Gingham, ruffles and daisies, oh my! Today's card for the Create with Connie and Mary Challenge #463 features some of my favorite things from the new 2017-18 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog. First things first, here is the challenge. Here is the bad and good news. The bad news is the Daisy Delight bundle is not…
It is Tuesday and time for the Try Stampin' on Tuesday Challenge. Lately, I have been building bouquets of flowers using the Beautiful Bouquet bundle (stamp set and Bouquet Bunch framelet dies) and it is just the perfect set of stamps and dies for this week's sketch challenge. Try Stampin' on Tuesday #327 optional theme:…
Have you noticed all the fabulous background stamps in the new Stampin' Up! catalog? There are 5 new ones and they are terrific. If you saw the title of this post then I guess you know which one I am using today. The Sheet Music background stamp is a classic and so versatile. Today I…
Time for the Create with Connie and Mary Challenge. This is a Case the Catalog challenge and this week the inspiration is a card on page 43. You can chose to either be inspired by the colors or the sketch. This week it was the colors for me. Island Indigo, Pool Party, and Lemon Lime…
Welcome to the Stamper's Dozen Blog Hop! This month's theme is masculine cards. Yikes! Fortunately, I had an idea which actually passed the masculine card judge aka as my husband. I kept the card very simple focusing on a strong color combination and the gorgeous marbled background. Before you go looking…
Saturday morning I woke up thinking, I should do a Saturday Spotlight on some fun new accessory on my Facebook page. Why I even mention this is that generally I am not one of those lucky people who wakes with lots of ideas, having dreamt about them all night. I usually wake up thinking about…
I know this sounds like a game show question…Is It Manly? Remember this blog hop post? This is the second card I made and it didn't pass the manly test, at least according to my husband. He said it was a nice card but wouldn't commit to manly. I questioned him extensively about specifically what about…
Are you ready for another fun Create with Connie and Mary Case the Catalog Challenge? This week we are to using the card on page 18 of the new Stampin' Up! catalog as inspiration. I chose to use the card layout as my inspiration. This simple layout allows the Pick a Pattern Designer Series Paper…
Today I am posting a little later than usual. There is a good reason. I am participating in the Inspire, Create & Share Blog Hop for June! Fun right?! The Inspire, Create & Share Blog Hop goes live on the first Wednesday of the month at 6 pm Pacific time. The theme this month…
Time for the Try Stampin' On Tuesday Challenge. The design team alternates weeks and this week is our team's turn. I really like this clean and simple sketch. I adore the new Daisy Delight stamp set, Daisy punch and the Delightful Daisy Designer Series paper. Unfortunately the Daisy punch can not be ordered at this…