Happy Wednesday to you! Can you believe this weather? One day we have snow/ice and the next it is sunny and warm. Hopefully it will make up its mind soon. When I began my card I wanted to do a bright and cheery card to bring some sunshine and warmth to everyone who looks at it. I knew I would be using Daffodil Delight. I found a great sketch challenge at Our Creative Corner. That…
Hello Ladies! I was checking out my challenge blogs yesterday and it seems that everyone is doing color challenges and they seem to be almost the same. There was a run on Poppy Parade, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla this week. lol I chose the color challenge at The Color Dare. They added in Pear Pizzazz which I thought was fun. I used the sketch challenge at Sketch Frenzy Friday. I liked the diagonal element…
Good Morning Everyone! Boy did we get some rain yesterday. I hope the flooding won’t be too bad. As you read this I am in Baltimore at the Stampin’ Up Regionals. I got a phone call from them on Wednesday asking if I could be a helper. I am super excited as I get to see all the ladies throughout the day. I am going to be in the color sample workshop. I will let…
My card today was an inspiration from Connie at Constantly Stamping. She posted this great bag and I fell in love with. I used that to design my last card for my workshop in October. I began with a rectangle of Very Vanilla and stamped my leaves in black. I then used markers to color them in. I stamped an extra leaf, colored it in, and cut it out. I then used the…
I am planning for my technique class next week and thought it would be fun to use the faux plaid technique on some leaves. I tried it first with the Paisley Prints set but did not like the look so I pulled out the Autumn Splendor set and love how they turned out. I used the color challenge from The Paper Players. You were to use …
Well Summer is officially over. I am sad to see it go but we need a break from heat not to mention lots of rain. Everyone else seems to be getting it but not us. My lawn is crunchy again. I won’t be cutting it any time soon. Today’s card has lots of layers. It did not start out that way but with the limited colors from the color challenge I felt it needed it.…
