May Your Day Be Brighter

 Our challenge this month at Love Those Pretty Papers
has an OPTIONAL theme of Fancy Fold.

I had the bright idea to do a Z FOLD card, and there are several
different Z fold tutorials from easy to somewhat 'fancy'.

I opted to go the easy way.  When I was looking thru my paper pads
for something else I saw these prints and right away had an idea to use
this fun Impression Obsession die as it reminded me of the papers,
which by the way are Brutus Monroe Bunny Hugs.  This is a really small
paper pad that has only 12 sheets of paper in it, but all are so cute!!
The circle die is PFS Folk Edge Circles and the sentiment is Stampendous Hugs.

Here is the card closed.

Because we are an ANYTHING GOES challenge we also always make
an ATG card for even more inspiration!

This card is using some VERY old designer paper that I think I won
on a challenge when Joan's Garden's had her challenges going.
It is Anna Griffin Olivia Collection 2013, yikes, yes it IS 13 years old

and I think this is the first time I have used it, I think I honestly
didn't know what to do with it!!  The frame, sentiment and butterfly

are all from my 'spare parts' box.

We would love to have you get out your pretty paper pads and join us over
at Love Those Pretty Papers!!

Ghost Car

 Hello Two Old Bats fans!
It's time for our MAY challenge  and we have a fun
inspiration only mood board fitting for the month of MAY!
You don't have to use the 'PINK' colors shown as any colors for Halloween are acceptable!

For some reason each year around September I seem to go on a
Halloween shopping spree and last year (2025) was no exception!
I founds lots of Halloween I just had to add to my stash and this cute

Doodlebug Doodle-pop Boo Cruise jumped into my cart knowing it would be
perfect for our May challenge!  I stenciled a Lawn Fawn Spun Sugar
cloudy background, after all, he is a ghost and he is driving floating thru the clouds!
Those added tiny little clouds you see came with my cute little car driving ghost.

I know, it's May and a long ways til Halloween

but that is why we give you a chance to use your 

fun Halloween stash year round, you get way more 'mileage'

out of your Halloween supplies that way.

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some

Halloween fun with us!!

Every Flower Is A Soul

It's our last month for Spring at The Four Seasons
and we have a beautiful Spring mood board for inspiration! 

I was inspired by the flowers and the yellow colors,
yellow happens to be my favorite color, it's so happy and pretty!

I used a Paper Rose Bee's & Butterflies Basic paper for my background.
The dies I used for all is a Waffle Flower  Lacy Layers 2.

A few years ago I purchased some Paper Studios stickers from hobbylobby,

though you can't tell, these stickers have sparkle-y glitter on them.

I mounted the stickers on card stock for stability, then fussy cut them out
and popped it up on the die cut.  The sentiment is a Spellbinders 
Gardens Favorites stamped with Dew Drop Morocco ink.

Come on over to The Four Seasons and join in our last SPRING challenge for this year!

Entering the following challenges:
Fab N' Funky .... Blue~Pink and/or Yellow
Inspiration Station #84 .... photo prompt

Happy Birthday Cats

Colorful Options has a PURR-FECT mood board this month and has this to say:

" I wanted to take inspiration from all the tuxedo cats out there.  A Black & White inspiration board with a little pop of color from their eyes & collars.  Have fun making!!

Well this board certainly appealed to me though it did make me miss my black cats, my all white cat and my tuxedo cat,
yes I had them all at one time or another!

I had a new to me and yet to have been used die I purchased off of Amazon
of these three kitties, a die I am sure you have seen many times,
but it still appealed to me. I used a Cuttlebug Love Triangle EB folder,

some glittery DCWV old paper from my stash and a Katy Sue sentiment
with plenty of black scraps to die cut the kitties.

Better view of the cats:

Isn't that board fun?  We hope to have you join in our black and white

fun over at Colorful Options and if not fond of this color combo
you can always use rainbow colors, that's your option!!

Entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Simon Says Monday .... 4 Legged Friends

Happiest BEE-Day

 Our challenge at Simply Clean & Simple has an
OPTIONAL theme of Things That Fly,
but you can create anything as long as it is CAS.

Last year I went a bit crazy in purchasing BEE stamps, dies, stencils
so my 'thing that flies' today is none other then the cutest
little BEE from Unity BEE-HOLD stamp set.
After stamping and coloring my bee I fussy cut him out.
Though not seen, I added a bit of Stardust shimmer to the wings.
He was mounted on a hexagon die cut.  The embossed background is
an older Darice EB folder.  The fun sentiment is part of
the stamp set.

We are looking forward to seeing your CAS designs at
Simply Clean & Simple!

Entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Cardz 4 Galz .... Bees
Fab N' Funky  .... Blue~Pink and/or Yellow

Woodblock Wednesday April 2026

 Hello friends, today I am guest designing at Amy's
Woodblock Wednesday due to my win there in March.
It is the challenge to use those poor neglected woodblock stamps
and one of MY favorite monthly challenges I look forward to.

For my woodblock cards I always try to use a stamp that seems
to fit the month we are in, it doesn't always happen but this month it
sure did as the entire state of Michigan was covered in water.
Rain, rain and more rain led to lots of flooding.
Luckily though we live on a creek our home was high enough
it didn't affect us other then a flooded lawn.

My stamps are oldies, the sentiment I have had since almost day one
it says 1994 Stamp Crazy on it.  The main stamp is one I have always
loved being a cat person myself, All Night Media.

I stamped my image on a Spellbinders Arch die cut then colored with
Copics and a silver gel pen for a bit of sparkle.
The background papers are Scrapbookdotcom, they have some really
pretty papers. 
I recently just created a few more handmade flowers so added one of those.
The sentiment was stamped in Dew Drop (Memento) Grape Jelly.

I am sure Amy would love to have YOU join in her fun at the 
Woodblock Wednesday challenge, always the last Wednesday of the month!!

Purple Elegant Rose

 At Just Us Girls it is already Stencil Week again
which happens to be one of my favorite challenges and 
with the ever growing mountain of stencils I have it's a
perfect challenge for me.

A few weeks ago I stenciled several roses in various colors
using SSS Elegant Rose using all Altenew inks.
I didn't add any embellishments or a sentiment and kept a

clean, just stenciled card, not to say I won't later
depending on what occasion I am using it for.

You will be seeing the other stenciled colors later 'down the road'!!

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