Coffee and Friends

 We are into our third challenge at Pick 3, the challenge
where you pick three of the elements below to create your card!

I chose Text~Wings~Die Cuts for my three.

Supplies Used:
Sizzix Tim Holtz Cafe Colorize 
Memory Box Meadow Bird Branch (2015)
Tutti Designs Dotted Square
Flourishes Coffee With Friends Stamp set
Simon Dark Chocolate Card Stock

Come and join us at the new Pick 3 challenge!

Memory Box March Challenge

Since I have today FREE, I decided to do the fun March challenge at
Memory Box !
The theme is BIRTHDAY, easy peasy!

I recently purchased some new MB dies that I love,
so doing this challenge is a pleasure!
The dies used are Garden Pail Bouquet and
Notched Eyelet Frames.  I die cut all the flower, leaves
and stems from scraps of white cardstock then 
colored each piece in with various copics for the leaves
and ink left in my brushes for the flowers.
The Eyelet frame was cut from a Mintay paper and
the pail from a Tonic Silver Mirror paper.

The colors in real life are much more vibrant, I took multiple photos
but this is the best I could get, must be all the snow we were getting the
day I created this!

Also entering the following challenges:

Simon Monday Challenge .... Beautiful Blooms
Addicted To Stamps & More #513 ..... Birthdays

Happy Easter

 Double D is feeling like Easter these next two weeks and that is our theme
EASTER!

We have an inspiration board that will hopefully inspire you to play along!

I had these Katy Sue 3D cards just waiting to be featured and what better time then

now for our Easter challenge.  They were just slightly changed a bit by adding

different background papers.

Card #1:

A closer look at the 3D:

Card #2 (and my favorite)

And a closer look at the 3D:

Won't you come and have some EASTER fun with us at Double D??

Happy St Patrick's Day

 Happy St. Patrick's Day from
Mr. Mack 'McDoodles'!
He was 3 when this picture was taken, he is eight now
and we don't even have this sofa anymore (thank goodness)!!

 

Honeycomb Chick

Having a bit more of 'challenge fun' today when I saw this adorable
mood board and just couldn't resist as Easter is early this year! 

Art Nudge

I loved every single one of these prompts and might have to
join again, but for today I went with the upper
right corner and the cute little chick!
Last year I bought a few of The Greetery honeycomb die sets and this
chick is making his debut here for the first time.  

I have to say I am addicted to The Greetery and love each and every

release!  I am trying to remember to order a pack of Honeycombs with
each order so I never run out!  I kind of went a bit over the top

with her cheeks so next time will do better, sigh!  I added SNS  Daisy
glitter to the wings and sprayed with hair spray to keep the glitter in place
(better not only for the environment but also my craft room)!!
I created a chick shaped card and added the flowers from (of course)
The Greetery  Bitty Botanicals stamps, stencil and dies.

Here is a side view to show the shape of the card, no sentiment inside yet
as I am not sure if it will be Easter or something else.

I hope you enjoyed my little honeycomb chick today!

Also created for these fun challenges:

Try It On Tuesday .... Spring

Send A Smile 4 Kids .... Animal Card 4 Kids
A Cut Above....Anything Goes
Just Add Ink #381 .... Just Add Wings

Hocus Pocus #2

 Hello friends, I am back today with our reminder post
at Two Old Bats.  You still have a couple weeks to join in
our spooky fun with us.  And, of course we have a mood board
for inspiration!

As I mentioned a few weeks I am back with a second card using the 
Hero Arts Witches Hat die this time created in black.
The background is a Waffle Flower die cut on Echo Park's I Love Halloween paper.

The sentiment is die cut from the now out of business Cheapo Dies Haunted letter set.

These hats are a bit addicting to make, they are so fun!!

You still have a couple weeks to join our Halloween fun at

Two Old Bats...what are you waiting for!!!

Daffodil

It's Beautiful Blossom challenge time and we have a beautiful Spring
mood board for inspiration! 

You can always create anything floral but this gorgeous board had me
from the minute I saw it!  I used an old Flourishes stamp set

A Year In Flowers 1, this is a pretty set with other flowers, Pansy, Crocus,

and Primrose. Of course it has the names and months like I have stamped on my tag.

