Summer Fruit Gift and Tag – #TTTC253

Welcome to a new Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  This week it’s Team “O”‘s turn at the board and my teammate, Silke, came up with a fun one full of summery goodness.  Take a look… And here’s my cute little project….I chose to with the first row across: Gift Tag, Patterned Paper, Summer To make the sweet little bag, I used a brand new-to-me die from Echo Park: 3-D Bag.  This was so easy to assemble…

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The Great Outdoors for July CC2C

Welcome back to CASEing (Copy and Selectively Editing) Coast to Coast.  This month our creative adventure originates in CA where Karen Hallam chose the “Great Outdoors” as our theme this month.  Here is Karen’s perfectly summery card…I think this card is actually quite serene and meditative.  Who wouldn’t want to be sitting on this beach under a palm tree?!  Check out all the details on Karen’s blog HERE. While Karen is relaxing on the beach, I…

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BEE Happy Sketch for CC2C

This month CASEing Coast 2 Coast is originating from here in Southeastern PA and traveling clear across the country to Karen Hallam in California. Since Karen and I are both members of Mary Fish’s Pals stamping community, I chose to follow one of Mary’s weekly sketches.  I find that sketches are great jumping off points for coming up with a card design.  Of course, there are many ways to interpret a sketch and that’s part…

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Take “Thyme” Thinking of You Card

If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know that I’m so inspired by card challenges.  I find it really fun to have to work within the specific parameters and try to come up with something I would not have ordinarily thought of.  Today’s card is a shining example of just that.  And I really went a little further than normal and combined two challenges…whoa, me!   The first challenge I saw…

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