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…
It’s Tic Tac Toe Thursday! Betty from Team X created a fabulous challenge board for us to create with this week… As soon as I saw the elements on this board, I knew I would be creating a wedding card. One of our oldest friends’ daughter is getting married in June and I was happy to get a jump on a card for her. I chose the first column down: Wedding, Floral, Pink When opened,…
It’s time for another Tic Tac Toe Challenge so let’s make it a celebration, too! Jolanda created a super fun board for Team O to work with here. Please check out the board, get inspired, have fun creating and share your creativity with us this week. I chose to create a birthday card going two ways on the board. (1) Middle column down: Die Cut/Punch, Emboss Wet/Dry, Layers. (2) Right diagonal down: Floral, Emboss Wet/Dry,…
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…
