I am sorry this post is so late. I have had some fun this afternoon with several sketch challenges and my Halloween stamps . I have made quite a few cards that I will share with you over the next few days. The first card I made was for Taylor’s sketch challenge. I loved the layout and while I don’t have cupcakes I knew I needed some more Halloween cards to send out so I…
Sorry I did not post yesterday but I was so busy. I have contemplated making some cards in a box to sell at the base craft show. I also needed some of these for Christmas gifts for a few people. I spent the morning looking for dimensions/patterns for the boxes and found a couple 3 x 3 boxes. I never did find one for the invitation size cards so I ended up making my own. This took quite…
I was reading on Charmaine’s blog that there was an embossing challenge on the Verve blog. I went over to check it out and decided I needed to use my Fall embossing templates since it had been a while since I had done any dry embossing. After I had it embossed I decided I wanted to color it so I placed the template on top of the embossed image and used my sponge daubers and ink…
I love Penny Black stamps! She has such cute designs. I love her hedgehogs and her silhouette stamps. I check the Penny Black Blog each week and try to play along. This week the challenge had a theme of “Thanks a Bunch”. The first stamp that came to mind was the hedgehog carrying a huge bunch of flowers. I love the stamp and thought it would make a cute card playing up on the “bunch”. The…
One of the blogs I read is a group of talented ladies who present weekly challenges. Our Creative Corner had the challenge this week to create a card that was anything but a square. I did a lot of thinking about what I wanted to do while I was walking this week. It finally hit me to do a butterfly. I pulled out a set that I bought and hadn’t used (I saw lots of…
There have been some fun sketches on the blogs this week. I usually try to do Julee’s Poetic Artistry / Mojo Monday sketch. She presented a challenge for us this week with a large circle on the card. I wanted to use some more of my patterned paper and thought this paper fit the cauldron on the stamp. Once I got the panels made and attached to the base it was missing something. That’s when…
