Sitting In The Garden

I really enjoying creating dimensional scenes around images.  The Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge on Tuesday was to use Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue and Baja Breeze. The two blues are not colors I would ordinarily mix together so I decided Baja would be used as an accent and Bashful Blue would be the main focus of the …

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One Project for Two Challenges

Good morning.  I hope you had a great start to your week.  I enjoy playing in both  Splitcoaststampers  Technique Lovers and Clean and Simple challenges on Monday’s.  I was able to combine the two challenge into one fun project yesterday.  The TLC challenge was to stamp on a die cut piece while it is still …

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Home Made for Spring

Happy Easter to you!.  I have enjoyed myself this morning playing with the Papertrey Home Made templates and matching stamp set.  I wanted to create a light and airy spring home with lots of colorful flowers and greenery in the window boxes.  I have made several of these houses for my mother-in-law and she displays …

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Punched Flower Tutorial

Happy Saturday.  I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I made a pretty flower and foliage card today for the Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge.  Many people have asked if I would do a tutorial on how I make my little punched flowers so I decided while I had all the supplies out that I may …

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The Same But Different

Monday’s Technique Lovers Challenge on Splitcoaststampers was fun.  The challenge was to create two cards using identical elements but making them look totally different.  This wasn't really a hard challenge but it did make me put my thinking cap on. I decided to make two crisp white cards using pink flowers, green ribbon,  pink accent …

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