Tonight’s request was for a cat-themed birthday card. I knew I had several kitties in my Taylored Expression inventory, so I decided to start with the January #TEMakerChallenge Multi-Color Magic – to use multiple colors of ink on a single stamp. I decided to use hues from the AAA Colorful Challenge – I chose Cupcake … Read more
January is the final Challenge at the Lunar New Year Challenge. Since 2026 is the Year of the Horse, and US New Year has passed, I used the Horse as the theme for a birthday card (since I believe at one point in time almost every US child wished for a horse or pony for … Read more
At our home, winter sports aren’t ones played outside, but instead the sports played inside. This card celebrates the three sports we watched yesterday. I decided to challenge myself to use shades of blue for the Inkspirational Challenge, and I loved how it turned out. I don’t know if you can tell, but I even … Read more
The January #monthlymixchallenge at Gina K. Designs is to create a card using 6 different ink colors. That seemed like the perfect opportunity to give my Color Cube that I got for Christmas a trial run. This is the card I chose and the Gina K. Designs inks to correspond – Sweet Mango, Sweet Corn, … Read more
The next prompt at Jingle Belles is “Something Old… Something New“ … we’d like to see holiday cards on which you combine an item or two that you’ve had in your craft stash for a bit (or in my case quite a bit) together with something new that you received for the holidays… or shopped … Read more
My friend Bev knows I love Frida Khalo, so when I went to visit her for our Alabama Art Camp, she had this fun AAKK and Create Frida Dee image stamped for me to color (after floating in her pool, I love to sit in Bev’s comfy recliner that has awesome lighting and color all … Read more
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Old & New – make a card that combines some of the Old and Not So Old (aka New) in your stash. I chose my never before used item first – PaperTrey Trees N Patterns Dies. I used them with two different green Gelliarts prints that were … Read more
I always loved picking out my Valentines for school each year. I remember in 6th grade, I saved-up my allowance and bought a package of Muppets valentines that were actually cards that I could write messages inside and put in an envelope. I took time choosing each card for each classmate and writing a positive … Read more
For Christmas, Santa Stephanie brought me the super-fun Honey Bee Stamps Build a Snowman Honey Cuts. I thought the CAS on Friday Snowman Challenge was the perfect opportunity to give it a try. I went with a three ball snowman because that’s the size I remember most from my childhood. His hat and it’s colors … Read more
