TOB November Mid Month Reminder

We are halfway thru our challenge at Two Old Bats
and you still have plenty of time to join us 
and we have a fun inspiration board below!

I let the owls and bats inspire me this time by letting a designer paper
do most of the work.  Sometimes these designer papers are just too
perfect to cover up with stamps or dies and make the cutest cards themselves!
This paper looks as though it could have been stamped and inked
it's so cute!  I just added some black and white twine and a sentiment
and it was done, easy peasy!

Pop on over to Two Old Bats for some spooky fun and some
fabulous inspiration from the team!!

Lego's Challenge At A Barrel of Monkeys

 
A Barrel of Monkeys is all about using children's games/toys to use as
inspiration for your projects, so many ways to let it inspire,
the colors, the raised dots, the shapes, where ever it takes you.
Our theme to inspire this time is Legos!!

I created a Legos birthday cake, perfect for a young child in bright

colors using a Spellbinders A2 Curved Matting Basics A die set
embossed with WeR Memory Keepers Dotted Embossing folder.
I used another die to cut off the candles for the top and a few
decorative flowers along with the The Ton Easy Expressions stamp and die for the sentiment.
The background paper is from an old pad I am trying to use up of

DCWV Birthday Wishes (I now have only 2 sheets left...yay!!)!

Visit A Barrel of Monkeys and join in,
can't wait to see how YOU were inspired!!

Beautiful Blossoms November Challenge

We are well into Fall at Beautiful Blossoms and have a pretty
mood board for inspiration!!

I used an older Flourishes stamp 'Autumn Blossoms' for my card,
colored with Copics and die cut out with a Tonic Ribbon and Bow layering die set.
The sentiment is from The Greetery, punched with an SU tiny punch
 and the gingham paper is Prima Blue Denim.

I hope YOU will join us at Beautiful Blossoms!!

 

Stripes And/Or Dots

New challenge, new theme at Double D and its is
STRIPES &/OR DOTS
and we have this fun mood board for inspiration!

I got real creative and created not one but two cards using both
stripes and dots.  I had a new and never been used before die
from Lawn Fawn Simple Stripes Diagonal.  When cutting from
both card stock and designer paper it creates two reversed backgrounds
so instead of setting one aside, I made the two cards.
The turkey on the first card is a Cottage Cutz Turkey owl.

The turkey on the second card is from Spellbinders.
The sentiment is an old Stampin 'Up Holiday Best stamp.

Hope to see you over at Double D,
the teams always have awesome inspiration and there is
always a fun prize up for grabs too!!

Entering the fun following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... Thanks/Thanksgiving
Crafty Gals .... Dots/Stripes
Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday .... ATG
Dream Valley .... Occasions Other Then birthday

It's Snowtime

 Another FREE day for me so I decided to join in all the fun at the 
House Mouse challenge
where their theme is Anything Goes or the Optional SNOW theme
which is what I went with!!

The stamp is  Sweet Music (2008) and sent to me years ago by
a blogging friend 'Curt', do any of you remember him?
I checked his blog and he has had nothing since 2014
and I often wonder what happened to him.  That's nine years,
I hope he is doing well!

I used an Altenew 3D Layered Snowflake EB folder
for my snowy background and though you can't see it
there is crystal stickles for the snow.  The image was colored with
Copics and a gold and red glitter pen in certain areas.
I ran a blue strip along the side for a place for the image to
'rest' on and add a bit of interest!

I have lots of House Mouse stamps so I think I need to play in this fun challenge
way more often!

Love~Joy~Peace

 My blog has another free day today so I decided to join the
PEACE challenge at the Alphabet challenge.

Two years ago I used this Banner & Bough die/stencil/stamp set
from The Greetery for most of my Christmas cards
and decided it was time to pull it out again.
The poor thing looks almost warn out LOL!!
I started with the 4 layer stencil and various inks
then finishing up with the stamping details.
If you have a Misti or a Platform then it is very easy
to line up your stamps with your stencils.
Once I had all my stenciling and stamping done
I came back in with Nuvo Glitter Drops Dazzling Blue.
I wish I had used a lighter color as it is almost the color of 
my flowers but in the container it looked way lighter, live and learn as they say!!

I have another 'free' day tomorrow so be sure
to pop back in and visit!!

Joy To The World

 I mentioned the challenge at ABC Christmas
that the theme is W for WREATHS or
X for XoXo
to my BFF Dar at Dar's Crafty Creations
and she challenged me to make a card for it in traditional Christmas colors and to use something new!  I'm always up for a good challenge!!

I die cut a Cheery Lyn Wreath in different green scrap pieces
then offset them when I adhered them together.
The bow was cut from another wreath die that I just snipped off
to place on my wreath.  The sentiment is part of the first
wreath set and I die it first from a adhesive back foam
and also from a snippet of red card stock.
I used a piece of a bright red brick designer paper (my new item) then
placed a piece of embossed vellum on top that I received
from a friend when she sent me a birthday card.
It really toned down the brightness of the brick red paper,
but made a pretty 'soft' place to add my wreath to.

Make sure to pop on over to Dar's blog

to check out her wreath too!!

Enterign the following fun challenges too:
Die Cut Diva's ... It's All About The Holidays (#2)