Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Your Special Day

 It's challenge time at Double D and we are asking  to see PINK
as our theme is Pretty In Pink
with a PINK mood board for inspiration !


I had something totally different planned for MY pink card
but then received these Katy Sue 3D kits purchased with an Amazon
gift card I had received.  These are part of a 3D wedding set that you receive
2 each of three different designs.  When my grandson got married my relatives
all but cleaned me out of wedding cards, so I have slowly been trying
to replace them.


3D effect


Make sure to stop by Double D and see all the beautiful "PINKS" from the DT!






Halloween Greetings

We have a couple more weeks left for our year round
Two Old Bats Halloween challenge
and a fun mood board for inspiration! 


I was inspired by those spooky witches.
I had a Cricut cut witch in my spare parts box and she has been waiting
patiently for quite some time to appear.  I didn't want her to cast any
spells on me so I put her and her fun back riding kitty to use.
The paper is Crafters Companion Vintage Halloween.


There is still time, come join in our fun at Two Old Bats!!




Welcome Autumn

Hello friends, I am guest designing this month at the very fun challenge at   
I Spy With My Little Eye 
with the theme of TEXT.

I created my card with some fun fall background text from an OLD
and I do mean old paper from Pebbles (2016).
It may be old, but it worked perfect for my Cottage Cutz Acorn Owl.
I used several different colors of TH Distress inks to color my owl,
all pieces were die cut from an ivory/cream card stock scrap!
The sentiment (cut three times and stacked) is a die from 
Karen Burniston Word Set 7 - Autumn.
I also used a Waffle Flower Lacy Layers 2 to cut the text background.


I want to thank Ellie for having me a guest designer this month and
certainly hope YOU will come and join the fun challenge too!


Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Thoughts of You

Beautiful Blossoms challenge starts today,
the challenge that is all about blooms!  As always there is a pretty
inspiration floral to inspire but any floral is invited! 



I had fun stamping and coloring this card with Copic's and
using a pretty Simon Says stamp set Vintage Garden.
I stamped two of the four floral images in this set.
The set also includes several  large sentiments, one of which
I used on this card.  A Poppystamps Nordic butterfly was added
left over from another project.


We would love to see YOUR florals over at Beautiful Blossoms!

Entering the following challenges:
Allsorts #858 ..... Thinking of You~Get Well~Sympathy
Aud Sentiments  #341 .... Thinking of You + Sentiment





Saturday, September 12, 2026

Cloudy Day

At Can You Handle The Pressure our OPTIONAL theme is
 Cloudy Day
but you can create anything as long as you have used an
embossing folder, after all, that is what our challenge is all about.

I used a couple fun things for this card,
a Simon Says EB folder Heart Showers.  This folder also comes with the
cloud  dies, so CUTE!!
The stamp set is from Colorado Craft Get Together.
The heart balloons are some I picked up at a craft store a few years back,
I am slowly using them up.

We would love to have you come and join in our embossing folder
fun at Can You Handle The Pressure!

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Rose Frames

 The  Sisterhood of Crafters monthly challenge starts today
and the theme is FRAMES!

 I have a nice and an extensive collections of the
Waffle Flower Postage collection and when I saw they came out with
frames for the stenciled pieces I was excited and ordered them
right away.  Good thing too as they went out of stock pretty fast
but am sure at the posting of this they are now plentiful to order.
I used the Waffle Flower Roses stencil and of course the 
Postage College dieI die cut those cute frames from scrap pieces of
Stardream Emerald shimmer paper.  The back ground paper reminded of me of
an old vintage wallpaper and it is Mintay  City of Love.
The sentiment is from The Greetery!

Come and join us for some challenge fun at
The Sisterhood of Crafters.

Monday, September 7, 2026

Many Thanks

 The Neglected Stuff is back this month with a new challenge,
no themes, we just want to see your neglected stuff,
you know those things you just had to have but have yet to use
or have maybe used a long time ago!

For my card I used an Acorn die set from The Greetery,
the sample card saw I is what made me purchase the set
as I loved the soft fall colors and the great design,
I pretty much cased and copied it but I think theirs is a black
background, I used navy blue and then of course
changed the sentiment using a Spellbinders die of the month Sept 24.
I can't believe this is the first time using this die as I was so excited to
have it arrive, only to leave it sit and sit!

We would love to see YOUR neglected stuff
so come on over and show us what you've got!!

Entering the following challenges:

Craft Rocket #140 .... Use Dies