Be Thankful

Hello…hope you are having a somewhat relaxing Sunday given that it is the weekend before Thanksgiving. I am playing along with the Stamp, Ink, Paper sketch challenge this week and getting this project in just under the wire! Here is the sketch and it is a good one…. I saw a card created by Windy Ellard, who is in a stamping group I belong to and absolutely loved it.  You can see Windy’s card here.…

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PPA #274 – A Little Kindness

The challenge this week at Pals Paper Arts is a great color combo…… At first, I was inclined to think Fall with this color combination, however Calypso Coral did not really say Fall to me like the other two colors.  Instead I opted for a thank you card given that November is the month of “thanks”. This card came together super fast using the Designer Series paper from the Cherry on Top DSP Stack.  The…

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PPA #271 – A Happy Heart

Time for another Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge.  The colors this week are a great combination and include one of my favorite Stampin’ Up! colors…Hello Honey.  This is an In-Color that is due to retire at the end of the annual catalog.  In my opinion, it really needs to stick around.  But I will definitely be using it as much as possible before then and probably after too! This card came together very fast once…

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PPA 266 – A Leafy Thanks

The colors in this weeks Pals Paper Arts Challenge are so autumnal.  It was nice to work with them and to anticipate the upcoming Fall season even though we are in the middle of ANOTHER heat wave on the East Coast. I naturally turned to the Vintage Leaves stamp set and coordinating Framelits for this card. The card base is Sahara Sand.  I stamped the background with the Hardwood background stamp in Sahara Sand and used…

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