Perfect Ink Playing with Paper

Hello Ladies! You all know I love challenges. I found a new challenge blog the other day. Lesley is starting a new challenge blog at Always Playing with Paper. They are looking for a guest designer in June. I would love to have the chance to play with these talented ladies. You should check out the blog and see the talent there. The card I created for the challenge uses a color challenge from Picture…

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Didn’t make it again!

Well I was playing with Carole’Anne and Sandi’s 10 minute challenge and guess what. I didn’t make it again! It took me 18 minutes. 🙁 I thought I was going to do it but the center layer messed me up. The 10 minute challenge this week was a color challenge. It definitely was a challenge to work in the Soft Suede because when you combine it with Chocolate Chip the colors are similar and it…

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Pretty Simple Watercolor Trio

Good Sunday Morning to you! Quick post as I have a lot to do today. My daughter is moving to San Francisco at the end of the week and she needs some thank you cards so I have to get them done. My card today uses the clean & simple challenge at Ink Spots and Gum Drops blog. The challenge was to create a card that was simple and included tearing. I combined this with…

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Simple Black Apricot

Well the weatherman says we will be cloudy today and we will get rain later this afternoon. I am not complaining as we need it. I will be working on some cards for next week as well as preparing for my class that begins in the middle of June. Great way to spend a dreary Saturday! I received an invitation to a new group of stampers. On their page the moderator posted an inspiration challenge.…

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Shadow Box

The challenge this week at Late Night Stampers is to create a home decor item. I have wanted to do this for quite some time to put in my bathroom. This was the motivation to get it done. I have a bunch of seashells and a starfish that I have collected on different vacations I took to the beach. I thought it would be good to create a shadow box to hang in my bathroom.…

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Pocket card and June ATC

The weekend is almost here. Are you excited? My youngest daughter is coming home before she moves to San Francisco. We will be spending lots of play time next week as I don’t know when I will see her again. My card today was inspired by some flowers I saw on Maria’s blog. She used designer paper but I decided to see if I could recreate it. She also made roses but I wanted mine…

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