Today I have an easy angel holiday card to share that has lots of sparkle and shine! This card uses one of the hot foil dies from Scrappy Tails Crafts to create the snow background. It also uses the angel spinner die to create the focal point and sentiment for the card. I used my Glimmer Hot Foil… Read More »
Welcome to the #ShopYourStashMonsterMash YouTube Hop!! Hop Information: 1.) That this is a hashtag driven hop. You must use the #shopyourstashmonstermash hashtag in the search bar on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram to generate a playlist of participants and hop along from there! 2.) This is a giveaway hop as well. Giveaway and Prize information is below. Check out… Read More »
I totally lost track of my days this month! I actually keep a calendar that I check multiple times a day. The problem with a calendar is that if you accidentally leave something off the calendar…you don’t remember to get it posted! My project for the new Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge did not make it to my calendar! … Read More »
I loved dressing up for Halloween with my kids when they were younger. We had a lot of fun going around our little neighborhood. Kinda Cute by Patricia has some really cute Halloween digital stamp images and they are all 40% off. If you have ever wanted to give digi stamps a try, this is the time! Some… Read More »
I always love making cards for fall so I was happy to see the Star Stampz Challenge for this month was to create a fall card. For this challenge, I selected the Autumn Fall Girl Reading digital stamp from the Star Stampz Etsy Shop. A year ago, I would have been very intimidated by the thought… Read More »
Yay! It’s time for another scrapbook challenge on the Challenge YOUrself blog! This month’s challenge is black and white plus one other color. I really enjoy these scrapbook challenges every month. I’m creating a lot of pages and I’m actually in the pictures! I’m also taking more pictures with me in them so that I can have some… Read More »
I really liked this week’s sketch challenge for the Make The Cards Challenge. I created a slimline card with all stuff from my stash. All the products that I’ve used today are Altenew products! This slime line card is cut at 7 x 8 “. I scored and folded it at 3-1/2”. I added a strip of… Read More »
Three Room Studio’s Saturday Challenge this week is a Fall Color Theme. Of course I pulled out my favorite stencil and my new favorite color scheme for my card today! I pulled out the Moving Sentiments stamp set, the Rounded Checkerboard Stencil, the Hello Friend stamp and die, and the Simple Sentiments stamp set to complete my card… Read More »
I really admire Debby Hughes and her amazing watercoloring skills. I’ve been following her for years and I’ve take a couple classes with her as well. I know that she has really put the time in to practicing and developing her skills as an artist and a colorist. She is a really amazing designer! The new Scrapping4Fun Challenge… Read More »
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes something a simple card versus a stepped up card. I spent some time on Instagram looking at cards for other designers to see what little things they do to make their cards spectacular. I thought I’d share some of those tips with you today. I’ve made two cards to… Read More »
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a theme challenge, plus 1. I used the Catherine Pooler Boho Fall collection for this card and I just love the way it came out. I also added the Rounded Checkerboard stencil from Three Room Studio and I adore the background. Every single time I use this stencil, I love… Read More »
There are some little tips that I want to share today to show you how to get realistic looking frosting on your cake and cupcake images. I also want to share how I got such shiny images today and how I created some dimension in my stenciled images. I create dimension on my stenciled images by either adding… Read More »
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a color challenge called Peach Keen! I actually wasn’t sure weather this challenge had a very dark brown or black. I chose to make it very dark brown because it looked better on the card!! I used some colors I don’t use often from my Catherine Pooler inks. I used… Read More »
I have a quick and easy card using the sweet Papa Bear and Baby digital image from Kinda Cute by Patricia. Isn’t this image just irresistible? It is also a nice quick one to color! Copic Combinations: Bears: E79, 77, 74, 71, 70, 44, 43, 42, RV21 I added a few sequins from my stash along with… Read More »
This week’s Saturday Challenge at Three Room Studio has a circle theme. One lucky participant in the September Saturday Challenges will win a $15 gift card to Three Room Studio Shop. I’ve been participating in more challenges and social media contests and I’ve won some prizes!! Yesterday I found out I won a gift card to Connie Fong’s… Read More »