Welcome to our weekly Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest challenge – Yessss! Looks like a square card to me! I love square cards – something fresh! At OnStage, we received several lovely gifts. One of which was this new stamp set, Incredible Like You – The images are very pretty…. [Read More]
Challenges
Tropical Thank You
Happy Tuesday Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our newest challenge – Optional Theme : Thank You This is a great go-to sketch for me! I’ve already played around with other designs! For this challenge, I immediately went to creating this – Sometimes you just know what to do with a sketch! For this, I started… [Read More]
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]
Wishing You a Season
Nothing beats a great layout when it comes to creating a simply beautiful card. I ran across a blogger I admire, Julie Davison, who is hosting weekend sketches for inspiration. Here is her current one I was attracted to – I am working on cards for my annual Christmas Card Class. This inspiration came at… [Read More]
Happy Halloween Bulbs
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest challenge – Halloween colors, of course! And, I made another Halloween card as well! Isn’t this adorable?? I used a little of this and that to put this together. The strips of pattern paper are from the Designer Series Paper, Toil &… [Read More]
it’s Halloween! eeeek
Did you see the September Paper Pumpkin, Frights & Delights? It’s sooooo cute! The kit shows to make treat bags. But, don’t get fooled – get creative! It’s not limited to treat bags at all! I’ve made another card using the kit contents, plus a few supplies – There is shiny silver behind the pumpkin… [Read More]
Here’s to Celebrating YOU!
Happy Tuesday! Time for a Design Team card created for Try Stampin’ on Tuesday. We have a color challenge to inspire you today! Perfect colors to create a (late) birthday card for a former co-worker – I’ll admit, it was hard to part with this card! I love the way it turned out! Don’t you? I… [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]
Stitched Christmas Greetings
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! We are showing off cards with ‘stitching’ on them. That can be any kind of stitching, real or faux. Such a great idea! I decided to go with faux stitching! I love sewing and cross-stitch, but this was the best for me. And, a great way to show off this adorable… [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]
A Country Home Hello
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! I’m playing around with wonderful fall stuff today – I really love this popular Country Home stamp set! At first, it didn’t catch my eye. But, the more I saw cards made with it, I decided I just had to purchase it! I stamped the… [Read More]
Feathers & Frost & Friends
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Liking my new look? Please SUBSCRIBE to receive updates! Here is our newest challenge – Fun, bright, cheery colors! I love them! I used a new stamp set from the Holiday Mini, Feathers & Frost for this lovely – When you see this stamp set… [Read More]
Coffee JOY
Happy Tuesday, my Try Stampin’ on Tuesday friends! Notice the new site???? Pretty nice, huh? Please take the time to subscribe to get future updates from me! We have a neat-o Tic Tac Toe challenge starting today – Wow! So many great choices! I wasn’t sure which direction I wanted to go in. I started with creating… [Read More]
First Frost Immeasurable Loss
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest challenge, colors – These are fun, new colors! And, I decided to use a new stamp to show them off! It’ll be available in the upcoming Holiday mini. It’s called First Frost. And, as you can see, it has framelits to… [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]
Love & Thanks Tropical Style
Welcome to the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Our newest challenge is a color challenge to get your creative juices going – All new colors to play with! I decided to go a little tropical here – I used the Tropical Chic bundle to create this. I stamped the flowers and the leaves first, then… [Read More]
Rhino Thanks You BIG TIME
Happy Tuesday my stampin’ friends! Time for a Try Stampin’ on Tuesday challenge. Optional Theme : Pop it Up I love these simple sketches! You can really do soo much with them! I decided I hadn’t played with this Animal Expedition Suite from Stampin’ Up. It’s simply adorable! I created a ‘window’ in my card – The sweet… [Read More]
