The Butterfly Basics stamp set is another set that is on the Stampin' Up! retiring list. We pulled this out at the All Occasion Cards class this month for a lovely card. Continue reading
15 Minute Inspirational Challenge Card
The timed challenge this week is an inspirational challenge. I am supposed to look at this card and use the theme, colors or whatever from it to come up with a card in 15 minutes or less. It's time to create! The first order of business, as always, was the paper cutter. From there I used a fun new technique, one I taught the Technique Club last night. That is what you see pictured here. If you're not part of the Tech Club . . . maybe you should consider! We learn lots of great techniques! The Framed Tulips embossing folder is quickly becoming a favorite! I just love this folder Continue reading
Inspirational 15 Minute Card Challenge
For our challenge this week we are supposed to look at this picture and be inspired to make a card in 15 minutes or less (used to be 10 but it's been changed.) Let's see how well I work at 9:00 in the morning! I was awake (I think) and ready to go! The first job, as always was to run to the paper cutter ready to cut some Whisper White and Basic Black cardstock. The inspirational picture made me think of the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set so I grabbed that up along with Versamark ink and some black embossing powder. The lighting in the picture makes the cardstock look kind of purple Continue reading
10 Minute Card Sketch Challenge for Christmas
This is the sketch I have to work with this week. I'm supposed to make a card in 10 minutes working with this. It's time to stamp and I'm ready with an idea in mind! My first task was to run to the paper cutter with some Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler cardstock along with the Deck the Halls DSP. It took me a couple tries to get the DSP cut correctly. Silly me, in my rush I didn't think it through clearly the first time to get the words cut right-side up. Here's the start of the card. I love how the Very Vanilla satin ribbon looks, don't you? As I came to the next step I realized Continue reading
SAH Scrapbook Sketch Challenge
For this weeks Stamp-A-Holics Challenge we were given a sketch to make a scrapbook page. Now a scrapbook challenge means I have 20 minutes. As I sat there, before starting the clock, I could only think of one thing I wanted to do, and I knew it was going to take way longer than 20 minutes! You know, I thought about conveniently forgetting to take a picture of the clock but I knew I couldn't do that. . . . The first task was time consuming. I decided to cut these lovely flowers out of a sheet of the Deck the Halls DSP. The trickiest part was that I had to keep the cut out piece as Continue reading
10 Minute Card Challenge with Flower Fancy
It's Friday and time for the 10 Minute challenge! I was given these colors to work with. As you can see, the last star says to choose my own color. Hmmm. Well, the only thing I have in Poppy Parade is a Stampin' Write Marker and I have yet to do anything with this color but . . . I'll step out on a limb and just go with Pear Pizzazz (for which I only have the Stampin' Write Marker for this too). It's time to go, off to the paper cutter I go with Whisper White and Basic Black cardstock in hand. Grabbing up the Flower Fancy stamp set I set to work coloring with my markers and Continue reading
10 Minute Challenge with Embrace Life
Oops! Did I say I was going to show you a card using the Night of Navy, Brocade Blue and So Saffron color challenge today? Sorry! I forgot about the 10 minute challenge on Fridays. I'm going to post the 10 minute card today and show the other card tomorrow . . . . or sometime! This week's challenge is an inspirational challenge. I was given the picture above and my job is look at it and make a card in 10 minutes. Well, lets see what I can come up with! It's time to run to the paper cutter with my Whisper White and Pretty in Pink cardstock. Whisper White is going to be the base Continue reading
10 Minute Color Challenge Card
It's Friday again and time for the 10 Minute Challenge. To be quite truthful, I put off doing the challenge today for as long as I could. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the 10 minute challenges, I just dreaded using the colors we were given to work with today. I just don't work well with any of these colors, I never seem to be able to come up with anything I like with them. It was the challenge though, so . . . . Alrighty, 8:30 P.M. and we're ready to go! I'm afraid my running wasn't quite as fast as normal today. I shouldn't have waited until evening, when I'd be so tired! Oh well, I Continue reading
10 Minute challenge with a sketch
It's Friday and time for another 10 minute challenge. We were told to use the sketch you see above as the basic layout for our card. Now, from what I understand, I haven't played too many sketch challenges, you can be fairly liberal in your interpretation of the sketch. So, here we go. Black and white cards tend to be my favorite and I know I can't go wrong with those colors so I grabbed up cardstock and ran (yes, literally!) to the paper cutter to get the card started! On a piece of Basic Gray cardstock I stamped the En Francais background stamp in Basic Black and then sponged Basic Continue reading