Gingham Memories

HI All, this is my post going live today at 

Classy Cards 'n Such blog....

I love this gingham stamp I used....

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Hello Classy Friends, Diane here with you on the blog today.

This week is starting off with our "Gingham" challenge

 using the photo below for inspiration, 

you need to have "gingham" somewhere on your project!

I remember as a child how popular gingham was..

I even had my bedroom decorated with gingham....

we had to make a "gingham" apron in Home Economics" at school...

so you might say I have always been a "gingham" girl~~

Impression Obsession has a nice line of "cover a card" stamps.... 

I am using Gingham Cover A Card, 

just think with this stamp you can have any color of gingham you want...

these stamps are wonderful as they stamp big and you can choose

to use the entire image or just a fraction of it.....

I chose to use the entire stamp with a red ink....

Don't you just love red gingham??

I used Mega Mount to mount my Cover A Card stamp on...

this is a very large acrylic block that fits the stamps perfectly!

I cut four of the Cottage Cutz Fancy Floral Butterfly Corners

and positioned them around my card to make a "frame"

A little tip in using the intricate dies is to place a piece of wax paper

over your die, then your paper on top of that before cutting, it makes for a much easier release....

To help get all those little pieces out of your cut piece, there is a wonderful new tool

by Spellbinders called Tool 'n One

For the center of my frame, I stamped JustRite Hello Daisy with Versamark,

first running the Anti-Static Bag over my card stock

them embossed with Sparkle 'n Sprinkle Black Fine Embossing Powder

Using Spellbinders Floral Ovals, I positioned it over my stamped image and die cut it.

To finish my card, I added Red Pearls to each corner, a gingham bow and button.

Join our challenge with us, there is always a nice prize to win with 7 or more entrants....

Tell your friends to join in too, the more the merrier!!

Entering the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps .... Anything Goes
and
Inky Impressions .... Anything Goes
and
Scrapper's Delights .... Anything Goes/Buttons,Bows,Ribbon
and
Wonderful Wednesday .... Anything Goes
and
Loves Rubber Stamps .... Buttons and Bows
and
Craft-DeeBowZ .... Anything Goes With A Bow

Happy Days

Hi Friends,

I am heading outside to work on my "weeds" flowers but managed

to get a card done for a fun challenge at "City Crafters"

which is "Animal Magic"

I have a ton of "animal" stamps and decided on this very OLD

1987 stamp from "Marks of Distinction" ....

now I didn't buy it new, it came from Ebay "eons" ago!

I stamped my image with SU "Creamy Carmel" as we have

had a cat abut this color hanging around the last few days!

And there is a small kitten that showed up a few weeks ago

and is residing in the wood shed....

somehow I think that sign is on the roof of the barn that says

"drop your unwanted cats" here.....

as we sure seem to get a bunch of them every year!!!

My paper I used are Prima "Sun Kiss"...

I think this will make a cute card for one of the grandkiddos!!

Okay, gotta run outside before it gets too hot!!

Entering in the following challenges:

City Crafters .... Animal Magic

Ring Around The Rosie At The Shabby Tea Room

Here we are at another Monday...

and can you believe it is the last one for July...wow!!

But Monday also brings us to another new challenge at "The Shabby Tea Room"

"Yours Truly" is the hostess this week and I have chosen the theme

"Ring Around The Rosie"

using the photo for inspiration and make a "round" card or project

and adding "Roses", pink, green and a flourish!

Our sponsor this week is Digital Papers by Janet

I made a round card using a Spellbinders plain circle die...

by overlapping the die on the scoreline I was able to cut a card

that left the crease to fold...

I had just purchased a new Prima Roses die from CCNS

and loved the lacey look of it, plus it has Roses on it (which I covered up..sigh)

I cut the die from some lovely Metallic paper

"Stardream Rose Quartz" also from CCNS

I used the Circle Stamps Digital Papers by Janet

which I add a bit of glitter to the image, lace and pearls...

these circle stamps are 2 1/2" each and you get 12 on a sheet!!

The flourish is a Marianne die and my flower was  made using a Cheery Lynn Designs die

I love how girlie and vintage looking this little card is!!

Take a peek at "The Shabby Tea Room" and see what the other "shabby girls"

have for you...join us in this weeks challenge...see "you" there!!

Entering in the following challenges:
Crafting From The Heart ....Anything Goes
and
Craft Your Passion .... Flower Power
and
Whoopsidaisy Challenge .... 2 or more dies
and
Alphabet Challenge ...."L" is for Lace

Good Food ~Some Flowers ~ And A Butterfly

Whew...did my title get your attention...lol...??

I will be offline until Monday, so wanted to share with you

first a wonderfully, yummy recipe!!

It has to be the best macaroni salad I have ever tried!!

Even  hubby that doesn't like this kind of thing, loved it.

It makes quite a bit, so you could cut it in half...I didn't though!!

Sweet Amish Macaroni Salad

1# salad macaroni  I am using those little shell macaroni's

4 hard boiled eggs (chopped)

1 small onion finely diced

3 celery ribs diced small

1 small sweet pepper seeded and diced small red or yellow

Dressing

2 cups light mayo (do not use miracle whip

1/2 cup sugar

2TB yellow mustard

2 TB Dill Pickle relish

1 TB white vinegar or 1 TB apple cider vinegar

3/4 tsp celery seed

1/4 tsp salt

and paprika to taste

Mix salad, mix dressing...combine...let sit overnight in fridge...YUMMY!!

