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.

 

       

 

 

01-19-26

 Hello

Its lovely and wintry here in Northwest Ohio.  I have to say I am enjoying it.  Then again I don't have to go out in it, I can just admire the pristine white views from under a cozy throw or my crafty desk.

This card will be visiting Can You Handle the Pressure.  The optional theme is a friendship card...this birthday card is going to a friend...I might be pushing it. It does fit the anything goes category though.

The embossing folder is SU's Timeworn Type.  Bloom, stencils and dies for the main image are from SU's Thoughtful Garden. Paper is Hammermill white, SSS Lemon Chiffon. SSS's Chunky A2 Scalloped Rectangles added some curves. The sentiment with matching die is from Waffle Flower - Birthday Wishes.  I used Altenew inks in Bamboo, Olive, Fresh Lemon, Citrus Burst and Honey Drizzle. I also use some yellow crystals...not sure who they are from.  

Many of the items used came from my overflowing bins of new stuff so I am especially loving the card and new toys. I'lll be posting at Darnell's NBUS #82 as well. 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day. 

06-24-25

 Hey there-

Today I have a quick card for you.  I had some new goodies so I figured I'd play with them before they got filed. I have to be better at using my new stuff before it becomes dust collecting NBUS.

 This is a double stamping set from SU. I am sending it to AAA Cards, CAS card with the option of making the sentiment focus.  Since its new, it'll go over to Darnell's NBUS challenge as well.

 

Stamps	Delightful Wishes
Dies	none
Inks, Markers	SU So Saffron, Daffodill Delight, Old Olive, Copic E55,Y19 Memento Tuxedo Black
Embossing	none
Stencils	none
Embellishments	SU pearls
Papers/Cardstock	Hammermill

 

   

 As always, I appreciate that you take the time to stop by and comment. Have a lovely day.

2-9-24

 Greetings,

Recently my Dad and his wife sent me a surprise early birthday present...A Gemini foiling machine.  I had added it to my wishlist on Facebook and just a few hours later got a message from Amazon that something was on its way. I was surprised, delighted an overcome when I opened that message.

What followed is a round of shopping for hot foiling plates. One plate was perfect for Valentines. I made a handful of panels as  practice with a spellbinders hearts plate in red and pink foil.  I thought it would make a cute Valentine if it was a little card, so I cut my card bases to 1/2 of an A2 sized card. I colored a cute penguin from MFT,  and die cut a circle around it. 

I'm sending this card to As You See It , Nbus, and We love stamping.

I enjoyed working with a different size.

   

Thanks much for stopping by. Have a great weekend.

07-13-2023

 Hello-

I've been binging on television...Wimbledon in the mornings and early afternoons and then the WSOP Main Event poker tournament in the evenings until the wee hours.  

I've got the tourney on now, up in my crafty space they are down to 25 from 10043 entrants.  So this will be a quick post. I die cut some blooms and did a bit of gluing while binging.

 

A die cut panel from a crafty friend...not sure who-in my cleaning and  organizing zeal I didn't think to add post it notes, but thank you just the same! The blooms are from MFT's newest card kit. The sentiment comes from Ellen Hutson.

I am adding this card to these galleries:

Triple B: July, We love Stamping, and Stamping Sensations...all calling for flowers.  And because the flower dies and the sentiment are new, NBUS.

Thanks much for visiting.

 

04-09-22

 Hello-

The man card. My nemesis, and I seem to have more men in our family than women.  Arrrrgggghhh. So I have to make man cards.  I decided a while ago that they would have to be nature cards or in the colors of nature.

A new stamp set to my collection is featured, Paradise Palms from SU. The card will be visiting the galleries of Craft Rocket Challenges,  NBUS and We Love Stamping.

Its kind of a different front. The cardbase is the navy blue, its cut short on the front side to show the interior panels of torn paper and a strip of Kraft. The trees were stamped black and clear embossed. I added the inking over the embossed trees to finish the scene. The panel was matted in dark brown, and an aqua blue. The sentiment was added, then the focal panel was adhered to the shortened card front.

Thanks for visiting.

    

02-28-22

 Hello-

I fell in instant love with the MFT Sweet Tweeting Card kit. I don't often get the kits, but this one just grabbed me. I don't care for birds particularly...but this kit...I had to get it.  It arrived Friday, and today I opened it and got to work die cutting. 

 I am sending this card to the galleries at Cupcake Inspirations -Anything Goes and of course NBUS, though it is a bit un-aged.

 A bit of inking and then lots of die cuts. The birds were fairly easy to put together with the help of tweezers. 

  

Thanks for stopping by.

02-02-2022

 Hello-

Wow, February already?  

I have a new stamp set -- Flowing Flowers from Stampin Up and I also pulled out a fairly new die from Simon Says Stamp - Etched Delicate Frond. I used them both for this Thank You card.

I am having this go visit the galleries of Watercooler Wednesday, Cupcake Inspiration and NBUS#35.

 

 

On the personal front:

I haven't been doing much crafting do to a debilitating round of the lovely vampire hours; which thankfully I seem to be easing out of bit by bit. 

Three years ago I set a goal for myself to enter challenges and try to make cards that would gain a mention or a win each month.  To my surprise, I surpassed that goal and one year rolled to two then three and eventually made cardmaking feel like a job.  I stopped having fun making cards.

Today, I am appreciative of my Vampire hours. Since I made few cards in January and earned no mentions at all. 

I actually enjoyed making today's card.

That doesn't mean there will be a furry of posts for February; I didn't get more than the family covered for Valentines and the Olympics are starting...I might have glimpsed a few seconds of curling when I got up at 4:30 this morning.  I love the winter Olympics so I do imagine I will be spending lots of time watching.

