Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Lovely colors! Perfect chance to play with the wonderful Scallop Note Cards & Envelopes – What do you think? Pretty sweet? I used the 6×6 In Color Designer Series Paper for the checked background. The beautiful band… [Read More]
Care & Concern
Delightful Mosaic Mood Birthday
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday. You know what that means, another two week challenge to inspire you! I love that we have an inspiration photo to go with our layout this time! I sort of went with the colors creating this – This gorgeous Designer Series Paper is Mosaic Mood. It’s a nice heavy weight… [Read More]
Celebrate Wreath
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – What a wonderful sketch to play with a new stamp set and coordinating dies! This will be available September 4 – This combines the Seasonal Wreaths stamp set and the All Around Wreath Dies. There is actually a… [Read More]
Kre8tors Blog Hop – Color Challenge Farms
Happy Sunday! Time for a blog hop! I am so happy to be a special Guest Designer this month! This is our inspirational picture and colors to create with – The (new, upcoming) Gather Together bundle was a perfect pair for these colors – Right? This is a wonderful fall set! I stamped the leaves… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Flower Power
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features our favorite flower set. I’m not sure which is my favorite stamp set, there are just too many to enjoy! I haven’t played with this Bloom & Grow bundle yet – But, it sure is pretty! The flowers were stamped… [Read More]
Days are Beautiful
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – What great colors! They look perfect on this card – This just turned out perfectly! I started with a Sahara Sand panel stamped with the Birch Wood stamp in Sahara Sand. The Perennial Flowers are stamped on Very… [Read More]
To an A+ Teacher
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our newest 2 week challenge to get your creativity going – Optional Theme : 3 Colors, 2 Shapes, 1 Designer Series Paper I’ve been itching to play with a new bundle that I just got. This Harvest Hellos, will be available September 4th. It is a coordinating stamp… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Animal Kingdom
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features animals, birds or insects. I took this opportunity to play with the Dino Days bundle! It’s soo cute! Cute, right?? I think is’s a great, silly card for any friend! I die cut the bird and dinosaur from the Dinoroar… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – Back to School Bash
Happy Friday! Welcome to our blog hop! Our theme this month is Back to School bash! Awesome, as most schools start this month! We will have lots of ideas for those sweet handmade items you will want to create! Of course, I was literal with the theme, creating a card of encouragement – I used… [Read More]
Thinking of You
Happy Tuesday Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two week challenge to inspire you – Optional Theme : Embossing I have the perfect idea! The July Paper Pumpkin, On My Mind – I used one of the cards in the kits for the front embossed panel because it’s just pretty cute! I added a… [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]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Vintage
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a vintage looking card. Oh, these are fun to create! I decided the Tasteful Textures stamp was a great choice for this type of card – I repeatedly stamped this pretty antique looking shape in Sahara Sand on Sahara Sand…. [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]
Unicorn Dreams
How about Whip it Wednesday? Lol, me and another Stampin’ Up! demonstrator that that was a funny thing we should do on Wednesday. Well, here I am. And, look what I did. I literally created this card with supplies I had already cut or stamped on my table! I made this – What do you… [Read More]
Sailing Dreams
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! We have a new two-week sketch today – Optional Theme : Nautical Love this new Sailing Home Bundle! Just the perfect set for this challenge! Such beautiful cards you can create with it – This is fun, bright, and cheery! My base is Sahara Sand, followed with a Subtle textured… [Read More]
Happy Day Fish
Happy Monday! And, if you like to fish, a Monday fishing is the best way to start a week! Or, if not, maybe a card with a fish! Lol! I’ve been needing to send my brother a card for a little perk up as he has not been feeling well. He loves to fish and… [Read More]