Good morning, peeps! Well – today is the last week in my “term” as a Guest Designer at the Just Us Girls Challenge! Which is why I’m in your Inbox so early! Next Saturday…

My Stampin' Up! Sketchbook offers oodles of clean & simple card sketch ideas and layouts using Stampin' Up! products.

One of my favorite Sale-a-Bration freebies is the Paper Blooms 12x12 Designer Paper. The colors are fresh and the images are bold. Plus the floral designs coordinate so nicely with the In Bloom Bundle

Hi and welcome! Today's post features the newest sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches team where our hostess this week is the talented Kim Singdahlsen. I've mentioned before that angled panels on cards make my eye twitch, so you can imagine how I felt when I saw three of them! I actually spent several days pondering how I was going to pull this off and in the end I decided to mimic the lines of the angles with a die. So I used this circle die to cut three lines in a white panel and once that was done, I adhered it to a Gravel Gray card base. I then die-cut the Caprice Heart dies from Grout Gray, Cement Gray and Gravel Gray cardstocks and layered them up. The sentiment was cut down from a longer one and stamped in black ink on the same angle as the circles. I positioned the heart so the centre opening was right over one of the circle cutouts. And that's my card! Simple and angled 😄 Thanks for visiting! The DT have some gorgeous cards - in fact when I added my card to the DT blog, I saw that Lee Ann and I had very similar ideas! Well, you know what they say - great minds think alike 😀 Products used: Stamps: More Essential Sentiments (MFT) Ink: Versafine Onyx Black Cardstock: White, Grout Gray, Gravel Gray, Cement Gray (MFT) Dies: Caprice Hearts (Birch Press Designs), Blueprints 21 (MFT) Cheers Karren

Thanks, Julee T, for another fabulous Mojo Monday sketch (MOJO116). I needed a birthday card for my niece's husband. I thought these colors (Soft Suede, Bermuda Bay, Pumpkin Pie) were simply splashy for a festive, masculine card. Click here to see more of my masculine card samples.STAMPIN'

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Paper Play Sketches, challenge blog, link up every other Wednesday,

It has been brought to my attention that I often design cards with a bold angle. Sometimes it stems from a sketch that inspires me, but sometimes it adds an interesting twist to the straight up-and-down designs I most frequently create. Either way, a diagonal slant often finds its way

October 2021 Here is a fun way to use Designer Series Paper to make four fun cards! PLEASE NOTE: The Designer Series Paper is “HEARTWARMING HUGS” not Trim the Town- I had that cardboard…

Hi friends! It's time for a new Mojo Monday sketch! As always, you're free to play along with any papercrafting products your heart desires and enter as many creations as you like. Use the sketch as inspiration for your creation, then come link it up below so I can come take a look! The linky for this challenge will close on July 26, 2020. I have included dimensions on the graphic later in this post, but feel free to change them up to suit your needs. I had to take a peek back to see if this sketch had been used before, and was surprised not to see it. The two crossed panels is kind of my go-to start to a card, especially with patterned paper. I typically use a circle as the focal point, but decided to switch to a square for a change. The stamps are from the new Summer Fruits set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. I had a lot of fun coloring them with Copics, then playing around with some new to me papers from Echo Park It's actually a patriotic pad, but totally made me think of picnics and cherry picking, The sentiment is masked off to use just par and I added the missing you from the Rose Banner set above. Alrighty, now it's your turn! I hope you enjoy creating with this sketch! Thanks so much for stopping by! Please join me for Mojo Monday! Click here to enter If you shop through the affiliated links below I get a small percentage of the sale price at no cost to you! It's not a lot, but it does help pay the monthly fees for the linkup widget for Mojo Monday and other web and email services that help me keep Mojo Monday running smoothly! Thanks so much! 💙

Learn how to make all these beautiful cards featured in my FREE CARD KIT this week using the SKETCHED BUTTERFLIES BUNDLE.

Good morning, y’all – did you have a good weekend? Are you ready to be back at work? I’m not sure that’s even a thing… 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ I’ve got a card for you toda…

voor de club Crazy meiden hoop dat jullie het weer wat vinden!! groetjes Helma

Good morning TMS friends! We do hope your week started off bright and strong. That way you can take it easy this beautiful Tuesday morning and play with our stamps, inks, dies and papers. This week's sketch is Patti's favorite sketch and I certainly agree with her. This is a great sketch by Andrea. And here's what the team did for this 2nd time around.... Andrea Debbie Debi Margreet Melissa Patti Tammy Another fantastic line up! And now it's your turn to add to it. We cannot wait to see what you make with this sketch. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Here are some of my Sketches from my past Paper Play Sketches challenge blog and a few new ones. You can even download them and print them for free. Enjoy!

