06-22-25

 Hello-

I hope anyone dealing with this heat wave is able to stay cool.  Have you seen the gorgeous inspo photo over at Just Us Girls?  I have an old long time favorite poppy stamp from Hero Arts that came out to play. 

 

Its colored in a no line style.  The actual stamp had a lot of lines in it which I don't care much for, but I do love the lay out of the stamp.  The sentiment was found in my sentiment folder and I cannot remember which die its from. The sentiment perfectly brought in the sky and sand colors for those lovely poppies.

 

 

 Thanks so much for visiting.

 

 

Stamps	HA Delicate Blossoms
Dies	Unknown bit left over
Inks, Markers	HA soft sand, Copics R 5,17,29; YG 63,67, 100, white jelly roll
Embossing	none
Stencils	none
Embellishments	none
Papers/Cardstock	Recollections

 

 

06-01-23

Hi There-

I did conk out yeaterday around 6:30 pm post afternoon crafting.  After waking I was back in my crafty space. 

We found out during a video chat that our nephew and his girlfriend became engaged. They are a sweet young couple. Two people who have goals and are hard working. They are so good together.  I needed to make a card to send them our congratulations and love.

I took inspiration from CAS on Friday asking for embossing and Can you handle the pressure which has an optional twist of birds/birdhouses.  The SU set sweet songbirds came out of the new bin to make this card:

 

  

 First of the month and its time for the next calendar page. Thank you Bonnie for the calendar file. 

Thanks for stopping by to visit!

04-03-23

 Greetings...how is it April already?

Today I did some inkblending on a one layer card with some masking along two edges.  This card is going to visit two challenges.  Stamping Sensations and Beautiful Blossoms.

 I used Altenew inks in Sunkissed and Coral Bliss on both the inking and the Stampin Up blooms.  The stems are Evergreen, and black versafine for the Ellen Hudson Sentiment.  I love this style of card and its been a long time since I played with some masking and inking.

 

Thanks much for visiting.

02-13-23

 Hello-

Happy almost Valentine's Day.  I have a couple of cards to share today.  The stamp set from Stampin Up just grabbed me immediately with the adorable cats. There are three, and I have shown two of them here. The third may make a great anniversary card. We'll see.

The first is going to the galleries at Cupcake Inspirations and Inspired by Challenge.

I was inspired by the patterns on Cupcake Challenges, and chose a patterned paper to add color to my base card. The embossed white clouds were inspired by the white heart plates in the photo at Inspired by challenges.

  

 

My second card is visiting Tic Tac Toe.  I was inspired by the middle row Red, Free, Love sentiment.

 Thanks so very much for visiting.

10-8-22

 Hello again-

I honestly don't know where the time goes, though this week was my "work" week when I am helping hubs with his business. 

I thought it would be a good day to make a few cards.

I started with the Card Concept challenge, I loved the colors used in the inspiration photo. I am going to call this style clean and layered, I think the inked background takes it away from clean and simple. The trees are an SU die and the blending is DOX inks in mustard seed, carved pumpkin, candied apple, and villainous potion. The sentiment comes from Close to My Heart.  I thought the finished card was also good for the gallery at Four Seasons- fall.

 

I liked Amy's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and the design evolved into this along with some inspiration from Double D's Challenge - Oktoberfest, the tree colors in the upper left mood board drew me in.

The paper is from Stampin Up, the mouse in the leaves is from MFT, and the sentiment is from CTMH. It was fairly easy to round it out on a block to stamp inside the circle.

   

That's it for today, enjoy your weekend. Thanks so much for visiting.

04/24/22

 Hello-

The sun is shining today and I have my window open.  It's almost 80 outside, and about 70 inside. Today is yellow day...I have three cards with yellow; one each for Colorful Options, CAS on Friday, and Day of the Month Club.

First up for Colorful Options, I had to make those SSS crocus' in yellow. Crocus come in several colors including pink, yellow, purple, orange and white.

 

I wanted those blooms to really stand out.

Next up for California Poppy Day at Day of the month club...

This is an older Technique Tuesday stamp. I colored with copics. ITs really a lovely orangey yellow IRL.

And For CAS on Sunday had a sketch. I used some DSP from Stamping up. One bit for the square and the daffodil was cut from another sheet. A few gold bits of bling and that is it.

Below are the graphics for the various challenges.

     

Thanks for visiting.

 

12-4-21

 Hello-

I am getting close to giddy...or insane. I have two cards left to make and then...I can just play or more likely take some time off and bake cookies and watch Hallmark Christmas movies.

I was inspired by two challenges to make these cards, Inspired By Challenge and Tic Tac Toe. 

I used the center column at Tic Tac Toe, and that soft blue/Aqua snowflake inspiration photo from Inspired by and came up with these three cards.  My favorite is the third card...probably the delicate snowflake that had one arm break off...but tucking it in solved that problem.

   

 

Thanks much for visiting.  Hopefully by Monday, all my cards will be in the mail. Today is booster shot day. Take care.

11-22-21

 Hi...another start of the week. My agenda is still the same - finish those Christmas Cards.

I have a few cards for a few challenges, starting with The Male Room Challenge and Watercooler Wednesday.

    

Next up is Double D Challenges and Die Cut Diva's:

This is a mini slimline...and you know what...its the perfect size to pop a check into! 

The stamp is an old beloved Hero Arts stamp, stamped once in the middle of the card then once on each end. Some light inking around the trees and then a double layer of the scalloped frame. Also inked the card base edges.

    

 

And my last card for this post is visiting Tic Tac Toe Challenge and the Card Concept.

   

For my clean and simple card I went with the top left to right bottom diagonal - Plaid, Wreath, Red.

Thanks so very much for visiting. Time to go cook.

11-20-21

Hey There -

A quick post since this time of year not many of us have time for much more than glancing at the photos.

   

My winter penguin thank you card is going to visit the galleries at:

Critter Crazy Challenge, The Sisterhood of Crafters and Craft Rocket Challenges 

Stamp-Newton's Nook (Penguin Pile), SU snowflake sequins, PPP gems, SSS Sentiment (from Us).

11-6-21

 Hello and Happy Weekend!

 The last 4 of my fall cards are below and now I can move on to the Christmas cards.

In order of challenge expiration date I have 4 cards for 4 challenges:

Tic Tac Toe is a weekly challenge and my entry is this card using the center column of prompts.

Next Up is Addicted to CAS-

 

 

Next up is Four Seasons Challenge:

 

 

And If You Give a Crafter a Cookie:

Now to clean up my mess and get the cards ready for mailing on Monday.  Thanks so much for visiting.

11-1-21 2nd

 Hi there, 

I'm back with one more card for today. 

The theme over at the Inky Paws Challenge is plaid. 

 While I have the NND Gingham stencil, I don't have the plaid. I did manage to find some Plaid paper in fall colors to build my card.  I used Paw-Tum Newton stamp set along with the Frames and Flags dies to cut each of the layers on the card. 

I colored with pencils and used a blending pencil to smooth out the colors. I did place a lil pumpkin on top of the bird that rests at the bottom right of the milk can because I wanted another pumpkin and it seemed the perfect place.

 

 

Thanks much for visiting, have a great evening.