It's a new year, a new team, and a new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero! Here's my card for the challenge: I enjoyed using my Hero Arts ink pads to get the fun ombre effect and it was nice to use a stamp that I'm fairly sure I've never touched before! So head on over, see what the rest of ... View Post
Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge
Winnie & Walter was one of the first online stamp companies I found last year when I realized there was a whole world out there beyond Michael's and JoAnn's and they've got GREAT stamps. I love the font of their sentiment stamps and I use them for lots of cards. They're celebrating their first ... View Post
PTI Make it Monday #196 and Virginia’s View Challenge #11
This week the Papertrey Ink: Make it Monday Challenge is to use a corner of the card instead of the middle as a focal point and January's Virginia's View Challenge is a Clean Slate. Virginia gives several examples of what constitutes a clean slate card and I chose to create a card with a lot of ... View Post
A new (to me) technique: paper-piecing…
I was intrigued by this month's AEIHeartUChallenge: Paper Piecing. It's not something I'd ever tried but it looked interesting. By far, my favorite Avery Elle stamp sets are Storybook and More Stories and I knew I wanted to use them in some way. I decided to try and give some of the animals the ... View Post
Christmas Card Challenges #5 – Winter Wool
We have a fun color challenge for you this week at Christmas Card Challenges! It's definitely a non-traditional holiday color scheme but one that lends itself nicely to warm and elegant cards! Aren't those sheep cute?! Anyway, here's my card! My camera went a little wonky so the colors appear ... View Post
Christmas Card Challenges #4: Anything Goes
Well I'm back after a technical hiatus...I didn't get to post my card last week but I really enjoyed seeing all of your cards! This week the Christmas Card Challenge was "Anything Goes" and I'm sharing the Christmas card I created for our local veterinarian. We (and our pets) love the staff at ... View Post
Christmas Card Challenges #2: CAS
I had a lot of fun with this week's Christmas Card Challenge. CAS cards don't always come easily to me but this one just worked. I tend to want to add more and more to a card...which sometimes works but sometimes (REALLY) doesn't. Anyway, I love this card. It was super easy to put together and ... View Post
Christmas Card Challenges #1: Color Challenge
I'm excited to share my first card as a member of the Christmas Card Challenges design team! We're starting a new year and here's the inspiration photo for the first challenge: For my card I used the new stamp set from Ellen Hutson, Bokeh Dots. I love the versatility of this set! I stamped the ... View Post