Let's Celebrate

Today at Simply Clean & Simple our OPTIONAL theme is 
GREENERY 
but you can create anything as long as it is CAS.

Card #1

I find CAS cards quite fun, a nice break from all the
other types of cards I do.  For this challenge I used and older Poppystamps die (2016) Sylvan Sprig (berries included).  When I add the dates
of the dies/stamps I am always amazed that I have had them for
so long as it seems like yesterday that I just bought them,
where does the time go??  The sentiment is Altenew
Sentiments Strips 2 stamped with Dew Drop Nautical Blue ink.
Very simple, very CAS, but I like it!

Card #2

I made a very quick and easy card also using some 'greenery'.
I had this small square and the greenery wreath (Cottage Cutz)
already die cut and in my 'green' box of spare parts so decided to
make it easy on myself and use what I already had cut.
The sentiment is another left over from my 3D Katy Sue cards.

We would love to have you join our challenge at
Simply Clean & Simple.

You Are Loved

 It's the start of a new monthly challenge today at 
Word Power
the challenge where your BIG sentiments take stage,
no itty bitty little sentiments for us!

My BIG sentiment today is from Sizzix You Are Loved stamp set.
I added a few chain links of silver Dazzles
and a cute stamp from Penny Black Loads of Love
and a few pink glitter hearts from my stash.
My cute image was colored with a mix of
 Copic's and Olo alcohol markers
That's it, easy peasy!

So, get your big sentiments out and come and join us at
our Word Power challenge.
(Every time I start a sentence with SO, I think of
how my English teacher would react LOL)!!

Entering the following challenges:
We Love Stamping .... Hearts or ATG
I 💗Pro Markers #600 .... Love and Romance
Little Red Wagon ....Love
Simon Says Wednesday .... Add A Heart
Passion For Markers ....Add Some Red

Vintage Happy Birthday

At Double D our new theme for the next couple weeks is
Shabby Chic/Vintage!  We have a pretty mood board representing just that,
you can create either vintage OR shabby chic.

I have to say I  did not at all do what I had intended to do for this challenge
but went a whole different direction.
Several years ago I had a love for all the dress form stamps and ended up
collecting quite a few of them but of course never inked them up too much.
I pulled all of them out and decided on this one as it had a nice vintage 'flare' to it.
Prima (2012) and there is no name on the set but has 5 fun rubber stamps in all.
I just lightly colored it in places and layered it with some Tutti Designs
scalloped rectangles.  The sentiment is one left over from my Katy Sue 3D cards.

We would love to have your shabby chic/vintage creations over at
Double D!!

Peaceful Dove

 February brings us a new challenge at
Triple B and we have a fun mood board for inspiration.
However, you can create anything as long as it has
BIRDS~BLOOMS~BUTTERFLIES
You can use one, two or ALL three!!

For my card I started with a textured card stock in red and embossed with an
embossing folder I purchased at Spellbinders from their
Fun Stampers Journey collection.  I also used
My Favorite Things Peaceful Dove but this time instead
of carrying a sprig, he is carrying a heart, after all
February is the month of 'love'!!

We hope you will join us with one of your
Triple B's!!

Thanks A Million

We are back this month with another Stencil Fun challenge
with an OPTIONAL theme of
CREATE A BACKGROUND

For my Create A Background I have another card using my new stencil
Woven Ribbons by Altenew.
This time I used their chart that comes with the stencil for the colors
using Altenew inks
Pink Diamond~Pinkalicious~Soft Lilac~Firefly~Mango Smoothie~Polar Bear.
I love how pretty these pastel colors are together.

I wanted the pretty colors to show through so I die cut Joy Bille's Circle
then added some of my flowers I already had made, some are 
Spellbinders Bold Blooms and the sentiment is Betterpress Always & Forever (I would of preferred a birthday sentiment but I didn't have one left, so I just 'pressed' 3 more sets and if that wasn't enough I ordered another Betterpress set that is mostly birthday, that ought to do me...HAH!).  I also used a Spellbinders A2Curved Matting Basics A
to die cut out the finished stencil with.

For my ANYTHING GOES card I stenciled an
Altenew layered Dahlia (no longer available)
using all red inks.  Funny thing is the colors all came out
more of a coral color then reds.  I created one a long while back
using all coral colors and it reminds me of that one,
I suppose if I put them side by side I might see a difference
but it sure looks more coral then reds to me.
The inks I used were Gina K Cherry Red, Red Hot
and Lisa Horton's Cloud 9 Red Grapefruit and Strawberry Sundae.
The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.

Come on over to Stencil Fun and put your stencils to use!

Creepy Fun

 Here we are again in the middle of winter in Michigan
and we are having some year round fun with Halloween
while the snow is blowing and the wind is howling.
What better time to sit in my craft room all cozy and warm
and work on some Halloween cards for our challenge at
Two Old Bats!

We have a rather spooky mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything for Halloween.

Gives you the opportunity to pull out those Halloween
things you have stashed for a year and put them to use!!

I was inspired by those fun spooky pumpkins in the upper
left photo and of course the hearts.
I used a newly purchased paper from last year 

Halloween Inks by Whimsy Stamps.
I added a few 'hidden' tiny glitter hearts spread here and there

and a Spellbinders rub-on sentiment.

I'll be back in a couple weeks with a TOB reminder,

once again using one of these papers, make sure to

stop back and take a peek at it!

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some spooky
fun with us, we would love to have you!!

Hearts Galore

 A new month, a new challenge at The Neglected Stuff
the challenge that is all about using our old and
much neglected stuff!

I am using an older paper that I purchased back in June 2024,
yep, I would say it is pretty neglected.

I created six cards out of this 12x12 sheet of Reminisce
Hashtag Graffitiheart double Sided paper.
I liked it as it had a sort of masculine feel to it with the kraft
colored background and a few black hearts, not too feminine for the guys!

All the cards were made with bits and pieces from my spare parts bins,
some die cuts, some stickers and so on.

Card #1:

Card #2:

These cards are not my 'usual' type of card I would make

but they were easy and it allowed me to use things that were already 

die cut, not sure of all of the companies but some are 
Tutti Designs, Impression Obsession and more.
These cards allowed me to use up some of my many

neglected already  cut die cuts which is a good thing!!
All the cards look way better IRL!!

Card #3

Card #4

Card #5

Card #6

Get out YOUR Neglected Stuff and come on over and join us!