Monday, January 26, 2026

Blue Flowers

 Used the Tic Tac Toe challenge as inspiration as I created this fun fold.  I used the middle vertical line Blue-Free-Stencil as I selected papers, stencil and inks for this W-fold Pop-out card.  I used papers from my stash - a long retired CTMH pattern, Pale yellow and Twilight card stock.  The stencil, inks, and sentiment are Gina K Designs.





Love you

 



Hope you are warm and safe this chilly Monday morning!

Here's a new sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to keep you cozy crafting.

I used a lot of different older products for my inspiration card. The Love Trio and Botanical Duo are from Gina K Designs.

Hope you will join the challenge this week!  And thank you for visiting my blog.



Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The Great Outdoors



Challenge #687 at Try A Sketch On Tuesday

My design team inspiration for you uses a Gina K Designs set, The Great Outdoors, to create a birthday card for my son.

Here in the PNW there are some beautiful golf courses with mountains in the distance. This card is very similar to the one Gina K made when demonstrating the set last year.  I've created several versions for my golfing friends.




You may want to check out the 3-2-1 recipe challenge on our sister blog Double Trouble!



Monday, January 12, 2026

Serene Branch


 Good Morning!

My DT inspiration for this week -#664 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

I used a emboss/die/stencil set from Gina K Designs,               Serene Branches. Sentiment from her Blooming Sunflower set.

Papers are from a long retired CTMH collection. 

Love the simple elegance of this sketch. Hope you will play along!




Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Yarn Love

 


My DT inspiration project for the new challenge #686 at 

Try A Sketch On Tuesday

I admit this one really had me scratching my head...those squiggles... but you will find LOTS of great inspiration on the blog.  Each of the Design Team had a different idea. So fun!

I used a Simon Says Stamp set Yarn Love that I've had for quite a while now. I inked with Gina K colors to match some twines I have.   The back  panel was embossed with Spellbinders Sweater Weather folder.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Leave a hello, and Hop on the challenge at TSOT so I can visit you.



adding a link to our sister challenge blog Double Trouble - #207 "Cool, Wild, Crazy"
I have three colors, 2+ shapes, and a crazy sentiment :-)



Monday, December 29, 2025

A Big Thank You

 

Happy Monday!

A new sketch at Atlantic Hearts to take us into the New Year.

My goal is to do a bit of reorganizing and purging here in the craft room. And that means revisiting some sets I've forgotten about. The images on my card today are from Altenew's Build-a-Flower Dahlia set. The sentiment is Gina K Designs embossed on a Spellbinders frame die. The back panel was debossed with Altenew's Dotted Swirls cover die (more visible in real life).

The flowers are a layering stamp set and I am NOT good at lining them up at all. I gave up and finished them with Copic markers. I love dahlias but this set will go to a new home.




Monday, December 15, 2025

Christmas Pine


Happy Monday morning!

New at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week - sketch #660 is a quick and easy design for using some pretty papers. Or you could random stamp or stencil a background.  I'm baking up a storm of shortbread and biscotti for gifts and so I took the easy route :-) and pulled from my Christmas stash.

I just love this deep dark green.

Hope you will play along with us at AHSC.