely Thanksgiving card – Right???? I used the Come to Gather Designer Series Paper for the plaid background and one of the wreath layers. I wanted that beautiful wreath to be… [Read More]
Make a Wish
Happy day to you! I’ve been rather caught up in creating seasonal cards and have forgotten to make what we always need – a birthday card! I have soo much pretty seasonal paper from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday mini that I challenged myself to use some of it for non-holiday cards, like a birthday. Here… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Let it Shine
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features cards with shine! I think the Brightly Gleaming Suite is perfect for this! It is hard to capture the beauty of this paper on camera! Parts of it are copper metallic! I added the ornament in Copper Foil to bring… [Read More]
Bundled Up Christmas Cheer
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest layout challenge – As always, a great way to get the creative thoughts going. I went with a cutesy Christmas card – I love this little bundled up snowman! All the paper in this Let It Snow pack is adorable!… [Read More]
We Create – Regals Collection
Happy November 1st! This is the second of two hops for today showing off some great inspiration! This one is for – This months theme is the Regals collection of colors. I decided to incorporate the Tidings All Around bundle creating a lovely Christmas card – Nice mix of Regals colors I’d say! I die… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Halloween Favor
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a Halloween favor! Perfect as I needed to create treats for coworkers! I found a box of Halloween Oreos. So, I created a cute holder for them – Cute, right? Here is the whole bunch of them ready to go!… [Read More]
Let’s Celebrate You!
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest layout challenge – I have been really wanting to use this small rose pattern from the Christmastime is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper. It doesn’t look ‘Christmasy’. This will be available November 1st. I finally did used it for a… [Read More]
Merry Christmas, Magnolia
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest 2 week challenge – Optional Theme : Stripes How about a simple Christmas card? Doesn’t get any more simpler than this! Both pattern papers are from the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper pack. The smaller, flower patters was colored with a Real Red Blends marker. The… [Read More]
Coloring Christmastime is Here
How is your Monday so far? I needed a little color therapy today. Stampin’ Up! Only Challenges! felt the same way! Their challenge this week encourages us to pull out the coloring items and get to coloring! I pulled out this lovely stamp, Christmas Rose stamp set and some Blends – Beautiful, huh? This Christmas… [Read More]
