Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Wonderful colors! I played around with a limited edition Snowflake Showcase to create this – It’s a beautiful set of two stamp sets and framelits. I used the Happiness Surrounds stamp set and Snowfall Thinlits. One of the… [Read More]
Birthday
Today Blooms Just for You!
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! This is the first of three posts today!! Yes, I’ve been very busy! Here is our newest challenge – I created a simply fun fall birthday card using the sketch – Nice, right? I used two different Designer Series Papers, the back, wood-look one is… [Read More]
Happy Birthday Stampin’ Up!
What better way to celebrate than with a sale!?!?!?! Hear are all the wonderful stamps sets on sale Tuesday, October 23, 2018 – 147069 TIME FOR TEA (Photopolymer) • page 15 $17.00 $14.45 146695 ANOTHER WONDERFUL YEAR (Clear) page 21 $31.00 $26.35 146692 ANOTHER WONDERFUL YEAR (Wood) page 21 $42.00 $35.70 147136 BEST BUNNY (Photopolymer) • page… [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]
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]
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]
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]
“Always Be My Baby” – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week still rocks the 90’s with the song, ‘Always Be My Baby’, where we are featuring cards for kids! This one took a little thought for me. I have no young children around. And, I have no kid themed stamps. But, I… [Read More]
Have a Beautiful Birthday
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest challenge to get your creativity going – It’s a simple sketch with soo many possibilities! I bought the Painted Glass bundle and decided I just needed to play around with it! I came up with this nice, masculine card – I… [Read More]
Tea Time for TSOT
Happy Tuesday! Time to share a card designed for Try Stampin’ on Tuesday, TSOT! Out theme this week is a color challenge – No optional theme this week. Since I’m also designing for my upcoming Card Buffet, I decided to use this sweet Tea Room Suite! I think this will be a hit! It’s simple done… [Read More]
“Black or White” – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Happy Saturday my stampin’ friends! Time for a Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week still features 90’s song titles. Cards this week are created with black or white or both only – no colors! Well, this is right up my alley! These are my favorite colors to create with! I pulled… [Read More]
“Candle in the Wind” – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Welcome to another song filled Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features the 90’s song, Candle in the Wind, and birthdays! This couldn’t have come at a better time as several of my friends are having milestone birthdays in the near future! I just had to run with this one –… [Read More]
It’s all in the Card
I have a quick share today. I know, a posting on a Friday, how special is that???? Last weekend I celebrated a milestone birthday. When I got back from my birthday trip to New York, I had two lovely handmade surprises in my mailbox! One from a dear, talented friend, Charlene, who helps keep me… [Read More]
“Every Rose Has It’s Thorns” – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Welcome to virtual musical filled Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features 80’s some titles again! This week, “Every Rose Has It’s Thorns”, featuring cards with flowers. I literally am still singing this song as I create this post!!! I went with this gorgeous Healing Hugs – Only this time I… [Read More]
Gold Wish
Happy Tuesday, my friends! We’ve got a new design challenge at Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Optional Theme : Foil What a great sketch and with foil – perfect! I pulled out one of my favorite papers, Broadway Bound because it has lots of foiled sheets in the package. I created this – It’s super fun! A… [Read More]
Celebrate
Happy post – 4th of July! Here in Houston, we survived another holiday flood! Not too soaked and was able to create a card for Create with Connie and Mary and out newest Thursday challenge! We are back to color and sketch challenges – Great happy colors! I designed this fun card with new products – I… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – Annual Catalog
Good morning my Sunday friends! Time for a fun round of blogging with my – As you can see, the theme is the Annual Catalog. I threw a dart at the wall to decide what to use because I like soo many of the new things. The winner was the Blow Out the Candles Bundle!… [Read More]
