This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is perfect for stash diving! As soon as I saw this, I knew that I wanted to use some older DSP from my stash for that big circle and to die cut the leafy stem from. I also pulled out a couple of old stamp and die sets to make… Read More »
I always love the One Little Word Challenge, so I was happy to see that we are doing this again for the January Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge! 2020 was the first time I did this and I spent the whole year working on my word, which was Journey because I had just retired. I did the whole… Read More »
Today is a good day to do a card challenge! I’m creating a masculine card and the theme is Christmas Critters. I will confess that my stash is woefully short on Christmas Critters this year. I found one stamp that has 2 deer, so I’m hoping that is enough. Since it’s after Christmas, I tried not to make… Read More »
This is the final sketch challenge for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for 2025, and I guess it’s also the first one for 2026! On to a new year and new adventures! This is a one-week challenge. It closes on Sunday night. We would love to have you join us for the challenge! I made a… Read More »
I consider this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to be a classic card layout. It’s a great go-to design when you aren’t sure what you want to do. This sketch works for so many stamp sets! You can use this layout in either landscape or vertically. I love using it when I have a floral or… Read More »
It’s time for an Anything Goes Scrapbook Challenge! I decided that I wanted to scrap some photos from 2016 from a trip my family took to Westhampton, NY to the beach the day after Tropical Storm Hermine ravaged Long Island. We decided to see what the ocean was like the day after the storm. It was… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has the following sketch: I started by cutting a Cherry Cobbler and a Shaded Spruce mat to 4 x 5-1/4″. I lined the diagonal up with the track on my trimmer and cut each piece in half diagonally. Then I gently turned the cut pieces so the other diagonal lined up… Read More »
I enjoyed playing with this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! Check out this week’s sketch: I love this sketch. It feels like a classic layout that you could use over and over again with so many different stamp sets. I chose to do a Christmas themed card today. The stamp set that I used for this… Read More »
I have another sketch challenge from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! This isn’t one of the weeks my team is scheduled to create a card for the sketch challenge, but this is one of my favorite card layouts. I decided to play along! I’m still playing with the Mix & Match Christmas cards & envelopes, tag… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is a slimline style card sketch! I decided to create a Christmas card since my craft table is literally filled with Christmas papers and ephemera! I added lots of dimension to this card, along with some ink blending for the background. I used Soft Sea Foam ink with a blending… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has a fun torn paper detail! I think this is one of the go to techniques for paper crafting lately and I love the touch it adds to my projects. I think this is a lovely sketch and a quick one to create as well. I pulled out the Peaceful… Read More »
This month’s scrapbook challenge for the Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge is a black and white challenge…with a splash of color! I love a black and white layout. It was a fun twist to be able to add a splash of one color. Ordinarily with a black and white challenge, I would use black and white photos. This… Read More »
There is a new sketch challenge for theAtlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week. For this challenge, I wanted to do a little watercoloring with my watercolor pencils. I used the new Amber Autumn stamp set from Stampin’ Up!. I stamped my image in StazOn ink and the added color with my watercolor pencils. I used my blender… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge gave me an opportunity to highlight one of the gorgeous new papers from the Lights of Aurora DSP set from Stampin’ Up! When I was thinking about what I wanted to create with this sketch, I didn’t notice that all the rectangles were different lengths. When I cut my paper, I… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is all about using those paper strips you have sitting in a pile somewhere in your craft room! I actually don’t have a big pile of paper strip scraps sitting around, so I decided to try a twist on this sketch. I pulled out one sheet of pretty Beautiful Gallery Designer Series… Read More »