Rainbow 🌈

Today’s card design was inspired by Addicted to CAS rainbow challenge #290 and The Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge #PP753. This time I chose right side down stencil, enamel dots and stitching for the win!

Playing with my Coneflower Celebration stamp set for my sentiment and the little butterfly and a retired stencil and stitched rectangle dies and my Regals stamp connection for my rainbow!

Hopefully it will make the receiver smile.

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Elegant Pines sneak peek 👀

Today I am playing along with 3 challenges to come up with my No Stamps needed design featuring the Elegant Pine DSP from the 2025 Holiday mini going live tomorrow.

 

Shout out to the Inspired by Sketch Challenge #IB351, the Inspire.Create Stampin’ Challenges Never too early for Christmas #IC200 and The Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge #PP753. I chose the middle row of brights, strips for my free and enamel dots. 

I’ve chosen to play not only with the Elegant Pine Snowflake DSP but the gorgeous Greetings for You Ephemera pack from the upcoming holiday mini to show how you can still make stunning yet quick and easy projects with no stamping at all! This was an under 5 minute card which makes it great for those just starting out and seasoned paper crafts who need a quick card alike.

 

I love how it turned out! Love the colour palette in this paper  - Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Garden Green, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Pretty Peacock, Secret Sea, Shaded Spruce - it’s so pretty! 

I made a challenge to myself to actually USE my pretty paper and not just hoard it like a dragon on their pile of Gold! So I will be making more projects with this stunner! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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Another Prairie Grass Sunset

Today I am playing along with three challenges to create the inspiration for my card design.

The Cupcake Inspiration pastel colour palette challenge #CI165 , The Color Hues challenge use orange and green #TCH117 and TGIF challenge has  a use arches #TGIF540.

I decided to use the colour palette of Petal Pink, Lemon Lolly and Soft Sea Foam paired with the Everyday Arches dies. I am was inspired by a design from Leonie Stuart on Instagram that incorporated the Mini Corrugated Embossing folder for some texture behind the arches and the Prairie Grass stamp set. 

I loved the soft sunset vibes that came with the blending of the 3 colours and was surprised how the orange evolved using the Petal Pink.

Not to toot my own horn but end results were so pretty! I decided to blend my sentiment as well because the white looked too stark against the softer colours and the addition of the hand drawn birds was a Bob Ross moment where I got ink where I didn’t want it so needed to cover it up l. So as Bob always said “we don’t make mistakes we make happy accidents.” The birds totally go with the vibe and look intentional. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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Snowflake Delights

Today’s card was inspired by playing with several sketches to get inspiration. 

The colour palette came from Color Dare challenge #667, the Just Add Ink single layer with stamps/stencil challenge #766 and Just Us Girls Anything goes stencil week challenge #790

Today I am playing with the Snowy Delights decorative masks from Stampin’ Up! And the colour palette of Pretty in Pink, Cloud Cover and Soft Sea Foam.

I’m usually not very strong at the clean and simple one layer card but think it turned out pretty good. 

Do you prefer a clean and simple single layer card or a more layered/textured card? 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret

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Peace, Love & JOY

Playing along today with two challenges to get the inspiration going for this Peace, Love & JOY card. 

The Global Design Team #GPD511 challenge prompt to use letters or mumbera and the Freshly Made Sketches challenge #S701 a 3 pillar focal point which inspired the JOY sentiment as a focal point in my design. 

I am still loving creating with my Peaceful Garden Suite. 

I have used a retired Large Alphabet dies set combined with partial stamping of a sentiment from the Peace On Earth stamp set. The Peaceful Greenery embossing folder gently inked with Secret Sea ink. A label cut out in the Cloud Cover glitter paper. 

Finally a die cut dove in the Cloud Cover glitter adorns my envelope because friends don’t let friends send out naked envelopes into the world. 

For more inspiration go visit both challenge groups above to see what others have created. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life