Stenciled Roses

 It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and since I had a 'free' day
I thought I would join in with these stenciled Simon Says Stamp
Elegant stenciled roses.  I stenciled about six of these in various colors
and these three cards have been waiting patiently on my desk 
for their debut!  All were stenciled with various colors of inks
from Altenew with the exception of the orange rose,
that one was all Simon Pawsitively Saturated inks!
The sentiments on all three are SU Warmest Regards.

Card #1

Card #2

Card #3

That's the last of these for now, this is really a great stencil,
easy to use and the end result is beautiful!

Entering the following challenges:
Just Us Girls .... Stencil week/ATG

Happy Birthday Bear

 Hello friends, since I don't have a DT post until Saturday
I thought I'd find a challenge to join in for today.
I chose The Paper Players CAS Bears challenge.
I hope my card is CAS enough for the challenge but I guess
everyone has a bit a difference of CAS.  I don't have a lot of white space
but I do have a lot of 'green' space and after looking at the DT cards
there, I thought mine was CAS enough!

I had pulled out a different bear die to use but then caught site of this

little guy that has never been used yet and decided it was time for

his debut!!  He is a Cottage Cutz 'Campin Out Bear On Log die.

I die cut him from a scrap of white card stock then colored each piece in with

TH Distress inks, makes it easy and faster that way them trying to

die cut each piece single.

After he was put together I decided he needed some pretty posies to go

with him so some of my already finished Spellbinders Bold Blooms

were added.  The little sentiment is a leftover piece from my Katy Sue 3D cards.  

See his little cup of hot cocoa perhaps?  so cute with his little
paw print on it, I surely had fun with this guy and not near
as picky as some of the CC dies can be...total FUN!!

The colors are a much more deeper brown, so hard to get the correct colors sometimes, and the flowers on the right are much more a golden yellow color, sigh!

That's it for today, I am headed out to lunch and a shopping spree with my daughter!!

Make A Wish Birthday Card

Hello friends, today I am joining a few challenges  with a card
I created using 'snippets' of my pretty papers.
If you are like me you have lots and lots of not only pretty paper pads
but also plenty of leftover pieces from those papers.
The die is one I purchased a while back from Amazon
and I think it might be a Kokorosastudio die .
I had fun making several cards with this die with various scrap papers,
a perfect die for those scrap pieces.

Isn't it a fun card with those pretty scraps?

I am entering the following challenges:
Try It On Tuesday .... Pretty Papers
Craft Rocket #140 .... Use Dies
Snippets Playground #541.... Snippets
AAA Birthday #89 .... Use Patterned Paper

Hi For Fall

Time for our new challenge at Pick 3,
the challenge where you pick three of the elements below. 

My pick three was pretty easy as I decided to make a fall card,

perfect just to say 'hi' or for a fall birthday.

I chose Brown~Leaves~Checks.

Products used:

Paper Rose Wood Panel Embossing Folder
Cottage Cutz Stitched Leaves
Honey Bee Gingham Checks
Paper Smooches Hello Words
Distress Inks (several colors)

This is one of my favorite embossing folders, even though not a 3D
it embosses beautiful panels.  The leaf dies are a fist time use,
I like them so much that I am sure I will use them again and again,
the detail stitching on them is great, another set I picked up
during one of their fabulous sales.
The sentiment is one that I won from a challenge blog,
I miss Paper Smooches as they had great dies and such!

More true to the color of leaves and acorns:

Come and join us and  Pick 3!

Entering the following challenges:
Sisterhood of Snarky #278 .... 'L' is For Leaves

Tic Tac Toe #301 .... Woodgrain~Free~Die Cuts

Just Us Girls #841 .... Mood Board Week

Time Out #322 .... Seasonal Colors Where I Live
( all the pretty leaf colors of fall as shown above, in Michigan)

Sweet Holiday

It's the start of our second challenge this month at
Peace on Earth
and we have a mood board for inspiration.
You can however create any Christmas themed project you want. 

When I looked at this board I saw candy canes, candy canes and more
candy canes lol.  So of course that is what I went with.
I used a 'new to me' Newton's Nook stamp set but have no idea of the 

name as it was given to me and the stamp set says 2017 so am assuming it 
is retired, colored in with Copics and Olo markers.  I used some papers from P13 Santa's Workshop, a Cottage Cutz

die and a bit of Crystal Nuvo for the hat  and oval.  The sentiment is
part of the stamp set.

Come on over to Peace On Earth and join our challenge!

Enterieng the following challenges:
C.R.A.F.T. challenge #789 .... Christmas
I Love Pro Markers ....(Markers) Theme:  Animals
Addicted To Stamps and More #526 .... Make Your Mark
Sparkles Christmas Challenge #188 .... Something Sweet

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!

Entering the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #770-771 ....ATG
Everybody Art #606 .... Pink
Pearly Sparkles #123 .... Pink~Pearls and/or Sparkle

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!!

Entering the following challenges:

As You Like It .... Favorite Halloween colors and why
Orange and Black as I like the traditional Halloween colors