Friday, March 15, 2024

Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers ~ March Challenge, Sketch #43

Hi Crafty Friends,

 Sketch challenge #43 is open on the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers
Facebook page.  You'll find the sketch below and you may visit the BLOG and the Facebook page for more inspiration and then upload your challenge project HERE.

Here's my first project for this month's challenge.




Here's sketch #43 for your inspiration:





I hope you'll play along and keep building your holiday stash.



Friday, March 8, 2024

Cut it Up Challenge #299 ~ Colors of Spring

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time for a new challenge at Cut it Up Challenge Blog.

Those of us in the USA are truly ready for spring so to help it along, our theme is
COLORS OF SPRING.

Here's my card:


I recently participated in Pinkfresh Studio's Create and Connect Cardmaking event.
This card was inspired by one of the techniques we used - partial die cutting to create the border.
If you haven't used Pinkfresh Studio's stamp/stencil/die sets, I encourage you to give them a try.
I used the Cosmos Bunch set and Pinkfresh cube inks.  I also used a coverplate for the inside background and inked the stripe to fill in the space.  I've used one of my favorite color combinations for this card, lavender and green.

I hope you'll play along and share your project through the link above.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Pearly Sparkles March Challenge ~ Celebrate

Hi Crafty Friends,

Our new challenge for March is CELEBRATE.  Oh so many ways to interpret this theme!
You can join our challenge by uploading your project to the Pearly Sparkles blog HERE.

I'm sharing my project which was made for a very special 18th birthday celebration.


For this card I used Jaded Blossom's Gnome Dies and Build a Booth dies.  I also added dies from Spellbinders.  

I hope you'll play along.  Playing along with blog challenges is such a great way to share you creativity with fellow crafters.





Friday, February 23, 2024

Cut it Up Challenge #298 ~ Dots and/or Stripes

Hi Crafty Friends,

Cut it Up Challenge #298 is up.  The theme is Dots and/or Stripes.
Be sure to visit the team blog for some amazing inspiration projects.

Here's mine using Waffle Flower's Postage Stamp  stamp, stencil, and die set.


You may upload your project HERE.

Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers ~ Sketch #42, Project 2

Hi Crafty Friends,

 Sketch challenge #42 is still open on the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers
Facebook page.  You'll find the sketch below and you may visit the BLOG and the Facebook page for more inspiration and then upload your challenge project HERE.

Here's my second project using a 3D embossing folder from Altenew and a stamp and stencil from The Craft Market.



and here's the inspiration sketch:

I hope you'll play along and keep building your holiday stash.






Friday, February 9, 2024

Cut it Up Challenge #297 ~ Have a Heart

Hi Crafty Friends,

Here's our first challenge for February at Cut it Up Challenge Blog.

Our theme is Have a Heart.  It's open to your interpretation.

Here's my card.


The front of this card is the stacked hearts (Jaded Blossom) on an A2 card base that has been cut in half on the front.  There is a piece of acetate that the lower part of the hearts and the sentiment (Betterpress) are attached to.  The background is a Pinkfresh stencil adhered to the inside of the card base.
It's a fun technique and a little different from attaching the focal image to a background and then the entire thing placed on the card base.

I hope you'll play along with us a Cut it Up.  Be sure to check our Facebook Community page to see which entries won Top Cut for our last challenge.


Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers ~ Sketch 42, February Challenge

Hi Crafty Friends,

We have a new sketch challenge on the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers
Facebook page.  You'll find the sketch below.  The challenge is open for the entire month.  You may visit the BLOG and the Facebook page for inspiration and then upload your challenge project HERE.

Here's my first design team project.


I used a Betterpress plate for the background, blue ink on white watercolor paper, and then the Glimmer foil system for the sentiment.  So easy with the right tools/systems, yet it looks so elegant.

Here's the challenge sketch for your inspiration.

I hope you'll play along with us this month.


Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Pearly Sparkles February Challenge ~ Have a Heart/Love

Hi Crafty Friends,

Time for a new Pearly Sparkles challenge.
Our February challenge is "Have a Heart/Love".  It's open for your interpretation.

Here's my design team project.


I used a mini stencil that was in the Spellbinders Advent Calendar and added hearts instead of flowers.  All of the hearts were in my die cut stash.  The sentiment with matching die cut is from Jaded Blossom.

I stenciled on Spellbinders card stock using Pinkfresh Studio inks.

I hope you'll play along with us this month.  Just link your project using the link above.


Friday, January 26, 2024

Cut it Up Challenge #296 ~ This Makes Me Happy

Hi Crafty Friends,

I'm sharing my DT project for the second Cut it Up challenge of 2024.

We had so much fun with the "This Makes Me Happy" theme last year so we're doing it again.
It's truly an open-ended challenge and allows our blog followers a chance to get to know us a little better.

So what makes me happy???  Duh, cardmaking, of course!  I especially love making special cards for my favorite people when they are celebrating a special occasion.

This is a birthday card for my daughter.  She is a gnome lover and drives a black Infinity.
Jaded Blossom's gnome dies and add ons and their newest CAR die set were the perfect products to use for the special card.  It made me very happy to create it.


I hope you'll play along and let us know what makes YOU happy!

Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers ~ Sketch 41, Project 2

Hi Crafty Friends,

There are still a few more days to enter our BYSH January challenge using sketch #41.

Entries should be uploaded to the Sketch 41 album in our Facebook group HERE.
If you don't want to enter the sketch challenge, you are invited to simple share your Christmas/winter projects on the main FB page.  We love getting new ideas for our holiday cardmaking.

Here's my second project using sketch 41.

I used Jaded Blossom's Holly Berries stencils for the background and Altenew's Birds of the season layering stamp and die sets, and Altenew inks for the wreath and bird.  

Here's the sketch we're using for the challenge.  It's only a suggestion which you can adapt for your own project.

For more Sketch #41 inspiration please visit the BYSH blog HERE.


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