Colorful Options May 2024

 Hello friends, it's once again a new month and that brings us to a new
color challenge at Colorful Options and in case you haven't already guessed it, 
our color this month is ROYAL BLUE!
Not a fan of royal blue?  Then you can create a rainbow colored card, either is accepted!
Here is our pretty inspiration board for this month!

As soon as I saw this color I knew I wanted to use my Altenew Azurite ink
thinking it the perfect color for my Betterpress never been used before
Spellbinders 'H' press plate.  Gosh, how I LOVE that thing!!  I added a few white pearls

to make it a bit more fancy but other then adding it to a royal blue card base
I felt it was perfect the way it was!!

Come and have some colorful fun with us at
Colorful Options!!

Entering the following challenges:

Seize The Birthday .... Anything Goes

Two Old Bats May 2024

Welcome to Two Old Bats where we celebrate Halloween
year round enabling you to use all those normally put away for a year
Halloween supplies!! 

As always we have a spooky fun mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything Halloween themed! 

I let all those fun pumpkins in the upper left corner inspire me
and what better way then to load them up in a pick up truck,
an orange pick up truck all decked out for Halloween!

The truck is a Cottage Cutz Spooky Truck die, they are known for their fabulous 
up to 80% off sales, so when they have a sale, I shop!!
I die cut all my pieces out of white card stock scraps (snippets) and then colored each piece in.
I find this easier then trying to cut each in a colored card stock, saves a bundle of time too!
The background paper is from my Halloween scrap bag (I've been trying to use that up)
and the sentiment is from a set of Halloween strips I purchased .

Hope to see YOU over at Two Old Bats,
plenty of inspiration there too.

Entering the following challenges:
Halloween Crafts Year Round and Other Occasions ....  Halloween

Word Power #5

 Hello friends, another new month, another new challenge at
Word Power
where we want your sentiments to take center stage!

I used a sentiment I received when I was on the DT at Sparkle N Sprinkle.
I stamped it in Versamark on vellum, then embossed it with SNS white EB powder.
Only thing, I made a mistake by evidently not embossing the two last words of
the sentiment which was 'to stay', as while adhering my top layer to my designer paper
I put my hand in the un-embossed last two words, eeek!
Since this was a second attempt already and my last piece of light
blue vellum, I made it work without those two words, at least I think I did!
I added a few gems where the words were to help cover up the mess I made!
The pretty paper under the vellum is Dress My Craft Hydrangea Lawns

Come on over to Word Power and have some fun with us
showing us your 'center stage' sentiments!!

Pretty Florals For Mom

Hello friends, can you believe it is MAY already ?
We have a beautiful May mood board for inspiration and
the theme of Pretty Florals for Mom at our
Double D challenge!

It was a hard decision to decide which image I let inspire me
but in the end let the bottom right corner win!
Daffodils and gingham are two favorites of mine
so to put them together, even better!!

I used a Cottage Cutz Daffodil die that I die cut in white scraps
then inked each piece, it's a bit brighter IRL. I also used another favorite,
The Greetery Big Bow die and because of cutting the two colors I now have a
bow in the reverse colors to use on another project. Lastly I added one of my
favorite sentiments from The Ton Easy Expressions.
I guess this card was a combination of favorites!

We would love to see YOUR Pretty Florals for Mom over at our
Double D challenge,
and make sure to see all the beautiful florals from our design teams while there!

Entering the following fun challenges"
Simon Says Wednesday .... Feminine 
Simon Says Monday .... Feminine
Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge .... ATG
A Place To Start .... Add one or more Flowers
Tic Tac Toe .... Flowers~Free~Die Cuts

Four Seasons May Spring 2024

 We are well into SPRING at Four Seasons
and one of my favorite seasons with spring flowers popping up,
warmer weather and clean smelling breezes!

We have a pretty Spring mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything SPRING related!!

I initially was going to go with those gorgeous lilacs but then decided
to go with the 'May' flower of Lily of The Valley.
We tore down (mowed it over) one of my large floral gardens last year
due to my age of not being able to take care of it like I should.  In that garden
growing all over were hundreds of PINK lily of the valley.  I am hoping some of it will
pop it's little heads up this spring so I can dig it up and move it elsewhere.
Anyhow, I used a Tutti Design die for my lily of the valley and cut it twice from white scrap card stock and stacked one on the other then colored in with my Olo markers,
along with a piece of scrap striped vellum from my stash. 
The white doily underneath was already
cut and in my 'white' shoe box/bin of precuts.   
I made the most tedious bow, and I mean tedious,
using a die from Memory Box.  A few Pink Fresh Studio Ballerina gems were added.

We would love to have you join us at
Four Seasons with your Spring entry and
stop by and see all the beauty from the design team!

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... Feminine
Simon Says Monday .... Feminine

Feminine Challenge

We are back with another challenge at
Can You Handle The Pressure
where are all about embossing folders!
Wet embossing is permitted but you MUST use an
embossing folder on you project!

Our OPTIONAL theme is FEMINIE.

I pulled out a panel that was already embossed
from an OLD SU Roses embossing folder.
I added a Precious Marieke Rose die cut border
across the top, a punched circle with my
Stampendous True Friends sentiment.
A few gems were added here and there. 

Get those embossing folders our and join us at
Can You Handle The Pressure!

Springtime Designer Paper Challenge

At The Sisterhood of Crafters our new challenge theme is
Springtime Designer Paper.
I don't know about you but I love this theme as I certainly have a lot
and I mean a lot of beautiful papers to create with but seem to
always pass them by!

I used this gorgeous paper from Carta Bella Flora No.3,
every sheet in this pack is absolutely gorgeous!
I separated the two papers with a die cut from 
Gemini Blossoming Borders and the sentiment is from The Ton Easy Expressions.

It's an easy peasy challenge theme so why not join us over at
The Sisterhood, my 'sistahs' have some beautiful inspiration
you won't want to miss!!

Entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG