Go Blue

 This post is more personal then I would normally do
but my grandson graduated from University of Michigan with his masters
in Kinesiology Master of Science Sport, Sport Management.
It's pretty awesome to me as 10 years ago he had a spinal injury
that placed him a wheel chair when he was 15, hard for any
teenager to accept, but he persevered and ended up in a
wheelchair tennis program at UOM where he finished out his year as
the National wheelchair champion, a HUGE accomplishment. 

I created this card using an image from my Cricut in his school colors.  I was quite pleased that Cricut had perfect images for this sport!!
His celebration was May 2nd at the Notre Dame campus, which he well deserved

His parents, (my daughter) and his girlfriend.

Entering the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge .... 'B' Is For Balls (tennis balls)

Believe In the Magic

 Happy Sunday, can you believe we are already winding down May?
June will be here before we know it and we have perfect
weather (with a bit of rain) predicted for all week!

I didn't have any DT cards for today, not for the rest of the week
so I am entering a card I made for my SIL at Christmas time
that I have never shown on my blog, today in a challenge at
Crafty Calendar's May challenge that is 'All White'!

Dies:  IO Deer and trees, Yvonne Creations Houses,
EB Folder Falling Snow
Oval is Tutti Designs, Sign is Penny Black,
Sentiment:   JustRite Xmas Inner Thoughts

I personalized the card.  Very hard to get a 'good' all white photograph!
Because my all white card does have a black sentiment on it I hope
it qualifies, but I did see one of the DT had a neutral sentiment as well.

I am going to try my best to be back with another non DT

card tomorrow, it's been fun entering some challenges myself

other then offering them along with my co-owner!

Thanks for stopping by!

Also entering the following challenges:
Dragonfly Dreams .... Use Dies

You Did It

 It's getting closer and closer to graduation this year and we only
have one granddaughter graduating from high school this year
and a grandson getting his masters so I decided to make a grad
card for a young lady for our Can You Handle The Pressure challenge blog.
Our OPTIONAL theme is embellishments.

Its a simple card really.  I used for the first time a TH mini texture fades
Mini Kaleidoscope EB folder on a Homey Bee Team Tie Dye paper.
I embellished the larger flowers with white pearls.
All the other papers came out of my 'pink' scrap bag.
The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.

Have neglected EB folders?  Then get them out and join our challenge at
Can You Handle The Pressure.

Happy Birthday Stars

A new challenge starts today at The Pick Three blog
and you are required to PICK 3 of any of the elements below.
We can't wait to see what you choose. 

I got a little carried away and used FIVE of the elements
Embossing~Numbers~Birthday~Blue~Plaid.

I saw the layout for this card on Pinterest HERE 
but changed it up a bit by adding an embossed numerical background.

Products Used:
SU Baja Breeze card stock
Cuttlebug Numbers EB Folder
Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting Stars
Hero Arts Sentiment & Die
Various color card stock scraps

Fancy Pants Epoxy Puffy Embellishments

Come on over and have some Pick 3 fun with us and
check out all the fabulous inspiration from the design team!

Entering the following challenges:

Festive Friday #210 ....  Hot Air Balloon Day (Use 3)

Primary colors~Epoxy Embellishments~Birthday Sentiment

Snippets Playground #532 .... Snippets of Paper

Cardz 4 Guyz #386 .... Squash It (use an EB folder)
Die Cut Diva's .... Celebrations

Happy Birthday Splatters

Double D has a new challenge theme starting today and it is
SPLATTER .

We have a mood board for inspiration as well as two teams of
wonderfully fun inspiration, make sure to check them out!!

For my splatter card I had a scrap of 'splattered' green paper
making the perfect background for my Poppystamps Marcelle Flower die.
I die cut in all white scraps them blended ink in from my brushes.

The sentiment is Hero Arts Ribbon Messages stamped directly onto
the card front.  A few fun sequins were added.

Come and join our fun challenge theme at Double D!!

Christmas Puppies

It's time for a new challenge starting today at
Peace On Earth!
We have a fun mood board for inspiration but you can use
anything as long as it is Christmas themed!

Some cutie pie animals in the board which made me think of my Katy Sue 3D
puppy cards I created.  I have several different ones but am just posting these two

for now.  Each card below that is shown I have 2 of each.  These cards are 

4 1/2 x 4 1/2 and very 3D.  I have a doodle dog and the one reminds me of when he was a puppy!  Not much more to say about these
cards as you just punch out all the pieces then use a thinner

adhesive pop up in-between all the layers, easy peasy!

Card #1

Card #2

Aren't they just the cutest??
Come on over to Peace On Earth where we offer Christmas fun year round!!

Entering the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps & More #517 .... Christmas

ABC Christmas  .... K is For Knitwear

Krafty Chicks #820 .... Christmas

52 Card Throwdown .... Animals

 

BOO

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!