Engagement Card

 A dear friend of mine recently got engaged and I made this card for him. I used a double heart die I've had for eons along with some papers from a wedding pack, and added some pre-embossed vellum within the hearts. The sentiment was die-cut and a silver congratulations sticker was added to that. I added random die cuts of leaves and stems along with some punched flowers, pearls, and diamond gemstones. I added their initials to each heart to personalize it. I forgot to take a photo of the inside but there was a silver heart with a sentiment that said "Love" makes the world a better place.

Thanks for checking in and have yourself a fabulous weekend.

Carol

Sweet Wishes

 I picked the wrong time of day to photograph this card as it's filled with shadows. I tried to remove them which left the colors diminished but this was the best I could do.

I had some die-cut striped snippets of SU! designer paper left over from a previous project, so this card began with them. I also used 2 tiny snippets of white cardstock to create the candy pieces. The image, sentiment, and candy pieces are all by Newton's Nook - stamped and colored with Copics, and a touch of Wink of Stella added here and there for sparkle. I added a red and green gemstone to each of the fussy cut candy pieces. The 2 striped panels were originally die cut with MFT stitched horizontal dies. I placed this on a dark green card base and have now added another Christmas card to my stash.

Sharing this with the following challenges:

Rudolph Days October Challenge - A/G Christmas before the end of Oct.

Allsorts challenge week #804 - Cute and Cuddly or A/G

Jingle Belles Christmas Christmas Challenge - use an animal

the Snippets Playground #492 - use snippets

Thanks for the visit and I wish you the very best possible day!

Carol

Birthday Card with Gold

 I made this card for a friend of mine who recently celebrated her birthday. I found a pretty snippet of striped paper (not sure who makes it) and a strip of coordinating cardstock to design the card. I used a mini stencil from Creative Expressions on the side with some distress inks to add a little interest, and added a die-cut golden stem along with the rosette that a thoughtful friend sent me. The sentiment is gold-embossed with a SU! stamp and die combo (also a gift from another thoughtful friend) and I added some small flowers done with a (R) SU! mini punch and added random clear gems to the centers and the sentiment panel as well. For the final touch, I added a ladybug brad to the center of the rosette and used a fine red marker to outline the dots on the sentiment panel.

Sharing this with these challenges:

The Stencil Fun Challenge for October - use a stencil *opt. Halloween

The NBUS Challenge #67 - never before used stuff (stencil, sentiment stamp & die)

the Triple B October 2024 Challenge - birds, butterflies, blooms. Use 1,2, or all 3

The Allsorts Challenge week #803 - use pattern papers

Thanks for stopping by to visit and I wish you a wonderful day.

Carol

Candy Corn Halloween Cards

A thoughtful friend sent me this candy corn die and I used lots of snippets of Halloween papers and cardstock to create a few cards with it. After laying the strips of dsp down on a scrap of white, I cut the panel with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle. Next I added the die-cut candy corn along with a stamped and punched sentiment (R from SU!) and added a green glaze sticker just for fun. I put this one on a lavender card base.

Here's a 2nd card made with different snippets and colors on a green card base.

 

and the last one, made with a mix of assorted snippets of designer papers  and cardstock on a black card base.

Sharing the first card with these challenges:

The Snippets Playground challenge #491 - must use snippets

The Allsorts Challenge Week #802 - A/G or Magical, Myths and/or Legend

Love those Pretty Papers October Challenge - Optional theme Halloween Colors/ Papers

The Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge for October 2024 - A/G Halloween

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday!

Carol

Halloween Fun

 This is not your ordinary Halloween card but I think it will bring a smile or two. This hilarious looking pooch is by Unity and I colored him with fluorescent Copics to give him a Halloween "costume" with purple and green fur and a blue tongue. LOL I die-cut the image panel with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle and added 3 black candy dots. The twine is from Lawn Fawn, and the silver on black dotted paper is (r) from SU! 

I'm sharing this with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge for October 2024.

Also sharing with the Critter Crazy Challenge #91 -

A/G featuring a critter

Entering too into the NBUS Challenge #67 since this is the first outing for this stamped image.

Thanks for stopping by and keep smiling😉

Carol

Birthday Flourish

I made this card using a Cheery Lynn Flourish die and some black, white, and green cardstock. After I cut the pieces and assembled them, I had to make a second one with the flourish going in a different direction.

 They were easy to create and all I did was add a Simon Says Stamp pre-printed birthday sentiment to each one with a couple sequins for sparkle and I had two birthday cards finished.

I'm sharing the first card with the Little Red Wagon Challenge#777 -

black, white and one other color

Also Sharing with the Allsorts Challenge #801-

falling leaves or the optional Anything Goes

That's it for me today. Thanks for stopping by and make it your best day.

