Walk In My Garden

Happy Thursday!  I have a fast and simple project to share with you today.  I have had a pretty hectic work week and came home last night needing a little stress relief but wanted to do something easy and fun.  I had a piece of blue card stock on my work table that had already …

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White With Shades Of Blue

The Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple challenge this week was to create a white project with shades of blue. Here is what I came up with. I think the Martha Stewart Deco Fan PATP set creates such a delicate punched border. It creates the perfect background for the simple flourish and flowers.  I used the color …

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Perched Bird, Flowers and Flourishes

Happy Monday!  I have another Belleek Inspired technique project to share with you today.  And yes….I seem to keep using the soft blues with this technique.  For some reason they just go perfectly together. I love the soft contrast and elegance of the leafy flourish against the vanilla eyelet oval layer along with the the …

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Cool Breeze Inspired

I had fun playing in the Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge this week.  The inspiration site was A Cool Breeze Fashionable Hand Fan. I was inspired by a beautiful black fan with a picket fence scene full of colorful flowers. Here’s what I came up with. I attached the window and shutters on the black base.  I …

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Color Washed Flowers and Foliage

The Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge this week was to use Vanilla, Blushing Bride and Wild Wasabi.     I decided to try my color wash technique on  both the flowers and foliage.  I was very pleased with how soft and pretty both the pink and green looked on the washed vanilla cardstock. I wanted to create a …

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