Poppy Sketch

Hello Stampers! What are your plans for this hot weekend?  I hope it includes some time in your craft/stamp room.  I will be spending time with Zoie and playing. I wanted to share with you a sketch challenge I did in one of my demo forums.  Here is the sketch. Here is what I created for this challenge. inside of card and envelope I hope you enjoyed my card today.  I used more of my…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – gingham and polka dots

Hello Ladies! I hope you have some fun plans for the weekend!  I will be busy working on my convention swaps. Over at Sketch Frenzy Friday we have a great sketch created by Tammy Fite I wanted to tackle this one with a different approach also – I really like doing things out of the ordinary.  I got the new gingham wheel and I love to take my wheels apart and use like stamps.  I…

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Floral District Swap

Good Morning Stampers! Today I am headed to the Regionals in Baltimore.  This is like a mini, mini convention for Stampin’ Up Demonstrators.  We do a lot that we would do at convention just with people from your area. When I knew I would be going I looked for some organized swaps.  I could not find any so I decided to host a few myself.  The first swap I hosted was a Floral District swap. …

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Hand Stamped Sentiments color challenge

Hello Stampers!  Are you ready for a fun color challenge this week?  We have a great combination and would love to have you play with us.  Our challenge this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments is all about pink and red.   I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with this but I thought it would be fun to use the poppies stamp.  I decided to use the colors from the challenge to color…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments – inked embossing folder

Hello Ladies! I have been watching the leaf predictions over the past couple of weeks.  I have plans to go to the mountains to see the leaves and get apples.  I am hoping the leaves will have turned quite a bit by Saturday.  The local weather says this should be a good weekend to see some fall color.  I am crossing my fingers! Over at Hand Stamped Sentiments  our challenge this week is to take…

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Dynamic Poppies

Hello Ladies! Wow can you believe tomorrow is Friday?  I hope you have had a good week.  We were expecting rain from the hurricane all week and did not get any.  There seems to be some kind of vortex over us that keeps all the rain away.  Sure hope it that vortex moves on soon! My card today began with the color challenge at Dynamic Duos      I combined it with the sketch challenge at Fab…

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