Thanks

 A new challenge starts today at our Word Power blog,
the challenge that is all about your sentiment taking center stage,
no little sentiments here!

If you visit or follow my blog often, by now you have probably
figured out I am a buy what is on sale crafter, I just can't resist the sales.
My Spellbinders 3D THANKS embossing folder is one of my sale
items.  Sometimes during their warehouse sales the folders are $1, $2, $3
and at that price I just can't resist, I mean who could right?
I ran the folder thru my Switch a couple of times on a Core'dinations 
whitewash paper and sanded to the color underneath.
I love how it makes the sentiment stand out.  I then added a few small
Katy Sue 3D flowers I had put together,  finishing it off perfectly.

So, get out those BIG words/sentiments and come join in our fun!!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Pearly Sparkles .... Something Old (cord-inations Paper)
Something New (Spellbinders Thanks & KS Flowers)

Rainy Halloween

It's a rainy day at our Two Old Bats Halloween challenge
and we have the mood board to prove it, BUT, it is
for inspiration only and you can create anything with the Halloween theme. 

I did let the rain inspire me with a rainy day Halloween card using
my Sizzix Rain Clouds embossing folder to start.  My skeleton is from a free die 

I received from scrapbookdotcom with an order.
He is holding an umbrella from a die cut by Cottage Cutz Stitched 
Suns, Clouds, and Umbrella.  Funny thing about this die is that non

of my die cut pieces have stitches on them as stated or shown on their site,
I am 'stitch less' lol!  Anyhow I die cut it from a scrap that was just sitting here and

it happened to have a skull on it, so perfect.  The pumpkin is a

Cheery Lynn Designs die.

Come on over to join in with us at 
Two Old Bats!

Birthday Fun

 At Colorful Options Challenge we are all about SPRING and the pretty
colors of YELLOW!  Not a fan of yellow, then you can always do
rainbow colors!  We have a pretty mood board for inspiration!

I was inspired by the pretty yellow tulips, one of my favorite Spring flowers.
I used a Spellbinders Wonderful Tulips Layered Stencil with Altenew inks
Buttercream, Warm Sunshine, Snapdragon, Firefly, Grass Field, and Shadow Creek
along with a Dew Drop Dandelion.  The sentiment is a Stampendous.

Come on over to Colorful Options and have some pretty Springtime fun with us!

Entering the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG
Simon Says Wednesday .... Happy Birthday

Forever Grateful

 We are well into SPRING at The Four Seasons
and have a pretty Spring mood board for inspiration to prove it!
We want to see all your pretty SPRING cards this month!

I used some pretty Spring papers from Paper Rose to start my card
along with a SU edgelits die .  The circle die is Folk Edge Circle from
Pink Fresh Studio.  The crocus stamp is an oldie Flourishes 
A Year In Flowers and the sentiment is a Betterpress.

I don't know about you, but I LOVE Spring so if you do too
then come on over to The Four Seasons and join us!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Fab N Funky .... Easter/Spring

Laughter The Best Medicine

Today at Double D we have a new challenge theme and it is a funny one,
HUMOR!!
We want you to make us laugh and have a silly mood board for inspiration!

I used a stamp set I have seen around various challenges but I have never
used before.  It's a stamp from Paper Rose Laughing Animals.  It was colored with 
various Copics and Altenew alcohol markers.  A few gold half pearls were added. 

Come and have some laughs with us at Double D!!

 

Happy Happy Day

 I'm on a roll as I was able to have fun creating a second card for
another challenge.  As soon as I saw the Alphabet challenge had
X for X-ray, meaning black and white my first thought was my
12x12 Ziploc bag of black scraps using a die my friend gave me
when she ordered 2 by mistake from Kokorosa Custom cutting dies, (thanks Suzi)!

I tried ordering from them myself once but my virus protection
will not let me go to their site saying it is a scam site, which it is NOT!
I would love to order more of these types of dies.

Anyhow, I die cut the base frame from both black and white card stock and
in the end settled on the white frame, mounting it on a black card base.
This was a super easy card to make.  The sentiment is a leftover from
Katy Sue Designs, I have a bag of them.

I'll be back tomorrow, with the start of my DT cards for the month

Also entering these fun challenges:
Snippets Playground #529 ....Snippets

Butterfly Birthday

 I am pretty excited about this card, not only that it turned out
so pretty, but the fact that I just received this stencil/die set over the weekend
and put it to use right away, a rarity for me!

It is a new 3D embossing folder and stencil from the new just released collection
In My Heart  from Simon Says Stamp.  This is the Butterfly Escapade, it also 
comes with a die which I didn't use this time as I didn't want to cover any
of the pretty embossed pieces up anymore then I did with the sentiment.
The folder/stencil set is out of stock but you can buy each set separately so far.

The inks I used are all Altenew Rubellite~Hydrangea~Shadow Creek and
Grass Field.  The sentiment stamp and die is Hero Arts Ribbon Messages.

I am really wanting to create a few more in some pretty Spring colors.

I am not affiliated in any way with Simon Stamps
but they are having a sale until 4/5 on all Simon
embossing folders, 25% off with code 5WAYS
of course (just my luck), I purchased mine just days
before the sale, you might want to take a peek!!

I created this card for the Just Us Girls challenge which is STENCILS
which I can totally thank for the challenge as it inspired me to use
my new stencil right away!  I am just getting this card
in under the wire

Thanks for stopping by!!

Also entering these fun challenges:

Addicted To Stamps & More .... Any Occasion
Simon Says Monday .... Emboss It