08-03-26

 Hi there...

Its been ages since I played along with Color Hues, so I was determined to do it today.

Mostly Stampin Up stuff...A round of Hellos stamp set. Paper-Every Day Happiness, Night of Navy and Hammermill, Inks-Night of Navy and Lost Lagoon. I could swear I had the round punch that went with this set but its hiding...no worries a pink fresh circle die worked just as nicely. One random teal gem to tie the flower to the stem and leaves. It takes me longer these days to make a card.  I used to whip em out in less than an hour.  Gotta make more cards and get that muscle memory back. This took an hour and a half...of course there were the usual design changes...lol.

  

Thanks so very much for visiting. 

08-02-26

August already...wow.

I have one card for two challenges. This card will visit Cas on Friday - Flowers and As You See It - Summer Days. 

 I had to use that spellbinders sunflower die again, and that fabulous sentiment from Technique Tuesday.

 

  

 Thanks so much for visiting.

07-29-26

 Hi all-

I've been futzing in my crafty space most of the day.  Its been enjoyable...but only produced one card.

I took inspiration from Freshly Made Sketches.  I have been going through my baskets and this is another not used stamp set from MFT. The embossing folder is from Stampin Up.  I had fun minus the fussy cutting and am kinda crushing on it.
 

  

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07-27-26

Hi Friends,

After hosting poker (just for fun no money exchanges hands) at our house this weekend, I thought poker would be a perfect hobby card for  The Male Room. That embossed frame and birthday sentiment also make it a candidate for Can You Handle the Pressure with a twist of celebration.

The stamp set was a gift from a crafty friend, and the embossing folder is from Darice.

 Hubs and I love playing poker and we are not fond of sitting at the dining room table...so our dining room is our game space. Board games, poker, chess, cribbage, backgammon and darts. 

 

 

  

 

We mostly have the table as a regular dining surface, but it does become a lovely 6 seat poker table. 

 

Thanks much for stopping by.

 

     

 

 

02-24-26-2

Hello...again...

I had one more card in me so I thought I'd get it done and consider today a fabulous day in the craft room.

This card is for the As you see it challenge.  The theme is a recipe for happy yellow flowers.  How could I resist.

 A new stamp from Stampin Up.  I did have a bit of trouble with it...but it was likely user error.  I just didn't want to start over.  So the bold sentiment worked well for my personal struggles...lol. Since I had managed to smudge several places...covering up the worst of it and then adding random drop shadows I think I am going to call it artistic license and be happy.

 

• Enamel dots - check
• Large bold sentiment - check
• Shades of yellow- check
• Die cut- check(sentiment with shadow) 
• Flower-check 

 

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02-24-26

 Hi There,

Today after seeing so many snowman cards as I strolled trough blogland, and my radio station playing a set of Christmas in July tunes...I decided I needed to get started on my holiday cards. Five of my favorite snowman/men stamps and I was on a roll getting 5 cards completed. All very simple but each brought a smile as I was creating.  They will be visiting Loll's CAS Christmas challenge where the theme is Snowman.

 

 

And lastly I couldn't resist playing with this snowperson family.  Its just an adorable stamp.

 

 

 Thanks much for visiting.

 

 

07-22-26

Hello -

Today is a perfect weather day...72 degrees with a slight breeze...reminds me of San Diego. I do love the four seasons here in Ohio so I am enjoying each one.

This spellbinders Sunflower die has made it into my stash thanks to that wallet loosener Michele.  IF only her cards were not just absolutely brilliant; I would have more money in my wallet...lol. She's not the only crafty friend whose work has loosened my purse-strings. More on that in future posts.

This card is visiting Fourseasons - Summer. The upper left grid with its abundance of blooms and the pinks and yellows inspired this card.  Since the die is new, I'll be sending this over to Darnell's NBUS - Mutual Apppreciation challenge. 

 

I cut 6 flowers of each color, and 6 centers, then 3 of each color of the center frame. At first I was going t make the blooms one color with double petal layers...but after playing around I liked the two shades on each bloom. With two opens spots I popped in just two centers to take a bit of that white away. The sentiment is black foiled sentiment also from Spellbinders.  I added a soft pink panel on the interior as well. Its a difficult to photograph card, but this photo was the best of a handful.

 

Thanks much for visiting.

 

       

 

 

07/20/2026

Hello 

Today's card features paper by Stampin Up (waterside retreat) and an old but favorite Stampin Up set called Wetlands.

A fairly quick card, just stamping, cutting, gluing and a touch of inking and its done. 

I'm sending this one to Love those Pretty Papers including the theme of coastal. It's also traveling to Just Us Girls with their summery mood board and also to The Paper Players - going to the beach.

Thanks for stopping by. 

        

 

07-18-26

 Hi Friends,

Another bit of time stolen away in the craft room.  Another new item, a spellbinders embossing and cutting folder.

 First I have to say I am glad cardstock has two sides.  I do not like to toss out pieces that don't go as planned.  And this one did not.  I colored the blooms and then somehow got a spluge on one of the blooms...I was just using a brush with ink and kinda swirling on the raised parts.  So I turned it over and went at it again. I kinda liked how it turned out so I popped it on a green card base, found some linen thread to create a line for my gold foiled sentiment strip. I added pearls to two of the colored flowers and itsy bitsy ones to each of the tiny flowers that have no color.

 

The card is visiting Tic Tac Toe with the left to right diagonal friendship, free, embossing, and Triple B July. I do love that center panel.

     

Thanks very much for visiting.  Stay cool. 

07-17-26

Hi Friends,

I spent the day in my craft room. I have way too much in my new stuff bins.  Yes bins. Yikes. I pulled out a bunch of Waffle Flower Postage Collage stencils and went to work. 

For Crazy is our fame, Stencils are our game (no option):

 

This one has 6 stencils and took a bit of time to get all the inking done.  I pretty much followed the suggested colors.

 

Next up is Just Add Ink - Stencils and/or dies:

 

 This one was a bit quicker to ink up and I love that silly seagull in the long stamp.

 

And the 3rd card is going to The Card Concept I'll call the style freestyle collage. 

 

It was a nice day spent with inks, stencils and that amazing die. 

 

 

     

 

 

Thanks for visiting.