Whole Lot Of Stitching

 I have another card I make a front for while I was
not at but on my way to the lake house, it's a 5 1/2 hour drive
and these Spellbinder stitch dies are perfect to take along
in the truck (as long as you don't drop your needle in-between
the seats, ask me how I know)!

I used a two ply thread for my stitching.
The greens look different colors but are really the
same, I just used a variegated thread so this is how they
came out.  The sentiment will go on the inside
as I didn't want to cover up any of the pretty stitching.
I have a couple other stitched dies never thinking
they would interest me but they are actually quite
fun and once done you feel like you have accomplished something!

I have since ordered another stitching die for Christmas
they are a bit addicting!

I am entering this card in the challenge at 
Little Red Wagon where the theme is stitching sensations,
I think it qualifies don't you??!!

Bold Blooms Happy Birthday

 Hello friends, today I am sharing a fun card I made
using some 'new to me dies' that Spellbinders released
in the Spring 'Bold Blooms'!
If you like making easy but pretty flowers, then this is the die for you!
I usually try to take some fun things with me when we go to
 our lake house for a few weeks at a time and normally take all my
stencils and some inks, but this time I squeezed in these dies
and lots of different colors of scrap papers.
I have an old Big shot side kick at the lake house and it works
just fine with these dies!
I am joining the Seize The Birthday challenge and created 'this'
card just for that!

You will be seeing many more cards using these SB Bold Blooms and also
I didn't stop there, I also purchased flower dies from Concord & 9th
Picked Posie  and Pretty Pink Posh Spring Foliage which the little blue flower
next to the happy birthday is from that set!

I didn't load the card up with flowers like some do on this card
but kept it more simple to show off the embossed background a little!! 

Also entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge .... ATG
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG
Try It On Tuesday .... Feminine 

To Gnome You

Today at The Sisterhood of Crafters
our 'sistah' Lia  is our hostess and she has chosen the theme of
Fairies or Gnomes.

A year or two back I won a wonderful prize from
Pink & Main that was gifted by the Coffee Lovers Blog!
They were most generous that they sent me about 
four stamp and die sets, inks and a stamp cleaner pad!
Needless to say I was thrilled and this was one of those stamp/die sets! 
Hey Gnomie!

I first used Lawn Fawn grass and cloud stencils along with
a few TH Distress and Oxide inks.
I stamped and colored with Copics then used the matching dies
to cut them out for my little gnomie scene!

Take a peek over at The Sisterhood to see all the fairies and gnomes
my 'sistahs' have created, we would love to have YOU join our fun too!

Entering the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps and More .... ATG
Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG

Swimming By

 It's the start once again of our super fun and most useful challenge at
Can You Handle The Pressure!

Our optional 'twist' is BEACH!

I embossed my background using a Darice embossing folder
on a teal/ocean blue card stock.
The cute turtle is a stamp/die from Catherine Pooler Ocean Chums
as is the sentiment!

I hope you will join this ever easy and fast growing challenge
at Can You Handle The Pressure,
there is always a fun prize to be had!

Entering the following challenges:
All Sorts .... Summer
Craft Rocket .... Summertime

Purple~Blue~Green Color Challenge

A new challenge is starting at
Double D Challenges and it is a colorful one!

The colors are: 

PURPLE - BLUE - GREEN
ALL or ONE

(if using only one, it MUST be the primary color on your project)

As soon as I saw this mood board I knew I had the perfect thing to use for it!
Over a year ago I purchased a Crafters Companion 3D embossing folder
and stencil set, Hummingbird.  This not only embosses deeply but comes with two stencils
to add color to it, how cool is that?  It is a LARGE set though making a slightly
larger then 5x7 card, a little out of my comfort zone as I normally create mostly A2 cards!
That being said, I think I need a few more of these types of EB folders!

After I embossed my 3D panel I used mostly TH inks to color in in
wilted violet~dusty concord~peacock feathers~broken china~
mowed lawn~rustic wilderness and squeezed lemonade in a mix of distress and oxides.
The sentiment is from The Greetery stamped with Memento Grape Jelly.
I also added a few gems from Pretty Pink Posh Party Mix.

Pop on over to Double D and see all the fabulous designs
from the teams, they are surely going to get you inspired to join in with us!

Entering the following challenges:

Critter Crazy .... must have a critter
Daisy Chain .... NO Design Paper

Word Art Wednesday .... ATG

Peace On Earth Anything Christmas

New challenge starts on this warm~hot July day at
Peace On Earth and as usual it is an Anything Goes as
long as it is Christmas themed!
We have a mood board below for inspiration
and I let the bottom right corner inspire me.

 Anything Christmas

I made a simple square card using some pretty plaid papers,
and some dies and stamps from Paper sweeties.
I had received free with an order from scrapbook.com a pack of
Pink Fresh Studios Gold Metallic pearls so added a few of those.

Visit Peace on Earth to see all the beautiful designs from the teams,
we would love to have YOU join us too!