Hello, Stampers, It's the end of the year and that is when we hear the word INVENTORY! Today it is all about getting organized with the Color Sampler Chart and Color Inventory Sheet. I have

Sharing cards created with Citrus Blooms Bundle and Mediterranean Blooms 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper. MEDITERRANEAN BLOOMS 12″ X 12″ DESIGNER PAPER 163284 (pg. 35) – 12 sheets: 2 each of 6 double-sided designs Product colors: Balmy Blue, Boho Blue, Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Garden Green, Lemon Lolly, Night of… Read More

Hi friends! It's time for a new Mojo Monday sketch! As always, you're free to play along with any papercrafting products your heart desires and enter as many creations as you like. Use the sketch as inspiration for your creation, then come link it up below so I can come take a look! The linky for this challenge will close on June 28 2020. I have included dimensions on the graphic later in this post, but feel free to change them up to suit your needs. My card started with these beautiful papers from the By the Sea collection. I picked a few papers and cut into various scraps and laid them out until I was happy with the layout. I then cut out a white circle for my focal panel and stamped with sentiments from the Thoughtful Words set. Below that I used one of the stamps from the Texture Tiles 3 set for the water, stamped in navy and then lightly blended with the same color of ink. The rope image is from the Peace Be Still set and I colored with copics and hand trimmed, adding some crystal clear lacquer pen accents to add a little dimension to it. The anchor is a wood veneer piece from my stash, I lightly brushed a ground espresso oxide pad over it then embossed with clear embossing powder for a little more texture. Everything is glued together on an A2 size card base. Alrighty, now it's your turn! I hope you enjoy creating with this sketch! Thanks so much for stopping by! Please join me for Mojo Monday! Click here to enter If you shop through the affiliated links below I get a small percentage of the sale price at no cost to you! It's not a lot, but it does help pay the monthly fees for the linkup widget for Mojo Monday and other web and email services that help me keep Mojo Monday running smoothly! Thanks so much! 💙

Here are some of my Sketches from my past Paper Play Sketches challenge blog and a few new ones. You can even download them and print them for free. Enjoy!

SKETCH ONE SKETCH TWO SKETCH THREE SKETCH FOUR SKETCH FIVE SKETCH SIX SKETCH SEVEN SKETCH EIGHT ...

You’re here to see how Stampin’ Up! card sketches from the 2024-2025 catalog (pg 22) can improve your cardmaking skills, and our International #NewAtSU design team is taking the assignm…

I saw the Mojo Monday sketch #222 and knew I wanted to play along. I pulled out some beautiful 7Gypsies Conservatory papers and started la...

Stampin' Up! #1 Demonstrator Pootles - Lots and Lots of Layered Cards A couple of weeks ago, I had an hour or so free one evening, but wasn't sure what to

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Meet the Stampin' Up! 2022 - 2024 In Colors introduced in the all-new Annual Catalog and see how they match up to current and retired colors.

Using a one sheet wonder template can make creating a handful of cards quick and easy and still gorgeous - check out my favorite template!

Hello and happy Friday to you! This week at Just Add Ink we have a sketch for you from Narelle. It has classic lines and I certainly found it very easy to work with and the team shows you just how versatile it is! We hope you can join us this week and show us your take on the sketch. Here is what the Design Team have come up with this week to provide you with inspiration... Christine Blain Di Barnes Jan McQueen Jodene Tripp Kim Badelt Narelle Farrugia Nikki Spencer Patrice Easton Rochelle Blok Shona Chambers Tina Gillespie Trish Rayfield JUST ADD INK RULES Create a card, layout or 3D project using our challenge as inspiration. Link your post, NOT your whole blog back here. Your project must be new, created for this challenge and combined with no more than 5 other challenges. Please mention JUST ADD INK in your blog post and provide a link so others can come and join in the fun too. Please DO NOT use your challenge entry as self promotion. We are here to have fun and encourage creativity. We reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with the above guidelines. The challenge closes each Wednesday at 10.00 pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches! Thank you to everyone who "Went Long" with my sketch from last week. This week I am super excited to be your hostess again and have created a sketch that I call, "Seeing Double"! Yep, there are two strips on the left side of the card and they could be ribbon or paper or something else...the sky is the limit this week!!! Have fun! The "Clean Team" has come up with some "Freshly Made" designs to get you in the spirit! I am in love with everyone's samples! I know you will be too! Remember, we are so excited to visit your blog and to see what YOU create with our sketch! Linda Callahan Lesley Croghan Cindy Hall Jen Mitchell Tui Nathan Jennifer Timko Rita Wright And from our Fabulous Guest Designers this month! Kim S-Guest Designer Tracey V-Guest Designer We have a few simple rules to keep things fun and fair for all of our players: Please use any crafting product you would like to use. Feel free to combine our sketch with up to THREE other challenges. Please add a DIRECT link to your blog when adding your card to the linky below. Please include our sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post. Have fun! This challenge will end on Monday, February 13th at Noon (PST). On Tuesday, February 14th, we will be announcing the winner of this week's sketch challenge who will known as the "Queen of Clean" and each Design Team Member will choose one "Princess". Thanks for stopping by! We hope you will join us! Lesley and the Freshly Made Team

The stack, cut, & shuffle technique is a great way to make multiple cards at the same time (without getting bored) and has so many variations.

