Welcome to the Grand Vacation Achievers hop for June. This month we are featuring our favorite products from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalog. You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog (Chris Slogar) or may have come from the person previous to me in the list. If … Continue reading
Category Archives: Challenges
Occasions Catalog Sneak Peek Blog Hop
Welcome to the Grand Vacation Achievers hop for December. This month we are previewing items from the 2017 Occasions Catalog. These items will be available starting January 4. You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog (Chris Slogar) or may have come from the person previous … Continue reading
Candy Cane Lane
I knew this one was going to include gingerbread houses and gingerbread men, and I had fun playing with pieces until I came up with a lane of houses. The smaller houses are cut from the Candy Cane Lane designer paper. The larger house in the foreground is from the … Continue reading
A Couple of Challenges
In addition to this week’s color requirement, I decided to also challenge myself to make a one-layer card. I used a stamp set that has quickly catapulted into my favorites, though I had a hard time using it at first. The set is “Totally Trees”, and the hardest part of … Continue reading
“Inspired by Nature” Blog Hop
Welcome to the Grand Vacation Achievers hop for October. The theme this month is “Inspired by Nature”. You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog (Chris Slogar) or may have come from the person previous to me in the list. If you get off track at … Continue reading
Halloween Greetings
This sketch gave me a good opportunity to use my “Spooky Fun” pieces for one last Halloween card. The Halloween Night suite of products is the perfect complement to “Spooky Night” and the Halloween Scene edgelits. I have also thrown in stars from the Metallic Enamel Shapes collection. Thank you … Continue reading
Holly Jolly Layers
Here’s a color combination that I wasn’t excited about at this time of year. I have been embracing my warm fall colors and traditional Christmas colors. But guess what?! It turns out that these are great Christmas colors! I really wanted to use my Hostess Set “Holly Jolly Layers”, so … Continue reading
Spooky Fun
I planned to make a daylight landscape with various patterns for the “hills” that I saw in this sketch. As it turned out, I couldn’t pass up the cool spotty print from the Halloween Night collection. It made the perfect night sky. The Halloween Scenes edgelits and coordinating stamp set … Continue reading
Ultimate Pink Blog Hop
Welcome to the first ever Ultimate Pink Blog Hop – a collection of ideas from Stampin’ UP! demonstrators all over the globe featuring shades of pink in honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month. With one in eight women affected by breast cancer, it is a rare person who has no personal … Continue reading
A Haunted House
I was feeling like something spooky for this sketch challenge… …and there is so much great stuff for Halloween in the Holiday Catalog, so it was easy! I used the Halloween Night designer paper collection in the background and the Sweet Home bundle for the house. I CASEd the house … Continue reading