Splitting Trees and a Tutorial

The Monday Technique Lover’s Challenge on Splitcoaststampers was to split the image in some way for our project.  I decided to create a forest of trees with the Lovely as a Tree evergreen and split the scene into three panels.  This is a simple card and perfect for a guy.  A sentiment can be added …

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Clean and Simple Season’s Greetings

Are you one of those people that has the special creative touch with the clean and simple card style?  I’m not.  They actually appear to be deceptively easy until you sit down to create one and you realize how difficult it can be. I had fun this weekend playing in the Featured Stamper challenge at …

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Believe in Magic

It is no secret that I love snowmen and snowy outdoor scenes. Put an evergreen or a naked winter tree with no leaves in the scene and I love it even more.  I recently saw and fell in love with a new set by Our Craft Lounge called Be Jolly and had to purchase it.  …

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Watching Snow Fall and Winter Fields

I am really enjoying playing with the new Sarah Kay Autumn-Winter release images and I have two fun projects to share with you today. I placed Sabine Watching the Snow Fall out her window on a card front that looked like the outside of her house.  I thought the punched evergreen with the Flower Soft …

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Sponged Lace

I got to play in Joan Ervin’s Technique Lover’s Challenge  to create a project by sponging over lace.  Check out Joan’s tutorial here.  I used a piece of 2” wide paper lace ribbon from my floral designing supplies.  I used Spun Sugar pink ink and sponged it over a piece of white cardstock.  I added …

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