Claire Creates Cards

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Sending My Love The Paper Players Challenge PP774

February 22, 2026

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at The Paper Players.

The lovely Jan is our hostess this week and she has a very fun and versatile sketch for all of us. I love sketches because you can make any type of card you need in your stash.

My card is for Victoria because she loves purple. I found these two pieces of purple paper in my stash and created the background and the horizontal strip. I stamped the image of this sweet little girl from Simon Says Stamps on a white panel. The stamp set is called, "Lila's Heart." (it is retired now) I cut it out with a die with rounded corners. I colored her with Copic Markers and added Wink of Stella for shine. A few black enamel dots were added for fun. The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

The Paper Players

1. Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.

2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.

3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.

4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL.

Entries linked to more than 3 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification!

5. All stamping products are welcome.

6. Have fun!

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Hugs!

Claire

OMG Sunday Stamps Challenge SSC380

February 22, 2026

It's time for a new challenge at Sunday Stamps.

I am the hostess this week and I created this fun sketch for all of you! I will use this over and over because you can create a card for any occasion. So have fun and get creative!

This card was made for my college girlfriend. We are leaving today for a week on a Disco Cruise through NCL. This card was so easy to create. I cut the background paper from Groovy Darlin paper pack. The Spellbinders Disco Balls Etched Dies were cut using shiny silver cardstock. I cut two silver strips to follow the sketch to add to the side. The stars are a die in the set. The sentiment is from CZ Designs Salty Ladies stamp set. I heat embossed the sentiment in silver embossing powder. And that's it!

Challenge Guidelines

Feel free to use any brand of product you have.
Please Link up a new project created for this challenge (no back links).
Feel free to combine our challenge with up to FOUR other challenges.
We reserve the right to delete any links that do not adhere to challenge rules.
Please provide a link to us or use the graphic above in your post.
Have Fun!!!

The challenge will end on Friday March 6th @ 6pm EST.

Sunday Stamps Design Team

Amy Koenders

Claire Broadwater (me)

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

Hugs!

Claire

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Happy Birthday The Paper Players Challenge PP773

February 15, 2026

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at The Paper Players.

The sensational Stef is our hostess this week and she has a fun challenge for all of us! We all need birthday cards in our stash. So, here's your chance to create a special CAS birthday card for someone special. You need to add a balloon or balloons to your creation!

Remember, clean and simple means limited layers and embellishments, along with plenty of "white" or open space.

Everyone knows I love hippos and this guy hasn't had any ink love in a longggg time. I added a strip of polka dots from my scrap stash and cut this festive circle die with the sentiment to showcase my hippo. The die is from MFT. They are no longer in business. I bet you could find it if you looked around on Ebay. I will keep it in my stash. The little hippo is from the Happy Hippos stamp set and is colored with Copic Markers along with his trio of balloons. This is also a MFT stamp set. I added some white ink lines for accent. No other embellishments were added since it needs to be a CAS card.