April 30, 2022

Take Time to Smell the Flowers

I knew today would not be filled with crafting for fun because I'm out of beautiful sympathy cards - yet my phone keeps ringing.  To save time, I decided to go white on white - I think there's nothing more elegant than white on white.  So here are a couple sympathy cards.

Here is the second card.  I switched out the flower type and embossed design.

April 26, 2022

New Challenges at Eclips Users Group and Featured Stamper

There's another new challenge from the Ecal Users Group.  I always gt  kick out of Jan's challenge ideas, but I've gotta say this card is one of my faves. It takes a lot for me to pull out the embossing powder, but I knew immediately I wanted to add some dimension to this fun card.  I had loads of blue-patterned papers in my stash from We Are 3 projects, so I had not trouble choosing colors for the fabulous Lighthouse Scene from Bird's Cards.


I was inspired by this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast, who had created a porthole card.

April 25, 2022

New Release for We Are 3

Today I decided to play with the new Alcohol Splashes digital papers from We Are 3.  I added some silk and paper flowers and embossed and sanded the top layer.  I used ribbon and sequins, and sequins refuse to embellish the card further.


April 24, 2022

Summer Splashes at We Are 3

There's a new release at We Are 3.   

I made a card using We Are 3 papers from the new Summer Splashes collection and an image from Lavinia Stamps.

You can purchase these papers on the We Are 3 Etsy page.

April 23, 2022

All Dressed Up Springtime and New Challenge at Paper Ala Mode

It's Saturday, and that means it's new-challenge day for Paper Ala Mode - and Mom's the focus.  Lovely Springtime is a princess and loves to pick Spring flowers.  I made a simple card with papers from Creative Fabrica (I already forgot the name!) and We Are 3 (GranMargaret's Flowers).   The theme is Mother's Day....and I probably should have added a Mother's Day sentiment.....but I really just love the image by itself!  


She's colored digitally.

Cute Christmas Pet

I'm thrilled to be designing for the Kerst Christmas Challenges.  Our theme this month is Square/Rectangle - which is hard to make special as 99.9% of my cards are square or rectangle.  Anyway, I the image digitally and added a digital background and sentiment.  I added some digital watercolor snowflakes, matted everything with white, and called it done.  I kind of love it!

If you haven't been following Kerst Christmas, please join us.  It's a fun, supportive group with loads of inspiration with a new challenge monthly...with prizes to be won.  Hope to see you there.

Both the background and sentiment are from We Are 3 - Fairy Backgrounds and Christmas.  The image is Christmas Pet from our sponsor, All Dressed Up.

April 22, 2022

April 21, 2022

Power Hour with Meggan and Tessa

It's getting harder and harder for me to keep up with all of the events and challenges I want to participate in.  Been working hard to fit them all in.  Tuesday, I participated in Meggan and Tessa's Power Hour.  I started out with Touch of Teal and Mosaic Background from We Are 3.  I added some striped paper from Digital Scrapbooking Experts (Oh, So Pretty).  It's a simple layout with just the addition of a title and journaling box.

April 20, 2022

Creative Memories Virtual Crop

I'm a bit behind in posting my challenges.  This was an entry with Creative Memories Virtual Crop.   

April 19, 2022

Frozen

Last weekend I joined in the Creative Memories Virutal Crop with this fun Frozen layout using Frozen papers and embellishments from Disneeyarts...I also have some accents using Frozen from We Are 3.  Although I do love my scrapbooks to follow a theme, I really get a kick out of fall photos with a Frozen theme.  



April 18, 2022

Love You Still

Adorable layout with sweet Frozen images from Disneeyarts (a kazillion Frozen images for $2!).  The set comes with gorgeous images, cartoon images, snow borders, snowflakes, and more.  The red borders are from my stash from a class I taught ages ago. The major portion of the paper comes from the Frozen collection at We Are 3.


April 17, 2022

A Little Quickie for The Outlawz

This month the Outlawz Freebie Progressive Challenge is being sponsored by MMedel Illustrations.  This adorable little angel is from MMedel Illustrations called Christmas Angel.  She's colored digitally.  The flowers are from my stash.  Her halo of holly is from We Are 3, as are the background papers.

I'm finally getting a little more comfortable with coloring digitally, and I'm pretty happy with the outcome.  What do you think?

April 16, 2022

Eclips Users meet Sunday Songs and Rhymes

Here's a treat bag for last week's Sunday Song and Rhymes Challenge at The Outlawz - Catch a Falling Star.  It's made with papers from Creative Fabrica - bag file is from Shery K Designs.  Stars are from Love SVG.  

I also entered this in the Eclips Users Group Challenge - Boxes & Bags.

April 15, 2022

Nothing Stops This Girl

This is the last page of my niece's scrapbook with a Ratoutille theme using Paris Cafe from We Are 3.  I cut a collage frame from Monica's Creative Room.  The title is computer generated.  


April 14, 2022

Let's go Golf!

As you might have noticed, I've been playing along with the sketches of the Creative Memories Virtual Crop - every month there's a virtual crop with six new sketches that are always fun and exciting.   


I used the adorable Touch of Teal and Enchanted collections by We Are 3.

April 13, 2022

It's a Butterfly

Here I made a card using digital paper from Creative Fabrica's Beautiful Autumn Oak Leaves.  I couldn't help but add a butterfly. 

The sentiment is from SVG Cutting Files.

April 12, 2022

Painted Canvas from We Are 3

For today's card I decided to go light and Springy with the gorgeous Painted Canvas.  The sentiment is printed AND cut onto Creative Fabrica's Love Spring Florals frame.  I printed part of the sentiment from the Fruity set at We Are 3 - I cut the word "Jam" to allow the background to show through. 


April 11, 2022

Christmas Tree

You know I have tons of scraps in my stash.  Kind of a simple design with a Christmas tree from Power Poppy and a computer-generated sentiment - both found in my stash.  I had two trees, so I cut out some individual flowers and popped them for dimension.  I added a frilly border to my sentiment.

I tried to add texture by embossing the background. Not half bad.  Love, love, love the Christmas tree.