A Freshly Made Sketch Valentine

Today I wanted to share a card I created for this week's Freshly Made Sketch Challenge #120. The sketch was designed by Rita Wright. A really liked the clean and simple design…so I began to just start putting my card together.  It evolved as I selected my DSP and worked with the Banner Framelits and this was the result. While I liked it I did not like the spacing of the card.  So I began again…

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A Ritz Experience

Happy Saturday! This past week was a whirlwind yet one of those weeks that fills you up.  On Thursday and Friday we brought in the Ritz Carlton Leadership Center to present, to the leadership team and our entire staff, the how's of providing extraordinary service.  We all know that presentations such as these are very dependent upon the caliber of the speaker.  Well the presenter, Jeff Hargett, was nothing short of fantastic.  Yesterday afternoon many…

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Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge #189

Today we have a new Sketch Challenge from the Pals Paper Arts Team.  Let's take a look at the sketch… I love lots of layers so this sketch looked really fun and appealing to me.  You also know I am crazy about the Retro Fresh collection in the new Occasions Catalog.  Here is the result: This collection is so hip and modern and the colors are some of my favs. Once I had all the…

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Congratulations on your Engagement!

There is nothing more striking than these three colors together – Whisper White, Basic Black and Real Red.  I used these colors to create a card for a colleague who recently got engaged. I love this sentiment from the Yippee Skippee! Stamp Set. I used the Squares Collection framelits to create the perfect frame for the sentiment. The white square was adhered with Stampin Dimensionals to add depth and focus to the sentiment. The heart…

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