Vitamin Sea

 A new month, a new challenge at Stencil Fun
with an OPTIONAL theme of BUTTERFLIES.

I used for the first time a Brutus Monroe butterfly stencil
stenciled with Altenew inks  Warm Sunshine, Pinkalicious,
and Hydrangea.  The sentiment is from The Greetery.

For my Anything Goes card I used a stencil that I have
used once before, time to bring it out again!!  It is Picket Fence
Current of Fish, stenciled with Distress Spiced Marmalade.
The sentiment is The Project Bin Summer Fun.

Come over to Stencil Fun and join in with us!

Hauntingly Good Time

Hello Halloween fans, it's time for our monthly Halloween challenge at
Two Old Bats where we celebrate Halloween year round! 
We have a mood board for inspiration  but you can create
anything Halloween themed!

I totally let the colors and the grave stones inspire me this time
from the lower left photo,  though I certainly had plenty
of 'skeletons' I could of used.

My card is created with the use of a Spellbinders rub on.  These were/are
some of the best rub ons!  I added a scrap of Brutus Monroe paper and a few

die cut Simon Says Stamp bats.  The sentiment was a rub on as well!

Come on over and have some 'spooky' fun with us at Two Old Bats!

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