Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Ann's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's theme week. It's also clean and simple week. I looked through my old stamp sets deciding I needed to give them some love and remembered a set that Lou bought me a few years ago down in Australia. It's from a company called Paper Rose and the name of the stamp is Thanks a Bunch. One of the reasons I love this set is that it features a plant that is native to South Africa and is a close relative to a group... Continue reading

Happy Friday. It's another fabulous challenge for you at Festive Friday this week. Festive Friday is a card making and crafting challenge where we offer up an inspiration list of words to get your creative juices flowing. The words are attached to an international holiday and this week's challenge is International Children's Books day. A holiday I can certainly get behind! The INSPO list inspired me to ink up a very old stamp called Matilda and her Swing from Stamping Bella. Here's a sneak peek: And here is our challenge badge showing our inspiration words: I created and photographed my... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Leanne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and she has a bright and cheerful color scheme for us. I had originally thought that I would do florals using these colors, but, for some reason, my mind went in a totally different direction! I settled on a die from the Die Cuts and Scraps Dienamics set from My Favorite Things. Here's a sneak peek: Well, I suppose there is a flower on the cupcakes - but not quite a floral card! I think you may have guessed some of the colors from the... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Joanne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's theme week. It might not feel like Spring around here yet, but making a card for our challenge this week inspired me to bring out the spring colors! This challenge was the perfect opportunity to ink up a set I got this time last year from The Greetery called "Springtime". Here's a sneak peek: So, from the sneak peek, you probably saw that our challenge is: I was certainly inspired by all the pastel colors from the inspiraation photos - and, of course,... Continue reading

Happy Friday. It's another INSPO challenge across at FestiveFriday - a crafting and card-making challenge and as our theme is St Patrick's day, it was a great excuse for me to bring out an old SU set called Brewed for You. Ready for green beer anyone? Here's a sneak peek: Here's our full INSPO list. As always, you don't have to play along with the theme - all you need to do is use three items from our INSPO list on your creation. As I have Irish ancestry, we visited Ireland about 15 years ago and spent two weeks traveling... Continue reading

Happy Sunday It's my turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's sketch week. When I looked at the sketch I realized it was perfect for a new set of dies I got from MFT called Chocolate Box. I paired it with an MFT stamp called Xs and Os. I had such fun creating the chocolates to fill the box! Here's a sneak peek: ' I went with a different sketch for me - square! I hardly every make square cards, so decided it was a good challenge for me! Here's our sketch for this week: I... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Claire's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's theme week! Now, I cannot believe but I didn't have a stamp that tied directly to the theme. How can that be? How can I have all these stamps and not have a sentiment that fits the theme?!!!! Luckily, I found one that worked in a new set that I received from some stmaps I bought on saale from MFT. The set is called the Whlole Herd and it has a punny/funny sentiment that works. This card forced me to do something I... Continue reading

Happy Friday. We have another fabulous INSPO list at our Festive Friday cardmaking challenge. This week we are celebrating World Music Therapy Day. It was the perfect excuse to bring out a set I got for Christmas from The Greetery called Heaven and Nature Sing - except I didn't make a Christmas card for this challenge. Oh, and I used pastel colors! Here's a sneak peek: Pretty pastel greens, pinks and silver! What on earth happened to me :-) World Music Therapy Day - what a wonderful day to celebrate. I don't know about the rest of you, but music... Continue reading

Happy Sunday It's the fabulous Ann's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's color week. I used Gaathered with Love from MFT. Here's a sneak peek: And here are Ann's colors for this week: Now I am not a pastel girl and I am not a fan of crumb cake, but I decided to pull up my big girl pants and get over myself! After all, that's what challenges are for - to push you out of your comfortable little comfy zone where you have fluffy bunny-ear slippers, overly-large fluffy jumpers and baggy-at-the-knees comfortable pull-on pants,... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous LeAnne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's theme week. This week's theme was perfect to use a new card kit I got from MFT called Mixed Tape. This set just makes me laugh - especially the messages in the Mix Tape Messages. It comes with Cassette Tape Dynamics, Take Shape and Mixtape Sentiments. Anyone who grew up with cassette tapes knows all about the only thing that really worked to help unravel them was a pencil! Here's a sneak peek: I love the tape - such a great detail! Some... Continue reading

Happy Friday. It's time for another Festive Friday INSPO challenge. Our card and crafting challenge is designed around a specific festivity from around the world. You don't have to follow the theme - just choose three words from our INSPO list and incorporate them on your card. This week we are celebrating Galentine's Day. Now, I can't think of a better reason to send a card than to celebrate some awesome friends. For my card, I had some coloring fun with the MFTStamps Long Stem Barware dies. I used this set before on this card - but this week went... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Joanne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's sketch week! This sketch was the perfect one to use two of my new die-cuts called Paper Goods and the other called Crafty Hands from MFT and an old favorite called Pretty Postmarks from The Greetery. Oh, and I also added my very favorite - actually all time favorite - stencil called Knit Wits. Also from the Greetery. Here's a little sneak peek: Here's Joanne's sketch: What I love about this sketch is how versatile it is and you can see that in... Continue reading

