MIM
My card today is for the current Make-It-Monday challenge where Laurie demonstrated making a shadow background. I used a large mum (discontinued PTI stamp) which I colored with my copics.  For the background I stamped two smaller mums with some soft brown i...

MFT SUMMER SCHOOL 2018
Every year I have good intentions to complete the MFT Summer School and this year I finally did it!!  So here's every day in one fell swoop!! Day 1 - White Space Day 2 - Primary Colors Day 3 - Repetition Day 4 - Complimentary Colors Day 5 - Symmetry  I am a...

BEAUTIFUL DAY
My card today is for Altenew Academy - day 5.  It involved some masking and then several coloring techniques with alcohol markers . One of the things Kelly had in her lesson was a gradient background for her flowers.  My colors that I chose for both the bac...

SENDING YOU PRAYERS
This week Altenew Academy is having another class and this time it's with Kelly Latevola doing one-layer cards.  Yesterday I worked all afternoon on the first lesson and thought for sure I flunked the class right off the bat.  So not being one to give up, I...

HAPPY
CAS Colours and Sketches has a sketch challenge this week - so made this card. Stamped the flowers in the corners and then masked and stamped smaller flowers and leaves to fill out the space and colored with my Zigs.  Die cut the rectangle and added the lar...

BLUE PEONY
Some of my blog friends are so skilled at making a card to fit multiple challenges - me, not so much.  Today though I'm getting this one in five!!!!  I did some coloring with copics on the peony - works for Kathy Racoosin's Coloring Challenge ; the design w...

CARDS FOR KATHERINE
My daughter, Katherine, teaches at the University of Texas-Arlington and likes to send cards to her music theatre students - good thing she has a mother who likes to make cards!  Several weeks ago I saw a set of alcohol inked cards on Sue's blog and thought...

Gorgeous card, Cha!!  The rainbow background is just delightful for your black silhouettes!!  So glad you joined us at A Blog Named Hero this month!

PENGUINS FOR MERRY MONDAY
Surprise!!! No flowers!!!  Penguins are the theme for this week's Merry Monday challenge - and just happened to have a few courtesy of Linda W .   Watercoloured a sky and added some torn snowbanks on the bottom of the card.  Used a stencil, Versamark and wh...

TWO CHALLENGES
There are two challenges I always intend to enter and never seem to get around to it, until it's too late.  So today, I got down to business and created a card for each of them.  The first one is for SSS Flickr Challenge which is embossing and the second is...