Purple Elegant Rose

 At Just Us Girls it is already Stencil Week again
which happens to be one of my favorite challenges and 
with the ever growing mountain of stencils I have it's a
perfect challenge for me.

A few weeks ago I stenciled several roses in various colors
using SSS Elegant Rose using all Altenew inks.
I didn't add any embellishments or a sentiment and kept a

clean, just stenciled card, not to say I won't later
depending on what occasion I am using it for.

You will be seeing the other stenciled colors later 'down the road'!!

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Butterfly Day

 Here I am again with another challenge card,
so rare for me to be able to create for so many
challenges in a week, but so FUN!!

I saw this Sunbird Spark challenge #59 and immediately was
drawn to the colors.

I decided to use yet another stencil from Taylored Expressions,

one I have used before but not for quite sometime, Layered Butterflies
stencil and stamp.  I pulled several different inks out but ended up using
SSS Surf and Memento Dew Drop Pear Tart.  

I don't think this challenge is listed at Paper Playful or
Challenges For Days, they need to to get more players

as it is a very nice challenge!!

Color Hues Challenge #131

 Another 'free' day for me I can add another challenge to my 'belt'!
I choose The Color Hues Challenge of Coral & Green
with my neutrals of black and white.

One of my newest embossing folders and stencils this year was
the SSS Butterfly Escapade set.  My bank account 'cringes' every month
when Simon has a new release as there is always something I

need/want in each release!  

The inks I chose for this card was Altenew Coral Bliss and Shadow Creek.  I just wish the true colors of this showed up
better, it is way more of a suble green and coral color
then the picture shows.

I have a few more of these done in other color combos that will

'appear' at a later date, after all you can't stop with just one, right??

Let Joy Blossom

 I had some free days with no DT projects so I joined in a challenge at
CAS Colors & Sketches
with the sketch shown below.

This certainly was an easy CAS sketch with many possibilities
that if you visit the site you will see fabulous examples from the design team!

I had a new Whirl Butterflies die from SSS

that I was able to use for the first time today.
The sentiment is a rub on that just came in the mail
on Saturday!

That's it, pretty easy peasy!!

It's Your Day

 Can You Handle The Pressure is bringing to you an
OPTIONAL theme of FLOWERS
but you can create anything as long as an embossing folder is used, that is a MUST
to enter our challenge!

I found an already embossed panel in my 'spare parts'
box and since that is my goal of to use this year, plus the fact
that it is downright pretty, I pulled it out to use.
The folder is Spellbinders Flower Frenzy which I  'might' of picked up
during one of their warehouse sales.
I need to make more of my Spellbinders Bold Blooms flowers so am trying to 
use up what I already have made and that is where these flowers
came from.  They worked perfectly with my folder and perfect for the theme.
The sentiment is a Betterpress stamp and die.

So many new embossing folders out there
to purchase, we hope to see some at our
Can You Handle The Pressure challenge!

Entering the following challenges:
Cut It Up #354 ... Die Cut/Colors of Spring
Daisy Chain #106 .... No Designer Paper

Birds and/or Eggs Challenge

 I was once again able to have some free time to enter a challenge I saw
at Make My Monday where the theme is Birds and/or Eggs.

I purchased a set of rub ons from Prima Among The Wildflowers
 that had the prettiest images on it, one is quite large but it does fit a 6x6 card base. 
Do go and check them out!
The one I used has both a bird and eggs on it and I was thinking it
would make a beautiful baby card, but because it is a
Congratulations sentiment, it could be used for about any occasion. 
It was rubbed onto one of my favorite Waffle Flower dies
Lacy Layers 2 (no longer available).

It certainly will be an easy mailer, with the rise of postage
that is a 'good' thing!!

Do you like to use pretty 'rub on's too??

With Deepest Sympathy

 I saw this pretty Baby's Breath stencil at Papertrey ink and saw it had been used
for a sympathy card on one of their samples and thought it would be
perfect for that, but when I put it my cart and saw the shipping for
just one lightweight stencil I backed out, but along came my
|'partner in crime' Dar and when I showed her the stencil she
wanted it too and a few other things so she bought it for me and then 
mailed it to me, now how nice is that of a friend!!

I used some pretty Altenew inks for my stencil, if you do layering stencils
I can recommend these ink cubes, they come in a set of four colors
from light to dark and I have had them for quite a long time and they still
are as good as the day I had bought them.  The sentiment is Hero Arts.  A simple but pretty sympathy card.

I plan on making several more of these cards in different colors

Hoping this is CAS for the challenge at 
CAS On Friday#332 as it certainly was VERY simple to create
and lots of clean white space and the theme is SYMPATHY!