It's been a week of inspiration and challenges over at Papertrey Ink as they celebrate their third anniversary and its not even over yet. I've been playing around with the Emboss Resist technique quite a bit this week. Through trial and error I discovered which of my stamps yielded the best result. Suffice it to [...]
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Acrylic Paint and Emboss Resist fit a Challenge
Posted in Cards, PTI, Sketch Challenges, Valentine's on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Challenge is a Challenge – A Chance to Learn Something New
Posted in Cards, Prisma Coloring, Sketch Challenges, StampingBella on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Do you use sketches to create your cards? I rarely do, but on occasion they can be really helpful. Half your work is already done. This weeks challenge from Stampingbella was just that – a sketch. And boy did I have a hard time making something work with this sketch. I just don't make cards [...]
CPS 102
Posted in Cards, PTI, Sketch Challenges, Valentine's on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I decided to participate in another challenge this week. This one is from the Card Positioning System blog. The sketch was for the card only, but since it's Valentine's Day tomorrow, I thought I would make a little box o' chocolates to match for my sweet husband. =) He already got it (since he reads [...]
Bitty Dot Sketch Challenge
Posted in Cards, PTI, Sketch Challenges on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A quick post tonight, I have a lot of things to do but I wanted to squeeze in the time to participate in PTI's challenge for today. Here's the card I made using the sketch from the "connect the dots puzzler". I really enjoyed using the color combo from yesterday's challenge, so I decided to [...]
Birthday Girl WSC55
Posted in Cards, Sketch Challenges on August 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
One of my best friends is turning 30 this week (Yay Kelly!!). What better opportunity to make another card. =) It certainly did not hurt that my order from PTI arrived today either!! That’ll get your mojo going. I got me some Kraft card stock to play with and two new stamp sets. To kill [...]
Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #29
Posted in Sketch Challenges on August 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Well…its been an entire week since my last (and first) post. Hopefully that will change as soon as I get the hang of this whole blogging deal. I am glad that this week’s cupcake challenge gave me a good reason to try it again. The sketch for this week was really fun to play with [...]
An Introduction and Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge # 28
Posted in Sketch Challenges on August 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So…for the past year my morning routine has been to eat my breakfast while reading my favorite stamp blogs. Such a fun way to start the day. I have found so much inspiration and great ideas for my own stamping this way but never thought that I would have my own blog one day. But [...]