This month for our blog hop we were invited to use the following colour palate – Balmy Blue, Calypso Coral and Pear Pizzazz. I decided to do a kid’s birthday card and I guess it could be used for an adult as well. I used the blending brushes on Basic White cardstock to make a […]
Our challenge this month is recreating the following image. I decided to take a break from making Christmas cards and use the ‘Friends are like Seashells’ stamp set and embossing folder from the Annual catalogue. I chose Crumb Cake as the first layer of this card and embossed it with the Seashells 3D embossing folder. […]
This month we had the challenge to use Black, White and one colour to create our project. When I saw the Simply Elegant suite in the new catalogue, I fell in love with it. I could see myself making beautiful boxes and cards with the DSP. I chose to use the DSP as the highlight […]
This month we had a sketch challenge for our Blog Hop using Curves. Although the Curvy dies are sadly not carrying over in the new catalogue, I used this for the curve. It is still available until June in the Mini Catalogue. I chose the new Expressions in Ink DSP for the highlight paper on […]
This month’s challenge was a fancy fold card. I decided to do a triangular folding fancy fold. This is fairly simple to cut out and fold and I used the Hydrangea Hill DSP for the front of the card. The base is Seaside Spray card stock and the sentiment is stamped on Basic White cardstock […]
We had a colour challenge this month and when I looked at the beautiful colours – Pear Pizzazz, Poppy Parade and Crushed Curry, I was excited and thought it would be easy to come up with something I loved! …. Well that was earlier!!! The first card I tried used Butterfly Bouquet. I think the […]
This month we had a sketch as our starting point for our creating. When I saw the January – June Mini Catalogue, there were two sets I fell in love with immediately! One was Hydrangea Hill Suite and the other was Sand and Sea Suite. When they arrived at my place I immediately got Hydrangea […]
For our Blog Hop this month we were challenged to use something from the January – June Mini catalogue or the Sale-a-bration Catalogue. I decided to use the Sand and Sea suite for this challenge and to create something suitable for a 12 X 12 frame. Instructions for creating this sampler are available by clicking […]
Welcome to our Blog Hop #25. This month we had the freedom to do whatever!!! I decided to use Hydrangea Hill from the new Jan – Jun catty. I used Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape as the base of the card and the beautiful mercury glass acetate. One side (purple) I mounted on a Scripty […]
Welcome to our Blog Hop #24. This month we have a sketch challenge for our Team Blog. I decided to use Trimming the Town DSP and the Woodland Embossing Folder for my card. Before using the Embossing Folder, I cut out a circle with the circle framelits from the Whisper White CS. I then inked […]