Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest weekly challenge – Sadly, I needed a sympathy card. I want to be very subtle in what I created with these colors. I chose to use the Peaceful Poppies Elements, ink pads, and Aqua Painters – To color the flowers,… [Read More]
Coloring
Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe – May Challenge
Welcome to our monthly Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe Challenge blog! And, just so you know, it’s May. May 2nd!!! Lol! I hope is well with and your family. And, that you are finding the time and energy to create! Challenges can be a great starting point! Here is our latest monthly challenge grid… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – May Flowers
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features any kind of flower. I played around with the simple Band Together flower image creating several different looks from the one colored image. Which do you like best? Here is the initial card I created – Its basically simple stamping… [Read More]
Young At Heart
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I felt like doing a bit of coloring – This just made me smile! Hopefully, by the fourth of July, we can get out and be around people! The pennant is from the Stitched Nested Labels. I made… [Read More]
Welcome Little One
Happy day!! I love when someone calls and ask, ‘do you have a card for ____’! I can either rummage through a few hundred categorized cards or I can just whip one up! I decided it was quicker to whip up a new card – The request was for a card for a baby girl…. [Read More]
Lucky Gnome
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I have another darlin’ little gnome today! He has been sitting on my desk for several weeks now just waiting to placed on a card! He’s a little different than the other versions I’ve created. Right?? Super cute little guy! The base piece is Flowering Foils colored with Light & Dark… [Read More]
Joy of Sets – Easter / Spring Blog Hop
Happy Saturday! Welcome to my second hop of the day! This afternoon I’m joining up with – I am in the midst of getting ready for a Card Buffet next weekend so all these ideas will come in handy! I went with an adorable Easter card today – Soo sweet! This little lamb puts a… [Read More]
Memorable Birthday
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – Nice, earthy colors! Great for a anyone, but makes for a real nice masculine card – Wouldn’t you agree? I am excited that I finally got the Timeless Tropical bundle in along with the Tropical Oasis Designer Series… [Read More]
Welcome New Grandbaby
Ohhhh, I am soo excited!! My friends daughter, which is also my daughters childhood friend, just had a baby girl yesterday! Of course I just had to celebrate card style – Isn’t this the sweetest!?!?!?! I started with a sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches – I was soo excited I just didn’t know where… [Read More]
Kre8tors Blog Hop – Green Monochromatic
Hello stampers! Feeling green today with our fabulous blog hop? This is our inspirational picture and colors to create from – What great colors! I just love a good shade of green! Probably my favorite, and soon to retire, green from Stampin’ Up! is Call Me Clover. It made for such a lovely card –… [Read More]
Golden Painted Poppies Birthday
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two-week challenge – Optional Theme : Letters / Numbers So I missed the optional theme and the flagged banner. Ooooppps. It is still a lovely card within the sketch guidelines! It happens sometimes. I started with a base of Pool Party. I added a couple of… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Special Folds
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features special card folds. Who doesn’t LOVE a special fold???? I love, Love, LOVE them. I ran across one on Facebook the other day that used a quarter of a sheet, 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″, of card stock as its… [Read More]
Flowering Foils Thank You
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – These are wonderful Valentine colors, but I want to create something different! I decided to use this new Sale-a-Bration Designer Series Paper that will be another option starting March 3rd. It’s called Flowering Foils Specialty Paper and… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Walking in a Winter Wonderland
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]
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]
