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.

 

       

 

 

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.

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! 

11-11-25

 Hello-

Its the early hours of the day.  

To all the Veterans, Thank you for your service. 

Having grown up with my Dad in the military, I have a high level of respect and gratitude for all they do. 

For this card I pulled out an oldie, but fun stampset.  I will be submitting the card to the As You See It Challenge (Harvest), Four Seasons (fall), and If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (Fall Leaves and Turkey time Inspo pic I loved all the orange shades).

 Some stamping, coloring, fussy cutting, thin mats, and a big sentiment.  This one took me a couple of hours to get through.  But it felt more flowing, so I am making progress getting back into the grove. 

• Stamps:  Paper Smooches Welcome Autumn
• Dies: SU Stitched Nested Label Dies
• Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black , Versamark
• Markers: Copic E39, 41,42; Y32,36; G07,09; YR04,09,15
• Papers:  Hammermill, SU Tangelo Twist, SU Pumpkin Pie. Recollections
• Embossing: White Hero Arts ep, SU Basketweave ef

 

           

Thanks so much for visiting! 

 

 

 

11-11-23

 Hello-

Its been  a while since I posted.  And it was hard to get back into the groove.  I still need to make Christmas cards, but thought I'd throw in a Thanksgiving card today.  As I looked out my window the sun was coming over the house and a golden glow hit the trees in back...

So leaves and Thanksgiving are my starting points for this card.  I cut several large leaves from the Greetery in white and pounced some ink on.  sss Schoolhouse red, sss  orange peel, and sss green leaf. 

To blend it all together and add that golden light I added sss duckling at the end.

I cut and inked up 4 leaves, and decorated the front leaving room for my SU die cut sentiment.

The card will be visiting galleries for Just Us Girls, Just Add Ink, and Fourseasons Fall.

   

On a personal note---

Hubs and I visited my Dad and family in Utah for a few weeks in October.  This time we did not drive across the country but flew instead.  For me this was a big step.  Covid changed me from the fearless lets do it to a very cautious person.  The thought of flying confined with so many other people gave me concerns.  However, I knew my knees would not be happy cramped for 4 days of car travel.  I did splurge and get seating at the very front of the flight.  Much more leg room, and wider seats made it easier for me to maneuver around.  An added bonus, I didn't feel all the people around us. Although the flight was full and I saw everyone getting on the plane I did not freak out! YAY.  

In about 4 hours we were in Salt Lake.  We had a few days of sight seeing, a birthday party, a poker tournament with my Dad along with some leaf peeping.  Then I got sick...not covid...but it was a respiratory virus. I was in bed a couple of days and taking it easy a few more.  But that left time to hang out and play with the dog, and pet the cats even Digger who is a one man cat.  Digger allowed pets, a first time in 10 years.

Fortunately hubs didn't get sick until after we got home; this was a first as he usually gets sick west of the Mississippi and then shares it with me.  I am looking forward to our next flight out...even though I can now never sit back in economy again.  I've been spoiled...will have to watch for another bargain.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

08-14-23

 Hey There-

The heat has kept me downstairs for a bit along with more TV binging.  I went through Homeland, I am a lover of spy/political thriller novels, movies and tv so this was seat gluing for me. Now I am trying to go a bit slower through Billions. It has grabbed my attention.  Pre-Season football has started and I had my first football nap of the season on Sunday...sleeping 1/2 way through the first quarter to the last 5 minutes of the fourth. But, I did manage to get a few cards made.

I have cards to share to these three challenges: Just Add Ink, Fourseasons, and AAA Birthday.

First up: 

 Just Add Ink is calling for Clean and Simple.

  

Next up is Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is anything goes.

  

And my third card goes to AAA Birthday:

AAA has anything goes as well

 

Thanks for visiting! Hope you are staying cool.

 

06-21-23-2

 Hello again-

I had meant to get this posted June 8th, but life got in the way. 

I am submitting this to Fourseasons June - Anything Goes... Its a recently retired set from Stampin Up and I love the images for masculine cards.  The leaf frame from Altenew was sent by a crafty friend. I thought it worked well with the smaller scene and the feel of the card.

 

 Thanks for stopping to visit!

5-11-23

 Hello-

I have two cards to share for two challenges: 

This clean and simple anniversary card featuring MFT's  Tweet Memories is going to the gallery at The Card Concept. I chose the "B" challenge photo inspiration. The sentiment is a conglomeration of several sets.

 

 

Next up is a fun fold card for Four Seasons:  

 A combination of patterned papers and an SU stamp called Marigold Moments. I thought they could easily be carnations too...and I loved that spray of lilacs in the upper left corner of the inspiration photo.

 

 

I am having a hard time getting my muse going again after our mini get away. I still have to unpack one bag and we have been home a week.  I got half the laundry done last weekend, and am working on the other half now.  Since the weather has been getting nice, I am now obsessed with getting my winter closet swapped out for summer...and then there are the ever present delays in sleeping.  When I am awake and energized to work, hubs is slumbering and I can't bang around making noises. Hope to do some catching up today as I was awake 2 hours earlier than usual.  

Thanks for stopping by.

04-07-23

 Hello-

I am sharing one of my all time favorite cards today.  It was a lot of work...I think there were close to 20 steps with each stamping, die cutting, trimming and gluing parts.  I think the end result was worth the time it took to make this card, but I probably won't do it again for a batch of 20.

I am  submitting this to Four Seasons Anything Spring and Time out Challenges photo (fence and flowers).

 

  

Thank you for stopping by.

02-18-23

 Happy Saturday...

I had  a lovely crafting time with Peggy via face time today.  

I found my inspiration in two challenges. Simon Says -  Emboss it, and Fourseasons -February anything Winter. 

 

 I used Simons Refined Snowflakes EF, and die cuts from MFT -pierced fancy flourish, and IO Skates.  The skates had some surgery and rearranging to fit my vision, but they worked out nicely. The greeting is from Lawn Fawn heat embossed in white.

 

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend.  No football tomorrow, so I'll probably be crafting again. Thanks for visiting.

9/3/22

 Greetings, 

Although I thought I had finished my Halloween cards, I got this one in my head after taking a gander at the challenge over at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, and the colors from Four Seasons September anything goes challenge added to the design as well.

 

I still had Stampin Up's Bewitching stamp set out and I hadn't played with all of the stamps yet. So I grabbed an embossed spider web panel (I had sold the ef, but ran a dozen panels through first to keep) and added the hat and shoes along with a die cut and layered boo sentiment from Simon Says Stamp. All were mounted onto a purple card base along with some black gems.

     

Thanks much for visiting.

06-06-22

 Hello-

I have a couple of cards to share with you today and they'll be visiting a few challenges. 

At Double D its white and one color (I hope my shades of brown as my one color works.)  

 

 

At Fourseasons - its June anything goes Summer. 

                                                                      

And lastly, at Challenge up your life, it is a Summer, fun in the sun theme.

   

It was a good crafty day- while catching up on the laundry.   Hope you are all doing well.  Thanks so very much for visiting.