Karen makes absolutely drop dead gorgeous cards, and I was thrilled to see she was chosen as the Featured Stamper on SCS today. I have many of her creations saved to My Favorites, but this is the card I ended up CASEing: Challenge in Gingham. I kept the layout and embellishments the same, but changed […]
Entries from January 2010
Featured Stamper: Karen Barber
January 24th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: clean & simple
Viva la Verve
January 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments
I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to complete all four Viva la Verve sketch challenges this month. I started with the latest one (January Week 4) and chose this foyer as my inspiration. I created the tiled look by stamping images from the Accent Notes and Thankful Accents sets […]
Tags: truly elegant
Square Pegs
January 21st, 2010 · 6 Comments
I’m happy to be participating in Gina K.’s customer blog hop for Melanie Muenchinger’s newest stamp set, called Square Pegs. Start here if you want to hop along! Today’s Cut It Out challenge on SCS inspired me to cut apart the sentiments before adhering them to the squares. And I used Mercy Kerin’s latest sketch […]
Tags: fun & frolicky
Muddy Brick Wall
January 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Even though I didn’t really feel like uploading this particular card, I have spent too much time building this brick wall not to post the results. I shouldn’t have stamped my main image with Soft Suede first (I wanted to create a shadow effect), before stamping it again with Ruby Red Craft ink and clear […]
Tags: fun & frolicky
CAS Birthday Card
January 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments
This was just a quick, “clean & simple” (aka CAS) birthday card that I created with the colors from Verve’s January Release Color Challenge: Turquoise, Gray, and Black. I thought it was a great color combo. The textured papers and bold images really make the card for me. I stamped the images from Fancy Florals […]
Tags: clean & simple
