Happy Valentine's Day

Here are a couple Valentine cards I made and sent this year sitting side by side. They're slightly different with coloring and placement of that little pink heart on the sentiments.

The backgrounds were done with a Kat Scrappiness stitched heart cover plate die and the big white heart was cut with a Simon Says Stamp die. The Gerda Steiner mouse image was stamped, colored with Copics and a red glaze pen, then fussy cut and added to the large heart. The sentiment is also made by Gerda Steiner. Those little pink heart stickers are from Taylored Expressions. I put one on the right side....

and one on the left. This little mouse has a little more grey color than the one above but I think he's a cutie in any color.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters February 14, 2024 - LOVE

The Critter Crazy Challenge #83 - A/G featuring a Critter

We Love Stamping February Challenge 2024 - Romance or A/G

the Color Hues Challenge #80 - Red & Pink

the Little Red Wagon Challenge #743 - Show Us Some Love

the Double D Challenge - Heartfelt

That's going to do it for me today but thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy Valentine's Day filled with lots of love!

Carol

 

Mother's Day Flowers

 I recently unearthed my older Flourishes calendar stamps and was so happy to have discovered that I still had them because I thought I'd given them all away a long time ago. I was pleasantly surprised to find them since the company has now gone out of business. I pulled this Iris stamp out first because an Iris is one of my favorite flowers - probably because it's purple. (my favorite color) It also happens to be the flower for the month of May which includes Mother's Day. I colored the image with Copics and a glaze pen, adding some die-cut grass with a SNSS border grass die. The frame was created by using 2 different sizes of stitched square dies and the sentiment is by Verve who has also gone out of business too unfortunately.

I'm entering this into these challenges:

The Color Hues Challenge #62 - purple & green (my favorite color combo!)

The Four Seasons April 2023 A/G Spring Challenge

The Triple B April Challenge  - Birds, Butterflies, Blooms or all 3

The Retro Rubber Challenge #204 - Spring Scenes  *must use stamps older than 1 year - mine are both probably 8-10 years old or more.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Monday, and thanks so much for stopping by.

Carol

Shamrock Treat Boxes

 I have friends coming by later today so I made a few of these St. Patrick's day treat boxes that hold a Lindor truffle candy inside. I used a Lawn Fawn tiny gift box die set to create the boxes; then used the matching stitched circle die with some gold mirror card to make the golden "coins." I have a lot of shamrock stickers I've collected through the years, so I put a large one in the center of the coin, and placed a smaller sticker on each of the other sides of the box. I've always loved making little treats to hand out to others and I managed to use most of those stickers at the same time.

I'll share with these challenges:

Colorful Options March 2023 - Green

Color Hues #59 - Green and Gold

The Double D Challenge for March - everything is coming up Green

Wishing you all a very happy Monday as well as a great week ahead. 

Thanks for stopping by, it's always nice to see you 😉

Carol

Birthday Time

 Today's card was done with the colors of lime green and navy, and I rather like the combo now that it's finished! I used all snippets for this design, cutting 3 different border dies by Sweet 'n Sassy stamps and swapping the alternating negative stars for a fun look. The big stars were done with a very old SU! Sizzix die called stars#2 and I added a navy star brad along with a Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment from SU! The background was done with a Cuttlebug birthday embossing folder and this card was done!

I'll share this with the following challenges:

The Color Hues Challenge #48 - use the colors of Lime Green and Navy

This challenge is also celebrating their 2nd anniversary, so they are asking for birthday cards and coordinating their challenge with the Seize the Birthday Challenge which follows below.

Seize the Birthday #246 - coordinating with the Color Hues Challenge above

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #551

Happy Little Stampers Birthday Challenge for September

The Snippets Playground #436 - must use snippets

For my American friends, I hope you're all enjoying the Labor Day holiday weekend and doing something fun and my wish is the same for everyone else too! Thanks for stopping by, I'll see you again soon!

Carol

For Lindsey

 I made this card as a tribute to a wonderful blogger who recently passed away.

Lindsey was on several design teams and often left comments on my cards and it's sad to know she's gone from this world. She had such a great sense of humor and was always kind.

The Color Hues challenge #46 is paying tribute to their former DT member by using her favorite color combination - blue & purple. You can also find a list of her favorite things over at the Color Hues challenge which includes flowers, so this card was designed with her in mind.

