Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for May 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are featuring projects that are “stepped up” by using textures or fun techniques. We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that you enjoy our creations. You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from…
Today I am showcasing several favored items that will be retiring on June 1st. Amazing Birthday stamp set Going Places DSP (fabulous for masculine cards) Mossy Meadow and Delightful Dijon (retiring in-colors) Burlap Ribbon I am tickled with this masculine birthday card. I used Thick Whisper White card stock as the base. The Going Places DSP is 1/4″ smaller than my A2 card base. The birthday cake stamp was stamped on Mossy Meadow card stock…
This week’s Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge by Peggy Noe provided the perfect color palette for my sympathy card. Peggy’s design style is soft and feminine. I hope I did her proud with the challenge. It may be hard to tell but I used Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder for the sentiment and there is Gold Metallic Thread behind the sentiment. I used an Aqua Painter filled with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and Pink Pirouette Inker* to create…
Our youngest son turns 20 years old on Thursday. He is in Chicago and we are in Southwest Florida; so all his gifts needed to get wrapped, boxed up and sent over a week ago. I had purchased beautiful handmade wrapping paper at Paper Source weeks ago. I made everything to coordinate with this beautiful paper. For each package I made a coordinating gift tag. The first present uses the Retiring Big News sentiment. Grab…