Not sure of the paper as it was a single sheet and to look through all my

many papers to find it would take me at least a day lol!

We would love to have you join us at Beautiful Blossoms!!

Entering the following challenges:

Daisy Chain .... Flowers
Make My Monday .... All Tied Up

Crafty Calendar .... Spring
The Paper Shelter .... Flowers~Twine~Pretty Papers

Winter-Ful Life

 It's the start of a new challenge at Peace On Earth and we have a
mood board for inspiration but you can create anything
Christmas themed!

While looking through my Christmas stamps for a Christmas sentiment

I came across  this never been used before Christmas/Winter stamp set
from Creative Expressions Snow Fun!  It contains five different ice skating

critters all decked out for winter.  I chose one for this card plus
a few of the other stamps included to complete my card.

I paper pieced , colored and used stickles for my card and even
added a few silver snowflakes stamped with Lisa Horton Limited
Edition Silver Shine ink.  Have you tried her inks yet?
I love everyone I have used so far and this one has such a pretty shimmer.

We surely would love to see YOU over at our Peace On Earth challenge!

Entering the following challenges:

Krafty Chicks #811 .... Christmas

Addicted To Stamps & More ....Christmas

Birthday Cheer

At Can You Handle The Pressure our new OPTIONAL theme is
SEWING but you can create anything as long as an
Embossing  folder is used, that is a must!!

I went with the sewing theme and used a never been used before
EB folder that I have had forever and have never heard of this company
before, Design Objectives.  I have two cards created with this folder
as the first one I did seemed too light to capture the embossing,
but the same result with the second one, I think I am so used to
the 3D embossing and how deep embossed those are that I have
forgotten how light the regular EB folders are.

Card #1
The background color is really a pretty darker lavender
then the color it is showing, sometimes it is really hard to
get 'true' colors when photographing the cards!
Both cards use sentiments from Woodware 'I Meant to'.

Card #2

Our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure
is a good one to make you get those folders out
and USE them!!

Entering the following challenges:
Cardz 4 Galz #271 .... Embossing
Just Us Girls #814 .... Emboss

Sunbird Spark Challenge #58

Hello friends!
I don't normally do sketches as for some reason my mind
doesn't seem to wrap around them, but when I saw this one
it looked pretty super easy and my first thought was 
some embossing and a rub on I had, so that is what I did.
This is a new to me challenge I saw when leaving a comment on
someone else's post so decided to give it a try.

Sunbird Spark Challenge

I had just purchased some new Lawn Fawn Minty Fresh card stock
so I used that for the bottom half of my card and an

SU Decor Dots SU embossing folder for the top half.
From my 'spare parts' box I pulled out an already die cut

Cherry Lynn Designs ric rack piece and ran it between the two pieces.
I also had purchased a couple sets of the new Spellbinder rub ons

 tis where my cute frog and sentiment came from.

I have a love for their rub ons as they seem to be faultless and so easy too!

I added a few fun gems to finish.

It's an easy sketch so why don't you play along too
I am sure they would love to have you!

Also entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... A Bit O' Green

Out of This World Birthday

 At The Sisterhood of Crafters our theme for this month is
GALAXY.

I had a pretty washi tape background that reminded a lot of a
galaxy that I used as my background.  I printed and die cut a cute
little alien from my Cricut and popped him up on the background.
I die cut a few stars from a  gold metallic scrap of  paper
and popped them up with micro dots.  The sentiment was computer
generated, one I think that will work for a young boy.

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It's a unique and different fun theme,
I hope you will join us at
The Sisterhood with YOUR take on our theme.

Time Out Birthday Challenge

Time Out is celebrating their 12th birthday and I love when a good
challenge has been running as long as this one, it says a lot about the challenge
so how could I not join in.  The theme is to case the beautiful card shown,
the colors, layout or anything else you see.  If you go and visit the challenge,
you will see a beautiful variety of designs by the DT.

Here is a close up of the card to case:

I pretty much cased the layout and the flowers for my card.
I didn't add the twine, embossing, nor gold but kept it more simple.
I have a thing for Rose stencils, years ago I had the most beautiful rose garden,

so anything roses always has an appeal to me.  I purchased this Altenew

Sweet Spring stencil a few years back.

