Happy Friday! todays card is a Beautiful Butterflies Inspiration challenge card for #TGIFC518. Admitingly, this butterfly card is no where near as colorful as the inspiration photo, but it does share some of the some of the same colors as the flowers. This was actually a card I designed for my niece’s birthday, and became the design for all the swap cards that I shared at OnStage. So, not only did I make this card, …
Today I have a Cheerful Daisies inspiration challenge card for #TGIFC514. I love a good inspiration challenge and this one comes from one of my favorite designer series papers. It’s from page 34 of the Jan-Apr 2025 mini catalog and is pat of the Floral Delight suite. The yellow florals really inspired me from this photo, so I tried to stick with that theme without using too much from the suite. I used the gorgeous …
Today I have a masculine birthday card for you, made with the Cake Fancy stamp set. It’s so easy to make a pretty floral card, but what happens when you need a masculine card instead? Well, I present to you a masculine birthday card that I have made with the Cake Fancy stamp set. I have paired it with the Timeless Plaid DSP from the Jan-Apr 2024 mini catalog. It has the perfect colors to …
Today, I have a Bold & Bright Delightful Wishes card for you. This cheery card was made for our monthly Stampin’ Fancy Friday challenge and shared on their social media sites on Sunday. Our theme was bright & bold, and I think I achieved that! I made the card with the new stamp bundle called Delightful Wishes. It can be found on page 34 of the Jan-Apr 2025 mini catalog. The DSP with all the …
Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month, the theme is the new 2024-2026 In Colors. We hope to inspire you with our creations today! You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal. I find all the bright 2024-2026 In Colors really pretty, so I had a tough time trying to figure out what kind of card I wanted to make. I …
Today is all about embossing. In fact, this Hot Air Balloon card is embossed three different ways! I made this card for April’s Stampin’ Fancy Friday challenge and it was shared by them yesterday. For our challenge, we were to show a project using our favorite technique. Since I like to emboss, this card came together rather easily. I couldn’t just do one kind of embossing though, I had to share my love of embossing …
Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month, the theme is See How My Garden Grows. We hope to inspire you with our creations today! You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal. Since I live in Arizona, my garden only grows desert plants. A lot of them bloom pretty flowers, but they are no where near the beauty of the magnolia. …
For this month’s Stampin’ Fancy Friday sketch challenge, I have made a sympathy card with the Lovely & Sweet stamp bundle. I love doing sketch challenges because the layout is already done for me, all I had to do was add my own touches. To achieve that I created my base layers with Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, and the Nature’s Sweetness Specialty paper. Next, the focal point was made by stamping the floral image (from …