OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so surprised this morning when I went to my blog to post a challenge picture on the appropriate website. I had 5 comments that needed to be posted. When I clicked on them it was a message from Dana at Craft Critique/ saying that 5 of my posts had been included in the Valentine Carnival at Craft Critique. I must have entered but don’t remember. Craft Critique is a great…
Wow, what a title. I absolutely love this card!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used my 5 petal flower punch to create a card for a commitment I had (you can actually see the other card on February 21 here on my blog). I liked the flowers so I modified the flower and came up with this flower that looks so cool. I also used the punch to make the leaves on the flowers. I began with the idea…
Boy I really challenged myself with this card. I had to modify the colors as best I could. I discovered a new color challenge site. Colour Create has the color challenge to use peach and aqua. I looked through all of my inks and found that my VersaMagic pads had 2 colors that I could use. I also wanted to do Verve’s sketch challenge for this week. I decided to combine the 2. I needed…
Sorry for the late post but I have been playing and having fun in my stamp room today! I wanted to break out of my mold of using sketches to create cards and have noticed several sites with color challenges. I decided to combine some color challenges with some sketch challenges to create my cards. You will see my creations over the next few days. I have also had some fun using some of my…
Sorry for the late post today. I am running! Today’s card was the desire to use a punch I have had but hadn’t used. Once I figured out how to make the punched layer, the rest of the card came together fairly quickly. Not going to chat too much, got a lot to do. Here is my card and the details. inside of card Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes Paper: Night of Navy, white, Patterns Pack DS…
I saw this idea in Cardmaker Magazine and wanted to give it a try. The original card used transparency which I had started using on the card. The problem with transparency is that water based markers do not dry on it so when I cut my edges with my Fiskars cutting board the ink ended up on my hands. I decided to use the same idea but substitute the vellum for the transparency. While I…
