My card is a pretty birthday card inspired by this week’s color challenge by The Paper Players. Color challenges are always just that…a challenge for me. The colors in this challenge were just so pretty and summery that I had to give it a try. At first look, my first thought was that these colors reminded me of sherbert. That may be because it’s been so hot here and sherbert would be really refreshing. But…
Today’s card is truly in my wheelhouse. I am loving the recent decorating trend known as Cottage-Core. To me, it’s a mix of vintage country along with a throwback to my decorating style of my younger married days. So my card was really fun to create as it, too, is a throwback to some of my favorite Stampin’ Up! products: Country Home bundle and the Tin Tile Dynamic embossing folder. The patterned paper is from…
I know I mentioned in my last post that I was enjoying playing along with more challenges again and today’s challenge card is probably the biggest reason why. Just Us Girls challenge this week is to use a long forgotten die. Well needless to say, I have a lot of them so the most difficult part was to choose which one. The die(s) I finally chose were, like the challenge description indicated, ones I really…
Welcome back to another cross country creating adventure with Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA. This month we’re traveling West to East, so Karen chose our direction. She chose to celebrate our country’s 250th birthday with a patriotic theme. Here’s Karen’s celebratory card…you can head over to Karen’s blog to get all the details HERE. And here’s what I came up with… To create this 8″x 3 1/2″ slimline card, I once…
