Our two extra cards this week are designed by Michelle Redman and Cindy Royal. Click the thumbnails below to see larger photos and more details on their blogs.

Let It Snow by Michelle Redman

Michelle has chosen to use images from Penguin Chicks. She used Prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits to color [...]

Dawn Lusk designed our extra card this week. Her trimming on this image is so intricate, it almost looks like it was cut by laser.

Gathering Berries by Dawn Lusk

Dawn elongated the "Circle Bird Right" from the Autumn Tweetings digital stamps set in Photoshop to make it [...]

October means changing seasons, and the Design Team has created nine cards in glorious fall color palettes. Click the thumbnails below to visit the designers’ blogs for larger photos and more details. And be sure to scroll all the way down this post for a notice about this month’s Blog Hop.

Thank You Card [...]

For a little extra inspiration this week, we have five cards designed by Michelle, Dawn, Cindy, and Lauri. Click the thumbnails for larger photos and more details on the designers’ blogs.

Acorn Birdhouse by Michelle Redman

Michelle’s card used an image from Autumn Tweetings colored with Prismacolor Pencils [...]

Today I’m introducing a new blog feature, Wild Card Wednesday. With the wonderful level of talent on the Design Team, sometimes I think it’s a good idea to just sit back and let them all do their own things. That’s the idea behind Wild Cards, which will run on the last Wednesday of each month. [...]

The Design Team’s challenge this week is to follow one of my card layout sketches. The twist is that they were allowed to twist it any way they wanted. Here’s the sketch, shown rotated and flipped for four variations.

The fascinating thing about card sketches is that each designer will come up with her own [...]

I want to thank all of you who left such wonderful comments for me and the entire Design Team on Wednesday’s Blog Hop. We had such a fun time celebrating at our Release Party.
The designers are still creating. This week’s two bonus projects come from Denise Marzec and Cindy Royal.

Autumn Tweetings Card by [...]