Monday, October 6, 2025

Autumn Birthday



 New!  Sketch #650 at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

My DT card for you uses images and sentiment from Gina K Designs Thankful and Blessed stamp & die set. The panels and tag were cut with Gina K dies as well.  I colored the leaves with Copic markers

You can check out the inspiration from the rest of the team on Wednesday.

I hope you will play along!



Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Halloween


 

Challenge #680 at Try a Sketch On Tuesday!

Used my little Spider die cut from Simon Says Stamp that I bought last year, sentiment from Gina K 's Handmade Holidays set, and papers and enamel dots from my stash.  This came together so quickly. A very fun sketch!    Hope you will check out the inspiration from the rest of the design team and play along. 


3-2-1  :  My card has 3+ layers with background paper, matting, and center strips from scra
2  I used a die and enamel dots from my stash 
1   1 used a sentiment from my sentiment bin

And while you are creating, link up to our sister challenge as well!   Double Trouble#200

Monday, September 22, 2025

Winter Birthday


 

Happy Monday!

Sketch #648 at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for this week had me playing with Gina K's Tall Pines stamp and some blending and sponging. 

After sponging some blue on the white panel, I stamped in black and splattered with some white paint. When it was dry I cut it into five 1" wide strips and slightly shorter heights before matting each in black.  For the background, I used a blue card stock that was just a shade deeper and sponged white pigment ink and then splattered some silver shimmer. (Hard to see in the photo.)  The two outside trees are adhered directly to the back, the next in were raised just a bit with a piece of card stock, the center popped up with foam tape.

The sentiment is Gina K All Occasion embossed with silver.




Hope you will join the challenge at AHSC!

Friday, September 19, 2025

Cone Flowers

 Happy to have some craft room time today and a chance to play with some of my kit from Gina K.  The flowers are from the Thankful and Blessed set. I colored with pencils and Gamsol and cut it with the coordinating die.  The background used the Decorative Double stencil on a panel cut with Master Layouts 4.






Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Doodles


 

The challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday is to have oodles of doodles.  It's been a crazy week here just returning from a visit with my brother... but it was fun to just doodle this morning.

Sentiment is from Gina K Designs, Tall Stems set.

Hope you will join the fun at TSOT!



Thursday, September 11, 2025

Get Well

My card is inspired by the sketch #703 at Freshly Made Sketches.

I used Gina K Designs products: Autumn Delight stencil and die, inked with Sea Glass Turquoise Sea, Tranquil Teal, Jelly Bean Green, and Fresh Asparagus; All at Once -All Occasion sentiment, Elegant Script Background, and some silver mini embellishments.






Monday, September 8, 2025

Patchwork


 

Good morning!  Monday means a great new sketch at         Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Today's reminded me of quilting - and back in the day I loved making paper quilt cards.  So I was very happy to play around with some pretty scraps for this sketch.  I hope you will try it out and join the fun at AHSC.