Rainbow Sherbert Friendship

Well we are in for another week of dreary, cloudy, rainy days. Whatever happened to our gorgeous spring days we used to have? I just be we go from this to HOT days with no nice comfortable days. Today’s card is bright and cheerful (got to have some brightness somewhere). I began by stamping my image and coloring it using the colors from the Rainbow Sherbet DS paper. Then it was a matter of layering…

Continue reading

Real Black Olives

Like that title? That is actually the title of the color challenge on Split Coast Stampers for this week. You were to use Basic Black, Old Olive, and Real Red. I got some new toys the other day that I wanted to use so I used them on this card. I got several Nestabilities Label dies from Spellbinders. I chose the Labels One to use on this card. I also used some more of my…

Continue reading

Sketch Set A Bit Late

Hello Everyone! Yesterday was quite an adventure for me. I had schedule to go to New Towne Village and do a plastic craft project with the residents there. I started at 10 and at 2 we still hadn’t finished. I thought I had chosen a fairly simple project – a ladybug magnet. The ladies did a great job with what they got finished. I will be going back to finish up in a couple of…

Continue reading

Using More of My Gingham Patterned Paper

I am loving my gingham paper download. I used some on Saturday for my sketch set and when I saw the sketch that Natasha posted at Clean and Simple I knew it would be perfect for their sketch. Today’s card is not your usual invitation size card. It is actually 4 x 7 1/2. This will fit in a business size envelope and still take a regular stamp. It was fun to play with this…

Continue reading

Playing with Ribbon

On the Mother’s and Daughter’s Creations blog they posted they were sponsoring a challenge on the Cafe Mojo Challenges blog. I decided to check it out and saw it was to use ribbon in a non-traditional way. As I was laying in bed the other night watching tv when I wondered if I could use this beautiful sheer ribbon I had gotten from Heidi. to make a butterfly. I wondered how I was going to…

Continue reading

My Favorite Colors makes a Beautiful Card

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather was gorgeous, I hope you got outside some. Today’s card actually fits in 5 different challenges. It didn’t start out that way but things just fell together beautifully. I used the sketch from Paper Craft Planet and combined it with my favorite colors which is the challenge for Our Creative Corner. When I began stamping Mellow Moss and Pretty in Pink were the colors…

Continue reading