Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features anything having to do with SUMMER!!! Anything? I went with anything! There are a lot of summer birthdays in my family, including mine, and my moms, later this month! Summer reminds me of birthdays! Two stamps. Two inks. One Stamparatus…. [Read More]
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Leave a Little Sparkle
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest catalog CASE challenge – I had fun with this one! I just love this Leave a Little Sparkle stamp set! The unicorn’s eye just cracks me up! And, that flowing hair! I stamped the unicorn on Shimmer White card stock… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Christmas in July
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a Christmas card! Nice! Some like to work on these in July! I would if I had Christmas supplies. Not to worry. Create your own from what you have! I took the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper and the Real… [Read More]
Floral Welcoming
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest catalog CASE challenge – This was a really fun one! I sort of went with a literal copy of this card only with stamps – My featured stamp set I used was Floral Essence. I chose it because it had… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Favorite New In-Color
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features our favorite new In Color. All of them are very pretty this year! However, the one that sticks out to is Pretty Peacock! It’s such a great neutral! Here, I paired it with Blushing Bride. And, this fabulous saying is… [Read More]
Magnolia Thank You
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Fresh. Bright. Cheerful. I went a summer-ish, sweet, thank you card – I started with die cutting these beautiful flowers from the Magnolia Memory die set. I loved using both the inside pieces and the outer parts… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Favorite New Stamp
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features our favorite new stamp set! Ok. This catalog has sooo many wonderful stamp sets – it’s hard to pick one! I went with a card / stamp set that could qualify for simple stamping, #simplestamping! This is the Beautiful Friendship… [Read More]
Blessed Friendship Fold
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest layout challenge – When I saw this, I thought ‘fun fold’!! Here is the outside. Lift the panel that says ‘Blessed’ to the right to reveal the second sentiment. Then move that panel to the left, to reveal the last,… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Kid Cards
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features cards for kids! Perfect time to pull out the dinosaurs! Again! This is a great kid card, but, I think an adult would like it too! I used one of the patterns in the Dinoroar Designer Series Paper that has… [Read More]
Daisy Lane Friend
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Such bright cheery colors! Perfect for using the new Daisy Lane bundle! These are just free and fun! The flowers were simply done. I punched the flowers out of solid card stock. I stamped the top petals in… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Masculine Card
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a masculine style card! Since Father’s Day is about a week away, I went with a card for dad using some new products! I am loving this Woven Heirlooms Bundle along with the Woven Threads Designer Paper. It is neat… [Read More]
Essence of Difficulty
Happy Thursday! Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I am excited to be playing with new, gorgeous Designer Series Paper for this – Initially, when I designed this card, my sentiment was larger. It covered up this beautiful flower on this Perennial Essence Designer Series… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Congratulations
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features any card celebrating graduation, weddings, or anything BIG! I needed a few grad cards, so I went with Graduation – The Silver Foil letters are the retiring, Large Letters Framelits. And, guess what? They are on sale!!! The Broadway Bound… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Blue Morning / Blue Day
Happy Saturday! Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features shades of blue. I pulled out the Stamparatus again to play with a repetitive stamp design – Actually, two! I have started pulling the Stamparatus out a lot lately! It saves on wasting nice card stock, most of… [Read More]
Best Route Birthday
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I had so much fun with this sketch! The base is Mango Melody, such a fun, bright color! The pattern paper, or Designer Series paper is the soon to retire, Best Route. Such nice, masculine colors in this paper…. [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features shades of yellow. I decided to play with some new Designer Series Paper, Mosaic MoodSpecialty, that will be available June 4th. It’s soooo pretty. It was just too pretty to cover up! And, the mosaic pattern reminded me of a… [Read More]
with Sympathy
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – When I saw these colors, I thought they were very serene, which sparked a sympathy card – I was amazed at the fact I placed the sentiment on the Stamparatus exactly next to the ‘flourish’! So, I have… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Purple Rain
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features shades of purple. Great colors to show off this new To a Wild Rose stamp set – This Purple Posy flower is sooo gorgeous!!! I made it simple here, but it also has two additional stamps to create depth and… [Read More]
