Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a Christmas Treat or Favor. I have an adorable sliding treat – When you slid the ribbon up, it contains one of those brownies / cake mix you put in a mug and microwave! And, you can see the added… [Read More]
Challenges
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]
Christmas Cheer Tree
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two-week challenge – Optional Theme : Put Some Bling on It I hadn’t shown much attention to the Perfectly Plaid bundle so I thought I’d go with that – Nice and elegant and easy too! Crumb Cake base. Cherry Cobbler Layer. Wrapped in Plaid DSP layer…. [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]
Monochromatic Christmas Wishes
Happy Monday! It looks like the rest of the year is going to fly by. It always does. Creating and sharing slows things for me. How do you get through the holiday mayhem? To spark my creating, I always look to challenges for inspiration. Today, I ran across the Joy of Sets and their latest… [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]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – Celebrate with Some Christmas Cheer
Happy November 1st!! Time to kick the month off with a couple of blog hops! I’ll start with – The new Christmastime is Here Suite Bundle is now available for you to order! I am soo happy because the possibilities are endless with this suite! Here are a couple of cards I created – The… [Read More]
Beautiful Friendship
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – I decided to play with a die that I never have tried! It’s this gorgeous Butterfly Beauty Dies – These dies just spoke to me when I was trying to decide what to do with the colors…. [Read More]
Winter Wishes Paper Pumpkin Style
Happy Wednesday! I wanted to create something today but, I wasn’t sure just what! I found a little inspiration from a challenges, Freshly Made Sketches. They have a nice design this week – I like it because it’s a square card! I pulled out my October 2019 Paper Pumpkin, Winter Woods and created this… [Read More]
Let’s Celebrate You!
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest layout challenge – I have been really wanting to use this small rose pattern from the Christmastime is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper. It doesn’t look ‘Christmasy’. This will be available November 1st. I finally did used it for a… [Read More]
Merry Christmas, Magnolia
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest 2 week challenge – Optional Theme : Stripes How about a simple Christmas card? Doesn’t get any more simpler than this! Both pattern papers are from the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper pack. The smaller, flower patters was colored with a Real Red Blends marker. The… [Read More]
Coloring Christmastime is Here
How is your Monday so far? I needed a little color therapy today. Stampin’ Up! Only Challenges! felt the same way! Their challenge this week encourages us to pull out the coloring items and get to coloring! I pulled out this lovely stamp, Christmas Rose stamp set and some Blends – Beautiful, huh? This Christmas… [Read More]
Joy of Sets – Same Stamp Set 3 Ways
Welcome to our blog hop for Joy of Sets! Our theme this time around is one stamp set, created 3 different ways! Oh. . . . Did I have fun with this! My main stamp set / bundle that I started with was the Cup of Christmas bundle. I think this is extremely versatile for… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Spooky Halloween
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a spooky Halloween card. I thought one of the patterns from the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper was pretty creepy! I fussy cut these three framed ghouls and die cut the ornate scroll decorative backgrounds from the Ornate Frames Dies…. [Read More]
Snowman Globe Christmas
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – I took a Christmas approach with these unlikely Christmas colors and variety of products – A created a cute snowman in a snow globe! He, as well as the sentiment, are from the Snowman Season stamp set…. [Read More]
Monster Bash Halloween
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two week challenge – This is a throwback from our third challenge!!!! I made it modern with the Monster Bash Suite! Too, cute, right? I love using this new Rococo Rose color with this Monster Bash Designer Series Paper! It coordinates soo well! Check out out… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Cute Halloween
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a cute Halloween card. You know what stamp set and punch is perfect for this? You know me too well! The Harvest Hellos bundle! I stamped the pumpkins on different patterns of Pumpkin Pie Regals 6 x 6 Designer Series… [Read More]
