Sunday, January 29, 2023

Crafty Collaborations - Share It Sunday!

Wow! It's been almost a year since I was active on my blog. I can't believe how quickly the time has past me by...It wasn't an intentional absence!

Oh well...In my daughter's idol's (Taylor Swift's) words - shake it off! I'm back at it. Not that I gave up being creative or makin cards, I've spent a lot of time creating, just not posting about it. But it's a new year and I have a new goal to get back to blogging. I hope you'll join me as often as you can.

The Crafty Collaboration's Share It Sunday blog hop means is an anything goes type of hop. I've been having a bit of fun playing with the Playing in the Rain bundle and thought I'd share one of my projects. I used a sketch provided by Scrapbook & Cards Today when they issued a call for projects to fill their spring gallery.

Spring and rain just go together so well...And what's a better match than a rainbow?! I hope you like my creation.

Hop Along with The Crafty Collaborations Team

Now, let's dig into more collaborative fun. Grab a beverage, sit back and enjoy the hop! I hope you find ideas that continue to inspire your own projects.

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Product List

Playing In The Rain Bundle (English)

[160551]

$75.50

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$41.00

Loose Daisy Embellishments

[160555]

$9.75

Poppy Parade 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119793]

$12.75

Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119683]

$12.75

Mango Melody 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146989]

$12.75

Granny Apple Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146990]

$12.75

Pacific Point 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[111350]

$12.75

Gorgeous Grape 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146987]

$12.75

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$14.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[159229]

$12.00

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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Global Design Project #324

I'm stretching myself this year and took on the goal of doing a minimum of two challenges a month. (Wouldn't it be great to do more?! That means my creative juices are really flowing!) Here is the first one for January....

I found this one a little difficult but I'm so happy with what I came up with. I created during my Facebook Live (Wednesdays at 7PM CT). Lives are a lot of fun and I love it when I get some audience participation. Since this is one of the only ways to meet right now, it is one of the events that I love doing. Hopefully, I'll meet you on one of my lives sometime soon!

I knew I wanted to create a sympathy card for a friend who lost someone very special recently. Since I was creating a sympathy card, I definitely wanted to create something more somber.

I chose the new Amazing Silhouettes from the new January to June Occasions catalogue. That beautiful watermark around the image is part of the stamp. I used a blending brush around it to blend out the white paper which just looked a little too stark.

I added the Evening Evergreen Chevron ribbon to ground the image and the beautiful brass butterflies embellishments.

I used the new Sale-a-bration Special Moments greetings set for the sympathy greeting.

I hope you are inspired to play with pairing Sale-a-bration and other stamp sets together!

Check out some of the other beautiful designs using this layout by viewing the other challenge entries.