Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features winter or cards with snow. I took it literal this week – I stamped the image from the Still Scenes stamp set in Smoky Slate, coloring it with a variety of Blends markers. The roof and the snow are colored… [Read More]
2019 Holiday Mini
Toile Tidings Christmas Cheer
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest layout challenge – We will have this challenge up for two weeks because of Christmas. I went with a simple, lovely Christmas card – My base card is Very Vanilla, layered with an exact sized piece of the Toile Tidings… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – O Christmas Tree
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features cards with trees. Or maybe trees used in a different way?? Lol! Yes. I jumped on the gnome craze! The pattern papers are from the Wrapped in Plaid 6×6 Designer Series Paper. I took a Gold Foil-Edge card and cut… [Read More]
Thinking of You at Christmas Time
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I went with a quick Christmas Card using these lovely, non-traditional colors – I started with one of the note card sized card bases. Next, I used one of the dies from the Detailed Bands Dies in Gold… [Read More]
Kre8tors Blog Hop – Christmas
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]
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]
