Lemongrass

A new month, a new color at our Colorful Options Challenge 
and this month it is LEMONGRASS, you can read the options below:

Option 1 — Lemongrass

Create a project featuring lemongrass as the primary color.

Think bright citrus yellow, zesty lemon, fresh grass green, and vibrant yellow-green tones. Bold, glowing, soft, or natural—any shade within this fresh spectrum is welcome.

Option 2 — Yellow-Green Spectrum

Prefer a variation? Focus on the yellow to green color range.

How fun are these colors?  I right away thought of using one of my very favorite
Simon Says embossing folders with stencils 'Butterfly Escapade'.

I started with a SSS Lemon Chiffon card stock to emboss on then stenciling with

SSS Lemonade, Distress Oxide Twisted Citron, and Memento Pear Tart inks.

The folder also comes with butterfly dies and the butterfly body parts

which I opted NOT to use this time.  I also left a sentiment off for now
so that it will fit any occasion when needed. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you too will

join in our 'Colorful Options' fun!!

Entering the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon ....One Thing (1 EB Folder)
I Spy With My Little Eye .... Something With Wings
Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Time Out .... Mother Nature

Happy Birthday Cards

Here we are, winding down our summer months again
and we have a new OPTIONAL challenge theme at
Love Those Pretty Papers.
and it is
Look To The Sky
(Galaxy Lightening Sunshine Clouds Stars).

Keep in mind the theme is only OPTIONAL as we are an
anything goes challenge using your pretty papers!

I made a card using the theme as I had purchased a 'new to me'
paper pad by Brutus Monroe BEDtime, it's full of stars, moons and
more!  All I added was a Spellbinders Betterpress sentiment and I now
have a masculine card to add to my stash!

For my ANYTHING GOES card I once again turned to my
Brutus Monroe papers and used a pretty paper from their
SUNFLOWER soiree collection!  The sentiment is Altenew
Beautiful Inside (which I used outside) stamped with Dew Drop 
Bamboo Leaves ink on a MFT Die-namics label die Framed Greetings.

Hope to see you over at Love Those Pretty Papers with YOUR papers!!

Entering the following challenges:
The Male Room .... Hobbies (Star Gazing)

Do All Creative Blog .... ATG or Weather
Seize The Birthday .... ATG

Summer Somewhere

We are into our last SUMMER month at The Four Seasons,
can you believe it, the months go by so fast it seems!!

We have a summery mood board for inspiration but you can
create anything as long as you stay within our SUMMER theme!

As soon as I saw this mood board I knew I wanted to use paper from

my Mintay 6x6 pad of Marina as it has the bottle from the
upper left corner and the lighthouse from the bottom right.
I mounted it on some navy blue card base and stamped a
sentiment from The Project Bin Summer Fun.

Come on over and spend the last days of SUMMER with us at
The Four Seasons!!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Gardz 4 Guyz .... Summer

Celebrate

 Our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure has a new OPTIONAL
theme of CELEBRATIONS.
You can create anything as long as you have used an embossing folder.
as that is what our challenge is all about, if in doubt please see
the DT samples and read the rules.

I used for the first time an embossing folder stencil combo
from Lisa Horton's Spring Bloom.  I found this stencil a bit
tricky to get it lined up properly and it definitely has some 'booboo's
on it, not only with the colors I used but also getting it lined up as the
way the stencil was designed.  Don't look too closely LOL.
All inks used were Altenew.  The sentiment is
Tutti Designs that I die cut three times then stacked 
one on the other.  The butterfly is Sue Wilson,

Come on over to Can You Handle The Pressure and have some
embossing fun with us!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Just Us Girls #833 .... Stencil Week
Cut It Up ....Emboss and Must Use at least One Die Cut

You Are The Best

 I took a break today from working on my 2027 cards
(yep, I really am working ahead lol) and also since most of my July
DT cards have been posted for the month I wanted to have some fun
while I had some FREE days.

I created this card for the challenge at Try It On Tuesday which
the theme is SUMMER FLOWERS.
Certainly not a hardship to create for this challenge as I LOVE flowers!

I saw the layout for this card on Pinterest and changed it slightly a bit
to make it my own.  The polka dot strips came from a Ziploc bag
of just small pieces left that I just couldn't toss.
The flowers are made with a Spellbinders die, also made from scraps
and the foliage is Cheery Lynn Designs, a die so worn that the paint is falling off!!
The sentiment is Simon 'U' Too.

This was a fun layout to use scraps, I may have to make a few more of these!

Also entering in these fun challenges:
Snippets Playground #537 .... Snippets

Special Day

Welcome to challenge #7 at Pick 3,
the challenge that has you choose 3 of the elements below. 

My Pick 3 are:

Fruit~Sequins~Chevron

Products Used:
Doodlebug Hello Sunshine paper (chevrons)
Pink Fresh Studio (lemons stamp)
Pink Fresh Studio Folk Edge Circle
Random Sequins
Altenew Buttercream Card Stock

I finally used up a 6x6 pad of paper, other then scrap pieces left
from this pad, only 200 more to go LOL!!
But I was quite pleased when the last sheet left happened to be
chevrons and in colors that worked perfectly for my berries and lemons image.

Come join us at Pick 3!!

Sending Warm Wishes

It's July at Peace On Earth and here I am sending 'warm wishes' lol,
but we ARE a year round Christmas challenge blog so
July or not we must go on!
We have a cute 'inspiration' board that can inspire you or not
as we want to see your Christmas creations.

Being I always try to follow the inspiration board in my eyes I had
the choice between mittens and stockings but there are plenty of other
things to inspire you as well, just take a peek!

I had a stocking die in mind to use but when I opened my Christmas (one of 5)

die books I saw this much neglected Poppystamps (2015) 
Stacked Stockings die so it seemed to call to me and here we are!
I die cut the die several times to paper piece in each stocking different from

one another.  All papers seen on this card are from my Christmas paper
scrap bag, and believe me there are lots and lots of them to use up!
I add a Cheery Lynn Designs trim from my 'spare parts' bin and a sentiment
from The Ton's Styled Christmas Sentiments stamps and die, 

I love the big size of these.
I also added a bit of bling for interest, yes, I know it adds to the postage but

I don't much care about that,  I just think it makes my card complete!

Hope you join our Christmas in July over at
Peace On Earth!

Entering the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create .... Any Holiday

Dragonfly Dreams .... Christmas in July With Sparkle
Girlz Creative Christmas ....Socks
Inkspirational #372 ....Christmas In July

Die Cut Diva's ....Christmas In July
Pearly Sparkles #121 .... Christmas In July