Claire Creates Cards

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Thinking of You Sunday Stamps Challenge SSC361

May 25, 2025

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

The lovely Laurie created the sketch for this week. This is such a simple sketch to use and you can make any type of card!

I used a black card base and then layered a piece of DSP from the Stampin Up set Botanical Textures. I then added a black square and a white square following the sketch. The leaves are stamped on gray paper with gray ink using the Stampin Up Forever Fern set and cut them out with the matching dies. I added a simple sentiment and a little white bow.

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 June 6th @ 6pm EST.

Sunday Stamps Design Team

Amy Koenders

Annette Elliott

Claire Broadwater (me)

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Hugs!

Claire

Take Note The Paper Players PP739

May 25, 2025

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

The lovely LeAnne is our hostess this week and she has a fun sketch challenge for all of us. I love this sketch because you can use your favorite DSP scraps to create a card. Any type of card is possible, so get creative and happy crafting!

I love this sketch because I could look through all my paper pads and find a few patterns to mix and match. The background is a plaid and then I used a two sided paper to create the panels and their background. I needed a thank you note and saw this little girl from SugarPea Designs "Take Note" stamp set sitting in the box shouting use me! I stamped her and colored her with Copic Markers. I paper pieced her dress with the matching DSP. The sentiment is from this set. I added a few yellow enamel dots and some Wink of Stella to her hair for shine to compete the card.

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

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Flying By To Say----- The Paper Players Challenge PP738

May 18, 2025

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

The amazing Joanne is our hostess this week! She has a fun Clean and Simple Challenge for all of us! Things That Fly is the theme. There are so many possibilities with this challenge. SO get creative and remember to keep it CAS!

I used a retired SugarPea Designs die to cut the background. I sponged some distress ink in the middle to create the sky. I used a cloud die and cut a few clouds to adhere to the bottom of my card. I sponged the distress ink on the top of the clouds. I added a few small clouds up above, too. The little plane is from Your Next Stamp. (They are no longer in business) The name of the stamp set is Just Plane Amazing! The sentiment is from this set, too. I colored the plane with Copic Markers and added Wink of Stella for shine. I also added Glossy Accents to the window.