It is only a two layer stencil so it's a little tricky as the leaves are not separate to

stencil so you will always get a bit of overlapping on colors, but it kind of

adds to it I think.  The inks I used are all Altenew, I purchased many of 

their ink cube sets of four long ago and they have
been my go to for most of my stenciling.

The colors used are Coral Bliss~Heart Beat~Vineyard Berry~

Firefly and Green Field.  I love how these inks flow from light to dark

perfect for the layered stencils.  

You can read about all the challenge details on the Time Out blog.

Also entering the following challenges:

Altenew .... Color Board

House Mouse Green Challenge

Today I have an older never been used before stamp that I decided to ink up for the
 House Mouse Challenge with the option to use GREEN.
There seems to be a LOT of 'green' challenges this month, so why not join in!!

Over the last few years, three of my friends gave me all their
House Mouse stamps and along with what I already had I seem to now
have lots of them, so am very happy there is a challenge just for them!

My stamp is a House Mouse Designs 2005 Gifts To Tie woodblock stamp.
I stamped it with Lisa Horton's Cloud 9 Solid Black ink on a
Sizzix Layered Labels die then colored in with Copics.
I added a doily die underneath straight from my 'spare parts' box,
then adhered the entire piece to a scrap of designer paper,
I love being able to use those pieces up!
The sentiment is a Lawn Fawn Wavy Sentiments.
A few gems were added for sparkle.

Also entering the following challenges:

I Love Pro Markers & Other Mediums .... Happy Birthday
AAA Birthday .... Use Die Cuts
Krafty Chicks .... Happy Birthday

Think You're Lucky

All my DT for the year is pretty much all done, 
all the way through December which frees me up to actually
have some creative fun whenever I want, and when I saw this challenge
I knew I had the perfect new stamp to use for it! 

Inspiration Station

Also entering the challenge at 

The Card Concept .... Monochromatic Greens
Somewhere between clean and layered and clean and graphic,

was totally inspired by the greens and had this in my head for awhile!

Back in either January or February, I forget which I purchased the entire new
months release at Unity, all the stamps were some I would use and this stamp
Zero Luck Given was one of them.

I stamped with Lisa Horton's Cloud 9 Solid Black ink on a 
Cottage Cutz Double Stitched Nested Square.
It was colored in with various Copics, a few tiny shamrocks from
my spare parts box were added, I think they are Impression Obsession.
The sentiment is one of the five 'snarky' ones that come with the stamp.
The 'wood' plank background paper is from a set of St Patrick's
12x12 Reminisce Irish Kiss Kit I bought a couple years ago.

I'll be back again with a few more 'fun' things later this week!

Also entering the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon .... Animal

Festive Friday .... Use Three of Listed:   Leprechaun (my cat)!Green~Clover 

Happy Thoughts

 It's time for another Love Those Pretty Papers challenge
with our OPTIONAL theme of CIRCLES.
I have a stack of paper pads that are close to being used up
and that is where my 'circle' paper is from,
a Simple Stories Make It Merry pad.
The circle I stamped on and the die cut underneath all came from
my 'white' spare parts container. 
The stamp is one I purchased from Spellbinders at one of their famous
warehouse sales and is Butterfly Burst Mar 2023 stamp of the month.
I added a few enamel dots, (yes, I am trying to use them up too)!

Because the theme is OPTIONAL and the challenge is an anything goes challenge
we also make an anything goes card.

I used my Cheery Lynn Step card die since it was still sitting out from a
previous use along with a VERY old Stampin' Up designer paper
which you might have yourself!
I really wanted the paper to take center stage so I just added
a few of my already made flowers and a sentiment stamped
from Pink Fresh Simply Sentiments 'Hello'.

The side and inside view of the card.

We would love to see YOUR pretty papers over at
Love Those Pretty Papers.

Entering the following challenges:

Creative Creases .... Fancy/Fun Fold

Happy Day

 Our fun challenge at Simply Clean & Simple
has an OPTIONAL theme of Baby Animals.
But, we are an anything goes as long as it CAS!

