With June winding down and July quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to create a patriotic card in honor of the 4th of July. I don’t necessarily send cards for the 4th, so this one will just be displayed amongst my patriotic decor. Perhaps I’ll put it in a simple frame to use year after year. I used paper that I had in my stash for the distressed wood background and the…
It’s been a while since I played in a few of my favorite challenges. Today, I’m playing along with the Paper Players challenge which is always fun and challenging. Here’s the challenge board… One layer cards are definitely something I don’t usually make and find kind of difficult which is probably why you don’t see many coming from me. But here we go…. I started off with Shimmery White card stock as the card base.…
It’s time for another cross country stamping adventure. Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA are enjoying collaborating once a month by CASEing (Copying and Selectively Editing) each other projects. This month, Karen chose our direction and we’ll be working with this sketch… And here is Karen’s take on the sketch… For all the details on Karen’s creative card, please head over to here blog HERE For my interpretation of the sketch, I…
Today’s Tic Tac Toe Challenge inspired me to pull out Spellbinder’s Butterfly Card Creator dies. I love the idea of a shaped card and this set of dies easily creates a big, beautiful butterfly. Here’s the Tic Tac Toe Challenge board…. I chose to go diagonally right to left: Butterfly, Die Cut, Embossing The card base is Fresh Freesia. I colored the flowers with a Fresh Freesia Stampin’ Blend and the leaves are colored…