 Prayers going out for the residents of Florida who are bracing for a 2nd hurricane in less than 2 weeks which is more powerful than the first one. I hope evacuations were able to happen with the shortage of gasoline in that state. I feel awful watching this happen to anyone and not being able to help. These are such sad times we're living in.

Carol

Halloween Treats

 Here are some Halloween treat boxes I've been working on to hand out later this month. I've been using up my stash before buying anything new, so nearly all of these Hershey nugget boxes were made with leftover snippets of cardstock and designer papers. Some of the papers are (r) SU! while others came from Tuesday Morning stores (sadly now closed)and some I've had for years that I bought from QVC when they sold crafting supplies. The pre-printed sentiments are from Simon Says Stamp. The ghosts are cuts from an IO die set. The bats are dies and stamps from Lawn Fawn, and the tiny spider and webs are dies from Taylored Expressions. That tiny 

"boo" tag on the box in the back was made with a retired SU! stamp and punch that I gave away a long time ago after making a few to keep for myself.

These treats hold packs of Walker Shortbread cookies (2 in a pack) that my local grocery store carries year round. I tied them up with some spooky black ribbon I've had for eons.

Here are a few more made with assorted papers and dies. The spider is a die from MB and the witch's hat is a die from Darice. Sentiment from SSS.

The green trick or treat sentiment was done with an older (r) SU! stamp and punch set.

 I have made a few others which I'll share soon.

Entering the first set of nugget boxes into these challenges:

Love those Pretty Papers October Challenge - use dsp *optional Halloween colors

Two Old Bats October 2024 Challenge - A/G Halloween

Thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone is enjoying World Card Making Day today!

Carol

Snippet Christmas Card Set

 I started going through my red and green snippets of designer papers to create this set of cards. Whenever you cut a card front it leaves you with strips of pretty papers that are too good to throw away, so I saved them all and used them to make these cards. The papers are from SU! and Lawn Fawn and I'll describe each image on the individual cards.

This is Lawn Fawn's Season's Tweetings and all the horizontal panels of SU! papers were cut with MFT stitched horizontal dies and a Lil Inker stitched rectangle die for the image panel.

 This is a MFT image, cut on a stitched square die and colored with Copics. DSP by Lawn Fawn and the sentiment is by MFT.

This is a retired SU! image named Dasher, heat embossed in gold with a GMD stitched oval die and several red gemstones with a MFT sentiment and SU! designer papers.

This is also a retired SU! image called Snow Swirled, heat embossed in gold with red gemstones and a small punched gold star done with a SU! mini punch and placed on a Lil Inker die-cut stitched rectangle. The sentiment is unbranded. Papers by SU!

This last card uses some different SU! papers but is the same Snow Swirled image and a different sentiment by MFT.

Sharing this with the Snippets Playground #490 - must use Snippets

the Allsorts challenge week #800 - A/G

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #72

I was going to enter the Rudolph Day September challenge too but it's already closed. I still have over 2 hours before it's October, but I'll have to wait until next month on that one LOL

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you're having a great Autumn week.

Heartfelt thoughts and prayers going out to all of those folks impacted by the wrath of that storm Helene. The videos and photos I've seen are just devastating and heartbreaking for what they're dealing with. May God bless them one and all.

Carol

Christmas Pup

 I decided to use my long-neglected SU! dog punch to make this card and added a little die-cut Santa hat made with some red glitter paper and a bit of white.  I found the 2 snippets of designer paper from the Jingles paper pad in my stash and die-cut them with Lil Inker stitched rectangles and added a red puffy sticker to the top. I have an ancient wooden stick stamp by Judith that I used to stamp the tiny snowflakes on the background piece that matched the designer paper, so I just added lots of them using red ink. The sentiment is a pre-printed one from Simon Says Stamp and I backed it with a piece of dark red cardstock. 

I'll enter this card into the following challenges:

Rudolph Days September challenge - A/G Christmas

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #72 - A/G Christmas

Love Those Pretty Papers ATG September challenge - optional "Fall" theme

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - A/G

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do.

Carol

Sympathy Card

 I made this sympathy card with some retired SU! cardstock called Soft Sky. It was always one of my favorites. I sponged on 3 different Distress ink colors in a random pattern on white and stamped the Tim Holtz image in black ink on top. After that dried, I covered the entire piece with Versamark ink and heat-embossed it using clear EP. I framed it with black, more Soft Sky and another black panel and added a SU! sentiment that was heat-embossed with white on a black snippet. I used a hexagon punch to fishtail the ends.

I'm sharing this with the Allsorts challenge week #799 - Get Well or With Sympathy or use the A/G option.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do!

Carol