Sending Hugs

 At Can You Handle The Pressure
our embossing twist this time is BUTTERFLIES!
But remember you can use ANY embossing folder if you so choose!

I had a fun Darice butterfly embossing folder I used for my card!
I inked up a piece of photo paper with a few TH Oxides in
lilac and yellow colors.
I added a Cottage Cutz flower and a Pink Fresh Studio sentiment.

Join us over at Can You Handle The Pressure for our
embossing folder challenge and check out all the pretty
inspiration form the team!

Entering the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday .... ATG

Graduation Gift Purses

At The Sisterhood of Crafters  our 'sistah' Annie is our hostess and
she has chosen the theme of Bag It for our challenge!

I made two purses for graduation money for a graduating granddaughter Sophie
and one for a graduating niece Caitlin.

Sophie's was what I called a 'selfie' purse as that was the paper I chose.
She was very pleased with it (or the money in it lol)

Caitlin's was all about sunflowers as her entire grad party was all Sunflowers.
I changed the handles a bit for hers but think I like the first sample better!

These were very fun to create using the 
Concord & Ninth Everyday Purse Builder and Stamp Set!

To see even more fun and inspiring 'bags' be sure to visit 
The Sisterhood and see all the fun designs from the DT!

Sending Birthday Blessings

 Time for a new challenge at Double D

and the theme is MONOCHROMATIC!
Dar has created this mood board for inspiration
but you can use ANY monochromatic color choice as you choose!

Not sure what monochromatic is?
Here is a definition of it for you:

Monochromatic colors are all the colors of a single hue. Monochromatic color schemes are derived from a single base hue and extended using its shades, tones and tints. Tints are achieved by adding white and shades and tones are achieved by adding a darker color, grey or black

 

For MY card I chose to go with lavenders!
I used one of my favorite stencils from
Taylored Expressions Butterflies Stamp and Stencil combo
and Altenew Enchanted Garden ink set.
There are four inks in the set and I used three of the four.

I'm sure you have seen me use this set before and surely will
again as while at the lake house this summer I spent many a day
stenciling and stenciled 4 of this set, all in glorious different color combos!

I once again used my favorite Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Strips die for
a place to stamp my sentiment, which is from
The Greetery Sentiment Suite Birthday  which I embossed with SNS white detail EB powder.

Join us at Double D and see all the 'pretties' from the design team!

Peace On Earth Anything Christmas

 Time for  a new challenge at Peace On Earth and it is as always
ANYTHING GOES as long as it is Christmas themed!

We have a fun and colorful mood board for inspiration,
so many different options to choose from if  you desire!!

 Anything Christmas 

I always try to let the mood boards inspire me, they just give a great starting point!

Back in the winter months I did a little  fun shopping,
after all what else there to do to entertain yourself , right?

I purchased this fun stencil TCW of penguins to make a slimline card.
It is a perfect sized stencil for slimlines!!

I inked them with Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink.
The sentiment is from Altenew Holiday Flower stamped in Memento Love Letter.

I encourage you to join our challenge, come Christmas holiday time
you will be glad to have some of your Christmas cards ready to go!
Visit us at Peace On Earth and see all the pretty inspiration from the design teams!!

Celebrating You Today

We ae to our second challenge of the month for 

Dies R Us
and once again the theme is ANYTHING GOES
as long as you use a die company that Dies R Us carries.

The flower for May is Lily of the Valley and was also the month of my
Moms' birthday so this card makes me think of her, I miss her so!

I used a couple of Tutti Designs Nesting dies,
the Cross Stitched Nesting Ovals and Cross Stitched Banners.

The flowers are Cheapo Dies Lily of the Valley Bunch

That were cut from green card stock scraps and then from white
card stock and paper pieced on.
I also added a few fun Nuvo drops and a twine bow to finish!

Tutti Designs Cross Stitched Nesting Oval
Tutti Designs Cross Stitched Nesting Banners
Cheapo Dies Lily of the Valley Bunch

We would love to have you join us at the Dies R Us challenge!!
Take a peek at all the inspiration from the Design Team while there!

For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below. 

click below for:

STORE 
 CHALLENGE BLOG
  FACEBOOK
  FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

Dies R Us now has a sister store with warehouses in the USA and Canada called Didi Crafts.  

It will ship to both the US and Canada.  Didi Crafts will carry some of the same products as DRU, but most will be different.  Now our Canadian friends don't have to worry about huge taxes or shipping fees. How great is that!?!

Just A Note

Time for a new embossing challenge at 

Can You Handle The Pressure and the 'twist' is FLOWERS!

I used a TH Roses embossing folder on a piece of 
cardstock that was inked with various distress inks,
I added a die cut Rose from Cheapo dies and a
Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Stamps and Dies

Take a peek over at Can You Handle The Pressure and see all the pretty
designs from the rest of the team, join in with us too as it is a good
way to put those embossing folders to use!

Two Old Bats May Challenge Reminder

We are halfway thru the month of May
and we have a reminder of our challenge at
Two Old Bats Halloween year round challenge!

A mood board has been provided for inspiration 
but anything is fine as long as it is Halloween themed! 

I used the bottom left corner for my inspiration
and stamped a funky and spooky hat with Inkadinkado stamps.
The background die is a wacky rectangle die from Cottage Cutz.
The creepy spider is from my stash.

I had purchased some pre-printed sentiments from Simon Says
and this is one of them, they are printed in toner so they could be
foiled too!

Pop on over to the Two Old Bats challenge blog
and see al the spooky fun by the Design Team and get your Halloween
out and join in with us!