Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – I played with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits creating this – I love the detailed heart border it creates! But then, you also cut all these wonderful little hearts! I used two card stocks colors to create the look…. [Read More]
Sunshine Wishes Thinlits
“Black or White” – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Happy Saturday my stampin’ friends! Time for a Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week still features 90’s song titles. Cards this week are created with black or white or both only – no colors! Well, this is right up my alley! These are my favorite colors to create with! I pulled… [Read More]
Sweet Swirly Congrats
Welcome to another inspirational sketch from Create with Connie and Mary! As always, our sketches are so easy to use! This one is no different! I hadn’t played around with the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits in a while. Decided it was time to dust them off! They seemed perfect for this sketch! I created this simple number… [Read More]
Best. Card. Ever. Watercooler. Wednesday. #111.
Ahhhh, time for great inspiration from Watercooler Wednesday! Marsha chose a favorite for me. Masculine theme. And, anything goes! I guess I was thinking’ of the sweet hubs when I created this – ……because he is. The. Best. Guy. Ever. It’s a lot of silver foil. It doesn’t photograph well. But. In person, awesome! I… [Read More]
Congrats for Watercooler Wednesday #109
Today over at Watercooler Wednesday, we have a new challenge that just started. Heidi selected some wonderful colors as an inspiration point, didn’t she? I came up with this beauty – It could be a ‘congrats’ for anything, really. I just stamped all the flowers and then filled in with the leaves. I added a stapled… [Read More]
CCMC Saturday Blog Hop – Color It
I am quite honored to have been asked to be a Guest Designer for Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop for a couple of months! Our theme is Color It. That could be lots of things! Stamped images, dies cuts, coloring paper. Perfect timing to pull out this Sale-a-Bration DSP! I made a… [Read More]
Hope, Is on The Way
Should read, help. Help is on the way….. A have a couple of friends who have RA, Rheumatoid Arthritis, (recently noted, Shelli Gardner, Stampin’ Up! founder does too) and the days can be unpredictable in how they feel. Lately it’s been really rough for one of my friends. Luckily, today she go in to have… [Read More]
We Create the Love for February Blog Hop
This is the third post, another blog hop, you’ll be seeing from me today! I’m feelin’ the love in this post. I’ve gotten to be a crafty little one lately! These two cards are for We Create! Our theme we work with is to either create a card then step it up or create two… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – February
Welcome to our February Blogging Friends Blog Hop, the month of love! We have a guest blogger again this month, Tami White. Welcome, Tami! Our theme this month is, of course, LOVE. This was quite convenient for me. My hubs was going to visit his mother (in Holland, we’re in Texas) for her birthday. I… [Read More]
Hugs Kisses
Tuesday finds me in a way more creative mood than Monday. I was SO itching to create something – anything. It just wasn’t happening. You ever have days like that? Whew. I hope that feeling has passed…… We have a great – I mean super – layout from Try Stampin’ on Tuesday today – Challenge… [Read More]
Five Card Friday
Last weekend I had a wonderful Card Buffet. I usually post my selection board on Facebook and Instagram for all the attendees to see. Then, if I get time, I post the individual cards in subsequent posts. Well. I didn’t take the time to do that. Instead, I decided to post the five I hadn’t blogged… [Read More]
No Reason for a Card
Whew. I managed to get through my Card Buffet this past weekend – it was SO much fun. I posted pictures here. Now, to get back to my routine card making! It’s Wednesday, time for a challenge from Watercooler Wednesday! Today, our challenge is this – I usually love a Masculine challenge. Today, my creativity… [Read More]
Love Squared
Continuing the love today for Create with Connie and Mary! We have a layout challenge today – I immediately pulled out my Sending Love DSP and got to creating this card – It came together in a flash and matched the sketch to a T! After corner rounding, I adhered the outer diagonal squares together… [Read More]
Hearts & Love
Quick Sunday share…..got a Card Buffet next weekend and I need a little inspiration. So. What do I do to get inspiration? Card challenges. I look at card challenge to spark my creativity. Today, I ran across Stampin’ Girls Gone Wild – They are a Facebook group that host weekend sketches. I came up with… [Read More]
Valentine Love
That’s right. That holiday will be here before we know it too! Over at Create with Connie and Mary this week, we have a great color challenge that inspired my card for Valentine’s. Here are the colors – Says LOVE to me!!! Right? Well, I got creative this time with a non-stamped card – It… [Read More]
Hope and Sunshine Wishes
I love to repurpose products that I buy. You know, getting THE most bang for the dollar. My share today is no different. I created this card a while ago and have been waiting to share it. October seemed to be the right time for this – I used the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits, the heart… [Read More]
Shining Sunshine
Nothing like working on a day that’s supposed to be for workers! Got to love retail…… I keep getting sidetracked in creating cards for challenges today. This Tic Tac Toe challenge from Paper Craft Crew Challenges caught my attention – This type of challenge is really fun! I liked the water, any blue and sun… [Read More]
Cupcake Celebrate, CCMC420
I just had to pull this cupcake set out. Again. This time for Create with Connie and Mary. We have a color challenge this week. Nice, soft colors. And, once again, what to do with them. However, not too long of a struggle. I created this tasty card – Nice, huh? The focal, of course,… [Read More]
