Hello My Dear Friend

 Happy first day of June my friends!
Today brings us to our monthly challenge at The Four Seasons
where our SEASON  is SUMMER.
We have a SUMMERY mood board for inspiration but you
can create anything as long as it is SUMMER!

Being part of the DT we always try to use the mood board for OUR inspiration,

but I have to admit this one thru me a bit.  It shouldn't have as I do have

umbrella and beach chair dies as well as a 

Cricut with 1000's of images to choose from, in fact there were over 8,000
images of just watermelons lol!  And see the water in the backgrounds of two
of those pictures?  Well, I have the most perfect 6x6x paper pad of all water,

but no, I had to make this as difficult for myself as I could!

Finally I had a lightbulb moment and came up with an idea to create my own

slices of watermelon by die cutting a circle and cutting it into fourths
and inking it to look like  watermelon slices.  The watermelon seeds were made
using raindrop dies from a Cottage Cutz die, they worked perfectly.

The sentiment is one I purchased from a Spellbinders warehouse sale

(how I love those sales) Little Hello Sentiments.  The die cut underneath was 

a free one I received with a Scrapbookdotcom order Nested Stitched Tickets.

Needless to say , this is NOT a seedless watermelon LOL!!

Come on over to The Four Seasons for some SUMMER fun with us!

Rosy Congratulations

 It's Colorful Options time once again and we have a pretty
inspiration board or you have the option to use Rainbow colors.

First I have to say my Rose is a much more Tiffany color then the photo shows,

I just wasn't able to get the true color on camera, but when holding my card up to
the inspiration board it is a true match.

I used the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Elegant Rose stencil with 
Altenew inks Dew Drop~Aqualicious~and Teal Cave.
The sentiment is a hot foil one sent to me by a friend.

Come and join us with our pretty summer Colorful Options inspiration board!

Have A Special Day

 Our The Neglected Stuff challenge starts today,
the challenge where we ask you to get out your old
neglected stuff, you know those things you had to have
but have yet to use or only used maybe once eons ago!!

I liked the design of this card so much that I did last month for another DT
and decided to make more for this challenge.

Card #1 contains a very old Stampin' Up background paper,
older Tutti Designs Stitched Banner dies and some fun Ephemera I
purchased in 2025 Craft Consortium's Amongst The Hedgerow.
The banner papers are a scrap of green and Echo Park's Bee Happy .
The sentiment is from Katy Sue designs.

Card #2 is basically all the same with the exception of the
background paper is Graphic 45.

I'm sure you have some old neglected stuff
and we would love to see it at our challenge!!