Hi Sweetie

 Hello friends, we have a SUMMER color mood board for you this month at Colorful Options.
Think picnics, yummy summer food and pretty flowers!

I have to admit summer foods always entice me, nothing better then fresh
picked fruit in my book!  I mean look at all those yummy fruits, let alone
that sandwich, I might have to quit and go have my lunch LOL!

I used Lawn Fawn for my strawberry die and paper.  
Outside in Stitched Strawberry die and Perfectly Plaid papers.
I used a Waffle Flower Lacey 2 die and a Tutti Designs Dotted Oval.
The sentiment is Sunny Studios.

I hope you have enjoyed my big plump strawberry card and
will come and join in our summer fun!

Flag Colors

Hello friends, at Stencil Fun our OPTIONAL theme is
YOUR flag colors.

Living in the USA our flag colors are of course the
red~white~blue.
It took me a bit to decide what I wanted to use but leafing through my stencil
notebook I can across this Tim Holtz 'Rays' stencil that I thought would make the
perfect background for my Cottage Cutz Patriotic Eagle With Top Hat
that I purchased on one of their up to 80% off sales.  The Eagle was a bit bigger
then I thought he would be so the large background worked great for him.  Both the stencil and the die are a first time use and perfect I think for July!!
The inks I used were Altenew Azurite and Hero Arts Cherry.
The eagle was die cut on white scrap pieces and colored in with Copics.

For my Anything Goes card I used a Hero Arts Folk Winter Animals Stencil
inked with Altenew Winter Lake and Artic Mountain, and Hero Arts Cherry.

We are an anything goes STENCIL challenge with an optional theme...
hope to see you there!!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Never Before Used Schtuff .... NBUS
Just Us Girls .... Stencils (2nd entry)

You're So Sweet

 We are into our second season of SUMMER at
The Four Seasons challenge and have a fun, summery mood board for inspiration,
but you can create any summery thing you want!

I let the yummy and colorful ice cream cone on the bottom right inspire me.
The hard part was deciding which of my die/stamp sets to use.

I finally settled on a die I received free with an order from scrapbookdotcom,
it is one of their own dies they sell.  I cut out six ice cream toppings from scraps of
white card stock
and inked each one up with various inks, the same with the cone and cherry.
I cut two banners from Cheery Lynn Designs to place my cone on.

The background paper is a first time use  too and is Honey Bee Team Tie Dye,
it is full of the prettiest papers.  The sentiment is Concord & 9th Pretty Sweet stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by and come and have some
'summertime' fun with us!