Today I followed the current CPS Sketch 173 to make this shabby birthday card, using a new JustRite birthday sentiment, Webster’s Pages paper and Bloomers Fabric Flower Trim.  I’ve had these ribbon cards by Webster’s Pages for a few months and have held off on using/offering them until I had the paper to match, and my […]

Another Saturday Hop — and today we are all dressed in our finest whites (or ivory) – ribbon, that is!  I’ve had several requests to put together ribbon packages of all whites, and it’s been on my to-do list forever.  I am so pleased to finally get to it — and I couldn’t stop with […]

A Color Challenge – Color challenges have always been my very favorite.  Choosing colors and patterns is my favorite part of the card-making process.  Our challenge colors today are YELLOW and GRAY with EITHER White or Ivory as your neutral and adding Black for a little POP is totally OK, too!  I’m sure we’ll see […]

Today I needed to make a quick sympathy card and I thought the photo inspiration over at The Shabby Tea Room was just perfect.  Here’s the inspiration photo: I thought the soothing brown tones were perfect for the masculine sympathy card I needed: I have some mental issues with putting bows on masculine cards (LOL!), but […]

Girls just wanting to have some fun! That’s what this HOP amounts to!  A few of The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store Design Team girls and I decided a couple days ago to do a Saturday Hop, just for fun. So — here we go — I’ll show you my card first and then I’ll tell […]

A Sketch Challenge – Today I’ve prepared a simple sketch for you to follow.  Go CAS or fancy it up as much as you like, just use this basic sketch.  Have fun and can’t wait to see all your creations!  Here’s the sketch: Anyone is welcome and invited to play!  SCS Keyword is ssnotime144 for those […]

Today I used a new set from JustRite’s June release for a card for my Dad for Father’s Day.  I started out planning to use the new Nested Frames, but once the card took shape, I changed my mind — it’s a woman’s prerogative, you know!  I liked just the sentiment cut with the dies on […]

— plus a sale on Ribbon by the Spool and Spellbinders dies — but first my card for this week’s Challenge at The Shabby Tea Room.  The challenge was to create something showing how we like to enjoy Fun in the Sun.  Well, I’m not exactly what you would call a real active outdoorsy type […]

Thanks everyone for hopping along with us this week as we explored The Sweet Smells of Summer!  It was a fun one!!!  So glad you joined us.  And now we have the Blog Candy Winner to announce — Blog #1, that’s my Blog, was the one that random.org selected from which to choose the winning comment. Random.org […]

Give it a Chance! – Today we are going to dig into our drawers, boxes or bags of those rejected or unfinished pieces — I KNOW we all have those containers.  Gosh, I have WAY too many of them.  Pull out a piece you started at some other time and for whatever reason you just […]