I started by water coloring 2 snippets of white cardstock with twinkling H2O's in colors of Passion Fruit and Dutch Iris. I die-cut a white panel with a Poppystamps Tulisa Corner Collage die and placed the blue panel beneath it. I used a Hero Arts flower stamp to make the flowers, fussy cutting them and popping them up on foam tape. I also stamped the flower centers on the blue colored paper, fussy cut them and also popped them onto the flower centers with mini foam dots. The sentiment is from SU! Warmest Regards (2006) and for the final touch I added some blue and purple gemstones randomly.

Lindsey's cards, inspiration, and sense of humor will be missed and the blogging world won't be quite the same without her. R.I.P Lindsey.

Thanks for stopping by and have a good day.

Carol

Red, White, and Blue Thank-You

Hello and a very happy Monday.

Happy Independence day to my American friends who are celebrating today too.

 I didn't make any July 4th cards this year, but I did make this card some time ago and decided it was just too busy to post it LOL Then today I decided since I had nothing else to share with the red, white, and blue patriotic holiday, I'd post it anyway.

I had a small piece of red, white and blue striped dsp which had pastel blue stars on the reverse side. The tiny border had the dark blue background with tiny stars, and I found another snippet of red & white striped paper. I randomly cut all the pieces into bits, then added a full layer of adhesive onto a 4x5-1/4 piece of white cardstock with my Xyron. I randomly added the bits to the adhesive, leaving gaps between them, then sprinkled on some white pearl embossing powder and heat set everything. Next I die-cut a piece of the striped paper with a MFT diagonal stitched die, and placed it across the front with a snippet of ribbon behind it. The Thank-You die cut by Kaisercraft was in my snippets box (a pre-cut with a different color) that I colored up with a dark red Copic. As if this wasn't already busy enough, I added a couple red mirror card stars done with a retired SU! mini punch!

Lastly I placed it on a dark blue card base.

Here's a little close up of that pearl embossing powder.

I'll add this to the Color Hues #44 Challenge which is

the colors of Red and Blue.

Also adding to the Colorful Options Challenge for July 2022

which is red. white, and blue

Thanks for stopping by and make it a wonderful day!

Carol

Mother's Day Blooms

 I made another Mother's day card using my favorite color combo of purple and green. I found this die-cut frame sent to me by a thoughtful blogging friend some time ago and decided it was time to use it. I stamped and embossed the Hero Arts flower 3 times with silver embossing powder and fussy cut each of the 3 layers; popping them up on foam bits. The green leaves were also embossed in silver and fussy cut. The sentiment was done with a (r) SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp and more silver embossing powder, then punched with a (r) SU! word window punch. For the final touch, I added some crystal beads to the flower center and along one side of the frame.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

The Color Hues Challenge #39 - purple and green

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - A/G

Happy Little Stampers April A/G with Dies Challenge

the Allsorts Challenge #673 - something beginning with "B"

(blooms, beads)

I noticed things have changed here on blogger with a recent update, so apparently I can no longer copy & paste graphics for challenges. I guess I will have to stop using them in my posts. I hate when things change in this regard as it makes it difficult for me to learn all the new ways of doing things.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful day ahead!

Carol

Mother's Day Card

 I had this sheet of dsp left from an old paper pad and decided to use it to make a mother's day card since it had flowers on it. I cut a stem with a Cheery Lynn die and added punched flowers to it using retired SU! mini flower punches, adding green gemstones to the centers. The sentiment was done with GMD Venetian Labels dies in coordinating colors. Actually the green is the flip side of this piece of dsp, while the flowers were tiny snippets left from the coordinating papers in the pad. The covers are long gone, so I don't know who made the papers but I'm glad I was able to finally use them. The sentiment is from SU! (retired) teeny tiny wishes.

I'm sharing this with the Color Hues Challenge #39 - purple & green

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

Birthday Card

  I had a piece of this black DCWV dsp on my desk and thought something red would look great with it, so I pulled out a piece of red cardstock and stamped an image from SU's Fifth Avenue Floral set with Versamark and then embossed it with black ep. I stamped 3 leaves from a Hero Arts set and fussy cut everything and placed it on the dsp, popping up the rose with foam dots. I added 5 little red gemstones along with a pre-printed Simon Says Stamp sentiment on the bottom and called this one done.

I'm sharing it with the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge week #662 - A/G optional red flowers

Seize the Birthday #231 - sparkle & shine (red gemstones)

The Flower Challenge #65 - occasions (birthday)

The Color Hues Challenge #34 - Red & Black

That's it for me today, but as always, I do thank you for stopping by and I wish everyone a pleasant Sunday!