Yesterday while I was out picking my veggies I saw this gorgeous

butterfly on my Bee Balm....I have gotten into the habit of taking my

camera out with me...good thing, or I would miss  a lot!!

I also wanted to show you my "Annabelle" Hydrangea....

this thing is a monster...as big as my car...the heads are dinner plate size...

they make the most gorgeous bouquets!!!

Next up is another picture of the "wild" side of my garden...

it's so wild that the hubby said, "You need to move that flower as

it is in the way of the sprinkler ( he set me up a wonderful watering system

last year)...but that "flower" is a BIG weed taller then me...lol!!

And last are a couple pictures of my kitty Tessie

and her sweet sister "Chloe" the crafter kitty "aka PEST".....

they are full grown now, about 7 years old, 

and they are strictly inside kitties now.... 

I saw these pictures of

them and just had to share as they make me laugh....

I hope they will you, too...

have a nice weekend ad see you on Monday

when my "The Shabby Tea Room" card posts....

I am the hostess there next week!!

Little Moments

Hello All this is  my post going "live today" at the

Classy Cards 'n Such blog...I hope you will take a

peek over there, we have some new awesome DT members

and  am sure you will be inspired by all the creativeness!!

Hello Classy Friends.....

Our new challenge this week is "Buttons and Bows"....

using the pretty inspiration photo below I decided last minute

to make a "pop" up" card....

But here I am getting ahead of myself.....

Lets start with the front cover of my card....

My card base is the gorgeous Stardream Rose Quartz 105# Metallic paper

On top of that I added the beautiful paper from Graphic 45 Botanical Tea 6 x 6

I stamped B-Line Designs "Little Moments" 

on a Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles label

you will see I used another label from this same set on the inside!

I added 2 flower buttons and a pink bow and finished off my card with a

Rose made from using 2 of the flower dies from Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms

Okay...are you ready to take a peek on the inside??

Voila.....so what do you think???

I love how when this card is opened it will be a beautiful surprise to the receiver!!

I cut the Garden Bench by Elizabeth Crafts and designed by  Karen Burniston

The background paper I used is one of my favorites.....

KaiserCrafts Key To My Heart 12 x 12 paper pad

this paper was perfect for the larger size card I needed for my design!

To finish my scene I added Puffy Clouds by Memory Box

Birdhouses by Impression Obsession (you get all 3 designs in one set!)

Small Bird Set by Impression Obsession

and Cat Set by Impression Obsession

As mentioned above I used a label from the Spellbinders set Radiant Rectangles

and stamped a sentiment from B Line Designs

Isn't this a fun card???  I would love to see YOUR entry in our challenge....

tell your friends to join in, there is  a lovely prize awarded to the winning entry!!

Entering the following challenges:

Crafty Catz .... Anything Goes
and
Fussy and Fancy ....Words
and
Delightful Challenges ....Add Ribbon
and
Word Art Wednesday .... Anything Goes
and
Paper Pretties .... Pink and Green

Stardust Christmas

Hello my friends,

I have been seeing so many challenges lately to do with Christmas

I decided to join in after seeing the challenge at City Crafters this week

using the photo below for inspiration.

I used to never, ever miss one of their challenges, but I haven't had the time

to join in for quite sometime now, but today decided to jump back in...lol!!

I have been quite addicted the the stenciling trend....

I have several NEW stencils, but I keep pulling out my little "Star Dust" stencil.

I used a beautiful Dreamweaver Metallic Gold embossing paste.

I actually stenciled two different panels while I had it out, so I could use another one later.

I wanted to keep my card a clean and simple look, letting the stenciling take center stage

So then I was in a dilemma as to what to do next....

So instead I ate 2 pieces of pizza, at 10 0'clock in the morning...lol

After washing my pizza sauce fingers off it came to me to pull out my Memory Box 

"Precious Stars" dies which I cut from Spellbinders Precious Metals

The card base is Champaign Neenah Pearlized Metallic paper....

I have all the links for you if any of this makes  you "just gotta have it"!!!!

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

City Crafters .... Christmas In July

and

Southern Girls .... Christmas Is A Coming

and

Creative Knockouts .... Christmas In July

and

A Song In Your Heart .... When you wish upon a star

and

 Crafting For All Seasons .... Christmas In July

and

Little Red Wagon .... Christmas In July

You're The Best

Greetings from "The Sisterhood"...

sounds like something from outer space doesn't it...lol

Hard to believe it is already almost the end of July...

the summer is going so fast, I don't even want to think of what's to come

so guess what...we won't...hah!

Anywho, it is time again for another new challenge at "The Sisterhood"

This time "Lisa" is our hostess and the theme is die cuts/punches....

I used a little of both on my card.

I love the owl punch from Stampin Up and haven't used it in well over a year

so out it came...aren't they just the cutest??

My background is a stamp I purchased at Michael's around Valentines day....

I stamped it side by side to make it the width of my card....

and hey, it matched up pretty good with only one try...yah!!

I also used another SU punch, the heart and punched out a place for one of the

owls to "reside"....

The branch is an Impression Obsession die "Bird on a Branch.....

shhh...don't tell, but I snipped that poor bird right off and my owl took it's place!!

Any "WHO" (pun intended..lol)  head on over to "The Sisterhood" and see 

what my "sisters"

on the DT have to inspire you...better yet...join in the challenge with us!!

Entering the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door .... Anything Goes
and
The Sisters of Craft ....Anything Goes July
and 
Melonheadz Friends .... Things With Wings and/or tail
and 
The Crazy Challenge .... Dies Cuts/Punches
and
Crafting When You Can .... Make Your Own Background