This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a technique challenge and it’s all about background stamps. I used the fabulous Wild Thing background stamp from Catherine Pooler. I heat embossed it in gold and ink blended on some Spiced Marmalade distress oxide. I love the way this card turned out! I also created a gold frame embossed… Read More »
The new Make The Cards Challenge for this week is a color challenge! I pulled out the Wild Things background stamp from my Catherine Pooler collection and heat embossed it in gold on white paper. I ink blended on some Spiced Marmalade distress oxide ink and added some scraps of dark brown cardstock strips. I used my… 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 »
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 »
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a sketch challenge. I took some creative liberty with this challenged and changed the pennant to a pumpkin shape. I used my Copics to color in the pumpkin before die cutting it out. This is from the Catherine Pooler Front Porch Bundle. I just LOVE this pumpkin set. I… Read More »
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge! I selected the last column and used a background stamp, a circle doily die, and an eyelet. I used some of the new Catherine Pooler fall collection stamps and dies on this card. The background stamp is the Light as a Feather stamp and it… Read More »
The new Make The Cards Challenge is a Color Challenge for this week. It’s also entitled Suit Up. I do not have any stamps with a person wearing a suit of any kind, so I decided that I would just go with the color challenge. This was a good challenge. It has a masculine feel to it and… Read More »
You read that right! You can get a FREE digital stamp every month by participating in the Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez Facebook group’s monthly challenge. You just need to color one of the Kinda Cute images with your favorite medium and then share it on the group Facebook page in the challenge folder. 3 winners will be… Read More »
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is an Only 2 Things challenge!! I LOVE these kinds of challenges. This really is a challenge! I used a slimline stencil with the Maker Forte Rah Rah Skirt neon pink ink. I didn’t stencil the entire image in pink. I left the tips free so I could color those with… Read More »
Have you tried the Pop Up Card Dies from Scrappy Tails Crafts yet? They are pretty fun to play with and they make fabulous seasonal décor or place setting decorations in addition to being fun cards to create and send to someone special! The new Scrapping4Fun Challenge is an Anything Goes Masculine Challenge. Our sponsor for… Read More »
Do you love challenges as much as I do? I really love that the Make The Cards Challenge isn’t just a sketch challenge. There is some new kind of challenge every week. This week it happens to be a sketch challenge. Now, I do have hexagon dies, but I kind of wanted to put my own twist on… Read More »
The Make The Cards Challenge is teaming up with the Double Trouble Challenge to create a 2 Week Challenge! I created a watercolored floral card using the colors in the challenge! For the colors, I chose Catherine Pooler Inks in Peppermint Scrub, In The Park, Mardis Gras, Rose Petals, and Midnight. The stamp set is… Read More »
Scrappy Tails Crafts has this fabulous Rose Petals stamp and die set that I have really been enjoying creating with. I have been in the mood for watercoloring techniques, so I created 3 quick cards using easy watercoloring techniques with my Catherine Pooler ink pads. Catherine Pooler just came out with some new colors of inks and I… Read More »
The Make The Cards Challenge for this week is a color challenge! I just got a new order from Sassy & Crafty Stamps and I was very excited to use one of the new stamps from the February release! I love my Chucks! I always wanted a pair of these sneakers when I was a kid and… Read More »
I like to participate in the Turner’s Syndrome Blog Hop and Challenge every year to help raise awareness for Turner’s Syndrome which is a genetic disorder that affects females. I was surprise to discover that 1 in 2000 female births worldwide are affected by this genetic defect and that a high percentage of the pregnancies that don’t go… Read More »