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 »
This week’s Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge is a sketch challenge using a PageMaps Sketch!! I love a good PageMaps sketch! I print out each month’s sketches and keep them in a binder. I have all of the scrapbook sketches going back to 2006! They are very inspiring, and they are FREE. Here is my take on this… Read More »
Have you ever loved a sketch so much that you made two cards inspired by it? Check out this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge: I used the ephemera sets from Stampin’ Up! to make my cards this week. I was playing with Say Something and Good Times ephemera sets. I loved this little vase of flowers with… Read More »
There are soooo many great new products being released by Stampin’ Up! in September! First…the new Fall and Holiday Mini Catalog will be released with all kinds of fall and holiday goodies packed inside! My wish list is long! Second…there are some fantastic new products being released as Online Exclusives that are also being released on September 5!… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge offers another sketch to utilize those left over strips of paper you have sitting on your desk. I was not a fan of this sketch when I saw it. Using up strips of paper scraps is not my forte and my cards always end up with too many layers for… Read More »
I have another sketch to share from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and it’s another good one! I love this one! I have so much pretty patterned paper and this is a perfect sketch for using all that DSP. I used the Pretty Florals Suite for this card. I adore the papers in this set. The… Read More »
This week’s card sketch challenge for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is up and running! A perfect sketch for using some of our pretty papers or a favorite background technique! I chose to use some pretty papers for this one. This gave me an opportunity to play with the Impressions Abloom stamp set and the pretty… Read More »
The new Challenge YOUrself July scrapbook challenge is now live! I thought this was a fun challenge! I pulled out an old photo of myself that a student snapped many many years ago. I was sitting at my desk after school grading papers and I had a bunch of my favorite dorks hanging out in my classroom. … Read More »
The Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is out for this week and it’s another good one. This is one that I need to add to my card sketch recipe file for sure. I had fun playing with this and I created two cards with this sketch using different techniques on each card. I created the little bee… Read More »
I have another interesting and challenging sketch from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for this week! This was a challenging sketch and a challenging layout! I kept the number of rectangles to a minimal amount and tried to use a variety of sizes. Here is what I came up with: I found it very challenging to… Read More »