Happy Tuesday Well, I did manage to get into my craft room to do a little playing and I went looking for some inspiration. I found a wonderful moodboard featuring coffee across at Just Us Girls. When I first saw the moodboard I was very tempted to get out my old go to coffee set - Cozy Cup from The Greetery. BUT.... I remembered I had an even older set from Ellen Hutson called Latte Love and decided to ink it up and give it a little love. Here's a sneak peek: You probably realized that grey is also part... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's my turn to host the Paper Players challenge this week and it's my favorite week - CLEAN AND SIMPLE! This week I have a twist though - it's a theme CAS challenge and the theme is "bird-day"! For my card I inked up an old set from Stamping Bella called Bubbles. Here's a sneak peek: Here's our badge for this week: I began by stamping the individual birds and bubbles onto my card base and then quickly colored them in. It was fun deciding which way I would turn the birds on their bubbles. Honestly, this set... Continue reading

Happy Friday! It's the start of another brand new card and paper crafting challenge at Festive Friday and we have a fabulous set of inspiration words to get your creative juices going:-) For my card, I pulled out some oldies but goodies from the Greetery called Signed ^ Sealed and another called Pretty Postmarks. Here's a sneak peek: So, can you guess some of the INSPO words? Red is obviously one of them:-) Red, Texture, Rhinestones I began with the envelope and the large hearts. After die-cutting the hearts, I added some texture with an embossing folder. I added some... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Claire's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's color week. I have to admit... these colors are so not me.... BUT.... in the end I loved them. This challenge also gave me a chance to play with some new goodies that I got in the Crafty Hands Card Kit. You can buy this set of dies separately, but I got them as part of the kit. Here's a sneak peek: I'm guessing you realized that green and blue were two of Claire's colors :-) I'm also entering this card in the... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Ann's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's theme challenge week. This theme was the perfect excuse for me to bring out a brand new set for me - Long Stem Barware from My Favorite Things and match it with a sentiment set from MFT called Mini Messages and More. I fell in love with this great cocktail set and was lucky enough to get it on sale :-) Here's a sneak peek of my card: Ann's theme challenge is such a fun one and requires an element I rarely use... Continue reading

Happy Friday and welcome to the first of our Festive Friday challenges. Festive Friday is a card making and paper crafting challenge and every two weeks we release a new INSPO list for you. Each challenge has a theme but you don't have to follow the theme - all you need to do is choose three words from the INSPO list and use those elements on your paper craft project. For our challenge this week I pulled out two older sets from The Greetery called Flower Market Bouquet and Put a Bow on It! Here's a sneak peek and I... Continue reading

To all of you from the two of us - we wish you healthy, prosperity, love and laughter in 2023. May this new year bring you every wonderful thing you wish for yourselves and your families. I'll be back tomorrow with a card and some photos! Hugs Jaydee Continue reading

Merry Christmas! I hope you are all having a wonderful day surrounded by those you love - either 2 legged or 4 legged:-) On my blog post here, I asked you to share your memories of Christmas traditions. I read all of them more than once - and wanted to share them all here so that you could all read them. The thing that struck me is how many of you remember traditions that began in your formative years and how you are enjoying passing those down to the next generation. That sense of continuity is something that I feel... Continue reading

Happy Friday. Yesterday I needed a break from genealogy research and I could hear my crafting goodies calling my name! As I am not crafting much these days I needed some inspiration and I found it across at Atlantic Hearts for their sketch and The Card Concept for the colors. The sketch at Atlantic Hearts inspired me to use my favorite new die-cut from The Greetery called Round About Winter. You can see the last card I made with this set here. It's very different to today's card! Here are the sketch and inspiration challenges: I love this sketch and... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Ann's turn to host our final challenge for 2022 and it's a color challenge. It's also the perfect opportunity for me to spread a little Christmas cheer. I have a little goodie bag of crafting goodies available as blog candy. I received the stencil, tag die and stamp that I used on today's cards from The Greetery along with my last order and there was a spare one. I will be adding the spare one to the blog candy goodie bag along with some other crafting goodies. What do you have to do for the... Continue reading

Happy Friday. It's another fabulous INSPO List at Festive Friday this week. It's also the last challenge of the year. The design team will be taking a couple of weeks off to enjoy the holidays, but we will come by and visit your cards and leave a comment :-) Even thought we have a theme, you don't have to follow the theme - just use three of the items from the INSPO list on your creation. This week's challenge gave me the perfect excuse to ink up what has quickly become one of my favorite sets from The Greetery this... Continue reading

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous LeAnne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and she has such a fun challenge for us. As I don't have a lot of Santa's in my stamp collection, I didn't have a lot to choose from. However, I do love this set from MFT called Christmas Selfies, so I was happy to have an excuse to ink it up! In fact, I got a little carried away and made several cards with this set using different colors and different backgrounds and sent them off to SendaSmile4Kids. Here's a sneak peek: I stamped... Continue reading