Almost Finished

Well I am almost finished with my cards for my All Occasion stamp-a-stack.  Today’s card is another one we will do. I began with the sketch from Just Add Ink.    I had wanted to use the Awash with Flowers set and this sketch was perfect for it. Now that I have my sketch and stamp set I needed to choose my colors.  I looked at the cards I had already completed and realized I…

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Late Night Stampers – Doodling Week

Happy Monday Everyone! We have a challenge this week at Late Night Stampers to do some doodling on your cards.  I am still working with some winter cards as I need a few more to send out.  I thought it would be fun to use snowflakes and included the doodling around the edge to be snowflakes and then add some doodling to show the path the snowflakes took while falling. I began with Not Quite…

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Faux Cloisionne Roses

I played with a new technique the other day.  The Creative Sketches blog had a Faux Cloisionne technique challenge.  You use a glossy page from a magazine and emboss with gold.  I found a great page in my magazine that was red and thought I could use the rose from Fifth Avenue Floral to make a rose. I began by embossing the rose 4 times on the page and cutting out different layers to give…

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Challenge 100 – Celebrations

Happy Saturday! Well we are gearing up for another snow storm here tomorrow.  They aren’t sure what path it will take and how much we will get but let’s just say this one is coming from the south and typically we get walloped in those cases unless it goes out to sea.  This is shades of last year but the first one was not as much snow as last years.  I managed to shovel the…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday Sparkle

Happy Friday Ladies! The weather has been sooooooo cold here.  My heat pump has been running constantly.  Don’t want to see what my electric bill will be.  How has the weather been in your area? My card today began with the sketch at Sketch Frenzy Friday.  This week the sketch was created by Angela Walters.  I ran across a snowflake challenge on Hand Stamped Sentiments that I wanted to do so I thought I would…

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All Occasion Get Well

Good Morning Ladies! I was busy the other day working on some more of my stamp-a-stack cards.  I only have 3 left and I know what I am doing for those so it won’t take me long to make them. My card today is the Get Well card that is one of the options.  I borrowed the Pun Fun set from a friend as I wanted to use the whale on my card.  I just…

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