You may be wondering why I am posting a Christmas card in April. You see, I am doing the 2008 Holiday Card Challenge on splitcoaststampers.com. Every month, I make 10 cards so that I have a nice shoebox filled with cards by the time the holiday season rolls around. I got the Holiday Blitz stamp […]
Entries from April 2008
Holiday Blitz
April 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: clean & simple
GSG Color Challenge #1
April 26th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Here’s another card for a Great Swaps Girls challenge: the first color challenge (Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, and So Saffron). The card also matches the layout from Beate’s weekend sketch challenge. I wanted to use my For a Friend stamp set and the Time Well Spent butterflies were such a perfect match. I used the […]
Tags: fun & frolicky
Featured Swapper: Jackie Pedro
April 24th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Last July I was invited to join a great group of talented stampers who are also Stampin’ Up! demonstrators: the Great Swaps Girls. Recently the GSG started a blog, and it features weekly challenges. I made this card for the first GSG Featured Swapper challenge, where we get to choose a card made by Jackie […]
Tags: truly elegant
Wax Paper Resist
April 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments
For this card I again was inspired by Kristina Werner’s Color Inspiration challenge. This time I also managed to combine it with today’s Demo Challenge on splitcoaststampers.com, which was to use the Wax Paper Resist technique. You can find a great tutorial for this technique on SCS. Per Kristina’s challenge, the colors I used were […]
Tags: clean & simple
Featured Stamper: Silke Ledlow
April 20th, 2008 · 7 Comments
I am a big fan of Silke’s work, and was very happy to see her picked as today’s Featured Stamper on SCS! I immediately knew that I wanted to CASE her recent color blocking card, and so I did. I stamped the Essence of Love flowers in VersaMark on So Saffron card stock and embossed […]
Tags: clean & simple
