Happy Birthday Cats

Colorful Options has a PURR-FECT mood board this month and has this to say:

" I wanted to take inspiration from all the tuxedo cats out there.  A Black & White inspiration board with a little pop of color from their eyes & collars.  Have fun making!!

Well this board certainly appealed to me though it did make me miss my black cats, my all white cat and my tuxedo cat,
yes I had them all at one time or another!

I had a new to me and yet to have been used die I purchased off of Amazon
of these three kitties, a die I am sure you have seen many times,
but it still appealed to me. I used a Cuttlebug Love Triangle EB folder,

some glittery DCWV old paper from my stash and a Katy Sue sentiment
with plenty of black scraps to die cut the kitties.

Better view of the cats:

Isn't that board fun?  We hope to have you join in our black and white

fun over at Colorful Options and if not fond of this color combo
you can always use rainbow colors, that's your option!!

Entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Simon Says Monday .... 4 Legged Friends
Crafty Animals ..... Animals
Critter Crazy #110 .... Critters

Every Flower Is A Soul

It's our last month for Spring at The Four Seasons
and we have a beautiful Spring mood board for inspiration! 

I was inspired by the flowers and the yellow colors,
yellow happens to be my favorite color, it's so happy and pretty!

I used a Paper Rose Bee's & Butterflies Basic paper for my background.
The dies I used for all is a Waffle Flower  Lacy Layers 2.

A few years ago I purchased some Paper Studios stickers from hobbylobby,

though you can't tell, these stickers have sparkle-y glitter on them.

I mounted the stickers on card stock for stability, then fussy cut them out
and popped it up on the die cut.  The sentiment is a Spellbinders 
Gardens Favorites stamped with Dew Drop Morocco ink.

Come on over to The Four Seasons and join in our last SPRING challenge for this year!

Entering the following challenges:
Fab N' Funky .... Blue~Pink and/or Yellow
Inspiration Station #84 .... photo prompt

Happiest BEE-Day

 Our challenge at Simply Clean & Simple has an
OPTIONAL theme of Things That Fly,
but you can create anything as long as it is CAS.

Last year I went a bit crazy in purchasing BEE stamps, dies, stencils
so my 'thing that flies' today is none other then the cutest
little BEE from Unity BEE-HOLD stamp set.
After stamping and coloring my bee I fussy cut him out.
Though not seen, I added a bit of Stardust shimmer to the wings.
He was mounted on a hexagon die cut.  The embossed background is
an older Darice EB folder.  The fun sentiment is part of
the stamp set.

We are looking forward to seeing your CAS designs at
Simply Clean & Simple!

Entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Cardz 4 Galz .... Bees
Fab N' Funky  .... Blue~Pink and/or Yellow

Woodblock Wednesday April 2026

 Hello friends, today I am guest designing at Amy's
Woodblock Wednesday due to my win there in March.
It is the challenge to use those poor neglected woodblock stamps
and one of MY favorite monthly challenges I look forward to.

For my woodblock cards I always try to use a stamp that seems
to fit the month we are in, it doesn't always happen but this month it
sure did as the entire state of Michigan was covered in water.
Rain, rain and more rain led to lots of flooding.
Luckily though we live on a creek our home was high enough
it didn't affect us other then a flooded lawn.

My stamps are oldies, the sentiment I have had since almost day one
it says 1994 Stamp Crazy on it.  The main stamp is one I have always
loved being a cat person myself, All Night Media.

I stamped my image on a Spellbinders Arch die cut then colored with
Copics and a silver gel pen for a bit of sparkle.
The background papers are Scrapbookdotcom, they have some really
pretty papers. 
I recently just created a few more handmade flowers so added one of those.
The sentiment was stamped in Dew Drop (Memento) Grape Jelly.

I am sure Amy would love to have YOU join in her fun at the 
Woodblock Wednesday challenge, always the last Wednesday of the month!!

Purple Elegant Rose

 At Just Us Girls it is already Stencil Week again
which happens to be one of my favorite challenges and 
with the ever growing mountain of stencils I have it's a
perfect challenge for me.

A few weeks ago I stenciled several roses in various colors
using SSS Elegant Rose using all Altenew inks.
I didn't add any embellishments or a sentiment and kept a

clean, just stenciled card, not to say I won't later
depending on what occasion I am using it for.

You will be seeing the other stenciled colors later 'down the road'!!

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Butterfly Day

 Here I am again with another challenge card,
so rare for me to be able to create for so many
challenges in a week, but so FUN!!

I saw this Sunbird Spark challenge #59 and immediately was
drawn to the colors.

I decided to use yet another stencil from Taylored Expressions,

one I have used before but not for quite sometime, Layered Butterflies
stencil and stamp.  I pulled several different inks out but ended up using
SSS Surf and Memento Dew Drop Pear Tart.  

I don't think this challenge is listed at Paper Playful or
Challenges For Days, they need to to get more players

as it is a very nice challenge!!

Color Hues Challenge #131

 Another 'free' day for me I can add another challenge to my 'belt'!
I choose The Color Hues Challenge of Coral & Green
with my neutrals of black and white.

One of my newest embossing folders and stencils this year was
the SSS Butterfly Escapade set.  My bank account 'cringes' every month
when Simon has a new release as there is always something I

need/want in each release!  

The inks I chose for this card was Altenew Coral Bliss and Shadow Creek.  I just wish the true colors of this showed up
better, it is way more of a suble green and coral color
then the picture shows.

I have a few more of these done in other color combos that will

'appear' at a later date, after all you can't stop with just one, right??

Also entering the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps & More .... Die Cuts/Stencils