Gatefold Card

Bluemoon Scrapbooking's sweet and talented Susan Bossiere held another online card class Sunday.  This is the card we made.

The card itself measures 6x6.  

As you can see, there's a good amount of dimension.  This is my card for inspiration - watch for my own takes on this fabulous design.

Sizzix Eclips Users and Spring Tag Challenge

I love lacy doilies - so pretty. Here I made a 4" tag using a doily from Monica's Creative Room. The bird is I Love You from Kajsans. I added some pearls to finish it off.

Too cute, eh?
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Graphic 45 Card Class

Susan from Susan's Scrap Club and Bluemoon Scrapbooking put together an online class for all us shut-ins! Papers are from Graphic 45. Susan also used various dies and punches from her stash. It's been a while since I've been able to take a class - so this was fun and inspirational. Thank you, Susan!

The inside of the card actually contains a pocket for a gift card or note....so I added  a We Are 3 sentiment from the Itty Bitty - Sweet set.

Cute Gift Wallet from Dreaming Tree and We Are 3

When Dreaming Tree shared their newest freebie, I couldn't wait to make it.  

I made the wallet using paper from the new Springtime collection.  

Stick It Down! Sketch Challenge

This layout is inspired by this month's Sketch Challenge at Stick It Down! I used patterned paper using We Are 3's Look Up collection.

I used alphabet stickers from my stash for the title.  I was also able to pull circles from my stash, as well as journaling stickers.  I used arrows from Love with Straight Arrow by Jamie Lane Designs.

SALSA Mystery Item Swap

The January swap for our local craft group, SALSA, was to use a napkin.

I thought I didn't want to use the napkin for the obvious - a background, so instead I decided to make bow or background for my flowers.  All the other goodies are from my stash.

Creative Confetti Challenge at Power Poppy

I just love Power Poppy's Creative Confetti Challenges because the the possibilities are endless. Click HERE for the current challenge...Say It With Sepia.  I've been wanting to try coloring in Sepia for quite some time, so took full advantage of this challenge.  I just had to add a touch of spotlight color in my butterfly, though.  For my image, I used Pure Prairie Bouquet from Power Poppy.

We Are 3 Garden Layout

Happy Summer! Hope your summer has been full of love. I thought I'd sneak in this quick layout. I love the fun pinks and blues of the Look Up collection. While this is actually a clean and simple design, I do the color combo of pink and blue, and I think the flowers turned this layout into something quite elegant.

Stick It Down Sketch Challenge

For the Stick It Down Challenge, I used Camille's Cactus and Camille's Cactus Flower from We Are 3 to embellish my single-page layout. The paper was designed for a previous challenge. 

This simple sketch makes for a really nice layout.  Now be sure to pop over to Stick It Down to see the fabulous layouts by their design team, and come play along.

     

We Are 3's Cone Flower Love

Happy Monday! Today's card is made with patterns from the Cone Flower Love collection, with a layered flamingo svg.

Power Poppy Stamps Creative Confetti Challenge

Just a little quicky for a couple challenges. The fab image is Gladioli - a digi from Power Poppy. One digi is left uncolored and used as a background for the colored gladioli - inspired by Ardyth Percy-Robb's spotlight card. The colors for the flowers and card background are inspired by the Color Challenge at The Outlawz.

Join us at Creative Confetti for an opportunity to WIN some of Power Poppy's fab stamps.

Nadia with the Progressive Freebie Challenge

Where has the time gone? I think I missed June completely - here it is the last week. My card today is for June Progressive Freebie challenge at the Outlawz - with Nadia, an image from M Medel Illustrations. For some fun, I added a princess crown from Little Princess Birthday The Hungry JPEG and a birthday sentiment, also from the Little Princess Birthday.

How to use this image was a bit of a challenge.  I'm not one to use people images, but did want to participate in the challenge.  Finally I was inspired by a simple card at Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper challenge.  I was pretty pleased with my design - but before posting it, I browsed through those already entered....and there was this one.  I'm feeling a spiritual connection because the design was so similar to what I had used!

