On the http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/ blog they had a stitching challenge. You were to use stitching on your card. I have the little Janome machine for my cards, but I am sad to say I have not used it yet (I need some time to play with it and I haven’t had that yet). When I read this challenge I immediately thought of the retired Stampin’ Up set Sew Seasonal and wanted to use it. I decided…
This week the challenge on the Penny Black blog is to create a card for a season. I had this great stamp that I have only used a few times and thought it would be great for a Spring card. My first thought was to do a silhouette style card but then I thougth it would be nice to have some soft colors and decided to use my Pearl Ex (I would love to know…
The Verve Forum has been running a meet the Diva’s challenge for 12 weeks. I have participated in a few of the challenges when I had the time. I had time so I wanted to do this one. The challenge was to use purple on your card. I had this ribbon I got from an ATC swap I won that I wanted to use so that was my starting point. I really like the way…
My sister encouraged me to enter some of my cards in the St. Mary’s County Fair. I thought it might be fun to see how I could do. Our Fair only had one category for rubber stamping so I chose a card I think was good and entered it. I won a first place ribbon! I was so excited I decided to try Calvert County Fair. They had 4 categories and I had projects for…
There is a September challenge on Verve’s website where you create a card and have to use Kraft cardstock as part of your card. In one of my orders from Julee she had used this pretty tissue paper to wrap my stamps in. I thought it would be fun to use the tissue paper on the card. I knew the faux silk technique used tissue paper so I decided to use that to create my card. It…
Our Creative Corner does a weekly challenge that I have done a few times. They had a mid-week challenge to case one of their designers. Their designers are awesome and it was very hard to find just one card to case. I chose Laurie Schmidlin because when I first saw her card I wanted to case it Here is the card I cased with a few changes. This is such a pretty card and very…
