A Special Thanks

Today’s card is pulling double duty as I am entering it into the Global Design Project #55 theme challenge and the Pals Paper Arts #320 sketch challenge. My card today is actually a thank you note for a random act of kindness that was shown to me… Clean and simple cards do not come easy to me, so I was very pleased that this one worked out as well as it did. Here are the…

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A Smiling Heart – GDP #053 & PPA #318

     It’s a lot of fun combining challenges, especially when you have a fun sketch and a super color combination to work with.  The Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge and the Global Design Project’s color challenge worked so well together on this card.  I hope you agree…. The star of this card is the POP of color from the Watermelon Wonder In Color Doilie (#141674).  The Layering Circles Framelits (#141705) helped create the medallion along…

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Fall Mums – PPA #317

Today’s card is my entry into the Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge… Even though it’s still technically summer and pretty hot, Fall is becoming very evident all around here.  One of my favorite things about Fall is Mums.  I love mums and that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw these colors. The Grateful Bunch stamp set(#140691) makes wonderful flowers so I turned them into mums by layering, layering and more layering.  The…

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A Christmouse Carol – GDP #052

Today I’m playing along with the Global Design Project #052 Case the Designer Challenge. Here is Teneale Williams’ fun sketch…. I decided to make my first Christmas card using the adorable Merry Mice stamp set.  The images in this set are super cute and fun to color. The sheet music DSP is from This Christmas Designer Series Paper Stack (#141628) which is in the Annual Catalog.  It is a lighter weight paper and so easy…

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