Welcome Monday! How about a new challenge from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to start your week off creativity!?!? Here is our latest sketch to inspire you – I went with the You’re A Peach Designer Series Paper as my focal point – It makes for a lovely card – It’s is so fun and cheerful!… [Read More]
Anniversary
How Much You Mean To Me
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is out latest two-week challenge – Optional Theme : Anniversary Perfect sketch to play with some new stuff! Beautiful, right?!?! I started with this Nature’s Harvest Bundle – I love the way the large flower stamps, without the Stamparatus too! I placed it on a background of Harvest Meadow… [Read More]
We Create – Pattern Paper Blog Hop
Happy July 1st! Our theme this month is pattern paper, Designer Series Paper because Stampin’ Up is having a paper sale!!! So why not show you how to make the most out of a 6″ x 6″ sheet of Designer Series Paper? Look at these wonderful cards – I started with a 6″ x 6″… [Read More]
Best Wishes Gift Bag
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! We are switching up our challenges a bit to sketches from the new catalog – Then, we recreate it! So stunning! Perfect bag for a wedding ot to welcome a little girl! I embossed my Polished Pink Ombre Gift Bag using the Checks &… [Read More]
Make A Wish!
Happy Monday! Let’s start the week off with a another great challenge from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge – So fun, isn’t it!?!? I went with a playful take on the sketch – These Party Puffins are the best! I used my Stamparatus to stamp these nice and evenly. Then I fussy cut them out. I… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Evergreen
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features all green cards! I made two using the same size pieces! Aren’t these soo pretty?!?! I started with the soon-to-retire Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper* – I added the sentiment from the coordinating Forever Fern stamp set, yay, it will… [Read More]
Simply Thinking of You
Happy Wednesday! Playing with the February 2021 Bouquet of Hope Paper Pumpkin again today. I created a simple, elegant card – I know, that looks soo easy! And, well, it was sort of. Designing a simple card is the hard part. The first card I made with this large, thin, sentiment sticker was a disaster!… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Non-Traditional Valentine
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a non-traditional Valentine card (no reds or pinks). I got this! Having fun with this number – Not having fun photographing all the metallics here! Lol! I wasn’t sure what I was going to create. I just started cutting things!… [Read More]
Wish For It All
I have a triple sweet share for today. Actually, one card for three shared special occasions! First, it’s my birthday!! Second, I have a birthday twin, Happy Birthday Gladys! Third. Another friend, MarthaJoe is celebrating 30 years of marriage, also today! To inspire a card to encompass all this, I looked to the Paper Players for my… [Read More]
Mr. & Mrs.
Hello my friends! Still making one card a day for the month of July!! I needed to create a wedding card. I needed some inspiration. I really liked this sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches this time around! Wonderful inspiration for this – I stamped the two cakes in Early Espresso on Very Vanilla. I… [Read More]
Happy Anniversary
I want to wish a very special friend a very special anniversary. It is their 30th!!! Wow! In honor, I created a simple, lovely card – I started with making the layered flowers piece. I used several of the Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape petals creating a square before deciding what shape I’d cut out…. [Read More]
Congratulations, Daisy
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our CASE the catalog challenge – I copied the layout and the colors a bit – I am enjoying playing around with the Daisy Lane Bundle. Here, I combined it with the Garden Lane Designer Series Paper and the Stitched Nested Labels Dies…. [Read More]
Lovely Wedding Wishes
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Need some motivation to play with your stuff today? How about this new challenge – Optional Theme : Embossing Perfect inspiration to create this wedding wishes card – First off, I haven’t played with this gorgeous Merry Merlot color much. and, why? It’s gorgeous!!!! I created the embossed background by… [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]
Anniversaries are Charming
Today is a special day for me in the Stampin’ Up world – it’s my 10th Anniversary! Yep. That’s right. 10 years ago I signed up as a demonstrator and got the free box of ink pads – my choice of color family! And, back then it was like a $55 value. The rest, history,… [Read More]
Happy Luna-Versary
What the….?..?..? Well, five years ago, this happened – We became first time cat parents. We’d never had cats before. Until. Until this little adorable thing followed our daughters home from a walk to the mall. I told them if she stayed around a few nights, I’d consider keeping her. Well, she never left! Today,… [Read More]
Coffee, Tea…or Me?
Lol, I’m sure some of you might know that tagline!!!! It was from an airline in the 1960’s. This week at Watercooler Wednesday, we have another Simply Stampin’ challenge – This one is from Heidi and you have to feature coffee or tea. It was way more difficult than I thought because you are limited… [Read More]
September Blogiversary Blogging Friends Blog Hop
That’s right. It’s our ONE YEAR BLOGIVERSARY!!! Part of Three Post Thursday for me today! First, a congrats to all of those who’ve been with us since the beginning, and all the newbies we’ve acquired along the way! It’s been a wonderful year of learning and growing together! Our theme is, of course, CELEBRATION! And, to… [Read More]