Challenges - Power Poppy Creative Confetti and Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper

Last week on the Power Poppy blog, Allison provided us with a terrific video. Allison did an amazing job demonstrating how to color with embossing powders. Since I have committed to only digital stamps, I've missed my embossing techniques. Yes, I always knew I could use Allison's technique - but in my mind it just seemed cumbersome and time grabbing. I'll be the first to admit - I'm a REALLY lazy scrapper! I love the looks of so many techniques, but when it gets right down to it - I don't want to spend the time or make the mess. I think in my old age, multi-tasking and patience are two traits that have disappeared! I have now pulled out my embossing powders once again, thanks to Allison's video...she made it look so easy!!!! This is a very big deal for me - one foot out of my rut!

I was even more inspired when Julie followed up with the Creative Confetti challenge - try a new technique. I wanted to my one of my new fave stamp sets (Teacake with Strawberries) from Power Poppy. I wanted to see how I could use this technique on something other than a floral image. The cake stand provided me with an opportunity to use my favorite embossing powder - Vintage Copper. The strawberries were finished off with a touch of an old embossing powder left from one of the first classes I taught - way back when! (I only remember because the store owner charged each customer for a full jar of embossing powder - and you know we all used maybe a cents' worth!) To finish off, I used Stickles on the cake frosting.

For the background, I was inspired by the Feature Stamper Challenge. The white lattice design from Monica's Creative Room was used as a mask for the purple background. I added the sentiment and a few shadows.

Fall Willow Holding Corn Basket by Elisabeth Bell

On these cards, I used a free digital from Elisabeth Bell - Fall Willow Holding Corn Basket.  I made a packet to abandon during my next trip to San Diego.

Unicorn from Creative Fabrica

Today I'm sharing a set of cards I made for friends' granddaughter who loves unicorns.  Since I seldom get to make girlie projects, I made some cards using just a couple of Unicorn digi sets I've been collecting.

I used Gold Glitter Unicorn from Creative Fabrica and Sparkle Like a Unicorn from Love SVG.

The Adventure Begins

I have been busy playing with all kinds of techniques from the Inspire Me Monday Posts at Power Poppy.  Julie share three unique techniques in her post, A Little Word Play - all three are very fun to work with.

For this third technique, I used the Scene Ladybugs digital image - Bugaboo to create the background for this fun card.  The sentiment added is The Adventure Begins from So Fontsy.  Be sure to check out this inspirational ideas at Power Poppy...then play along in their Power & Spark Challenge - Go Ahead, Inspire Me.

Roses

Roses always create such beautiful cards.  I've been practicing my rose coloring - inspired by the Inspire Me Monday video at Power Poppy - Copic Shading and Shadows.  I designed this card with flowers using Power Poppy's Graceful Still Life.  I was pleased with my first attempt - but felt my roses were lacking color due to over shadowing.  So today's attempt was to have brighter roses.  I'm happy with these in that I was able to leave some white at ends of petals to brighten up my flowers.  Entering my completed work in the Power Poppy challenge Power & Spark - Go Ahead - Inspire Me.

Card for Paper Ala Mode

This is a card I made for this week's Paper Ala Mode Challenge at The Outlawz.  Since I no longer use rubber/acrylic stamps, one thing I miss is embossing.  So I'm practicing more on how I might be able to get near the same effect with digital papers.  I'm loving some of the "gold foil" digital textures that help me get some of the same effect as I used on the gold matting here.

The matting comes from Gold Foil (Paper Farms).  The striped background is Oh, So Pretty (Digital Scrapbook Experts).  I did alter the stripes using Gold Glitter Textures (Creative Fabrica).  The image is The Gorgeous Bride from All Dressed Up.

Sending Loving Wishes

Here's my second card for the Crafting with Dragonflies challenge - Delightful Dragonflies and Vintage Garden Sentiments at We Are 3.  Time really flies when you get to play with this fun paper collection.

              

With Sympathy - Paper Ala Mode

I'm pleased to share with you a card I made with Birds Playing in Birdbath (Angie's Digital Stamps).  I chose this for a sympathy card because the image of bird bath sent by coworkers when my mother died is always with me.  It was such a unique and thoughtful gift - and have since given bird baths to others.  Be sure to join us at the Paper Ala Mode challenge and share your sympathy card with us.