I pulled out a Colorado Craft Anita Jeram Wishing Birthday
stamp set and used the two tiniest little critters stamped with
Lisa Horton Cloud 9 and colored with a mix of Aletnew and
Copic alcohol markers. This set has 2 more larger critters
that are just as cute as the 2 I used. I stamped them on a pretty
Pink Fresh Studio Folk Edge Circle with a Cottage Cutz
Scalloped Circle underneath, all cut from scraps of papers.
I added some PFS gems.

If you love to make CAS cards, or even if you just want a break
from the more fussy cards, then come and join our CAS challenge at
Simply Clean & Simple.

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday ....Make It Cute
Little Red Wagon .... Animal
Crafty Animals ... Animal

Irish Blessing

 It's that time again for our monthly challenge at Word Power
where we are all about letting the sentiment take center stage!
It's an anything goes challenge as long as your sentiment is
big enough to make a statement, we don't want to see 
those itty bitty ones!

Being March, I decided not only to go with a St Patrick's theme
but to use a bit of my 'neglected' stuff as well.
I chose a Sparkle N Sprinkle (retired) stamp set Irish Blessings.
Though SNS is no longer with us, the stamp 'might' still be available,
the stamp was designed by Becky Muir
and I'm not sure if she is still making/selling stamps?

The image was stamped on a Tutti Designs Nested Rectangle die, then colored in with various Copic and Altenew markers.

The sentiment was stamped with Versamark then embossed
with Ranger Princess Gold EB powder.
I have a lot of gold EB powders but this one is a very fine powder.
The background paper is from an older (2018) pad of
Doodlebug 'Lot's of Luck' paper that I have a few sheets left
and am trying to use up.

A pretty simple card but sometimes simple is good, right?
Come on over and join us at Word Power!!

Entering the following challenges:
Path Of Positivity  .... ATG

If You Gave A Crafter A Cookie .... Green

Just Us Girls .... Die Week #813 Luck/Green

From All Of Us

We have a fun new challenge theme for the next two weeks at
Double D  and it is Books/Bookmarks and/or Postage/Postal.

We also have a fun inspiration board plus plenty of beautiful
inspiration over on the DD blog.

As you have probably seen on my blog before I love the Waffle Flower

postage dies, stencils ands stamps, am very addicted to them and have several now.
The one I am using today is Postage College Rose stencil, my first time using it

and I have to say it was one of the easiest with only three layers!  The stamps are

also WF Postage College stamp set, other then the sentiment which is

Spellbinders Betterpress.

I used the Distress ink colors listed in one of the WF samples and was happy
with the mix.  They are Distress Peeled Paint, Rustic Wilderness, Barn Door,

Aged Mahogany and Scattered straw.

We would love to have you come and join us at Double D

with your take on our challenge!!

Entering the following challenges:
Try It On Tuesday .... Feminine
Inspirational Challenge .... Stencils

Congratulations

Hello friends it's once again time for a new challenge at 
Stencil Fun and if you really want to be challenged our
OPTIONAL theme is Vines/Vinery
but you can always use ANYTHING Goes as long as your stencil is featured!

What I had planned to use I couldn't as it required a 
spray, not ink and each of my NEW sprays(that I have had a long time) were clogged and I made a mess trying to clean
the nozzles, so I finally gave up and started over.
It was very frustrating as each of the three bottles I tried
has never even been opened, that taught me a lesson,
to not buy any more of those products.
For my vinery card I used an Ink 3 Leafy Forest stencil.
inked with Dew Drop Bamboo Leaves ink.  In my stash I
had a piece of WF postage I used for a base for my SB
pre-made flowers, an embossed butterfly, also from my spare parts
and a Betterpress sentiment finishes my card.

Anything Goes Card:

For my ATG card I used a never before been used
stencil from A Pocket Full of Happiness 'So Lucky'.
This is a three layer stencil that I used Altenew
Forest Glades and Evergreen inks and Lisa Horton limited edition
Solid Gold ink.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to come and visit us at

Stencil Fun!!!

Entering the following challenges:
Cards For Galz ....Wings
Inkspirational Challenge .... Use Stencils/Optional Plaid

Just Add Ink .... Stencils and/or Dies