Hand Stamped Sentiments – Father’s Day/Masculine

Good Morning Ladies! Are you ready for the heat?  I know some of you have had it but we are getting ready to get it back.  I have to admit I do not like the humidity that goes with it.  It just drains you.  Oh well, good reason to stay inside and stamp. Our challenge this week is for Father’s Day or a masculine card. Since I don’t need a Father’s Day card I decided…

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Late Night Stampers – Graduation

Good Morning Stampers! I don’t know about you but I had a great weekend.  I spent a lot of time relaxing and playing with my stamps. One of the things I did was work on my design team requirement for today.  I did not really need a graduation card this year so I had to do some thinking.  I decided to use my school colors as I really didn’t know where to begin. Now that…

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Revisiting an Unfinished Project

Good Morning Ladies! Well it is scrapbook Sunday and last night I wondered what I was going to do.  I do not have my next set of pictures of Bijou developed and I am still gathering supplies for Michaela’s scrapbook so I wasn’t ready to start that yet.  I then ran across my pictures of the Big Snow I was using for a paper bag scrapbook and decided to see if I couldn’t finish that…

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A telescoping card

Good Morning Ladies! I tried something new last night.  Lately there have been a log of telescoping cards on the forums and blogs.  I have wanted to try one and today was the lucky day. Pals Paper Arts was my inspiration for the colors today.  They have a color challenge this week    I saw so many beautiful cards with this color combo that I had to use it. I also found a great sketch…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – Boho blossoms

It’s Sketch Frenzy Friday!!!!!!!!!!! I am so glad it is the weekend.  I have my workshop tomorrow and will then relax the rest of the weekend.  What are your plans? We have a great sketch this week provided by Angela Walters  After seeing this sketch I thought of the Boho Blossoms punch and using it to make flowers for the circle elements at the bottom. I used the color challenge at VC_Rocks for my colors. …

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Ebony and Ivory swap

Good Morning Ladies! I wanted to share a swap I did at VC Rocks.  It was an ebony and ivory swap.  You had to use black and vanilla.  I had just gotten the Flower Garden embossing folder and decided to use it.  I cut the top note die out and then used the embossing folder.   I added a bow of 1/8″ black taffeta.  I mounted that on a piece of black that I edge…

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