Happy Tuesday to you! Our snow is melting rather quickly. Now we have soggy ground everywhere. At least it has been melting slowly to give it a chance to sink into the ground as much as it can. Today’s card was a lot of fun to make. I saw a sketch challenge at the Cards & Things blog that I wanted to do something a little different with. The color combination at the Color Dare…
Well I had a productive weekend. I made 3 of my workshop cards for next month and 4 cards to post this week. I haven’t stamped that much in a long time. I am so glad to finally have some energy back. I am going to share 2 cards with you today. The first one uses a dimension challenge from the Just Add Ink blog. I usually have dimension on my cards so this was…
Have you been watching the Olympics? I love to watch most sports shows so I could not wait for the games to begin. I have loved watching the games since I was a little girl and so I have seen many, many, many broadcasts. lol I received an e-mail about a new challenge blog and when I checked it out they were doing a tribute to the Olympics so I could not pass it up.…
Quick post as I have 3 observations to do today as well as get a card ready to post for tomorrow. I used the sketch challenge at the Stamping 411 blog. I wanted to create a Spring card as I have had enough snow cards for this season. I had this paper from the Sweet Pea DS paper that I wanted to use so I matched it with Not Quite Navy and then needed a…
This will be a quick post as it is really really really late. I am trying a new photo editing program and after 5 hours I finally got my first photo saved. The next 3 were much faster and I think I have the different options figured out. Now I just need to play with the Brightness and Contrast adjustments to get the colors right. My first card uses Gretchen’s Weekend sketch challenge from her…
I have to admit I am not sure I like my results. I saw on several blogs these paper flowers and thought I would give it a try. You begin with a 12″ long piece of paper. You punch one of the long edges then cut the strip to 1″ wide. Run the strip through your crimper 3 times to soften the paper. Cut a circle (I cut two 1 3/8″ circles and one 1…
