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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Easy Peasy Wednesday

Happy Hump Day! Today is an easy peasy card day. I also decided I wanted to play with some of the new colors. We got samples of the 5 new colors with our Stampin’ Up magazine this month. So I pulled them out. I have a challenge commitment at Late Night Stampers. It is an R & R challenge. You had to use 2 things on your card that begin with R. Since one of…

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Circle Friendship

Another rainy day today, but we need the rain bad. My grass was crunchy like it gets in August. This will help a lot. I worked on a couple of cards yesterday. The card I am sharing today uses the color challenge at Colour Create. You were to use Khaki (I used Kraft), Aqua (I used Baja Breeze), Brown (I used Soft Suede) and Cream (I used Very Vanilla). There was also an additional challenge…

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