The Magic of Christmas

Hello friends, can you believe we are already into October?
It will be Christmas before you know it and if you have been playing along in our
Peace On Earth Christmas challenge all year you will have a pretty good
nice stack of holiday cards made.  If not then come on over get started before
the holiday sneaks upon us.

As usual we have a mood board for inspiration but you can create anything
as long as you stay within the Christmas theme. 

I inked up for the first time a Pink Ink Designs stamp and if you
are familiar with their stamps then you know that most are quite large
and this image is no exception.  I colored it in with a mix of Copics,
Olo's and Atenew markers.  The sentiment is an old Kaisercraft.  I used a few glitter
markers here and there. It is a very large card and a fun image.

Hope to see you at Peace On Earth!

Two Old Bats October 2025 Reminder

We are halfway thru our challenge at
Two Old Bats
and have a super fun and somewhat 'spooky'
inspiration board but you can create anything as long
as it it Halloween themed!

For this card I have to honestly say I 'dug' in my scraps of all Halloween
and came up with this scrap piece of paper and a bit of ephemera,
plus the black cat from a MS punch!

 We would love to see you over at Two Old Bats for some spooky fun!!

Happy Birthday

 Hello friends, at Double D we have a new theme and it is
Halloween Colors.
We have a spooky and somewhat creepy mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything in Halloween Colors.

Since I had pretty much created all the Halloween cards I wanted/need for the year
I went more with the Halloween colors of purple, orange and black.

I stenciled Pink Fresh Studios Floral Focus in those colors using Pink Fresh Studios
Chasing Sunsets inks and Altenew Enchanted Garden and Green Fields inks.
The sentiment is Sizzix Hello Sunshine.  A few gold half pearls were added.

As usual the DT has amazing creations, stop by and see them!!

Entering the following challenges:
Dream Valley #346 .... Add Pearls/Gems
Addicted To Stamps & More #503 .... Birthdays

Beautiful Blossoms October 2025

 Hello friends, look at this pretty bight and colorful inspiration
board for our October Beautiful Blossoms monthly challenge.
Doesn't it just cheer you up?

You can always use any color floral or be inspired by the colors
like I was!  I bought a few new floral stamps back on February

(because I didn't have many...hahaha, that is too funny)!!

But I saw this new Paper Rose release with the Sketchy stamps and

they had my name all over them!  This one is Sketchy Floral 'Thanks'
and I purchased them from Ecstasy a newer online shop to me I discovered last year, they 
have fabulous sales!  I colored my image in with Olo's and stamped a

sentiment from Spellbinders Garden Favorites stamped in Altenew Azurite ink.
I left it as is, so simple to mail with the cost of postage now.

Hope to see you at our pretty floral challenge at Beautiful Blossoms! 

Beautiful Autumn

Today at Can You Handle The Pressure challenge our OPTIONAL theme is
Fall Harvest, meaning anything fall, but of course we are an anything goes
challenge and the theme is always optional but the use of an embossing folder is a MUST!

I used a beautiful Lisa Horton Acorns and Pinecones EB folder
for the first time on a dark chocolate card stock.  The image and sentiment are
Graphic 45 press ons (rub ons as I call them) Autumn Greetings.
I left this card simple as I really wanted all the pretty embossing to shine it's pretty head!!

We would love to have you get out those EB folders and join
us at our Can You Handle The Pressure challenge.

Entering the following challenges:
Crafty Catz #702.... ATG/Dry or Wet Embossing

Autumn Leaves

 We are feeling FALL at The Sisterhood of Crafters.
Fall is our theme for this month as we move into October.

I had this panel already made using Graphic 45 press on's and it
fit into our theme perfectly and was easy to turn into a card
plus the fact I have really been trying to use up more of what I have
purchased over the years.  I added a few gems for a 'bit' of sparkle.

Come on over to The Sisterhood and see all the pretty FALL
creations from my 'sistahs'!!

Entering the following challenges:
The Card Concept  #220 .... Autumn Days (inspired by the colors and the Autumn concept with a clean and graphic look)

Stencil Fun October Challenge

 Hello friends, today our OPTIONAL theme for
the month of October at our Stencil Fun challenge is
Anything Halloween related.

I pulled out my Waffle Flower Postage Spooktacular stencil
and Spectacular stamps.  I used a mix of some Altenew
and Pink Fresh inks for my colors.  I read on one of the sites where
someone said these stencils from WF were a fad
but I have to whole hardily disagree as I feel I will never
grow tired of using them and look forward to a new one
every month, and I would call them more of an 'addiction'!
They are so FUN!!

For my Anything Goes card, I  have a card I created
for my 2024 Christmas cards using the Taylored Expressions
layered Holly Holiday stencil.
This stencil allows you to create three different card front panels
all at once with each layer (there are 3).
These are geared to make a mini slimline but I trimmed them down to
fit an A2 card front as I didn't want to have to make lots of mini
slimline envelopes!  I used four different colors of Altenew inks
Firefly, Green Field, Crimson and Velvet.

I'll be showing the other two cards in the coming months of
November and December.

Get out your stencils and come and have some
fun with us at Stencil Fun!

Entering the following challenges:
Unicorn Challenge .... Autumn and/or Halloween Card #1
Daisy Chain #101 .... Autumn and/or Halloween Card #1
The Holly and Ivy Challenge .... ATG Christmas Card #2
Wednesday's Creative Inspirations .... Spooky/Autumn Card #1