National Wine Day is the theme for this week’s Festive Friday Challenge. What a fun challenge to use our Online Exclusive, Cheers & Sips! My card is a bit ambiguous on purpose. I’m not sure if I’m going to use it for a birthday, an anniversary, or a congratulations card.…
I enjoy trying new fancy fold cards, and here is one that I hadn’t made before. It’s a Standing Z-Fold card. Jeanie Stark introduced me to this fold through her recent “Mystery Stamping” challenge. Of course, it was a mystery as to what it would look like until after it…
It’s someone’s birthday today…let’s celebrate! Or for any reason! Maybe just because it’s Friday! 😁 I have to admit, I made a mistake. I had a sketch drawn and waiting for me to create from it, thinking it was one of our Create with Stamping Friends sketches. But after making…
Fireworks on the beach? Happy Independence Day! For those of you who live in the US, Happy 4th of July! How are you spending your day? We started the morning with a cute red, white, and blue neighborhood parade. Kids, grown-ups, dogs, local fire trucks, even a horse took…
Welcome to our June posting of CASEing Coast to Coast! Rosanne in Pennsylvania is taking the lead this month. She has selected a card sketch for us to use as inspiration for our cards. I hope this inspires you to try one as well! Here’s the sketch ~ And…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Did your sky look like this last night? If not, perhaps your TV screen was lit up with world-wide fireworks displays? My daughter-in-law’s birthday is today! I sent her this card with a birthday message inside. This fun stamp set is called Light the Sky and is…
Wow! Our final Create post for 2022!!! Fitting that I went for a Happy New Year card using Celebrate Everything DSP! Here is the challenge banner: And here is my card: Do you have fireworks on New’s Year Eve where you live? They’re not only for July 4th. We have…
Here we are ~ the last Thursday of August! Just a little more time to get out and have some fun with water sports like sailing, boating, paddling, swimming. Those were my thoughts when I picked Let’s Set Sail for CCMC730. It’s a color challenge this week and our colors…
Hi there! It’s our last Thursday Challenge for February. I can’t believe how fast time is going! Today is a color challenge at Create With Connie & Mary. We get to play with Poppy Parade, Bumblebee, and Night of Navy. If you are a Designer Series Paper fan like I…
I have a new Host Code for orders beginning today! TH9UYGP3 Why use a Host Code when you place an order? Well, for a couple of reasons ~ It ensures that you are shopping with me, from my site, which is something I’m so grateful for! Your orders give me…
Hi Everyone! It’s time for CASEing Coast to Coast with Rosanne Mulhern and me. Each month we pick a theme and post a card or project within that theme, one person Copying And Selectively Editing the other. This month, I’ve selected “Celebrations” for our theme. CASEing Coast to Coast is…
Do you love playing with patterns? I’ve loved playing with geometric figures since high school geometry class! This designer paper really appeals to me. Today I’m playing with blue patterns! I have to tell you a funny story. Funny to me anyway! I was building this card front with the…
On page 101 of the 2020 Annual Catalog, there is a box gift that was wrapped with Playing With Patterns. I thought it would make a cute card, so I set about to make a Playing With Patterns CASE from the catalog photo. Image © Stampin’ Up! Here is my…
Any great celebration calls for confetti, right? Super Bowl…America’s Got Talent…your retirement…your birthday… This calls for confetti! Not to mention, a few balloons! This toucan and the confetti come with the Birthday Bonanza Designer Series Paper. I’ve cut out three similarly round balloons and popped them up with Dimensionals over…
It’s almost time to ring in the new year, and what better stamp set to say, “Happy New Year!” than Sip Sip Hooray! Layers of Basic Black and Crumb Cake on a Thick Whisper White base set the background for two champagne flutes, clinking in celebration. When my son was…