So thank you all for visiting and I appreciate your comments.

10-22-21

 Hello-

I saw two sunflower challenges this week and I remembered the Flower Challenge wanted a shape to celebrate their 5th Birthday.  So This is the card that resulted from those bits of inspiration. Along with that challenge, the card will be visiting Double D, The Card Concept, and NBUS.

I broke out my new but never used Stampin Up Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and die set. I used only the sentiment from the stamp set, and used the dies for the remainder of the card. 

I cut the solid sunflower from a So Saffron card base leaving just a bit of the die off the folded edge. I then cut the outline and center portions from a lighter yellow cardstock.  I used brown ink to darken the centers. A white circle was cut to fit inside the sunflower, as that is the shape portion for this card and that's where a little note can be written.  I cut the two leaves from Jade cardstock and then used a copic marker to darken the vein and outline portion of the leaves.  I had a left over part of a card base left over after cutting the flower outline, that became the background to my card along with a piece of gingham paper.  The sentiment was stamped on the left over So Saffron.  

The only place this card opens is the sunflower, that is the shape for The Flower Challenge and I am calling this clean and layered for The Card Concept.

Thanks much for visiting.

 

One more card thinking of you

Hello-

When I saw the Fusion challenge, I knew it would be the perfect time to break out the new to me bee friends stamps and dies from Pretty Pink Posh. They are so cutely drawn.  I'll also be posting them over at NBUS #25.

A yellow card base in my favorite deep yellow shade, a hexagon coverplate partially weeded set the panel for my little bee scene.  Coloring was done with Copics and I am glad I had the matching dies for these fussy little pieces.  Lol.

This was fun to stamp, color, die cut and put together.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

In the pink

 Hello-

My dreaded vampire hours have returned. My days are flipped night for day.  The only productive thing I get done is catching up on reading.  I can't do laundry as our washer and dryer are near the bedroom and hubs is a light sleeper.  Ditto with my crafty space and its inherent noises (Paper cutter, heat gun...)

I have a  card today to post to a few challenges. CAS Mix Up Challenge, NBUS, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. 

At CAS Mix up we need to use a stencil with heat embossing.  My NBUS item is the stencil Peeking Chrysanthemums from Artplorations. Simon is asking for favorite technique- for me its still the magic of heat embossing which sucked me into this hobby.

I cut a slimline card base and inked up the stencil with Hero Arts Neon pink ink heavily at the center then very lightly towards the longer petals.  On the main bloom at the bottom I added versamark  then lifted the stencil to heat and add sticky embossing powder through the stencil and some very fine glitter after activating the sticky powder with heat. One more light heating and it was nicely glittered.  Lastly I added ink to the remaining images on the stencil but left them plain.  (The embossing changed the ink color just a bit, but I like that it keeps the focus on the bottom bloom.)

After adding the sentiment, I chopped off about an inch from the top of the card. The new dimensions are 7.5 inches by 3.5 inches. 

Below is a close up of the heat embossing.

Thanks so much for visiting.

Flower Swag

 I snuck away to my craft room for a few hours to play this morning.  I say snuck since I ignored laundry instead of hopping up to deal with it every 30 minutes or so.

You may have noticed that I stepped away from designing for Twofer Card Challenge, but I remain as Social Media poster.  I like that I can keep a hand in, but relax my schedule of cardmaking.

I have two cards today, they'll be visiting Twofer Card Challenge, CAS on Friday, NBUS and Color Hues.

As usual when I contemplate Twofer I pick my stamp, die or stencil first.  A new die that needed to make it out of its packaging was my choice of die for the cards.  The die is Flower Swag from SSS.

Next, I have to make a set of sketches -  if not I often make a VERY similar card...maybe changing up just the colors and the sentiment but not much the actual design of the card.

Together for Twofer

 Going to CAS on Friday and NBUS

I cut the die twice, color was added to the white layer 

and the black outline was placed on top.

Going to Color Hues and Nbus

Cut the edge die on the navy and the flower die on a piece of cream cardstock. 

I chose to leave it as an outline and added cream colored gems to the round opening.

Thanks so much for visiting.

Happy Halloween Cat

 Hi there -

I got a cute stamp in the mail from Peggy and I had to play with it right away. Its called Scaredy Cat from Sunny Studio. Its a small set with the cat image, a moon some stars and the sentiment.

First I used it for a card inspired by If You Give a Crafter a Cookie.  The challenge image is at the end of the post.

The image is colored with copics, the sentiment and stars are white heat embossed. The Circle panel is inked with  SSS Blue Violet ink, the paper is from Stampin Up as is the sliver/white ribbon. 

Next up is a card inspired by Double D Challenges, their mood board is below.

The coverplate is from Mama Elephant, and the background was inked with Distress Oxide inks in carved pumpkin, spiced marmalade, and worn lipstick. The sentiment was white heat embossed.

And since the kitty is new to me I am adding both to Darnell's NBUS challenge.

Thanks so much for coming by to say Hi!

Happy Birthday

Hello-

Its been a bit.  I'm having a mid summer slump. My mojo took off on vacation.  But none-the-less I pushed on today with a  new stamp set from Stampin Up.  Its been in my bin for a while, I thought my Father-in-Laws birthday was a good time to get it out.  The set is called Mountain Air.

I'll be sending this to a few galleries.  Watercooler Wednesdays, Stamping Sensations, Cupcake Inspirations, and as the set is new to me, NBUS#17.

   


Thanks so much for stopping by.