A quick and easy card using patterned paper

Happy Thursday Ladies! It was rainy and dreary yesterday. Perfect day to stay in bed with a good book.  Had a lot to do so I could not take advantage of that. Another jam packed day today so I will get right to the card. My card today began with Mary Jo’s Techno Stamper sketch challenge. I went looking for some patterned paper to use and ran across a piece in the Flirtatious Specialty paper…

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Polar Party Clean and Simple

Hello Ladies! Quick post as I have a million things to do.  My card today uses the Clean and Simple Challenge at The Paper Players .  You also had to make a Christmas Themed card using red and green.   This is a cute quick card and would be great to mass produce.  Here is what I created. inside of card Hope you enjoyed my clean and simple card.  Thanks for looking and have a…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments – Pulled Pastels

Hello Everyone! Well it is time for our next challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  This week we have a technique challenge.  We are to use either shaving cream, chalks, or crayons on our card.  I saw a cool technique while checking out my blogs called Pulled Pastels.  Since I needed a technique for my class this week I decided to use our challenge and make my card for my class. To do the pulled technique…

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Late Night Stampers – 1, 2, 3

Happy Monday Everyone! Do you realize that every time you visit me we are one day closer to Christmas?  Have you started your shopping yet?  I haven’t and need to get going so I can get lots of good things for Zoie! Our challenge this week at Late Night Stampers is a 1, 2, 3 challenge.  We had to use 1 stamp, 2 embellishments, and 3 colors.  I thought I would give the Christmas Collage…

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A Fun Fold

Hello Everyone! So what are your plans today?  I need to do some sewing and I want to play some more with my knitting and crocheting.  Jess has asked me to make some adorable hats for Zoie (she found lots of cute patterns online for me) for the winter.  I picked up some yarn so I thought I would give it a shot this weekend.  I hope you have something fun planned for today. My…

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Playing with a die and a punch

Happy Saturday! We are supposed to have great weather today.  The past few days have been drizzly and overcast.  I hope we see the sun today. I spent some time in my craft room the past few days trying to get ahead.  I am happy to say I have several cards made to share with you over the next few days. I looked as some sketch challenge blogs and found a sketch at Cards and…

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