Thinking of you

Hello. I decided to play in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today with this card.

I used Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink to blend the background with one of the rectangle stencils from Trinity Stamps. The sentiment is from MFT Stamps, and the daisy die is from Simon Says Stamp. To make it stand out a bit more, I added a thin outline frame using a die from Honey Bee Stamps.

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Happy Birthday

Hello. I'm playing in The Paper Players #PP800 sketch today.  What a huge milestone!  

The designer paper for this comes from Moda Scrap. I used the square blanket die from Pink Fresh Studio to cut the flower dsp out.  The stripes within the pack worked well for the strip called out in the sketch.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

The dragonfly is cut out using the matte black cardstock from Tim Holtz. I love how rich and deep that black is.  The blue cardstock behind the white panel is from Altenew.

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Get well soon

Hello. I finally got my new Paperartsy set designed by Alison Bomber and was playing around with it and a new stencil from Studio Light and came up with this.

I used walnut distress ink with the stencil, then stamped the tallest grass stamp over it.  Get well sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

I'm entering this into the following challenges.

Simply Clean & Simple - nature

CAS on Friday - get well

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Happy Birthday - TSOT697

Hi and welcome back to another sketch over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday.

The flower die is from Simon Hurley's spellbinders collection.  The designer paper and sentiment are from My Favorite Things. 

Here is the direct link to participate in the challenge!

I hope to see you over in the gallery.

Thank you - TSOT#693

Hi and welcome back to another sketch challenge over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday.

I used a stencil as the main focus for this card.  Eucalyptus and juniper ink from Simon Says Stamp was ink blended through the stencil.  The sentiment is from My favorite Things.  

The circle charms are made using jump rings, glossy accents and designer paper. So much fun to make and use as dimensional interest on cards.

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Spread your wings

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today with this card(s).  

The designer paper is from Unity stamp company.  The border die is from Globeland (Amazon) and the butterfly is an old one from Cloud 9 Designs.  I heat embossed it and colored it to match the dsp with walnut stain distress ink.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

I added an eyelet to the file tab just to be different and stuck it between the two dot rectangles. The swirl behind the main panel is from the same butterfly set, I just masked off the sentiment just to get the swirl.

I thought this was a bit plain, so after I took the photo above, I went back and added a bit of walnut stain distress ink around the perimeter of the card.  Which do you like better? 

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Thank you - SSC377

Hi and welcome to our first Sunday Stamps challenge of the New Year.

A lot of great possibilities with this sketch challenge!

Sentiment is from MFT Stamps

DSP - Papertrey, Ink

Flower sprig - watercolored using Mei Liang watercolors

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Thinking of you

Hi there! I decided to play in the sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches tonight and came up with this.

The designer paper is from Tim Holtz memoranda pack.  I paired it with a strip of enchanted evening grosgrain ribbon from Papertrey, Ink.  Fig leaf die is from Simon Says Stamp and the sentiment is from My Favorite Things.  Added a small twine bow to ground the fig die cut and called it good.

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Thinking of you

Hello. I'm playing in the Freshly Made Sketch #717 today. I've had this panel sitting in my stash for a while and put it to use on this sketch.

I blended distress inks onto the panel using antique linen and speckled egg oxide inks. The background script stamp is from Amazon and I stamped it in hickory smoke archival ink.   Next I added the scroll stencil from TH onto the panel with embossing paste. 

Blended out another panel using speckled egg so that I could use it for the small right-hand strip. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and I used the same hickory smoke ink on it. Cut it out with a die and popped it up with foam tape. I love how soft this turned out.

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Peace on earth - SSC376

Hello and welcome back to another Sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps.

I used another piece of designer paper from Brass & Bliss for this one.  Snowflake dies and the sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

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Christmas blessings

Hello.  Here is my last reminder card for The Flower Challenge. Sniff! 

After 9 years of The Flower Challenge the December challenge will be our last. We want to thank all our design team members, past and present, and especially all our participants over the years. Finally, we thank Aileen Ryan for coming up with the idea and running the challenge in conjunction with Viv Hodge for the first 7 years. We will post the winners as usual on the 4th of January 2026. The challenge blog will remain open for floral inspiration. We will be back with our reminder post on the 15th.

The stamp is from Penny Black and I used watercolor Tombow markers to color the outline and then spritzed with water.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

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Awesome and incredible

Hello! Playing in the CAS colours and sketch challenge today.  This is also going into the 2025 Fall Winter Coffee Lovers Blog hop.

The coffee cup stamps are from My Favorite Things.  The plaid designer paper is from Art Impressions.

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Get well soon

Hello. I'm playing in this week's Freshly Made Sketches with the following card.

The wonky stitch die is from AALL & Create. I used micro-gluedots to adhere it to the cardstock.  The bandage dies are from My Favorite Things, as is the get-well sentiment. 

I have to admit, I was looking for my bicycle dies to use on this sketch, but ran across the Band-Aids and I was off and running in another creative direction.

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Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Halloween Greetings

Hi all. Just wanted to share a Halloween card today.

I used Simon Says Stamp's stencil to create this fun little card. I smooched black pigment ink onto the stencil and ran it through my die-cutting machine to complete the background. Then used the rest of the stencil to color in the eyes.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things, and the outline die is from Pink Fresh.

Entering this into the following challenges:

Craft rocket challenges - Autumn/Halloween

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Halloween/Anything goes

Alphabet challenge - N is for night

Crafty calendar October challenge - Halloween 

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Hello

Hello!  I'm playing in several challenges today with this card.  I started with the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches, opting for a one-layer card and using a stencil.

The mint background grunge stamp is from Globeland.  The leaf is from Stampin.com, which is no longer in business.  The sentiment is from my favorite things.  I stenciled the mini dragonfly using black texture paste from Ranger.  

Here are the challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches

Just us Girls - stencil

Just add ink - one-layer card

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Get well soon - SSC364

Hi there. There is a new sketch up over at Sunday Stamps.  Here is what I did with it.

The flowers are from Penny Black.  I stamped them with Versafine ink onto watercolor paper. I did heat emboss them so that the watercolors would pool a bit with the Mei Liang watercolors.  After they dried, I used a black gel pen to enhance the centers and then fussy cut them out. 

The ribbon is colored with a copic marker to match.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you'll join us for the sketch.