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We are two weeks into our challenge at Two Old Bats where we
create for Halloween year round giving you the opportunity to
use your Halloween supplies all year!
We have a fun mood board for inspiration! 

Being May and after a long winter I let all those pretty pink colors

inspire me, yep, you can have PINK Halloween if you want to!
Back in September of 2025 I went a little crazy ordering LOTS of new

Halloween and the cards I created came from one of the pretty new papers

I had purchased from 'This Calls for Confetti' a new company to me.
The 5 1/2x8 1/2 pad had 12 fun designs and two of each which allowed me to make

four cards with one of the designs.  I figured I might as well make four since they were so
simple to create!  There were 2 of the designs on each page which fit an A2 card
front perfectly!!  I loved every single paper design in this pad!

All four of them:

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some Halloween fun with us,

the design team always has some awesome inspiration as well!

Birthday Wishes

Beautiful Blossoms has a beautiful inspiration photo for May.
I love it as May was my Mom's birthday month and
Lily of The Valley is the May flower  and I always made
her a lily of the valley card for her birthday.
She will have been gone eight years this year and not a day goes by
that I don't miss her!
You can create any kind of blooms, this is just for inspiration!

So, naturally I had to create a Lily of the Valley card using an older die

from Tutti Designs.  After die cutting I colored it in with my Copics.

The underneath piece is a leftover negative from an order I had

to make a dozen cards for, and thought it would make the perfect backdrop
for my flowers.  The sentiment is Altenew.

Hope to see you over at Beautiful Blossoms,

check out all the pretty inspiration from the Design Team while there.

Entering the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon #858 .... May Flowers
Simon Wednesday Challenge .... Use Dies

Happy Birthday

 Hello friends, our new theme at The Sisterhood of Crafters is
BANNERS.
We want to see all your fun banners on your creations.

I went a bit of a different way with my banners using my older
Tutti Designs Stitched Nested Banners cut from pretty papers
from Echo Park's Bee Happy papers.

The designs on card #1 is also part of Echo Park's
Bee Happy Ephemera  and the sentiment is Lawn Fawn's
Simple Wavy Banners.

Card #2

I liked this design so much that I created a second card
this time with ephemera from Craft Consortium's 
Amongst the Hedgerow, the sentiment is the same as card #1.

Get those banners out and come and have some
'banner' fun with us at The Sisterhood!

Happy Birthday Balloons

The OPTIONAL theme at Can You Handle The Pressure is
BALLOONS!!

I created a VERY simple card letting the Paper Rose Balloon
embossing folder do the work, embossed on 
Brutus Monroe Tie Dye paper, I think it made the perfect paper
for the balloons, the sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.

We would love to have you join us at Can You Handle The Pressure.

Entering the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments  #337 .... Embossing + Sentiment

Unicorn Challenge #120 .... Something New (EB folder & Paper)

AAA Birthday #85 .... Birthday

Krafty Chicks.... Birthday

For You

 It's time for our monthly challenge at Word Power, the challenge
that wants to see your BIG sentiments, no little sentiments here!
Let you sentiments be the first thing your eyes are drawn to!

I went BIG with my sentiment, using for the first time a
Spellbinders Layered Floral 'For You' stencil,
stenciled in all Altenew inks.  This card can be used for any occasion.

Let us see YOUR BIG sentiments at Word Power,
there is always a Top 3 and a Top Winner and it could be YOU!!

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... Make It Colorful 

Case A DT Card Challenge

 Hello friends, I have a second post to share today as I
didn't want to miss out on the Just Us Girls challenge that
closes today.  I am getting in by the 'skin of my teeth' as it is!

The challenge is to CASE a DT, easy except the hard
part of deciding which DT to choose!!

I finally decided to 'case' CAROL as I thought her design 
would be perfect for using a pretty designer paper.  You can read about her

card HERE.  She used washi tape for her floral image but I used a pretty

paper from Crafter's Companion Rustic Cottage, a pad full of beautiful

floral papers with a vintage look.  The die cut circles are Spellbinders (underneath),
 I think this was the first die I had ever purchased
and the inner die cut circle is a Scalloped circle

from Cottage Cutz.  The sentiment is Sizzix.

Make sure to visit Just Us Girls and see all the pretty

designs from the DT, I loved each and every one and
if I had more time, I would of created a few more!!

Happiness

 Today our challenge theme at Double D is 
WATERCOLOR.

We have a watercolor inspiration board and plenty more inspiration
from the design teams at the challenge blog.

I pulled out a few very old things for my card.  I die cut a watercolor paper
using a Poppystamps Flower Field Frame (2022) then used my very old
Tim Holtz Distress watercolor markers.  I was pleased that they still even worked!!
It was a long process and they are far from perfect but in the end made a pretty card.
The sentiment is Sparkle & Sprinkles (retired company) Happiness Greetings stamp.
I added Glitter Emerald Green Nuvo Drops to the flower centers, giving a bit of sparkle.

1 small heart from my spare parts was also added.

Come and join our watercolor fun at Double D!!

Entering the following challenges:

Poppystamps .... Inspired By Nature