Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – Some wonderful colors today! Even though it is Thanksgiving! And, yes, I went with a Christmas card too! Feeling very festive with this card! You agree? I started with die cutting the Frosted Frames shape in the beautiful… [Read More]
Challenges
Gather for Together for Friendsgiving
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two-week challenge – Optional Theme : Cozy Patterns I think the Come to Gather Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! is pretty cozy and makes for a sweet card – Yes, I rotated the sketch. It worked better for my design. Sometimes when you see a… [Read More]
Joy of Sets Anything Goes Blog Hop
Happy Saturday! What a busy day with two hops for me!! This is the second one today! Here, I’m hopping with the Joy of Sets – I decided to create a special card. How about a square card – Simple, but very elegant with all the layers on the card. This is a 4 1/4… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Non-traditional Christmas Colors
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features non-traditional Christmas colors. Purple isn’t a typical Christmas color for me, however, this is really pretty! I started by stamping 4 ornaments from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set. Memento Black on Whisper White and Highland Heather on Purple Posey. I… [Read More]
You’re So Cool
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I haven’t used this adorable Playful Penguins stamp in a while. I thought this was a cute play on the sketch! The penguin, sentiment and scarf are from one stamp set! I accented the Layering Circles with a… [Read More]
Bunch of Roses Happy Birthday
Hello Monday! I had a wonderful Card Buffet this weekend and I was inspired to add just one more card to the choices – My inspiration came from Freshly Made Sketches and this sketch – This wonderful Christmastime is Here Designer Series Paper is the perfect fit for this card! I paired the Designer Series… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Christmas Treat or Favor
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]
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]