Berry Happy Birthday

A new challenge at Dies R Us and our theme is 
Anything Goes as long as you use a die
from a company that DRU carries!

 

For my card I used the fun Lawn Fawn Fruit Basket and Strawberry Patch dies.
These strawberries are so fun to work with as is the basket and I know I will
us them many times more!

For the base of my card I die a yellow gingham using the
Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting rectangles (the largest one in the set of 8)!
The banner was cut with a Spellbinders die (now discontinued).
All the links are given below.

Aren't these plump red strawberries just delicious?

Tutti Designs Scalloped Stitched Nesting Rectangles
Lawn Fawn Fruit Basket
Lawn Fawn Strawberry Patch
Spellbinders Banner

We would love to have you join us at the Dies R Us challenge!!
Take a peek at all the inspiration from the Design Team while there!

For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below. 

click below for:

STORE 
 CHALLENGE BLOG
  FACEBOOK
  FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

Dies R Us now has a sister store with warehouses in the USA and Canada called Didi Crafts.  

It will ship to both the US and Canada.  Didi Crafts will carry some of the same products as DRU, but most will be different.  Now our Canadian friends don't have to worry about huge taxes or shipping fees. How great is that!?!

Entering the following challenges:

Two Sisters On The Blog .... ATG

Two Old Bats July Halloween Challenge Reminder

We are half way thru our challenge at
Two Old Bats Halloween year round challenge!
IF we have 50 or more players we have a fun prize to give away!
As always we also have a fun mood board to inspire you!

 Inspiration Board

I used a lot of OLD things from my stash to put this fun slimline
card together, and it sure felt good!!

I used to do scrapbooking years ago before card making
and had an over abundance of stickers, most of which I donated to the
Goodwill but kept a few to put towards cards and Mr. Skeleton below
was one of them!  I placed him on an old piece of candy corn paper
and added a creepy spider.  I wish I had bigger goggle eyes for him
but I didn't so went with what I had!
I will add a fun sentiment inside!

We would love to have you join us at Two Old Bats
and just think it gives an ENTIRE year to create Halloween cards!!

Great Friend

 Today at The Sisterhood of Crafters our hostess is
'sistah' Vickie and she has chosen
Butterflies~Dragonflies~Bees one or all for our theme!

I purchased this stamp last year and this is the first time I have used it
and what a mistake that was.  I had a heck of a time getting it to
completely stamp in the middle and ended up stamping it 
at least 3 tries  about 10 times on my platform and it STILL
would not stamp completely, even used shims, my stamp eraser from Altenew.
I finally just filled in the area unstamped with a black Copic,
not perfect, but it has to do.  At the writing of this post
I have contacted the company, but I sure do love the pretty stamp!!
They sent me a brand new stamp!!

I colored it in with various inks and a Tombow blender pen.
The background is a stencil form Hero Arts.
The sentiment is from Pink Fresh Studio!
It certainly is a busy card!!

Make sure to visit us at The Sisterhood and see all the 

beautiful creations my 'sistahs' have created!

We would love to have your join in with us too!

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... Make Your Own Background
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG
Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday .... ATG

Summer Garden

 

A new challenge starts today at
Can You Handle The Pressure
and as always it's an ANYTHING goes challenge
with an optional Twist of 'SUMMER'.

Summer to me is full of gardening, never ending gardening lol!
I went with the optional twist and made a fun summer card using a
never been used before Cuttlebug Freshly Picked embossing folder!
I ran it thru on a piece of Cord-inations navy blue paper
then used a sanding block to sand it down.
I also stamped a never before used stamp from Flourish's 
Garden Dreams stamp set.

I hope you will join us at Can You Handle The Pressure
easy rules are you need to use an embossing folder.
Make sure to visit the CYHTP challenge blog to see
all the fabulous creations from the design teams!!

Entering the following fun challenges:
NBUS ..... Never Before Used Schtuff

Creatures Under/In the Sea

Hello there, did you survive the 4th of July?
It was pretty tame here as usual we don't get too excited
about fireworks and such as our dog Mack is terrified so we try to
keep it pretty quiet!
Being the first Wednesday in July it makes it the start of a new
challenge theme at Double D and it is a pretty easy one! 

CREATURES UNDER / IN THE SEA

I once again let the fun mood board inspire me, though my crab is red,
only because I already had him die cut from  when I received the die to
see what he looked like!  He is Spellbinders Crabby die,
isn't he cute with so many details?

I also used a pretty background paper from LDRS 'You Are My Sunshine'.
The net is Tutti Designs, shells are Impression Obsession and the sentiment
is from Catherine Pooler Ocean Chums Stamp Set!

Visit Double D and see all the fabulous inspiration from the Design Teams,
there is an awesome prize up for grabs too!

Hope to see YOU there!

Peace On Earth Anything Christmas

 Time for a new challenge at Peace On Earth
and as always it is an Anything Goes theme, as long as it is Christmas
but I guess being July, we could also say
it is Christmas In July!

We have a fun mood board below, fitting for the month of July
just to inspire YOU!

