Twofer Challenge

I have a couple of fun cards I made specifically for a new challenge today.

The challenge is Twofer Card Challenge.....

you can read all the rules by visiting there,

but basically it is you use the same die or stamp in two very different ways.

The theme is feathers.

I knew I had a feather stamp an  hunted it down and then never used it.

While I was in the LONG process of re-organizing my dies

I found a Cheery Lynn Designs Feather with ink well die

That set my mind going and I came up with these two 'twofers'

The first one I die cut from a scrap of a paper that I had used

Ken Oliver powders on..so pretty IRL.

My second card was made with the same die and to change it up

I made it a Thanksgiving Turkey card!

I used the same feather die (of course) and cut them all

from scraps, then made myself a little turkey!!

With so many challenges closing (things are a 'changin' in blogland thas is for sure),

it is nice to see a new challenge 

and also one that really is what I call a challenge.

So pop on over to the Twofer Card Challenge #1 and see all the great DT creations!!

Bee Happy

It's been kind of fun switching gears from making Christmas cards

to now a sort of  'anything goes'  cards.

Today I have a card using the first ever stamp and die set 

from Tutti Designs.

Love Bug Stamps and

Love Bug Dies.

I started my card with a honeycomb background paper

from a new  12 x 12 paper pad I purchased called

Tell The Bees by Hackney & Company.

I don't buy a lot of the 12 x 12 paper pads as I am usually imtimidated

by the large prints, but this one I purchased for a few reason,

being it was not only beautiful but it was half off at Joanns.com.

Good enough reasons for me (plus I had no paper...hahaha!)

But all kidding aside, it is a beautiful pad of paper and superb quality!

You will see it here again.

I made a frame from Tutti Designs Nesting Cross Stitch Squares.

Have you seen these dies?  The price is amazing for what you get...

check it out!

Then simply stamped, colored, and die cut my images.

I found the best way to match the dies to the stamps to cut

was to first die cut, then used the negative part of the die

to line up over the image, tape down with removable tape,

then fit the little die in (kind of like a puzzle piece), then also tape that

down, then run thru my Big Shot.

Save the negatives for later use.

What you can't see, is I used a Gelly Roll Stardust pen

on all the images, giving a bit of sparkle.

Just a fun little card!

On another note, does anyone know what is going on with blogger?
I can't comment as it takes too long and then times out
AND it tells me all the challenges I visit is NOT secure, even
my own at times???  Is anyone else having these troubles?

Entering the following challenges:

Southern Girls .... Stitching (cross stitch)

Shopping Our Stash  .... In With The New (stamp set new)

Sunny Day Crafting .... 'B' is for Bumble Bee

Simon Says Wednesday .... Patterned Paper

Frames

I am the hostess today at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters
for our first challenge of 2018!

I chose the theme of 'Frame It'

meaning you have to have some sort of frame 

on your creation somewhere...easy peasy.

I decided to make a somewhat CAS card

with a stamp set I just love from Sparkle N Sprinkle

called Spring Sprigs which isn't in store anymore.

I stamped the leaves with Memento Dew Drops Bamboo Leaves ink

and the flowers with Nuvo Hybrid Ink Metro Grey.

I layered a Tutti Designs cross Stitch Nesting Squares die to make my frame.

The sentiment is from Stampendous.

I also added a little hemp bow.

Why not pop on over to

The Sisterhood and see what the 

sistahs' have created to inspire you...join in with us!!

Entering the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps and More .... CAS
Fab 'n Funky .... Let's Be Happy
Watercooler Wednesdays .... Occasions (birthday) 
Word Art Wednesdays .... ATG

Music

Happy Tuesday morning!

It's snowing/sleeting here right now and

A good day to just stay in my creative room is windy!

For those of you that ask how Mack is doing,

well, I think we almost have him potty trained,

he barks now when he wants to go out.

He is the cutest little 'monster' anyone could own!

I have a simple and CS card today using a die from 

Tutti Designs Electric Guitar.

This is a pretty simple card with ragged edges and I used a

gold embossing paste and a star stencil behind the foil guitar...that's it!

Entering the following challenges:

Addicted To CAS .... Music

2018 PLanners

It's 'planner' time at The Cutting Cafe.

The design team has gotten together with a post up TODAY

at The Cutting Cafe blog

and it's all about planners.

I went with a password planner of sorts

and called it 

Caught Up In The Web.

I don't know about you but in 2018 I like to start the year off

with new passwords for the sites I use the most.

This was an easy easy password planner to make

using the My Password Keeper from the add on file 

You can find all the planners HERE

and the add ons HERE.

Take a peek at them as there are a ton of then to choose from.

I started with a fun 'web' paper and few little spiders.

I added ribbon scraps to the binding.

I wanted some happy and bright colors

and had a lightweight card stock that would run through my printer

and printer many, many copies of these in various colors.

Here are a few more of the colored pages.

Here is a nice close up of the details...awesome!!

I will get a ton of use out of this!!

Thanks for visiting with me today...and pop on over to The Cutting Cafe blog

and see all the variations the DT came up with!!

Bloom

This is my blog post on the Sparkle N Sprinkle blog today

Products:

Happy Flowers Stamp Set

Tonic Love Arch Squares Die Set

Tooth Fairy Glitter

Cloud Nine Glitter

Nuvo Acorn Brown Ink

Nuvo Glue Pen Large

Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

Tear-ific Tape 1 1/2"

Tear-ific Tape 1/2"

Memento Ink

Hi there, Diane with you today to share a card I created with

an awesome die 'Tonic Love Arch Squares Die Set'.

This is a beautiful die and all the die cuts you see are from the set.

I first started by cutting the card base using the largest of the dies.

You can see I overlapped it at the top of my folded in half card stock.

It then created the card so it would open and wasn't cut apart.

My next step is a bit different, as I would of normally used 

Super Adhesive Sheets but ran out of them.

(I will be ordering them for sure in the near future) 

But, to save the day I used Tear-ific Tape 1 1/2"

and covered my die cut with it,

I  also used Tear-ific Tape 1/2" on the smaller die cut.

then using Tonic 5" Mini Scissors I carefully trimmed off the excess.

A little more time consuming and a little tricky, but it saved the day!

After the trimming was done, I then added Tooth Fairy glitter.

I love the names of the glitters, I sometimes buy just because of the names!

I did the exact same thing on the larger panel,

but this time used Cloud Nine glitter.

I stamped the flower from Happy Flowers stamp set

 with Memento ink using the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform, 

then colored with Copics.

The sentiment was stamped with Nuvo Acorn Brown ink

and I die cut a heart (again part of the love arch squares set).

coated it with Nuvo Glue Pen Large and added Cloud Nine glitter to that.

A pretty bow was added to finish.

Thank you for visiting with me today.

Adore You

Well what can I say, but we are getting hammered again and again and again  and we already have well over a foot on the ground already!

Here I am today with my 3rd doggie card You can see the other two HERE and HERE.

using the

Tutti designs Stained Glass Dog die.

(might as well get my money's worth...right?)  LOL!

This one is done using the 'coloring on the back of vellum' technique.

I used the Ken Oliver 'Stick It' paper for the die cut

and stuck it down on a piece of vellum...

flip it over and color with Copics (I use Copics as I like the 'soft' colors

you get with that and not so bold).

I stamped an 'Adore You' on a stitched heart

with little hearts background paper.

Once again I am entering this into (my last one) the

City Crafters Challenge .... Colorful Dog(s)