Birthday Wishes

Hello friends, I am back with a card for our Triple B challenge
where we are all about blooms, butterflies and birds!
As always we have a mood board for inspiration but you can use any color
as long as you have one, two, or all three of the TB's! 

I have one of my Katy Sue 3D cards (lots of layers).  I wish you could see these in person
as they are layer after layer with slim pop ups and so relaxing to make,
I usually do them as I am watching a TV program.
I mounted the design on a Sizzix card base (with matching envelope)
I purchased during one of their warehouse sales.  

We would love to see you at our Triple B challenge!!

Entering the following challenges:
Dragonfly Dreams .... Lots of Layers
Ellibelle's Garden Party #5 ... Anything garden
Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG

Merry Christmas

 Hello friends, we are going strong at Peace On Earth with our
year long Christmas challenge and have a fun mood board
for inspiration, look at all those fun things you 'could' choose to pick from
but we are an anything goes Christmas challenge!

So many cute things it was hard to choose, but I went with the bottom
left corner knowing I had a die that would be a perfect time to use it.
Poppystamps Boddington Cabin was used for my cute scene, die cut from kraft card stock
then die cut just the house in red and paper pieced it back in.  
I used a Tim Holtz Snowy EB folder on my Tutti Designs die cut circle,
Carta Bella Farmhouse Christmas paper for the background and a The Ton Holiday sentiment.

We are waiting for 'you' over at Peace On Earth!

Two Old Bats August Challenge

Hello friends, the months seem to be speeding by and before you know it
it will be Halloween again! 
If you have been playing along with us at
Two Old Bats, then you should be getting a nice supply of
Halloween cards done!  If not, then what are you waiting for?
We have a fun mood board for inspiration only, lots of fun
inspiring ideas on it if you need it!

I let the haunted house inspire me as I had purchased some
Brutus Monroe Vintage Frights Halloween paper and this paper
doesn't need much more then itself to turn it into a card front!
I added a glittered 'creepy' sentiment from my stash 
and called it done, this paper makes the perfect card!

So come on over to Two Old Bats,
get those Halloween supplies out and have some
spooky fun with us!

Love Those Pretty Papers August Challenge

 Hello friends, sad to say but our summer is winding down
but not at Love Those Pretty Papers as our OPTIONAL theme is
SUMMERTIME!

Our challenge is always an Anything Goes challenge with the option to
use our theme, but it is required that you showcase those pretty papers!

Following the theme I used some of my favorite designer papers from
Mintay's Berrylicious 6x6 paper pad., isn't that the sweetest paper?  
I saw this design on Pinterest last year
and made a card for our Word Power challenge HERE.
I liked the design so much I chose to do it again and it's a fabulous
way to use and showcase your beautiful papers
(easy to mail too).
I'm not sure of whose the sentiment is as it was given to me by a friend
that gave up card making but thought it fit my little scene perfectly,
but I sure wish I had moved it a bit down before I stamped it!

For my anything goes card I used a pretty paper from
Doodlebug Love Notes, a pad that is almost gone and I am
trying to use up.  I die cut the paper with a Waffle Flower lacy
die, then  used a Lisa Horton Roses embossing folder that I cut
apart to make three different cards, will post the others at a later date.
I  added a The Ton Easy Expressions sentiment.

Come and join us, we would love to see YOUR
pretty papers at our challenge!!

Thank You

 Hello friends at Colorful Options this month our colors are a mix
of monochromatic browns.
You are however always welcome to use rainbow colors
if this color mix isn't for you.

While looking on Pinterest one day I saw a beautiful big butterfly card similar to this

one I have created for today.  It was from 2015 and her last blog post was 2022, sometimes
(always) I wonder what happened to make card makers stop blogging, always hoping

that everything is just fine in their lives, do you wonder about that too when you come
across a blog that just stopped with no explanation?

I had great ideas for this butterfly card and wanted to use 'Stampendous Frantage'
do you remember that stuff?  I spent well over an hour trying to find mine and did

find some but in Halloween colors not the browns I was looking for and I know I have it.
Last summer we put all new floors in my craft room and the entire room was emptied out
and since moving it all back in I am having a hard time finding things, like my

sanding blocks, that is another whole story!!

Anyhow, I used for the first time a Stampendous PenPattern Butterflies stamp set.
There are 3 different butterflies in this set and I used the largest.
I stamped her in Versamark then embossed with Wendi Vechi Potting Soil
embossing powder.  I stamped SU Itty Bitty Backgrounds also with Versamark
and embossed with Sparkle N Sprinkles Timber embossing powder, it has
little flecks of glitter in it.
The sentiment is Stampendous True Friends stamped in Altenew Expresso ink.  A few half pearls were added.
This isn't exactly how I had planned it as I really wanted that Frantage but in the end

it is what I came up with!

Come on over to Colorful Options and have some colorful fun with us!

Entering these fun challenges:
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG

Cute Happy Birthday

 Hello friends, it's once again time for a new challenge at our
Simply Clean & Simple challenge with our OPTIONAL theme of Cute Animals.

I used a cute little $1 tiger stamp I have had forever it seems
and inked up for the first time with Wendy Vechi Potting Soil ink.
I popped up some heart balloons to his tail that I bought during
Valentines back in February.  The sentiment is stamped in Dew Drop
Love Letter ink and is from My Favorite Things Sweet 16 stamps.

That's it for my CAS card...
thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!!

Entering the following challenges:
CAS On Friday .... Animals

Happy Birthday

 Hello All, we are into our last SUMMER season at our
Four Seasons challenge and I am not happy about it at all
as summer seems to fly by and I am just not ready for it to leave!!

We have a pretty and colorful mood board for inspiration but
you can create any summertime thing you want.

I let the upper left pitcher of drinks inspire me, nothing like a cold pitcher of
an icy fruit drink on a hot summer day.  I had this adorable Penny Black Homemade
stamp set that I brought out for the first time.  It has several adorably cute images on it
but I chose this fun straw drinking mice one to use.  I stamped it on a Cottage Cutz Eyelet
scalloped oval die.  The sentiment and die are Lawn Fawn.  Background paper is
Prima .  A few PFS gems were added for a bit of sparkle.

I just love these cute little mousers!!  Come on over to 
The Four Seasons and have some  last summertime fun with us
this month.

Entering these fun challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG