A Sketch Card

Another free day with no DT cards allowing me to have more fun
with a few challenges .  My challenge today is
Atlantic Hearts Sketch #683

I found this challenge to be a very pretty sketch and a bit more
'fussy' then most sketches and I liked that! I pretty much

let the sketch inspire me to stick with it  without changing a thing..
For the most part I used scraps of paper from my 'yellow' paper

scrap bag and an older scalloped punch from SU.

The flowers and leaves were already created from Spellbinders Bold Blooms.
as is the sentiment, a Betterpress.

I'll be back tomorrow and the next couple of days too

with some more fun challenge cards, hopefully as we all

know how life can change our plans!!

Say It With Flowers

Hello friends, today is another day of a non DT cards
so I have been having fun  actually joining in a few challenges.
My chosen challenge for today is 
Make My Monday #278 Say It With Flowers.

You certainly can't go wrong with a floral card!!
I used a stencil/stamp combo from LDRS Creative
Poppy Posy, stenciled with various inks
Distress Oxide Twisted Citron, Memento Love Letter,
Gina K Red Hot and Altenew Grass Field, Shadow Creek.
I wish there was more of a contrast of the reds but I find
most reds all seem to be somewhat the same.
The sentiment is Sizzix Daily Sentiments.
I also used a 'new to me' SSS Pawsitively
Perfect White Splatter Medium,
which I need a little practice with,
there is a Youtube video however!

Hopefully I will be back tomorrow with another non DT card,
thanks for stopping by!!

Also entering the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin' ..... Flowers
Simon Wednesday .... ATG and/or Simon Products
Fab N' Funky .... Stencil and/or Embossing
Crafty Gals Corner ..... Flowers For Mom/ATG

Save Water

Another non DT card today this time a fun one for the challenge at 
 The Male Room where the challenge is:

A couple years ago I bought this crazy fun stamp from Funky Fossil
and have fun with it over the last few years.  It has five fun images
and four images to choose from.  My favorite for a male will

be on my blog at some point later as a DT card.

I kept my card very CAS, coloring in with Copic's.
I tried to find some inspiration using this stamp but could not

find any anywhere and it seems the stamp set has been discontinued,

too bad as it is a unique and fun set to play with!! 

I'll be back tomorrow with another non DT card,

I've been having fun joining in these fun challenges!!

Love Bug

Hello friends, my blog is free of DT cards until June 1st
so I didn't want to leave it empty for that long and decided to do a few 
challenges this week.  One that caught my eye was  Just Add Ink #786
that the theme was polka dots.

My first thought when I saw the theme was my cute Cottage Cutz Love Bug die,

one I have used only once before a few years ago.  Unfortunately this fun
die is no longer available so I feel extra lucky to own it.
The papers are from Echo Park Little Lady bug, fitting for my cute bug!
The die cut with the polka dots is also a Cottage Cutz die, also now

not available.  This die is super easy and not near as 'picky' as
some of the other CC dies I have done, but they are so worth

the effort, I mean, look how cute they are!!

I will also be back tomorrow with another fun challenge card...stay tuned!!

Also, entering the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams .... Use Die Cuts
Allsorts .... Anything Goes
Crafty Catz #714 .... Anything Goes
Elliebelle's Garden Party #15 .... Anything In/From A garden

Go Blue

 This post is more personal then I would normally do
but my grandson graduated from University of Michigan with his masters
in Kinesiology Master of Science Sport, Sport Management.
It's pretty awesome to me as 10 years ago he had a spinal injury
that placed him a wheel chair when he was 15, hard for any
teenager to accept, but he persevered and ended up in a
wheelchair tennis program at UOM where he finished out his year as
the National wheelchair champion, a HUGE accomplishment. 

I created this card using an image from my Cricut in his school colors.  I was quite pleased that Cricut had perfect images for this sport!!
His celebration was May 2nd at the Notre Dame campus, which he well deserved

His parents, (my daughter) and his girlfriend.

