Happy Fourth to you! I have a little something extra to celebrate today along with Independence Day… I am so glad to announce I’ve joined the Whimsy Stamps Creative Team! Pretty sweet, hey?! It’s some pretty big boots to fill – have you SEEN all the talent on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog? The ladies are truly…
The Papertrey September Blog Hop Challenge includes a lovely assortment of seasonal packaging for our inspiration photo. I love the greys and greens in this photo, so that is the inspiration I used for my card today. For the evergreen sprigs, I used a green ombré ink pad to add dimension, and a white Wink…
We’re almost halfway through May! You know what that means – soon there will be wedding dresses, cake, and flowers everywhere and we will be knee-deep in wedding season. My husband and I had an “enchanted evening garden” feel going on with twinkling lights and dragonflies. It was a little different, though. We didn’t opt…
I’m in love with the inspiration photo for this older Papertrey Blog Hop Challenge. It combines earthy textures and colors with beautiful purple-pink paper butterflies. I chose the butterflies, the pinned up papers and the wooden textures as the inspiration for my card. The background is a 4″ x 5.25″ piece of birchwood veneer paper. I centered a…
We are heading out for vacation this Fourth of July weekend and I had all kinds of crafty ideas in my head! I haven’t done much work with embossing recently, so I thought I would put together this Fourth of July card for Simon’s Wednesday Challenge Blog. The theme this week is “dots”. I rummaged through my…
With Mother’s Day almost here, I thought it time to make a card for my dear mom-in-law. And of course, what better image for a Mother’s Day card than… flowers! [Tweet “Flowers make everything better.”] I chose one of the outline floral designs from the “Fresh Flowers” stamp set by Clearly Besotted because I felt like doing…