Hello Friend

 Years ago I bought a huge 2" thick paper pad of all black and white designs for a couple dollars at Tuesday Mornings which has now sadly closed. The cover was missing so I don't know who made it, but in spite of sharing a lot of the papers, I have tons of it left along with a hefty bag of snippets. I used a couple of those snippets to make this card, adding another white snippet border done with a MS Doily punch. The butterfly die was an unbranded gift from a friend which I cut with snippets of white, red, and black and covered with glazed accents to hold all of those bits in place. The sentiment panel is an older die cut from Whimsy with a Gina K designs sentiment. For a little sparkle, I added some black Nuvo dots on the punched border.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground Challenge 486 - must use snippets

the Triple B August 2024 Challenge - Birds, Blooms, Butterflies, use 1 or all 3

The Four Seasons August 2024 Challenge - A/G Summer

Love Those Pretty Papers August Challenge - use designer papers

with an optional theme of summertime

Thanks for the visit, and as always, I wish you the best day ever.

Carol

Spots & Stripes

I've been asked to guest design for the Allsorts challenge week #780 where Lorraine is hosting and the theme this time is "spots and stripes." If you don't have spots or stripes, there is always the anything goes option. I found these cute striped and dotted papers from an old paper pad (the cover is gone so I don't know who made them) but the image is a new one from Penny Black - a recent gift given to me by a thoughtful friend. I stamped the image and colored it with Copics and glaze pens, then die cut it with a stitched square die from MFT. The sentiment is from Mark's Finest Papers (now closed) and that panel was cut from a snippet of blue cardstock that I  matched with the little bird.  For the final touch, I added an older SU! enamel dot in the corner just for fun.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be around to see your creations for this spots and stripes challenge (or the A/G if you prefer)

Before I go, here's a notice for the Allsort's upcoming 15th Birthday celebration. You'll want to stop by on the 18th for this event!

Have yourself a wonderful day!

Carol

 

Hello Friend

 While sorting through my overwhelming stash, I discovered this cute strip of retired bluebird dsp from SU! and decided to make a card with it. I found coordinating bits of matching blue dsp, some tan, some green and white and just built the theme around that strip of bluebird dsp. I used a SU! bird punch adding a touch of blue Copic color to the bird and giving him a tiny blue gemstone eye. The sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

I'm sharing this with the Snippets Playground #450 - which of course is to use snippets.

Also sharing with the Four Seasons Spring Season March 2023 challenge 

I was inspired by that cute little bluebird in it's nest 

Thanks for stopping by and have the best possible day! One more day and Spring will be here!

Carol