Snail Mail

 I took a little time to play in a couple of challenges today.
One is Tuesday Morning Sketches  #704 using this sketch:

And the other challenge is a new one to me
but am sure I will be joining it on a monthly basis and it is
Wood Block Wednesday

where you are to use a wood block stamp
and if you have been following my blog then you know my
friend gave me ALL her wood block stamps last summer,
boxes and bags of them, I was in wood block stamp heaven!!

The block I am using today is this never seen ink before cute snail
from Outline Rubber Stamps and thought it would pair up good with a
sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh.
I used an already embossed panel underneath.

That's it for me today, just something fun and quick!!

Big Bold Butterfly

Out challenge theme for The Sisterhood of Crafters is
BUTTERFLIES
for the next couple of weeks,

I used a beautiful set I purchased form Pink Fresh Studio. 
There are many options to this set, stamps, dies, foil plates and of course
the stencils.  I stamped my image first, then stenciled it with a five
piece stencil set and then die cut it out.
The sentiment is part of the stamp set.  The name of the set is
just simply Butterflies.  My next time I use these I will use the glimmer plate
first.  I placed it on a 3D Spellbinders Floral Frenzy embossing folder
that once embossed I cut in half and made two cards with it,
You will see that card further down the road!
I really love how this card turned out!

This is part of the set, minus the foil plate.

If you haven't tried the layering stencils you should do so,
they are super easy to use and the finished results are always amazing!!

Make sure to visit over at The Sisterhood and see what the 'sistah's
have to inspire you, lots of beautiful butterflies there!

Entering the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG
Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday .... ATG
Country View .... Things With Wings
Sparkles Monthly .... Emboss It

Rainy Days

 Today I am joining the Memory Box challenge
The Sky's The Limit!

I had fun with this card creating some fun plaid and polka dots clouds with
Memory Box  Cloud Bank Dies, this is a nice set of 9 different cloud dies
giving you lots of options to create with!!
I also used the Memory Box Proper Umbrella die
and cut it out in fun bright and cheerful colors.
The sentiment is from Elizabeth Crafts

I thought it worked perfect for my fun clouds and happy umbrellas!!.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
It's 40 and raining here!!!!

Also entering the following challenges:
Fab 'n' Funky .... April Showers May Flowers  Umbrellas and/or Flowers

Pink Fresh Studios April Challenge

 I am joining in the April Pink Fresh Studios monthly challenge
which is FLOWERS or you can use the colors or BOTH!

I am a Pink Fresh Studios 'junkie'!!  It is one of my favorite companies to purchase
products from, it seems almost every order to scrapbook.com has something
of Pink Fresh in it, I have a lot and I mean a lot of their products,

which makes me ask myself 'why don't I do their monthly challenges?'
So I am now going to try and do better at that!!

Almost all of my products used are from Pink Fresh Studio
with the exception of the embossing folder, that is from the Spellbinders 3D
embossing folder  'Flower Frenzy', it's  beauty isn't it?

My Pink Fresh Studio products used are
Happy Blooms Floral Stamp, die and stencil

Folk Edge Circle Die

Ballet Slipper Jewels

and everybody's favorite Perfect Sentiments stamps and dies!!

I first purchased the stencil for the
Happy Blooms set and what I thought was the matching die
but to my 'dismay' I had purchased the Happy Blooms Frame die instead.
So then I also decided I need the matching stamp set and ordered it and the correct die.
But what's a girl to do with the other die? 
Well, buy the stamp set for that of
course which I did,
but now I see there is a stencil to go with the Happy Blooms Frame as
well, it will be on my next order, not a hardship, hah!!

Thanks for 'listening' to all my 'babble'
and have a great day!  I am NOT affiliated with Pink Fresh Studios
in any way, I just LOVE their products, it's an addiction!!

Also entering the following fun challenges:
Make My Monday .... Flowers
613 Avenue Create .... Let's Stencil
Creatalicious .... ATG~Optional Use a Stencil
Happy Little Stampers .... Stencil

Word Art Wednesday .... ATG
Double Trouble .... Celebrate A Special Lady

Sketch 724

It's once again Sketch time at Sketch Saturday and what a creative one it is.
The optional 'twist' is monochromatic. 

It might be hard to tell but I did use a monochromatic panel 
at the bottom of my card but up close and personal you CAN see it!
The little frames are a die from Memory Box and it's my first time using them.
I added little floral images behind each using tiny prints from Graphic 45.
I added a tiny bow and the background paper is from an old paper pad by SU.

We would love to have your interpretation of our sketch!
See YOU at Sketch Saturday!!

Baby Boy

 Our new challenge starts today at
Can You Handle The Pressure
and the 'optional' theme is BABY!

You can choose to go with our optional theme or not
but you just need to make sure you use an embossing folder,
after all, that is what we are all about!

I used an old but favorite EB folder from Darice.
I'm not sure of the name but it is a quilted folder
and reminded me of  baby quilt.
I ran it thru my Big Shot using cord-inations paper
which I lightly sanded to show more of the texture!

The pocket was cut using a nesting set of pockets from
Honey Bee, the paper I used for the pocket is a
random piece from my stash.
The silly giraffes are Impression Obsession .
I added bow ties to each!

Hope to see YOU over at Can You Handle The Pressure,
get those poor neglected embossing folders out and join us!

Things That Fly

 The challenge at Double D is Things That Fly
giving you LOTS of options to create with.
We have a mood board full of inspiration and ideas of just a few 'flying things'!

Things That Fly 

I let the bottom right inspire me with the regal owl!
I have had this 2012 Stampendous Steampunk Owl stamp for quite sometime.
In fact I have 2 of him as a friend gave me one too, mine is on a wood block, the other
a rubber cling stamp.  Once he was stamped I colored him with Copics and a couple
glitter pens.  I added a 'cork' frame (it's real cork but part of a paper pack)
it's rather thin and has a peel off adhesive.  I also added an old piece of SU
designer paper underneath but as I usually do managed to cover most of it up!
I think this will make a nice masculine card as soon as I decide on a perfect sentiment!

'Fly' on over to Double D and see all the mazing inspiration from the teams
we have a random prize to give away to one lucky entrant too,
so make sure to join in with us, it could be YOU!

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... Things With Wings
Country View Crafts ....Things With Wings (m)