February 2010 - Eggs4Easter

Yes, it's only February! But spring and Easter are right around the corner, so we had better get cracking on those Easter cards. This is a really fun set!

January 2010 Special Release Cards

Stephanie had a great surprise for us this month...three sets of special release stamps! They were a lot of fun to play with. Here are the cards I designed using the newest stamps.

Catch up!

I just realized I never blogged about the cards I designed with the absolutely fabulous The {Stamps} of Life HappyBday2You January stamp set (fitting, since my birthday was at the beginning of the month!).

I was all about the hot pink and bright green color combo this month.

Mix It Up! Design Team Challenge # 2

Mix it up! was challenge # 2 for the {Stamps} of Life design team. We were to use a combination of the digital stamps and clear stamps for our creation. I wasn't sure I was going to manage to come up with something, since all I have is a black and white laser printer (and would love suggestions for a good, reasonably-priced color printer!), but after thinking on it a little bit, decided to go with white images on a black background. That look is hard to get when you're using black paper and white ink, but is pretty easy in Photoshop!

This card uses the Photoshop brushes (aka digital stamps) from Hello2You (tiny flower trio under Thanks), Back2Basics (dot circle, flowers on black strip), and Thanks2Fall (Thanks stamp, massively reduced in size). The clear stamp (flowers under the Thanks scalloped circle) came from Back2Basics.

Please feel free to play along with us!

If you are playing along with The {Stamps} of Life stamps or digital images please upload to the gallery on the site –> HERE <— with the keyword TSOLD02. We look through the gallery regularly for new guest designers. Also, you can get a couple of freebie digital images on the site –> HERE!

Please link to one of our blogs so we can see your stuff!

Our challenge - Mix It Up! (TSOLD02)

Our DT players:

Jeanne

Vicki

Deb

Jennifer

Stephanie

What's Black & Red & Happy all over?

This card, using last week's CPS sketch # 149, which was sponsored by The {Stamps} of Life.

I used "happy" from the Love2Hug set, and the large daisy and small daisy from one of the January special releases, Daisies4You. The red is much prettier in person - my camera isn't a fan of photographing reds.

Glitter and Shine Design Team Challenge

The Design Team girls at The {Stamps of Life} decided to throw out a challenge to each other.

Please feel free to play along with us!

If you are playing along with The {Stamps} of Life stamps or digital images please upload to the gallery on the site --> HERE <--- with the keyword TSOLD01. Hint, hint... we look through the gallery regularly for new guest designers.

Please link to one of our blogs (even if you're not using The {Stamps} of Life stamps) so we can see your stuff!

This was a fun card to put together...I have a drawer in my workspace labeled "glitter & shimmer" full of glitter and other sparkly things that I have collected over the years. It was fun to pull it all out and play with it! Here's what I came up with once the babies (3 years and 2 months) finally went to bed!