Hand Stamped Sentiments – Sketch Challenge

Happy Tuesday Everyone! Are you ready for Spring yet?  I have crocus up and blooming and my daffodils are up with buds but no blooms yet.  I will have to take some pics to share with you. The challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments is a sketch challenge this week. I loved this sketch and wanted to focus on the upcoming Spring Season.  Nothing says Spring more to me than flowers blooming and birds singing.  I…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – paper chevron

Happy Friday Ladies! I am so glad I came up to Jess’ yesterday as the weather is supposed to nasty weather.  I would not want to travel in that weather. Friday means it is our Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge.  Our sketch today was created by Sharon Wheet. I ran across an idea for a paper chevron technique on Marie-Josee Trudel’s blog.  I was intrigued by what she did so I attempted to create it myself. …

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A blurfing idea

Hello Ladies! Well I was very lazy yesterday.  I woke up about 8 but then spent the next several hours – yes hours – blog surfing and catching up on the blogs I check out as well as checking out ideas I had saved.  Despite the time I spent relaxing and doing my research, I still managed to make 3 cards for my Retirement Village ladies to make, 2 cards for this weekend, as well…

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Coloring Down the Lines – Wild Wasabi

Happy Wednesday Stampers! We are having some crazy temperatures this week.  We are supposed to be near 80 degrees today.  Then next week depending on the tropical storm we could have a hurricane or some messy wintery weather.  Crazy huh! We have our next color coach challenge.  This week our colors to choose from were Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Perfect Plum     OR      Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, Early Espresso I used the second color combo as…

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A card club creation

Hello Everyone! It has been a lazy rainy weekend here.  We so needed the gentle rain to soak in the ground.  A great weekend for stamping and I hope you got to spend a little time doing just that. My card today was created for a Card Club back in June – yeah can you believe I have not share it until now!  I created a shim and only embossed the top part of the…

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