Good Saturday morning!  Welcome back for some more cardmaking inspiration with Sketch Saturday #770. Today’s sketch is a landscape design with a couple of layers, a swirl and arrows or chevron.  Here is the sketch: My card is pretty true to the sketch with a patterned background paper then solid cardstock layer & finally a pre-printed sentiment for the top layer. I added a swirl die cut but instead of the arrows on the left, I used three enamel dots.  (I love enamel dots!) As always, go over to the Sketch Saturday #770 blog post to see the rest of...

Welcome to the weekend!  It’s time for Sketch Saturday #769. Today’s sketch is fairly simple with the twist being to feature a flower. Here is my example: My starting point was the flower die cut, which I substituted for the hexagon layer. I chose the background cardstock from the darker buds and then added the foiled polka dot banner for the paper strip. For the hearts, I used one foiled die cut & two enamel pieces. All the die cut pieces are from an older Creative Memories embellishment pack. I finished it off with a paperclip style embellishment for the...

It’s time for Sketch Saturday #768. Today’s sketch has four panels on the edge of the card and a small square.  The twist is to include a heart. So, first of all I decided to turn the sketch & make it portrait instead of landscape. The way the outside panels are placed suggested movement to me.  I immediately thought of a watercolor chevron paper I have & decided to cut it into strips. This left what looks like arrows to me.  I matted those onto coordinating colors and then added the heart on the square. Definitely a bold & bright...

Hello friends!  I have finally decided on my 2025 Word of the Year – Seasons.  I have felt very busy lately & didn’t even start thinking about a word until the beginning of January. Usually I start thinking about it around November or at least the early part of December, but it just slipped through the cracks. Once I started thinking about it & testing different words in my mind I couldn’t really come up with anything.  I decided to google One Little Word (Ali Edwards class title for picking a word every year) to see what other people were...

Hello friends!  Today I have Sketch Saturday #764.  Wait – what?  What about Sketch #763?   Well, it seems that I missed the last sketch.  I do want to apologize for that.  Life has been busy around here & I just ran out of time. Side note:  My grandmother used to tell me time goes faster the older you get.  As always, she was right. Now, how about we get back on track with Sketch Saturday #764?   This sketch shows a landscape orientation with a couple of layers, circle embellishments & a banner.  The twist for this week was to distress...