Hello My Dear Friend

 Happy first day of June my friends!
Today brings us to our monthly challenge at The Four Seasons
where our SEASON  is SUMMER.
We have a SUMMERY mood board for inspiration but you
can create anything as long as it is SUMMER!

Being part of the DT we always try to use the mood board for OUR inspiration,

but I have to admit this one thru me a bit.  It shouldn't have as I do have

umbrella and beach chair dies as well as a 

Cricut with 1000's of images to choose from, in fact there were over 8,000
images of just watermelons lol!  And see the water in the backgrounds of two
of those pictures?  Well, I have the most perfect 6x6x paper pad of all water,

but no, I had to make this as difficult for myself as I could!

Finally I had a lightbulb moment and came up with an idea to create my own

slices of watermelon by die cutting a circle and cutting it into fourths
and inking it to look like  watermelon slices.  The watermelon seeds were made
using raindrop dies from a Cottage Cutz die, they worked perfectly.

The sentiment is one I purchased from a Spellbinders warehouse sale

(how I love those sales) Little Hello Sentiments.  The die cut underneath was 

a free one I received with a Scrapbookdotcom order Nested Stitched Tickets.

Needless to say , this is NOT a seedless watermelon LOL!!

Come on over to The Four Seasons for some SUMMER fun with us!

Rosy Congratulations

 It's Colorful Options time once again and we have a pretty
inspiration board or you have the option to use Rainbow colors.

First I have to say my Rose is a much more Tiffany color then the photo shows,

I just wasn't able to get the true color on camera, but when holding my card up to
the inspiration board it is a true match.

I used the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Elegant Rose stencil with 
Altenew inks Dew Drop~Aqualicious~and Teal Cave.
The sentiment is a hot foil one sent to me by a friend.

Come and join us with our pretty summer Colorful Options inspiration board!

Entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday .... Simon Products

Have A Special Day

 Our The Neglected Stuff challenge starts today,
the challenge where we ask you to get out your old
neglected stuff, you know those things you had to have
but have yet to use or only used maybe once eons ago!!

I liked the design of this card so much that I did last month for another DT
and decided to make more for this challenge.

Card #1 contains a very old Stampin' Up background paper,
older Tutti Designs Stitched Banner dies and some fun Ephemera I
purchased in 2025 Craft Consortium's Amongst The Hedgerow.
The banner papers are a scrap of green and Echo Park's Bee Happy .
The sentiment is from Katy Sue designs.

Card #2 is basically all the same with the exception of the
background paper is Graphic 45.

I'm sure you have some old neglected stuff
and we would love to see it at our challenge!!

A Sketch Card

Another free day with no DT cards allowing me to have more fun
with a few challenges .  My challenge today is
Atlantic Hearts Sketch #683

I found this challenge to be a very pretty sketch and a bit more
'fussy' then most sketches and I liked that! I pretty much

let the sketch inspire me to stick with it  without changing a thing..
For the most part I used scraps of paper from my 'yellow' paper

scrap bag and an older scalloped punch from SU.

The flowers and leaves were already created from Spellbinders Bold Blooms.
as is the sentiment, a Betterpress.

I'll be back tomorrow and the next couple of days too

with some more fun challenge cards, hopefully as we all

know how life can change our plans!!

Say It With Flowers

Hello friends, today is another day of a non DT cards
so I have been having fun  actually joining in a few challenges.
My chosen challenge for today is 
Make My Monday #278 Say It With Flowers.

You certainly can't go wrong with a floral card!!
I used a stencil/stamp combo from LDRS Creative
Poppy Posy, stenciled with various inks
Distress Oxide Twisted Citron, Memento Love Letter,
Gina K Red Hot and Altenew Grass Field, Shadow Creek.
I wish there was more of a contrast of the reds but I find
most reds all seem to be somewhat the same.
The sentiment is Sizzix Daily Sentiments.
I also used a 'new to me' SSS Pawsitively
Perfect White Splatter Medium,
which I need a little practice with,
there is a Youtube video however!

Hopefully I will be back tomorrow with another non DT card,
thanks for stopping by!!

Also entering the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin' ..... Flowers
Simon Wednesday .... ATG and/or Simon Products
Fab N' Funky .... Stencil and/or Embossing
Crafty Gals Corner ..... Flowers For Mom/ATG

Save Water

Another non DT card today this time a fun one for the challenge at 
 The Male Room where the challenge is:

A couple years ago I bought this crazy fun stamp from Funky Fossil
and have fun with it over the last few years.  It has five fun images
and four images to choose from.  My favorite for a male will

be on my blog at some point later as a DT card.

I kept my card very CAS, coloring in with Copic's.
I tried to find some inspiration using this stamp but could not

find any anywhere and it seems the stamp set has been discontinued,

too bad as it is a unique and fun set to play with!! 

I'll be back tomorrow with another non DT card,

I've been having fun joining in these fun challenges!!

Also entering the following fun challenges:

All about Papercrafts #5 .... Food and/or Drinks

Love Bug

Hello friends, my blog is free of DT cards until June 1st
so I didn't want to leave it empty for that long and decided to do a few 
challenges this week.  One that caught my eye was  Just Add Ink #786
that the theme was polka dots.

My first thought when I saw the theme was my cute Cottage Cutz Love Bug die,

one I have used only once before a few years ago.  Unfortunately this fun
die is no longer available so I feel extra lucky to own it.
The papers are from Echo Park Little Lady bug, fitting for my cute bug!
The die cut with the polka dots is also a Cottage Cutz die, also now

not available.  This die is super easy and not near as 'picky' as
some of the other CC dies I have done, but they are so worth

the effort, I mean, look how cute they are!!

I will also be back tomorrow with another fun challenge card...stay tuned!!

Also, entering the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams .... Use Die Cuts
Allsorts .... Anything Goes
Crafty Catz #714 .... Anything Goes
Elliebelle's Garden Party #15 .... Anything In/From A garden