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.
 

 

 

07-15-26

 Hello-

I have a card inspired by two challenges today. CAS on Sunday use dies and word stamps only. The beginning of the card is inspired by Can you handle the Pressure...with the option of stars and or stripes.  I had a panel of Honey Bee's Star Spangled Stars and off I went...

 

The embossing folder is Honey Bee, the Gnome is from Simon Says Stamp, the sentiment is from Technique Tuesday,  The gnome was colored with copics. I had such fun putting this one together.

Thanks for stopping by.

     

 

07-12-26

 Hi there-

Yesterday's mail brought a new Waffle Flower club purchase.  So I decided to play with it instead of putting it in my new stuff bin.

 This card will be visiting the gallery at The Paper Players, the colors were perfect for these sweet cupcakes. I used inks on the cupcake stencils and some glittery paste on the confetti and the sprinkles adding texture and sparkles.

  

And this is such a cool set.  Its got stencils for coloring the cupcakes and a coverplate to define the cupcakes. The cupcakes are attached to the full sheet only by a touch at the top of the swirl and the bottom of the liner - So they snip out easily for more uses. This is the second card.

 This card is visiting the gallery at Simply Clean and Simple. They are asking for a birthday theme.

  

Thanks so much for coming by. 

07-04-26

 Hello and Happy 250th to the United States.  

I remember the 200th birthday, times were easier, and simpler.  Its not just that I am 50 years older...humanity has changed sadly.

On to the celebrating:

I had the stamp set for this stencil and wish I would have looked closer at it.  I could have stamped all the blue fields with white stars...instead I stenciled versamark and added white embossing powder over the blue fields through the stencil. Next year...lol. I make less than a handful of 4th cards as I am usually not on the ball enough to make more.

For those celebrating...enjoy and stay safe. 

07-02-26

 Hi There,

It is HOT...thank goodness for a cool crafty space.

 I love a good coneflower and this one from Stampin Up is a beauty. It’s so well illustrated that you can make a flat mailing card with some quickly drawn shadows and it looks dimensional. 

Thanks for stopping by.

06-25-06

 Hi Again...

It feels good to be back in the craft room and feeling good about my cards.

Another early July Birthday.

The paper is from Newton's Nook and the stamp is from Inky Antics - Time to Celebrate.
 

I'm sending this to Seize the Birthday - no toppings and  Die Cut Diva's anything goes.

        

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

06-24-26

Hello-

I made it to the craft room again...I have several early July birthdays and the cards need to get to the mail.  This was inspired by The Card Concept Challenge Colors. The card's style is clean and layered. 

 

Thanks so very much for visiting,