Eighth Birthday Celebration At Double D

 We are celebrating our 8th birthday/ anniversary at Double D
and have a fun mood board for inspiration, you can create anything
as long as it is birthday or anniversary themed!

8th Birthday/Anniversary
8th anniversary is Bronze

I let the bottom left inspire me with that big gorgeous bow!
I used several 'new to me' supplies for the first time to
create my cards, (yes TWO cards, so unusual for me)!
Just before Casual Fridays went out of business I had won
a gift certificate to their store and picked up several stencils
and this is one of them I used for my background.  I stenciled it
with Distress Ink Old Paper very lightly.
I also received a free wreath die from scrapbookdotcom when
making a purchase and used it on this card. I die cut it from a Bronze Stardream Metallic paper I received when I was on the Classy cards & Such design team, remember them, Beverly was so nice, it's so hard to believe she isn't with us anymore! 
Anyhow, it had holly leaves
on it too but because I didn't want it to look like Christmas
I just snipped them off and placed my bow over that portion.
The bow BTW is the Big Beautiful Bow die by The Greetery.
As soon as that was available in their release I HAD to pick it up!
I stamped my sentiment with TSUKNEKO Cosmic Copper ink,
geez that ink is so OLD I wasn't sure if it would even stamp,
it stamped just like I bought it yesterday, very wet and inky!!

Here is my first card:

When die cutting the Big Bow I cut in two colors for the
contrast, so instead of putting the second set away 
like is my norm, I created a second card!

Here is the card #2:

Come on over to Double D and celebrate with us,
the teams all have amazing inspiration and there is
a nice prize to a random winner!

Come back tomorrow too as those crazy two
challenge ladies (Dar and myself) have put together a
NEW challenge blog called Word Power,
you can read all about it HERE!!

Entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday .... Something New
Little Red Wagon .... What's New?
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG

Triple B January 2024

BRRRR, it's pretty cold over at Triple B with our fun mood/inspiration board
but we want to see butterflies~birds~blooms
one, two or all three is just fine and you can be inspired by the 
mood board or not, up to you just so you feature at least one of the 'Bs'!! 

I had this dove (My Favorite Things) already just sitting on my desk ready to take flight
so I added him (or her) to an aperture card front that I had purchased a pack
of years ago!!   It has some nice cut outs that allowed the pink
card base to show through.  A few pink gems were added to some of the flower centers for a bit of 'glam'!!

So, why not pop on over to Triple B and show us YOUR
Birds~Blooms~Butterflies!!

Colorful Options January 2024

 For this months challenge at Colorful Options we are featuring
pretty blues, Blue Lagoon~Iceland to be exact!!
Don't favor these colors?  Then a rainbow combo is always welcome!!

I made an icy blue metallic card using a metallic paper I have had in my stash for
several years, about time I let it have it's debut!

I also cut a Tonic Snowflake from Pearlized Esse White Metallic paper
and topped it with a stamped and die cut sentiment from The Ton!

I was pretty pleased I was able to capture at least some of
the shiny/shimmery metallic goodness in my photo!

Hope to see YOU over at Colorful Options,
there is a pretty cool prize there as well!!

Two Old Bats January 2024

Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble!! 
It's January but that doesn't stop us at Two Old Bats from creating
Halloween cards all year round!!  I mean WHY put all your Halloween 
supplies away for an entire year when you can have fun with them year round??

We have a spooky fun inspiration board, but you can create any Halloween
themed project you want!

I purchased this Woodware Witches Hat stamp set last year
and it is the first time it has seen ink.  The sentiment is part of the set.
I colored it in with various Copics and glitter pens,
added a few gems to add to the sparkle and a fun small bat left over
from another project you will see soon!
The sentiment was stamped in Versamark then embossed with Sparkle N Sprinkle Midnight Madness glittery embossing powder!

Come on over to Two Old Bats  and see all the Halloween fun from
the design team and get your spooky on!!

Entering the following challenges:
Halloween Crafts All Year Round .... ATG Halloween

Stencil Fun January 2024

 Welcome January 2024 and  to our first
Stencil Fun challenge for the year!!

As always we have an OPTIONAL theme and it is
Feed The Birds (Birds, Birdhouses, Bird Feeders).
But just that it is optional and you can create anything
you want as long as you have done some stenciling!!
We also have a fun prize to give to one lucky random
winner that resides in the US!

For my optional themed card I went with a fun
NEW stencil (new to me) from Concord & 9th Tweet Life.
When I first saw this stencil I knew I had to have it
but it was out of stock everywhere,
guess I wasn't the only one that fell for it!
I finally found a place that had it, ordered it and when it arrived
I found that this stencil had to have the matching
stamp set to complete it.
That will teach me for not paying attention or not watching the
video showing just how it all works!!
The stencil has 3 rows of birds and then the stamp has 3 rows of
bird feet/beaks that you just line up on your stenciled birds,
which is what I did but when I got to the middle row
I did not have it lined up properly and it looked pretty silly
where the beaks and feet landed,
so I just came up with this card design, snipping away
the distorted birds!!

For my anything goes card I used
Pink Fresh Studios Gardens Florals.
You have probably seen me use this stencil before
but I had a few of these already stenciled and my 
2024 goal this year was to use up what I've started!
After Stenciling I added some peach Fuzz gems,
also from PFS and a sentiment from The Tons
Easy Expressions.

Hope to see you over at our fun Stencil Fun Challenge!!

Four Seasons January 2024 Winter

We  are already into our second Winter season at
Four Seasons
and have a fun mood board for inspiration

I let the bottom left corner inspire me with that cozy
cabin snuggled in the snow.
I had just recently purchased some Penny Black 
Masterpieces Made Simple designs called
Winter Dream.  There are four different images in the pack
all 3 1/4 by 4 1/2, a perfect size for a card front.
After layering my image on a kraft card stock I
'painted' on some glue then sprinkled on semi-transparent
white snowy glitter.  A great tip to keep the glitter on your card
and not on everything else is to
lightly spray with hairspray and let dry.
I love the snowy~glittery effect it has on my card, 
I just wish you could see all the sparkle-y goodness your self!
The base of the card is night of navy blue.

Join in with us for some 'wintery' fun over at
Four Seasons, where we always have
beautiful inspiration from our team!!

January 2024 Winter Sled

 This month at A Barrel of Monkeys where a child's toy is our inspiration
we have chosen a WINTER SLED.
You can choose to create a sled, use the colors, the plaid, the wood
or anything you see in the photo to inspire you!! 

I went with the plaid, the red and the wood for my card, such an
over achiever aren't I ..HAH!!
But really I thought these fun buffalo plaid flowers were perfect
for winter and even gave them some black leaves.

We would love to have YOU join in our fun at
A Barrel of Monkey's and can't wait to see your take on our challenge