For our monthly cross country collaboration, Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA are creating with Stampin’ Up! products featured in the new May-August catalog. I didn’t purchase much from the catalog but Designer Series Paper is something I find hard to resist. The Artisan Sketched Garden DSP is one that caught me eye immediately, especially when I saw all the coloring opportunities! I haven’t been doing much coloring lately and it was…
Welcome to the first Tic Tac Toe Challenge of April. I had the pleasure of designing today’s board and hope that you’ll find some of the elements spark your creativity and share a project with us. Here’s the board… …and here’s my card There were several ways that I could do a tic tac toe. First, left diagonal down: Slimline, Free, Border. Second, left column down: Slimline, Pastel Colors, Encouraging Sentiment. Third, middle row across:…
Here we are again…Creating Coast to Coast. This month we’re beginning the journey here on the East Coast with me in PA and traveling West to Karen Hallam in CA. Our direction this month was to follow a sketch. Sketches are a great starting point when creating a card. The bones of the card are already there but there’s lots of room for creative interpretation. Let’s take a look at today’s sketch… Since Karen and…
Here’s another fun and easy fun fold courtesy of Jeanie Stark’s Mystery Monday Fun Folds. You can find all the directions, dimensions and details on Jeanie’s blog HERE for this week’s card. Today’s card, although very easy to create, makes a very pretty impression. In my ongoing effort to use patterned paper from my stash, I pulled out a random 6 x 6 pad that may have come from the Target Dollar Spot some years…
