Splashes of Watercolor

I wanted to play along with the technique challenge at Splitcoaststampers this week.  I’ve never tried the Van Gogh technique before, but it sure was fun and I can’t wait to experiment some more! I chose Fairy Dust is a Must from Our Craft Lounge to work with and decided to try it on kraft […]

~ My card today is for the Featured Stamper challenge at Splitcoaststampers.  The artist featured this week is mitchygitchygoomy, and her gallery is amazing! Here is her card that I chose to CASE:  Hugs & Kisses & Bella Birthday Wishes And here is my card: ~ ~ I’ve kept the general layout, but flipped it […]

Hey, everyone!  Today is day 2 of the Valentine release sneak peeks for Our Craft Lounge.  I’m showing you a peek at Granny’s Truffles.  Everybody loves Granny! I’ve used the MOJO113 sketch, which worked perfectly for Granny and her chocolate heart sentiment.  And this also fits the Splitcoast Monday TLC247 for cutting “Outside the Box” […]

Our Craft Lounge is celebrating it’s FIRST BIRTHDAY this month!  If you go on over to The Lounge  or The Forum and you can join in on the fun scavenger hunt they are hosting! In honor of the birthday party, I decided that Granny from the Shop ’til Ya Flop set needed to go shopping!  […]

I’m just finishing up my Halloween cards.  Good thing too, because some of them have to go to Virginia and some to Florida.  They’re all going in the mail today! These first 2 cards are for the 2 youngest granddaughters – ages 15 months and 6 months.  The 6 month old is dressing up as […]

This week the JUGS girls have issued a technique challenge – paper piecing.  I LOVE paper piecing!  So of course I decided to jump in and play. I just got a bundle of new Stamping Bella images and they are just so perfect for paper piecing.  So I pulled out little miss Addy TUDE and […]

I saw on my friend Tammy’s blog that Kristin has started a new sketch challenge (JUGS1), so I thought I’d try out her very first sketch.  It’s a cool one! And since I’m trying out new things, I decided to try out one of my new digital images from Mo’s Digital Pencil.  What a great […]

I have 2 friends who both have a birthday this Thursday.  They live in different states and don’t know each other.  It’s ok to send them each identical cards, right? Well, that’s what I’m doing! I used Beate’s WSC98 sketch (which I love and will definitely use again), and Fifth Avenue Floral (which I love […]

Today’s Ways to Use It challenge at Splitcoaststampers is to use red.   I can do that! This card was made as a birthday card for a child who loves balloons, but I don’t see why an adult wouldn’t love it too!   Using the Everyday Button Bits stamp set from Papertrey Ink, I created […]

This week the Color Throwdown challenge is being sponsored by Rubbernecker Stamps!! So my Color Throwdown card is also my Wacky Wednesday challenge card.  Yeah, my head is spinning too! Be sure to check out both blogs for all the details of the challenges….you could double your chances of winning great prizes by posting links […]