This month’s Star Stampz challenge is all about nature! I used one of the Star Stampz digis to create an art journal page. I really felt like playing with mixed media and making a mess. It is always a relaxing thing to do! I have some go to stencils and stamps in a basket that I use… Read More »
Oh how I love to play with ink! This month’s challenge for the Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge is to get messy! Of course I wanted to play with some splatter! I had some scraps from the Flea Market scrapbook collection that I had used for the Crop & Create event over the weekend and decided to use… Read More »
We have an Anything Goes theme this month for the Star Stampz Challenge. The design team is using new release digis for our creations! You can check out the challenge HERE. This fabulous digi is the Flower Fairy Daisy digi. Isn’t it dreamy? It’s perfect for spring and summer as well! I love a beautiful digi. I… Read More »
You have two more weeks to join Kendra’s Card Challenge #9. This challenge ends on March 31 and then challenge 10 starts! There are so many great prizes available to challenge winners. You can participate by joining Kendra’s Card Challenge Facebook Group. Make your 15 cards with the FREE Cutting Diagrams and Card Sketches and share them with… Read More »
This month’s theme for the Star Stampz Challenge is an encouragement or friendship theme. As always, it is an anything goes challenge, so I created an art journal layout! The challenge starts now and ends on at the beginning of April. You can find the challenge on the Star Stampz Blog. I really enjoyed creating this. I… Read More »
It’s the start of a new Saturday Challenge over on the Three Room Studio blog! This week’s theme is WATER! IusedI used the It’s a Ponderful Life stamp set along with the Believe in Fairies stamp set from Three Room Studio. I heat embossed my images so that I could add some distress oxides to my background. … Read More »
This month’s theme for the Challenge YOUrself February challenge is meditation. I don’t meditate per se. I do activities that I find meditative. I often find that as I’m riding my bike I focus on the sights and sounds around me and the feeling of freedom and relaxation that I have while riding my bike. I find… Read More »
This month’s Star Stampz challenge is all about animals! I selected this adorable dragon from the Dragon and Knight digital stamp that I have in my stash. I created a card for my son last year with this digi and decided to use it again. This time, I modified the digi by eliminating the knight and just… Read More »
We have a new challenge on the Three Room Studio blog today! The theme for the challenge is Happy Birthday! You can never have too many birthday cards! I used several stamp sets to create my project today. Check it out: I used the amazing Awesome Coffee clear stamp set for my image. I just love that… Read More »
This month’s theme for the scrapbook layout challenge on the Challenge YOUrself blog is to use your own handwriting to do some journaling on the page. I won’t lie…I’m too lazy to do anything but my own handwriting to do journaling on my layout! Everything else seems like a lot more work! I had fun with… Read More »
I created a quick card using my scrap bin and a new stamp, die, and stencil set that I purchased from Close To My Heart. Close To My Heart was the first company that I ever purchase paper craft supplies from! I love that they focus on stamping and scrapbooking. I treated myself to a couple of… Read More »
I’m hoppin’ along on YouTube with some crafty friends today. We all belong to the Handmade Happiness and Card Hoppin’ Facebook groups. Today’s hop has a fall theme and the technique focus for the hop is either retiform or geometric. I chose to use the geometric technique: You can check out the details and… Read More »
I had so much fun creating my card project for today. I had trouble falling asleep last night and decided to watch some Copic coloring videos from My Creative Scoop. I joined the Coloring Club when Mindy was offering a deal that included access to all of her previous Copic coloring classes. I LOVE her classes and splurged.… Read More »
This month’s Star Stampz challenge is a Welcome Baby/New Parents themed challenge. I used the Panda Balloon digi from Star Stampz to create my card today. I pulled out a 6 x 6″ paper pad to find a sweet background paper for this image after I colored it with my Copics. I actually ended up using… Read More »
I have two scrapbook layouts that I made with this month’s Challenge YOUrself Challenge. The theme is to use a sketch to create your layout. Here is my first one: While packing up my Mother-in-Law’s house after she passed away last fall, I salvaged all the pictures I could find of my husband and my kids. It… Read More »