04-12-26

 Hello-

We are having a lovely sun shining day here in northwest Ohio.  I have a card visiting two of Diane and Darlene's challenges: Fourseasons Spring Season April and Stencil Fun Challenge.

 

 

This sweet bouquet comes from Pink Fresh along and the suite includes stencils and dies. Sign me up! No quicker way to make a card from my perspective.  Altenew inks  were used, the image and sentiment were stamped in versafine black and clear heat embossed so there is a bit of texture for the main image. 

The three blooms can be diecut as well and lifted above the image, next time perhaps.

     

 Thanks much for stopping by.

04-10-26

Hi friends.

I have a Birthday card for you today. One for a niece.  I struggle with man cards and cards for teens, tweens and down to toddlers.  I hope this one works for a soon to be 13 year old.

The image and sentiments were stamped, diecut and sent to me several years ago. I was first starting to make cards for the newest and younger nieces and nephews my Dads remarriage brought to the family. I had asked crafty friends for suggestions, and received quite a few envelopes of stamp offs.  I've kept them all, and am so grateful for lovely friends.

I am submitting this to the gallery at As you See it. Birthday cards are probably the second most in volume of the types of cards I make.

Thanks for stopping by!
 

03-31-26

 Hello Friends,

Here is a card made for a dear bloggy friend's birthday today.  She's confirmed she has received it so I am posting it although it was made almost a month ago.

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Birthday Hilary.

 

03-30-26

 Hi There,

A few cards that haven't been posted:

 Then I was adding to the thank yous...with a sweet gifted cat set of stamps and dies.

That is it for now. Have a lovely day. Thanks for visiting.

 

03-25-26

 Hello-

I am filling up holes in my stash.  For this group of cards my focal image is a stencil from Waffle Flower. Its the NPC Peony stencil. It fits on a smaller postage stamp die.  I used altenew inks in one of the pink families and a green one. The blue is blue print sketch distress ink. The sentiments are from Altenew.

  

 

Since my stash is so low I am making multiples of most cards.  Someone is going to have to employ some problem solving skills on one of these cards. It opens on the wrong side.  

 

On another thing I wanted to share...I have poor grip strength, to the point of thumb joint pain when I release my hands from a squeeze.  So glue, which is my go to, has been challenging.  Peggy gifted me the 

precision glue press.  At first that worked well, but once a bit of glue was out it was not a good tool for my and my hands.  Fortunately, I recently found the We R Makers glue squeeze.  It looks like a mini caulking gun and I've been using it for about a month. That was 35+ cards and almost a full refillable cylinder of glue used with no hand issues.

Has anyone else found a new fun and useful tool?

Thanks for stopping by.
 

 

03-18-26

Hi Friends,

Its been a minute again.  Today, four cards four challenges.  

 Four Seasons Challenge, I took inspiration from the baskets and the bunny.   

 Double D Challenge - The Cross was my inspiration along with the pastel colors.   

 For Freshly Made Sketches:

 

 Crazy is our fame, Stencils are our game:   

 

 

 

                        

          

 

Thanks so much for visiting! 

02-26-26

 Hello-

Sympathy cards are up this time. Another new set of stamps and dies used, these from Stampin Up Friendly Foliage. In addition SU's Burlap and MFT's Everything wonderful sentiments. The frame dies are from Pink Fresh -- Stitched Scalloped Rectangles.

 

Off to the kitchen, stuffed peppers tonight! 

Thanks for stopping by. 

02-22-26

 Hello-

Building up my stash of cards and trying to get through my new stuff.  Two items from Stampin Up:

Hugs and Healing and Painted Stripes. Found some scraps of patterned paper that worked as well. 

 

I enjoyed my evening of just coloring and playing. No challenges just play...and it felt great. 

Thanks for visiting. 

02-21-26

 Hello-

 

For a dear friend's birthday. 

Stamp Set = SU Impressions Abloom Sentiment Waffle Flower Birthday Wishes

I am trying to get back into the groove, but I think I need to keep it simple when it comes to the blogging. I'll try to list the stamps, dies and EF's. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

 

01-20-26

 Hi

Another afternoon in my craft room.  Today's card is inspired by Inkspirational shades of blue.

Since I had the SU Thankful Garden stamp, stencil and die set out; I used it again; this time the second image. I do love a hydrangea. I started with Balmy Blue SU card stock. I stenciled the confetti with one of the stencils in the Celebration Steamers set. The white I used is from Hammermill. The bloom was stenciled with Altenew inks in Olive and Moss; Iceberg, Eastern Sky, Ultamarine. Black ink was both Versafine Tuxedo Black and Memento Black Onyx. The sentiment is from Waffle Flower - Birthday Wishes. The embossed panel is from SU's Lovely Stripes and cut with SSS's Chunky A2 Scalloped Rectangles. The rounded gems are from Pink Fresh.
 

Thanks much for stopping by.