Carol

Kraft & Red Christmas Cards

I have had this Delta Santa Collage image stamp from Rubber Stampede for quite a few years, (probably ten) and every year I make a few cards with it. Today I'm sharing 2 Christmas cards using red and kraft. For the first one, I lightly colored Santa's face with some skin tone Copics and added a white heat-embossed sentiment on a panel of kraft. There's a strip of embossed snowflakes behind the image, all placed on a red and white polka dot piece of designer paper.

  For this version, I used a piece of SU! (r) diagonally striped dsp and added 6 punched stars from some red cardstock, adding gold beads to the centers. I also colored Santa's glasses with a red glitter pen.

I'm going to share these cards with the Color Hues Challenge #28 which is to use the colors of red and kraft.

Also sharing with the Retro Rubber Challenge #169 - A/G

(must use stamps older than 1 year)

It's a quick post from me today, I have a lot of things to tend to. Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Autumn Thank You

I have an Autumn-themed card today made with some SSS Orange Peel and Lemon Chiffon cardstock. Sorry the yellow looks more like vanilla, but it's a beautiful pastel yellow color. I used a Poppystamps Tulisa collage to cut the panel on the front, adding a piece of orange behind it. The matching orange border was made with an EK punch, inserting gold-embossed negatives, and adding a narrow piece of brown ribbon. The sentiment is from SU! (r) gold-embossed on a piece of chocolate cardstock and I added orange, gold and yellow gemstones to finish this one with a little sparkle.

 I took a photo from a different angle, but the yellow still looks like vanilla😏

I'll enter this into these challenges:

The Color Hues Challenge #25 - Yellow and Orange

(they're celebrating their one-year anniversary)

Dies R Us Challenge #176 - A/G using dies sold in their store

(the Poppystamps Tulisa Collage)

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - make it sparkle & shine

the Four Seasons Challenge - anything goes FALL

That's it for me, but thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Kindness Matters

 My card today has a thank-you sentiment inside. I bought the SSS Kindness Matters die quite some time ago but I don't think I've used it until now. I used some old designer papers from the Bo Bunny Liberty collection that I bought many years ago when I was making cards for Operation Write Home (now closed). I used a vanilla card base, along with a die-cut SU! Chalk Talk sentiment panel. The quilt die is from MFT and the buttons were made with Impression Obsession dies. I wove thin strips of matching papers and cardstock through the holes to give the buttons a sewn-on look.

I'll enter this into these challenges:

The Color Hues #21 challenge - Red & Blue

The Happy Little Stampers July Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Thanks for taking a moment from your Monday to stop by 😊

Wishing you all a wonderful day!

Carol

the Happiest Day

 I made this card that will work for either father's day or a masculine birthday! I dug out my old Memory Box deer trio die and cut it from a piece of kraft cardstock. I took a piece of turquoise and embossed it with a retired SU! embossing folder and placed the deer on top, then framed it with a stitched die-cut frame and some dark espresso cardstock. The sentiment is a pre-printed one from SSS. I kept this one simple and chose not to add any embellishments.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - masculine

the Little Red Wagon #604 - make it masculine

The Male Room Challenge #151- Dads and Grandads

R.I. the House that Stamps built Challenge #J221 - all about the boys

the Color Hues Challenge #19 - blue & brown

Wishing you all a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Birthday Bouquet

My card today was made with dies and punches. I used a snippet of teal-colored dsp and matted it with lavender using GMD Venetian Label Dies. The vase was created with a retired SU! ornament punch, snipping the bottom off and adding a purple and white twine bow. I made a branch in white using a SU! Bouquet Bunch framelit die, and added mini lavender flowers done with a retired SU! mini punch. I added teal-colored gemstones to the flower centers and added a small sentiment. I did some very light stenciling with a Data Dots stencil and a stencil brush, using Lulu Lavender ink. I had to reduce the brightness of the photo for the stenciling to show in the photo.

I'm going to enter this into the following challenges:

The Color Hues Challenge #18 - purple and teal

Seize the Birthday Challenge #214 - Make it a Bouquet

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - use dies and/or punches

Happy Little Stampers May Anything Goes with Dies challenge

Happy Little Stampers May Stencil Challenge - Anything Goes

I hope your Wednesday is a good one, and I hope you're having beautiful weather like we are here in PA today! Take care and thanks for stopping by!

Carol