Entering the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge .... 'B' Is For Balls (tennis balls)

Believe In the Magic

 Happy Sunday, can you believe we are already winding down May?
June will be here before we know it and we have perfect
weather (with a bit of rain) predicted for all week!

I didn't have any DT cards for today, not for the rest of the week
so I am entering a card I made for my SIL at Christmas time
that I have never shown on my blog, today in a challenge at
Crafty Calendar's May challenge that is 'All White'!

Dies:  IO Deer and trees, Yvonne Creations Houses,
EB Folder Falling Snow
Oval is Tutti Designs, Sign is Penny Black,
Sentiment:   JustRite Xmas Inner Thoughts

I personalized the card.  Very hard to get a 'good' all white photograph!
Because my all white card does have a black sentiment on it I hope
it qualifies, but I did see one of the DT had a neutral sentiment as well.

I am going to try my best to be back with another non DT

card tomorrow, it's been fun entering some challenges myself

other then offering them along with my co-owner!

Thanks for stopping by!

Also entering the following challenges:
Dragonfly Dreams .... Use Dies

You Did It

 It's getting closer and closer to graduation this year and we only
have one granddaughter graduating from high school this year
and a grandson getting his masters so I decided to make a grad
card for a young lady for our Can You Handle The Pressure challenge blog.
Our OPTIONAL theme is embellishments.

Its a simple card really.  I used for the first time a TH mini texture fades
Mini Kaleidoscope EB folder on a Homey Bee Team Tie Dye paper.
I embellished the larger flowers with white pearls.
All the other papers came out of my 'pink' scrap bag.
The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.

Have neglected EB folders?  Then get them out and join our challenge at
Can You Handle The Pressure.

Happy Birthday Stars

A new challenge starts today at The Pick Three blog
and you are required to PICK 3 of any of the elements below.
We can't wait to see what you choose. 

I got a little carried away and used FIVE of the elements
Embossing~Numbers~Birthday~Blue~Plaid.

I saw the layout for this card on Pinterest HERE 
but changed it up a bit by adding an embossed numerical background.

Products Used:
SU Baja Breeze card stock
Cuttlebug Numbers EB Folder
Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting Stars
Hero Arts Sentiment & Die
Various color card stock scraps

Fancy Pants Epoxy Puffy Embellishments

Come on over and have some Pick 3 fun with us and
check out all the fabulous inspiration from the design team!

Entering the following challenges:

Festive Friday #210 ....  Hot Air Balloon Day (Use 3)

Primary colors~Epoxy Embellishments~Birthday Sentiment

Snippets Playground #532 .... Snippets of Paper

Cardz 4 Guyz #386 .... Squash It (use an EB folder)
Die Cut Diva's .... Celebrations

Happy Birthday Splatters

Double D has a new challenge theme starting today and it is
SPLATTER .

We have a mood board for inspiration as well as two teams of
wonderfully fun inspiration, make sure to check them out!!

For my splatter card I had a scrap of 'splattered' green paper
making the perfect background for my Poppystamps Marcelle Flower die.
I die cut in all white scraps them blended ink in from my brushes.

The sentiment is Hero Arts Ribbon Messages stamped directly onto
the card front.  A few fun sequins were added.

Come and join our fun challenge theme at Double D!!

Christmas Puppies

It's time for a new challenge starting today at
Peace On Earth!
We have a fun mood board for inspiration but you can use
anything as long as it is Christmas themed!

Some cutie pie animals in the board which made me think of my Katy Sue 3D
puppy cards I created.  I have several different ones but am just posting these two

for now.  Each card below that is shown I have 2 of each.  These cards are 

4 1/2 x 4 1/2 and very 3D.  I have a doodle dog and the one reminds me of when he was a puppy!  Not much more to say about these
cards as you just punch out all the pieces then use a thinner

adhesive pop up in-between all the layers, easy peasy!

Card #1

Card #2

Aren't they just the cutest??
Come on over to Peace On Earth where we offer Christmas fun year round!!

