Birthday Fun

 At Colorful Options Challenge we are all about SPRING and the pretty
colors of YELLOW!  Not a fan of yellow, then you can always do
rainbow colors!  We have a pretty mood board for inspiration!

I was inspired by the pretty yellow tulips, one of my favorite Spring flowers.
I used a Spellbinders Wonderful Tulips Layered Stencil with Altenew inks
Buttercream, Warm Sunshine, Snapdragon, Firefly, Grass Field, and Shadow Creek
along with a Dew Drop Dandelion.  The sentiment is a Stampendous.

Come on over to Colorful Options and have some pretty Springtime fun with us!

Entering the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG
Simon Says Wednesday .... Happy Birthday

Forever Grateful

 We are well into SPRING at The Four Seasons
and have a pretty Spring mood board for inspiration to prove it!
We want to see all your pretty SPRING cards this month!

I used some pretty Spring papers from Paper Rose to start my card
along with a SU edgelits die .  The circle die is Folk Edge Circle from
Pink Fresh Studio.  The crocus stamp is an oldie Flourishes 
A Year In Flowers and the sentiment is a Betterpress.

I don't know about you, but I LOVE Spring so if you do too
then come on over to The Four Seasons and join us!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Fab N Funky .... Easter/Spring

Laughter The Best Medicine

Today at Double D we have a new challenge theme and it is a funny one,
HUMOR!!
We want you to make us laugh and have a silly mood board for inspiration!

I used a stamp set I have seen around various challenges but I have never
used before.  It's a stamp from Paper Rose Laughing Animals.  It was colored with 
various Copics and Altenew alcohol markers.  A few gold half pearls were added. 

Come and have some laughs with us at Double D!!

 

Happy Happy Day

 I'm on a roll as I was able to have fun creating a second card for
another challenge.  As soon as I saw the Alphabet challenge had
X for X-ray, meaning black and white my first thought was my
12x12 Ziploc bag of black scraps using a die my friend gave me
when she ordered 2 by mistake from Kokorosa Custom cutting dies, (thanks Suzi)!

I tried ordering from them myself once but my virus protection
will not let me go to their site saying it is a scam site, which it is NOT!
I would love to order more of these types of dies.

Anyhow, I die cut the base frame from both black and white card stock and
in the end settled on the white frame, mounting it on a black card base.
This was a super easy card to make.  The sentiment is a leftover from
Katy Sue Designs, I have a bag of them.

I'll be back tomorrow, with the start of my DT cards for the month

Also entering these fun challenges:
Snippets Playground #529 ....Snippets

Butterfly Birthday

 I am pretty excited about this card, not only that it turned out
so pretty, but the fact that I just received this stencil/die set over the weekend
and put it to use right away, a rarity for me!

It is a new 3D embossing folder and stencil from the new just released collection
In My Heart  from Simon Says Stamp.  This is the Butterfly Escapade, it also 
comes with a die which I didn't use this time as I didn't want to cover any
of the pretty embossed pieces up anymore then I did with the sentiment.
The folder/stencil set is out of stock but you can buy each set separately so far.

The inks I used are all Altenew Rubellite~Hydrangea~Shadow Creek and
Grass Field.  The sentiment stamp and die is Hero Arts Ribbon Messages.

I am really wanting to create a few more in some pretty Spring colors.

I am not affiliated in any way with Simon Stamps
but they are having a sale until 4/5 on all Simon
embossing folders, 25% off with code 5WAYS
of course (just my luck), I purchased mine just days
before the sale, you might want to take a peek!!

I created this card for the Just Us Girls challenge which is STENCILS
which I can totally thank for the challenge as it inspired me to use
my new stencil right away!  I am just getting this card
in under the wire

Thanks for stopping by!!

Also entering these fun challenges:

Addicted To Stamps & More .... Any Occasion
Simon Says Monday .... Emboss It 

Happy Birthday To Ewe

 A new challenge starts today at Can You Handle The Pressure
with an OPTIONAL theme of KIDS Cards!
However, you can create anything as long as an embossing folder has been used,
that is a MUST!!

I had created another card but the more I thought about it the less
I was thrilled with it so I made this fun kids lamb card.
I've seen a few different designs of these around blogland
using various products and decided to create my own.
I have to mention my little 'ewe' is a bit cross eyed,
just the way the two black spots in his eyes 'rest',
but it gives her , her own personality.

Products used were:
Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Circle (largest & smallest)
SU Punches for ears, face and legs
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder
A few die cut flowers
and a scrap of designer paper.

The ewe was created to open, so it is adhered to a card panel
as shown below.

We hope you will come and have some embossing fun with us at
Can You Handle The Pressure!!

Entering the following challenge:
Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG

March 2026 Woodblock Wednesday

 It's the last Wednesday of the month and that means it's time for
Amy's Woodblock Wednesday challenge, the challenge where
your woodblock stamps are required!

For my woodblock I got out an old House Mouse stamp 2005
Sleeping Under Flowers 02.

It's quite a large stamp so it made a large card.
The sentiment is Stampin' Up 1992 stamped on a punched circle. 
I have several of these SU

wood block single stamps I purchased at a garage sale years ago

so have no idea of what set they originally belonged to.

I die cut my image after I had colored it with Copics with a newly

purchased nesting die from Memory Box Notched Eyelet Frames.
Such a pretty nesting set that I know I will get lots of use out of!
I added  a few tiny shamrocks from my 'spare parts' box and
believe they are Impression Obsession dies, cute aren't they?

I am sure Amy would love to see YOU over at her Woodblock Wednesday challenge!!