YAY! I found time to make a card in between work and some deep cleaning to nether regions of my house. I’m tickled with how this turned out. I chose Mojo Monday 422 and my take turned out like so: I stamped the happy birthday sentiment using Stampin’ Up products and then stamped and paper pieced for the cupcake using a Forever in Time stamp. The background 6 x 6 from American Crafts. I added a red gem with a snippet of black crochet cotton behind for a stem and bumped it up with foam tape. I punched the circle and used a simple darning needle for the “stitch” around the outside (stitch dies on my Christmas wish list) So glad you came by – visit me and I will make every effort to come see you too! Technorati Tags: Mojo Monday,American Crafts,Dear Lizzy,Stampin' Up

My Stampers With Art group had some fun with another sketch challenge recently. Have you seen those card (and page) sketches out there? They are just too fun. You get a visual idea of what your

SHOP STAMPIN' UP! 24/7! Stampin' Up! Take To The Sky DSP and Perennial Postage Dies create this adorable patchwork design birthday card.

Fracture / Shutter Card Technique - The Stamping with Friends blog hop group is showcasing the Fracture / Shutter Card Technique.

Hello my friends! I’m delving into safe stamping with my stampin’ friends again, from a distance of course! And here is my latest project with them – Four cards from... [Read More]

I love die-cutting, but I don’t love spending ages dotting glue on the back of my delicate die cut shapes! In this tutorial I'll show you how to use double sided adhesive Sticky Roll, to stick down your die cuts easily and mess free!

Welcome to the tall & skinny week at the Mojo Monday Blog! Julee has created the fabulous sketch, it is perfect for tall & skinny, I luv all the options it gives, we can't wait to see what you create! Feel free to adapt the sketch to whatever length/width fits your fancy, though. Below are a couple options for those of you who don't like to do math on a Monday morning! The first size is 3.5 x 5.5" and fits a regular A2 envelope with a little room left over to let something (like the circle in this sketch) hang off the 3.5" side. You can use either of the following measurements, depending on where you want your fold. 3.5 x 11" cut of cardstock, score long side at 5.5" 5.5 x 7" cut of cardstock, score long side at 3.5" For a little more skinny, you can try a 3.5 x 6" card to fit a regular No. 6 3/4 envelope (the ones that are about the size of a personal check). Use either of the following measurements, depending on where you want your fold. 3.5 x 12" cut of cardstock, score long side at 6" 6 x 7" cut of cardstock, score long side at 3.5" To play along, make a project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword MOJO386. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but I will close the linking form on Sunday night, March 1 at 8:00pm (Mountain). That way there's no confusion which linky is the current one. Verve stamps are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. As always, if you don't have a particular shape, feel free to substitute. For inspiration using this week's sketch, please visit our design team's blogs, which are the first 6 thumbnails on this week's linky list:

Today is a start of a new month of Viva La Verve sketches and Julee is kickin' it with a pastel trio and sketch challenge. If you're new to Viva La Verve or just getting back into the sketches you'll notice it's changed a wee bit. The challenge has moved to it's own blog! Twice a month there is a twist added to the challenge like this week is color. Get all the details about the challenge and prized on the Viva La Verve Challenge blog! Here's my card sample for the sketch. I started with a paper pad from Authentique called Delightful and found the sweet blue and green from the challenge. Then I used the graph stamp from Making a Statement around the middle of my background paper (notice the pink?) inking in Crumb Cake ink. I wanted some subtle direction on the right side of the card so I used the chevron stamp from Borderline in Crumb Cake to make that happen. I added my mixed media touch with white gesso around the outside and then... I added pink (Painterly Pink to be exact) because the mood was swinging with pastels. The focal cluster is made up of Flag It Die Set pennants stamped with the chevron stamp, the Banner Bundle Die (largest one) and a DIY circle ring of three (I used two circle dies faced cutting edge down to center then taped them together.) Gesso and pink paint smudged around the borders and then a perfect (fork technique) bow from Moss Green ribbon. Oh, and I used the paper piercing kit and piercing tool around the circle and bottom layer. I hope you are having a great week... regardless of the weather or schedule you might have, I will wish you find something to enjoy, to relax about or laugh over. See you next week! Details: Stamps: Making a Statement and Borderline (Verve Stamps) Paper: Delightful (Authentique), Kraft (Neenah) Ink: Crumb Cake (Stampin' Up) Accessories: Flag It Die Set and Banner Bundle Die Set (A Cut Above, Verve), paper piercer kit and piercer tool (Stampin' Up), Moss Green ribbon (Summer Sailing Ribbon Collection, Verve), acrylic paint (Painterly Pink, Claudine Hellmuth), white gesso

Good morning and Happy President’s Day! Hope you’ll get to spend some time doing…not a heckuva-a-lot today! Maybe eat a hot dog or watch a movie. Don’t go to the bank. A…