05-08-22

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms, Grandmas, Fur baby mamas, Godmothers, and chosen Mothers.

Today I have two cards for three challenges.  I spent my afternoon, playing with stamps, ink and copic markers.

For Fusion Card Challenge and Seize the Birthday I have a blue butterfly birthday card.

The sentiment is heat embossed, the gems are from SU, the stamps all come from MFT. 

      

This next card will be visiting CAS on Friday which requires numbers.  IT's for hubs, and I am ahead of the game as our anniversary isn't until the end of the month.

The bunny is from MFT, and the numbers are from The Greetery, the sentiment is from Sugar Pea Designs.

 
                                                   

 

05-03-22-2

 Greetings--

A conundrum.  Have you had a stamp set or sets that are similar to something shiny and new out there and you feel pulled toward the shiny and new...but your conscience says you have something very similar? 

I' find myself in that spot right now.  Usually, I can stick with the old and forget about the new...but this time I had to play with the old to see if I'd be satisfied.

Here is my card which I have pretty much CASED from my Stampin Up Demonstrator Brandy Cox. 

Her card is darling and I have one in my possession. So it was easy to CASE it.

I used SSS set Sending Happy Thoughts for the sentiment, and the blooms are from Altenew's Wildflower set. I used Altenew inks. Although I have the butterflies I didn't add them and I chose a colored card base instead of white.

Here is a link to Brandy's card - its actually a video.

The stamp sets are so similar...but the differences:

The SU bundled set comes with dies (I don't have dies for the Altenew set)

The Sending Sentiment comes as a die and stamp with a shadow layer and fits across the card front.

There is a cone flower (I love them) in the SU set.

The coordinating sentiments in the SU set are bigger easier to read and there are more than in the SSS set.

So...a decision must be made...What do you think?  Thanks for stopping by.

05-03-22

 Hello- 

For my bestie of 45+ years...

One perk of being an only child...I get to pick my sister and my bestie is her.  She and I grew up together and have weathered major life events together. Who knew when we met in crafts class as shy 8th graders the friendship would evolve and last a lifetime.  Happy Birthday, Evelyn sending much love.

She loves pink, so I think this will be well received!  I am also entering this to AAA Birthday Game.

 

Thanks for visiting.

4-30-22

Hello-

How is it May is almost here? Time is flying by.  

The theme at Time Out is spring, and I am sharing this lil bouquet in the gallery.

The flowers are from MFT, the wrap die is from MFT, the oval is from NND and the string and bow are from PPP.  I have feeling I am going to be die cutting lots of little blooms.

 

Thanks for visiting.

4-29-22

 Hello-

Today I am sharing a card I made as part of a collaborative blog post with Hilary from Fiddling About. 

Hilary is from England, and she is one of the nicest people I've met through crafting. I am so lucky to call her my friend. She makes lovely cards, several of which decorate my crafty space. Hilary is on several design teams, and if you haven't popped by her blog before take this opportunity to see her projects.

For our projects we both used the Hero Arts Museum Frame fancy die and at least one stencil on our projects, other than those two must haves we were free to design and create our cards.

I used cloud and grass stencils and die cut and colored crocus dies.

This is what I came up with:

 I can't wait to see what Hilary did, join me and hop on over to her blog.

Thanks for visiting.

04-27-22

 Hey There -

I am still trying to play with new stuff, as my bin is beyond full.  Today, I took out The Greetery's Spring Mix stamp, stencil and dies to make cards.  My thoughts are if you are going to use a layered stencil you might as well stencil several while you have the inks and brushes out.

I'll be sending some of these cards to The Card Concept, The Sisterhood of Crafters, and Addicted to Stamps.  All are the same design, different card bases and differing sentiments.

The above card is visiting :

The above card is visiting:

This last card is visting:

 

 

After cutting the panel first, and then layering the inks on by stencil and blending brush, I tried one where I stenciled first then cut out the panel. I much preferred the stenciling then cutting approach.

Thanks much for visiting.

4-26-22

 Hello-

ITs a bit of a drab day here...but that makes for a perfect combination of laundry and crafting time.

I started out with a card for the new Newtons Nook Challenge - Birthday Theme.

 

 A birthday card that saves the "Happy Birthday" for the inside sentiment.  These cuties in the flower pot are from a recent release (Newton's Blooms), I had to have them...so cute and mischievous. The set has a matching die.  I set them atop a couple of pieces of coordinating patterned papers and added a hand trimmed sentiment, also from the stamp set. A few matching mini pearls and the card is done.

 

 Thanks so 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.

 

04-22-22-2

 Hello Again-

Another set of new dies, gifted to me from Peggy. The set is one of Hero Arts looking glass sets along with the fancy frame.  To this I added an oldie but goodie stamp Birthday Background from MFT.

My inspiration for design was Die Cut Diva's.  I chose the top row of the board:

At least 2 layers not counting base ( I have 4)

Bling/ Glitter (that frame sparkles IRL)

Red 

 

I cut the scene dies from white paper and colored with copics limiting myself to primarys red, blue yellow and kept each layer mostly one color using the other two colors only for highlights on subsequent layers. The bottom layer was adhered flat to the card front - gold glitter paper, then the first scene (red pennants) was also glued flat to the gold layer. The blue pennant layer was popped up with foam as was the yellow pennant layer.  The red glitter frame was glued flat to the yellow layer.  I love the depth this card got and since I used very thin foam 1/16 inch the card is still very mail-able.

Thanks for visiting.

04-22-22

 Happy Friday -

Even having been retired for several years...there is still joy waking up on a Friday morning!  I am facetime crafting with Peggy today and I broke out some items from my new stuff bin.  The crocus dies are from SSS, and the background piercing pattern of leaves is from Honey Bee Stamps, the scalloped frame is Winnie and Walter ---I think, that perfectly frilly bow is from The Greetery.

I used wilted violet and peeled paint distress inks for the flowers.  This was inspired by the colors at Color Hues - Purple and Green.  No sentiment, I'll decide later.

 

 Thanks for visiting.