Entering the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps & More #517 .... Christmas

ABC Christmas  .... K is For Knitwear

Krafty Chicks #820 .... Christmas

52 Card Throwdown .... Animals

 

BOO

We are two weeks into our challenge at Two Old Bats where we
create for Halloween year round giving you the opportunity to
use your Halloween supplies all year!
We have a fun mood board for inspiration! 

Being May and after a long winter I let all those pretty pink colors

inspire me, yep, you can have PINK Halloween if you want to!
Back in September of 2025 I went a little crazy ordering LOTS of new

Halloween and the cards I created came from one of the pretty new papers

I had purchased from 'This Calls for Confetti' a new company to me.
The 5 1/2x8 1/2 pad had 12 fun designs and two of each which allowed me to make

four cards with one of the designs.  I figured I might as well make four since they were so
simple to create!  There were 2 of the designs on each page which fit an A2 card
front perfectly!!  I loved every single paper design in this pad!

All four of them:

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some Halloween fun with us,

the design team always has some awesome inspiration as well!

Birthday Wishes

Beautiful Blossoms has a beautiful inspiration photo for May.
I love it as May was my Mom's birthday month and
Lily of The Valley is the May flower  and I always made
her a lily of the valley card for her birthday.
She will have been gone eight years this year and not a day goes by
that I don't miss her!
You can create any kind of blooms, this is just for inspiration!

So, naturally I had to create a Lily of the Valley card using an older die

from Tutti Designs.  After die cutting I colored it in with my Copics.

The underneath piece is a leftover negative from an order I had

to make a dozen cards for, and thought it would make the perfect backdrop
for my flowers.  The sentiment is Altenew.

Hope to see you over at Beautiful Blossoms,

check out all the pretty inspiration from the Design Team while there.

Entering the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon #858 .... May Flowers
Simon Wednesday Challenge .... Use Dies
613 Avenue Create .... May Flowers

Happy Birthday

 Hello friends, our new theme at The Sisterhood of Crafters is
BANNERS.
We want to see all your fun banners on your creations.

I went a bit of a different way with my banners using my older
Tutti Designs Stitched Nested Banners cut from pretty papers
from Echo Park's Bee Happy papers.

The designs on card #1 is also part of Echo Park's
Bee Happy Ephemera  and the sentiment is Lawn Fawn's
Simple Wavy Banners.

Card #2

I liked this design so much that I created a second card
this time with ephemera from Craft Consortium's 
Amongst the Hedgerow, the sentiment is the same as card #1.

Get those banners out and come and have some
'banner' fun with us at The Sisterhood!

Happy Birthday Balloons

The OPTIONAL theme at Can You Handle The Pressure is
BALLOONS!!

I created a VERY simple card letting the Paper Rose Balloon
embossing folder do the work, embossed on 
Brutus Monroe Tie Dye paper, I think it made the perfect paper
for the balloons, the sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.

We would love to have you join us at Can You Handle The Pressure.

Entering the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments  #337 .... Embossing + Sentiment

Unicorn Challenge #120 .... Something New (EB folder & Paper)

AAA Birthday #85 .... Birthday

Krafty Chicks.... Birthday

For You

 It's time for our monthly challenge at Word Power, the challenge
that wants to see your BIG sentiments, no little sentiments here!
Let you sentiments be the first thing your eyes are drawn to!

I went BIG with my sentiment, using for the first time a
Spellbinders Layered Floral 'For You' stencil,
stenciled in all Altenew inks.  This card can be used for any occasion.

Let us see YOUR BIG sentiments at Word Power,
there is always a Top 3 and a Top Winner and it could be YOU!!

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... Make It Colorful 

Case A DT Card Challenge

 Hello friends, I have a second post to share today as I
didn't want to miss out on the Just Us Girls challenge that
closes today.  I am getting in by the 'skin of my teeth' as it is!

