It's Your Day

It's time for our challenge at Beautiful Blossoms and we
have a gorgeous bouquet for inspiration.
Doesn't it make you long for Spring?
I know it certainly does me!! 

For my card I used a never been used before stamp and die set I bought a few years
ago from Sunny Studio's Spring Bouquet.  It's a layered stamp for
three different Spring flowers, easy peasy.  The flower pot is 
The Greetery Pretty Pot die. it's hard to tell but the pot has a bit of detail

on it.  The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.
The ink I used is all Altenew.  The under die is from Cottage Cutz
and I had used some 'powders' spattered on it.

So, get out your pretty blooms and come and join us at Beautiful Blossoms!

Merry Christmas

 It's once again time for a new challenge at
Peace On Earth
and we have a fun mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything Christmas themed!

I knew as soon as I saw the mood board that I wanted to use a Katy Sue 3D

ornament shaped image I had put together, after all it features Rudolph

so how I resist??   The background paper is from Simple Stories Make It Merry.

I added some 'dazzles' around the edge of the red card stock for some

shimmery sparkle.  The sentiment is from The Ton.

Come on over to our year round challenge at Peace On Earth,
we would love to have you!

It's Your Day

We have a new challenge starting today at
Can You Handle The Pressure
the challenge that is all about embossing folders.
I love all the new embossing folders that are now available
including all the 3D that really stand out,
I have to admit I  have quite a nice collection of them myself.

The OPTIONAL theme is Die Cuts.
An easy theme for me as I have several EB folders that came with
a die along with the folder to die cut a portion of the folder to use
any way you want.  Simon Says Stamps has many of these to
choose from and so do I...using the Terrace Floral embossing folder
and die, after embossing the panel twice I used the matching die
to die cut the center floral and leaf, colored in with ink left on my
brushes.  I added a few Sue Wilson mini butterflies and a
Spellbinders Betterpress sentiment..

This is a GREAT challenge to make you use your own
embossing folders so come and join us!

Valentine For The Hubby

 Today I had the fun of creating a special Valentine for the hubby.
Lately I have been really enjoying the creative stamps by
Unity and this so happens to be one of them
'Slightly Wry'.
I turned it into a Valentine as it resembles our dog Mackinaw (Mack)
almost perfectly.  I think he will get a kick out of it,
(the hubs, not the dog lol).
The background paper is also Unity's Sweet On You 6x6 paper.
The sentiment is Honey Bee Hello Sweetheart stamped with Hero Hues
Cherry ink.  I added a few stick on hearts and a die cut cloud from my
spare parts bag.

I have the entire Unity February release bundle of stamps
arriving tomorrow, I can't wait!

Mack the goldendoodle:

I will be entering my card into these challenges:
Cardz For Gals #269 .... Hearts and Kisses
Little Red Wagon #845 ... Red
Creative Knockouts #564 .... Love~Valentines~Anniversary
Just Us Girls  #810 .... Word Week Valentine

Time Out #306 ....Red~Sparkle~Pink~Heart~Aperture~Twine
Pick 2

Happy Birthday Stitching

 This month at The Sisterhood of Crafters our theme is
STITCHING.

I guess I took it literally as I did some REAL stitching using a
Spellbinders Stitched Medallion die.  I have a small collection of
these dies and find it relaxing to work on them while watching TV,
I can rarely just sit and watch a program, I have to have my hands busy too!
So, I have a few already stitched pieces just waiting to be made into a card!
The sentiment is a Betterpress die also from Spellbinders
and the background is The Greetery Aida Cloth Texture plate.

Come on over to The Sisterhood and see all the 
inspiration from our design team and join in with us.

Picked Posies

 At Love Those Pretty Papers challenge we give you an
excellent opportunity to use your pretty papers.

We are an 'anything goes' challenge with an OPTIONAL
monthly theme and this month it is POLKA DOTS.
Who doesn't LOVE polka dots??

Because I have so many scrap pieces of designer papers
and also because this is 'my' year I am trying to use some of my
things up, both my cards were made with scrap pieces of designer papers.

The first card I created using the polka dot theme and adding
Concord & 9th already created Picked Posies.
I have several of these in various colors already made and it's time
I started using them up.  The polka dot butterflies had taken 'flight'
on my desk so they landed on this card as well!
The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.

For my second 'anything goes' card, I had fished this piece of embossed
hearts vellum out long ago to use and had a slightly smaller then A2
card base to use so it worked perfectly for that.  The heart balloons
and love sentiment are from a 2024 Recollections stickers pack.
The oval they are resting on is from my 'pinks' spare parts container
as is the tiny red butterfly.
That vellum was little bit difficult to photograph.

So, get out those pretty papers and come and join us at
Love Those Pretty Papers!!

Entering the following challenges:
Die Cut Diva's .... Red and/or Pink

Let's Celebrate

Today at Simply Clean & Simple our OPTIONAL theme is 
GREENERY 
but you can create anything as long as it is CAS.

Card #1

I find CAS cards quite fun, a nice break from all the
other types of cards I do.  For this challenge I used and older Poppystamps die (2016) Sylvan Sprig (berries included).  When I add the dates
of the dies/stamps I am always amazed that I have had them for
so long as it seems like yesterday that I just bought them,
where does the time go??  The sentiment is Altenew
Sentiments Strips 2 stamped with Dew Drop Nautical Blue ink.
Very simple, very CAS, but I like it!

Card #2

I made a very quick and easy card also using some 'greenery'.
I had this small square and the greenery wreath (Cottage Cutz)
already die cut and in my 'green' box of spare parts so decided to
make it easy on myself and use what I already had cut.
The sentiment is another left over from my 3D Katy Sue cards.

We would love to have you join our challenge at
Simply Clean & Simple.