08-21-24

 Greetings-

I made it up to my crafty space today and made a few cards.  I am definitely suffering from my creative muscles not being up to par. 

Unfortunately they are not likely to improve in the short run.  

I have been feeling under the weather the last week or so, but feeling better today and yesterday. So hopefully on the mend.

 Hubs and I have a busy few months ahead of us.

I'll still be making cards here an there, but I am going to pull back from posting.  I'll still be looking at all your loveliness as well, but at more random intervals and likely won't be commenting much.  I hope to be back late fall, definitely before the end of the  year.

So I leave you with today's cards.  Apparently I was in a pink mood...lol

 Happy crafting everyone, and I'll see you again in a few months.  

Love and Hugs.

08-09-24

 Hi there,

I have so many cat stamps...I might just make a year of cat cards...lol.

This birthday card is for a cat lover and I hope she likes it.  I am sending it to Seize the Birthday, with toppings of cute critters, and  Love Those Pretty Papers (no option) challenge galleries.

The kitties and the rug come from Avery Elle, the floor board die cut was a gift,  but I think its Penny Black, and the paper is from SU.  I thought it made an excellent wall paper. The sentiment is from Spellbinders.

Thanks much for visiting.

 

07-29-24

 Hello-

July has been quite hot and humid and I struggle with both. There were few visits to the craft room this month.

 When I got my foiling machine I bought quite a few plates and sentiment sets.  One plate was the Spellbinders Anemone...not realizing I had the die as well already.  So I ended up gifting it to the lovely Hilary of the blog Fiddling About.   

Since we had a similar image we decided to each make a card and post it using the Anemone...me the die and Hilary the foil version. 

I started with some gold foil paper to cute the die, and then cut it again with some berry burst SU card-stock inorder to inlay the color pieces. I used a marker to color the center pieces black.

I used the WRMK sticky folio to get minuscule glue dots onto the gold diecut.  I promptly laid it down onto a card front, turned it over burnished it real well then discovered it was put backwards onto the card.  GROAN... So, following my rule to try never to toss a card, I used the shadow die to cut it out of the card base and was able to pop it up with dimensionals onto the front of another card base...so all in all a happy accident. 

A foiled sentiment also from Spellbinders was added to the front and the card is complete.  

Now please go pop over to Fiddling About and she what is sure to be a lovely creation from Hilary.

Thanks for visiting.

07-25-24

 Hey there -

Can you believe it July is almost over.  And sadly today is my last post as Guest Designer at Just Us Girls Challenge.  I had such fun making these cards.

This week the challenge is:

I have quite a few stencils, so this was fun. I pulled something new from my waiting to be used stash.

I do love a stencil set that does not rely on stamps. Wild Blooms from Papertrey Ink fits the bill and is so very easy to use.  Love that. Altenew Inks were used in Wisteria and Hydrangea, Fresh Lemon, Firefly and Grass Field. I did not try to get even coverage on the stencils, I like the light and dark within the main color on the petals and the leaves.

I thought the drama of a dark cardbase would set off the gold embossed Ellen Hutson sentiment.

I hope you are inspired to play along with us and I look forward to seeing your creation in the Jugs gallery.

Thank you so much to the Just Us Girls team and Vicki for the invite. I enjoyed it tremendously.

Glad you could visit!

7-18-24

 Hello-

Time for another Guest Designer Post with the wonderful team at JUGS.  There is a fabulous mood board to get your mojo going.

The teals and the palms spoke to me for the creation of this card:

Here is a larger view of the mood board:

I hope you will all join in and play along at JUGS.  I look forward to seeing your fabulous creations in the gallery.

Thanks much for stopping by.

(stamps - Stampin Up Oceanfront and Paradise Palms)