The challenge is to CASE a DT, easy except the hard
part of deciding which DT to choose!!

I finally decided to 'case' CAROL as I thought her design 
would be perfect for using a pretty designer paper.  You can read about her

card HERE.  She used washi tape for her floral image but I used a pretty

paper from Crafter's Companion Rustic Cottage, a pad full of beautiful

floral papers with a vintage look.  The die cut circles are Spellbinders (underneath),
 I think this was the first die I had ever purchased
and the inner die cut circle is a Scalloped circle

from Cottage Cutz.  The sentiment is Sizzix.

Make sure to visit Just Us Girls and see all the pretty

designs from the DT, I loved each and every one and
if I had more time, I would of created a few more!!

Happiness

 Today our challenge theme at Double D is 
WATERCOLOR.

We have a watercolor inspiration board and plenty more inspiration
from the design teams at the challenge blog.

I pulled out a few very old things for my card.  I die cut a watercolor paper
using a Poppystamps Flower Field Frame (2022) then used my very old
Tim Holtz Distress watercolor markers.  I was pleased that they still even worked!!
It was a long process and they are far from perfect but in the end made a pretty card.
The sentiment is Sparkle & Sprinkles (retired company) Happiness Greetings stamp.
I added Glitter Emerald Green Nuvo Drops to the flower centers, giving a bit of sparkle.

1 small heart from my spare parts was also added.

Come and join our watercolor fun at Double D!!

Entering the following challenges:

Poppystamps .... Inspired By Nature

You're A Great Friend

We have a new OPTIONAL theme this month at Stencil Fun and it is
 See thru it, anything you can see thru.  
Meaning you can make a shaker, use vellum, cut a 'window' opening,
I think you get the idea, but we are an anything goes challenge
as long as a stencil is used.

I made a shaker card using an Echo Park Simply Sweet Floral stencil
with Altenew ink.  The floral shaker part is a first time use of a
Spellbinders Blossom die.  I also added a SB handmade flower and a
sentiment from Pink Fresh Studios.  The shaker filler is from
Pretty Pink Posh

For my Anything Goes card I used a Newton's Nook Paws stencil.
I stenciled the background, the sentiment background and
also a bit on the inside.  The kittens are a Katy Sue 3D set and are
very layered in 3D,
which I think are just adorably cute!

I created two cards the same.

Come on over and have some Stencil Fun with us.

Entering the following challenges:
Crafty Animals #105 .... Animals
Critter Crazy #110 .... Critters/Furry friends
Daisy Chain #107 .... Layer It Up

Some Bunny Loves You

 Time for our The Neglected Stuff challenge,
no themes, we just want to see your neglected stuff you have had
around for quite some time and have never used OR have not used for a very
long time.  It seems we all buy things we just 'had to have'
then it's either put aside or put away and never used.

I have a drawer full, yes full of ephemera that I  seem to fall for all
the cute and pretty pieces,
then purchase and never know what to do with them.
I used my WF postage die to cut a pretty designer paper 
(sorry can't remember whose it is)
then added bits and pieces of my fun ephemera,
I haven't a clue of the name of it, I've looked thru it all
and don't see it!!  But, anyhow I got to use a bit up
for a fun card, a good one for one of the younger grands!

I'm sure you have LOTS of neglected stuff so come and show
us what it is at our The Neglected Stuff Challenge!!

Just To Say

It's the beautiful month of May at Triple B
and for our challenge we have the most prettiest PINK
mood board for inspiration!   You can however create anything
as long as it has Birds~Blooms~Butterflies
one, two or all three!

I used one of my Katy Sue 3D flower images I had put together

and was just waiting to be made into a card and I just love these
pretty Apple Blossoms, which just happen to be Michigan's state flower,

along with those cute fuzzy birds!

3D view

We would love to see YOUR Birds~Blooms~Butterflies
at Triple B!!

Entering the following challenges:

AAA Birthday #85 .... Birthday

All About Papercrafts #4 .... Birthday