Are you ready for Easter? The time is quickly approaching. I have my Easter cards done as I had to make them for my workshop and for the ladies at the retirement village so I am feeling pretty good about things. My card today uses a color challenge from the Color Dare blog. You were to use Certainly Celery, More Mustard, Real Red, and Tempting Turquoise. I combined it with the sketch challenge at the…
Second Post scroll down for the first. The second card today was another simple one. Can’t believe I have been on a simple kick lately. Maybe I needed a break from my elegant girlie ones. 🙂 This card uses the Fun & Fast stamp set. I hadn’t used this cute little bird in a while so I thought he would be cute on this card. I used a color challenge from the Colour Create blog.…
Good Monday Morning to you! I had a very productive day yesterday. I was able to make 4 cards for my blog and 4 Mother’s Day cards for my Etsy shop. I will be posting the blog cards throughout the next few days. I will not put my Etsy shop cards in my shop until I finish a few more. That should happen within this week. Today’s card uses a sketch challenge from the Card…
There was a challenge at the Hand Stamped Sentiments blog which was a technique challenge. You were to use the Faux Metal technique. Basically you put Versmark on your cardstock and add either gold or silver embossing powder, heat your paper and while the melted powder is still hot, you pour on more embossing powder and heat again. You do this at least 3 times and when you have heated your last layer you ink…
Yeah, it’s Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you all have great plans for the weekend? Our weather is supposed to be great. The weatherman says it will hit 70 this afternoon. I hope so as I have to cut my grass – can you believe I am starting that already! Today’s card was created for 2 challenges. The color challenge at the Colour Q blog had you using Apricot Appeal, Baja Breeze, Cameo Coral, Rich Razzleberry, and white.…
Well we are almost at the end of our week. The weather has been gorgeous here the past few days and it is supposed to continue with Friday and Saturday being absolutely beautiful. I hope you have some plans to get outside and enjoy it. Today’s card was rather interesting to create. I used the color challenge from the Our Creative Corner blog. The colors were green, pink, yellow, and brown. I chose to use…
