Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features winter or cards with snow. I took it literal this week – I stamped the image from the Still Scenes stamp set in Smoky Slate, coloring it with a variety of Blends markers. The roof and the snow are colored… [Read More]
Coloring
Friends Make the Season Shine
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I love this type of sketch! I decided to ‘play’ and have some fun with the Blends markers to create this – Nice, isn’t it? The focal image is from Young at Heart. The wonderful, meant to match… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features Santa, Gingerbread, Elves, Penguin cards. I went with this adorable gingerbread house – It features coloring with Blends – my favorite! It was nice to take a break from the hustle and bustle of this busy season to just sit… [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]
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]
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]
Dream Big
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – And here is my take on it – It’s mooooving, isn’t it?? Lol! Well, it actually is an interactive card! Sort of like a z-fold style, 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 square card! I just love these cows!… [Read More]
May Techniques Kre8tors Blog Hop
Happy Mother’s Day! I am so excited to be part of this blog hop on such a wonderful today! Our theme this month is techniques. Quite a broad theme! I love it! I combined a few things today creating this purrrfect card – Ok, let’s see the card without paws! Let’s start with the sentiment…. [Read More]
Bird Ballard Thank You
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Tuesday! Here is our newest two week challenge – I pulled out new Stampin’ Up! products for this lovely challenge! Yes! This is the beautiful Bird Ballard Suite! I stamped the birds and the thank you sentiment, then framelit cut them. I cut a slightly larger scalloped circle to coordinate… [Read More]
Goodbye to Sale-a-bration 2019
I have a farewell post for a few of the lovely Sale-a-bration items offered this year. Today is the last day to take advantage of the Sale-a-bration items and sign-up offers. I created some quick and easy cards using a few different products. This was the first I card created. Simple. Beautiful. And, that sentiment!!!… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Watercolor Background
Hello! Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a Watercolored Background. Watercoloring is a challenge for me, so this is good. I used Brusho to create the two backgrounds. I used the same technique to create two very different looks. Directions – top, more solid colored piece… [Read More]
Gift of Friendship
Welcome to our weekly Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Beautiful Christmas colors, especially when paired with Very Vanilla – I stamped the wreath in the upper portion of the Very Vanilla panel in Mossy Meadow. I colored the berries with the Light Cherry Cobbler Blends. The Grey… [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]
Serenade Thank You
Happy Thursday. We have new colors to inspire you at Create with Connie and Mary. Our new challenge for the week – I had lots of fun creating this card for the challenge – I hadn’t played with this Southern Serenade stamp yet – and so happy it’ll be in the next catalog! I stamped the… [Read More]