 Anything Christmas

I always try to let the mood board inspire me and this challenge was no exception.
I went with the red~white~blue colors from the board as well
as the ornaments for my inspiration!

I stamped a never been used before SU Ornaments Keepsakes stamp
and randomly stamped it on card stock with Dew Drop 
Nautical Blue and Love Letter inks.

I also added some 'candi's' here and there to fill in.
The sentiment is from My favorite Things.

Make sure to visit at Peace On Earth to see all the other pretty
'samples' from the Design Teams!

Patriotic Trio Red~White~Blue

Happy July!!
A new month means a new color theme at
Colorful Options
and this time it is RED~WHITE~BLUE or you always have
the option of using rainbow colors!

We have a mood board to inspire you shown below! 

I went truly patriotic with my slimline card.
Using a Tutti Designs nesting stitched slimline die
I die cut from a star paper I have had in my stash forever!
To that I added my patriotic banners from Cheery Lynn Designs Patriotic Swag.
Does anyone know if they are still in business?
I think Cheery Lynn is one of the first dies I ever purchased,
it was  a doily die and still a favorite!

The celebrate sentiment is from a stamp set I won from 
Paper Smooches, another company no longer in business
when I won this they sent me several stamps and dies
that I dearly loved, a very generous prize!

Feeling patriotic? Then head on over to 
Colorful Options and join in with us.
This color combo not your thing?
Then remember you can always go with rainbow colors!!

Two Old Bats July Halloween Challenge

I am here today with my card for our year round
Two Old Bats Halloween challenge and have a super fun one to show you!

We have a fun mood board below just full of all kinds of inspiration
but you can create anything as long as it Halloween themed!

 Inspiration Board

You can totally see I was inspired by the mood board
and I don't think it is even necessary to  tell you which one lol!

I don't purchase a lot of Halloween anymore because I already
have so much that hasn't even been used yet, but last year
I did go on a little Halloween shopping spree and will have some of those on 
later down the road, but this ghost stamp set I just had to have!
I think it is hilarious and in my Simon Says Halloween strips I had

the most fitting sentiment!

Head on over to the Two Old Bats Halloween challenge blog and see all
the fun spooky creations from the team!

Christmas In July

 Today at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges

our new challenge theme is
Christmas In July!

Our sponsor is SheepSki Designs.
I am using a sponsored image 'Sno' Worries'.

He is the cutest little gnome!
I colored him in with Copics and used some crystal Stickles
on the snow.
I embossed the red background then added a Christmas paper scrap on that.

Of course adding a dragonfly is always optional and I did
just that, using an Elizabeth Craft Designs die.

Pop on over to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges and see all
the pretty  creations from the design team,
join in with us too!!

Entering the following challenges:
Winter Wonderland .... From Our Gnome To Yours

Four Seasons July~Anything Goes Summer

 A new month means a new challenge at
Four Seasons
and we are once again in our SUMMER monthly theme.
We have a pretty mood board for inspiration but
you can create anything as long as it is 'SUMMER' themed!

I always try to use the mood board as that is part of the fun of the
challenge to me.!

I let the geraniums inspire me from the board!

I used a never been used before stamp set from
Sparkle N Sprinkle Geraniums!
I stamped it, colored with Copics, then cut it out with a pretty
Spellbinders Adorning Squares die.
The background was embossed with a SU embossing folder.
The sentiment is from Altenew Sentiment Strips 2.

Visit at Four Seasons and see all the pretty summer creations
from the very talented design team, we would love to have you
join in with us too!!

Entering the following challenges:
NBUS .... Never Before Used Schtuff

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge .... ATG
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG
Crafty Catz .... ATG Optional Flowers

July Celebrate

 

This month at Dies R U we have an ANYTHING GOES 
challenge for our theme.  You can use die if Dies R Us
carries that company's stock in store!

I always try to stay within the month I am in
and this month to me is all about the good old
red~white and blue!

I used Tutti Designs Nesting Stitched Banners and die cut one in
each of the colors mentioned above.  I added Tutti Designs Nesting
Stitched Stars, using the smallest in the set

I also did the same with the Tutti Designs Word Celebrate
and slightly off set them as adhered them together.
This particular die is no longer available but I did give
a link below to the 'general' list of celebrate dies
and there are several very similar!

Tutti Designs Nesting Stitched Banners
Tutti Designs Nesting Stitched Stars
Tutti Designs Celebrate Word Set
Celebrate 

Thank you for visiting with me today!!

We would love to have you join us at the Dies R Us challenge!!

Take a peek at all the inspiration from the Design Team while there!

For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below. 

click below for:

STORE 
 CHALLENGE BLOG
  FACEBOOK
  FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

Dies R Us now has a sister store with warehouses in the USA and Canada called Didi Crafts.  

It will ship to both the US and Canada.  Didi Crafts will carry some of the same products as DRU, but most will be different.  Now our Canadian friends don't have to worry about huge taxes or shipping fees. How great is that!?!

Entering the following challenges:
Cupcake Inspiration .... Oh My Stars

Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG