Anyone ready for a picnic?

Good Morning Stampers! When I saw the sketch challenge at Red Hot Stampers I wasn’t certain what I was going to do.       I started looking in my catalog for a shape to use for the flower shape.  I saw the strawberry in Best of Everything and the rest of the card fell into place.  I thought it would be fun to use the stripes embossing folder and create a checkerboard like a picnic tablecloth. …

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Coloring Down the Lines – Regal Rose

Happy Mid Week! Don’t you just love short weeks!  Can you believe the week is half over?  Lots to do by the weekend.  How about you? It is our day for our chat group color challenge.  Our challenge this week was to use Regal Rose so our 2 choices were Regal Rose, Early Espresso, and Daffodil Delight OR Regal Rose, Tempting Turquoise, Sahara Sand.  I chose to use the first combo.  I am the first…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments – Anything But a Card

Good Morning Ladies! Our challenge today at Hand Stamped Sentiments is a little different than we have had in the past.       I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with this challenge.  I received a Paper Wishes catalog in the mail and on the front of it was this picture. I decided to give this a try and see if I could make a tag using this technique.  I had fun…

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Late Night Stampers – Love is in the Air

Happy Memorial Day! I hope everyone had a a good holiday weekend and that you have some fun plans for today!  The weather here is still supposed to be hot.  Since I need a new grill I will not be cooking out today. Over at Late Night Stampers we have a Wedding/Love theme this week.  Since I just did a wedding card a few weeks ago I decided to go with the Love theme.  I…

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Warning – Cute Card!

Wow what is your weather like today?  We are supposed to be hot and humid this weekend.  Perfect time to stay inside and stamp away! Wow have you seen the new catty yet?  There are some great stamp sets and ds paper in there.  I got some in my preorder and wanted to play with it to use on another of my workshop card.  I started my card with the sketch challenge at Try Stampin’…

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The Last of the Floral Fillers cards

As you know each morning I chat with a great group of ladies in  Donna’s Butternut Sage Designs Morning Chat.  Our challenge this time was to make a red, white, and blue card. You should check out the challenge on Donna’s blog as there are some great samples there.  My card today is the last one I created using the Floral Fillers stamp set.  It was fun showing my customer how to use this set…

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