If it is Thursday it must be time for a Create with Connie and Mary Challenge! Today #CCMC401 is a sketch challenge. I decided to use the English Garden Designer Series Paper(DSP). I recently discovered/rediscovered this paper in my paper holder. The DSP helped me chose the colors and other products I wanted to…
Today is the Try Stampin' on Tuesday Challenge #265. The TSOT design team alternates week and this is my week. Ready to see the sketch? I will admit to you right up front that I took a lot of liberties with this sketch. I think you can still see the "bones" of the sketch in my…
It is time for another Create with Connie and Mary Challenge! This week it is a color challenge. I will be honest, this had me stumped until I realized that these colors can be found in the Going Places paper stack. For whatever reason once I knew that and looked at the papers I knew what…
I am so excited to share with you some news! I am on the Create with Connie and Mary Challenge design team! Every Thursday I will be stamping along with the other members of the team in the challenge. Sometimes it is a sketch challenge and sometimes it is a color challenge. I am…
It is time for another Try Stampin' On Tuesday Sketch Challenge. Super cute sketch! This is what I designed for the challenge. I used the Sale-A-Bration stamp set What I Love. This is a pretty 3 step stamp set. It is available in photopolymer which makes it much easier to get things lined up….
I have been having a lot of fun being on the Try Stampin' on Tuesday design team. Every other week I look forward to the sketch challenge given to us to work on and the optional theme. Sketch#261 Optional theme is Nothing Floral. I will admit to you that I felt a momentary…
This seems to be my week to play in challenges. I saw that the What Will You Stamp challenge #52 was to use the Botanical Blooms stamp set. You know how I feel about that set and framelits, so I went to work. I wanted to do something totally different from what I had done before so…
When I saw the Mojo Monday sketch challenge, I knew exactly what I wanted to make. This does not happen to me often so when it does I get to work. Here's sketch #Mojo436. Here is what immediately came to mind when i saw the sketch. You know I love those cute bears. Putting…
It is Tuesday and time for the Try Stampin' on Tuesday Challenge #259! Here is the sketch. Here's what I came up with. Honestly this sketch was difficult for me. I think it is because i am used to things being very symmetrical. This is one of the reasons I love participating in challenges, it…
What a strange blog post title. I realize now that is sounds like I am having a challenge with the Balloon Celebration stamp set. What I really mean is that I used the Balloon Celebration for a challenge. I wrote about my obsession with the Balloon Celebration stamp set in this post. This set was perfect…