Rocky Beach

The Color Challenge on SCS today was to use Soft Sky, Blue Bayou and Celery.  I instantly thought beach.  I pulled out of my Rubbernecker Beach Party images, a fun lighthouse surrounded with stones.  I stamped the lighthouse on scrap watercolor paper and restamped the rocks several times so I could could out and mount the …

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RBC10- Rubbernecker Blogging Sketch Challenge

Today is our 10th Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge and Jeanne gave us a great sketch challenge to work with. You can find all the details for participating by going to Jeanne’s blog, Inky Paws. See the sketch below.  You can also visit the blogs of Broni, Sherry and Jeanne to find other samples. I decided to …

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Grungeboard-Not Just for Distressing

I have seen my friends, Jeanne and Sherry use Tim Holtz’s Grungeboard on several wonderful projects but haven’t tried it myself.  Sherry uses it to create wonderful distressed cards and journals and I love how they turn out.  I just had to get some and try my hand with it.  I doubt Tim Holtz had …

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Stephanie Inspires

The Inspiration Challenge on SCS today had some beautiful candles made by Paprus – En Fleur.  Here is a picture of one of the sets given as inspiration. The candles are very pretty but I was far more inspired by Stephanie’s (SmilynStef our challenge hostess) card than I was the candle.  I love the black …

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