Saturday, May 24, 2025

16 th birthday

 

 
A fun new challenge at Allsorts starts today, 16th birthday
celebration of Allsorts challenge!   

I thought a fun fold card for this one would be special.  I
used a lot of stamps in my stash, Unity Butterfly Birthday Cupcake,
inside sentiment is from the from the former TAC, and 16
die cut from Amuse.  Papers from my stash.
 
Open:
 
Hope you will join us at Allsorts for a chance to win: 
 
                                        Four prizes of products from AALL and Create


Four prizes of products from AALL and Create


Three prizes just for our US based entrants:

A $25 store voucher from Lawn Fawn
Three stamps from Colorado Craft Company
A $25 store voucher from Gina K Designs (Worldwide)
 
A few fun challenges I hope to enter:
Triple B May 6/1 
AAA Birthday #73- Birthday 6/1
 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Bright and Cheerful  5/28

Friday, May 16, 2025

Happy Birthday

 

My Daughter-in-law's Birthday card. I had a bag of MFT flowers and
leaves cut awhile back from Stampin Up snippets so I pulled
those out and added some inking to the edges,  inked up an embossing folder 
 and  embossed it a fewtimes in green for the background, card stock already
 had a circle cut out of the middle.  Added a precut happy birthday from
Altenew.  A few butterfly embellishments and it was ready to send.
 
Have a wonderful weekend!
 
My snippets:
 
A few fun challenges: 
 Triple B May challenge 6/1
 
 
 

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Paper Piecing and 16th birthday celebration at Allsorts

Time for another biweekly challenge at Allsorts.  Lynne has chosen
 paper piecing/anything goes.


 I used Newton's Nook Paw-some Birthday for my project and for
my first Christmas card this year! I used up scraps from a 
Christmas Roses paper pack from Hobby Lobby.  Oval die
cut is by Sizziz.
 
My scraps:

 

 A prize from Personal Impressions  for £25 store voucher.

Coming soon:


 A few fun challenges:

 A Cut Above May 6/1
Mix It Up Challenge #77-option of paper piecing 6/1
We Love Stamping May: 4 legged friends  5/29 
Word Art Wednesday Weeks 698-699 5/28

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Inspired by a Song

 For Allsorts challenge Sarah has chosen the theme of Inspired
by a Song or Anything goes.  

 


 I was inspired by Rainy Days and Mondays.  This cute Avery Elle set: Look
 for rainbows has been in my need to use container for over two years so
it was time to pull lit out.  One of my granddaughters likes rainbows so
this was her Easter card..  Colored with Copic markers, white gel pen
highlights and sequins from my stash to make it into a shaker card. I
also embossed the front layer with a Darice striped background
embossing folder. 

See what my talented teammates made and join the 
challenge at Allsorts, it runs for 2 weeks. We have
three prizes of die sets from  In2Craft.

 
 A few fun challenges:
Can You Handle the Pressure with twist of weather: Rain 5/7
TOP 3 Badge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Make it Girly 4/30
Stamping Sensations: April  Animals
We Love Stamping: April 5/1 
Word Art Wednesday Weeks 696-497 5/7

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Happy Birthday

 

I made this card for a few of my favorite challenges and to have in my stash.
I started with Altenew Bewitching  Rose Project kit, it came with the flower
arrangement above- the stencils, die cut, embossing folder-if you enlarge
the picture you can see the detail, and numerous sentiments.  The background
piercing die is from my stash but I do not have the name of it. I've made several
cards with this lovely set.
 
A few favorite challenges: 

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Happy Easter

 

I can't believe I sealed and mailed all my Easter cards before taking
photo's.  I did have this one to give in person.  Image is StampIn
Up, papers from an old K&Company Seasonal pack.
 
Closed:

 Happy Easter to those that celebrate!
 
A few fun challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Patterned paper 4/23
We Love Stamping - April  5/1
 

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Stenciling

 Time for a new biweekly challenge at Allsorts.  Val has chosen the theme of
stencils and of course anything goes is also acceptable. 

 

I used a stencil by AALL & Create: Cascading Dots.  I chose several
colors and stenciled them one at a time, shifting the stencil each time.  I 
added  a happy birthday die and background from Altenew, two
circle dies and a die punched star.  I always need masculine cards. 
 
Then I misted my stencil and set it on a piece of white card 
stock and got the lovely dotted paper below.  I die cut it
with a window die by Pawsitively  Pawsome Designs and
layered some coordinating flowers from My Favorite Things 
and a hello die from Scrapbook.com.  I used colors opposite
on the color wheel and liked how this came out.

 
I could not waste the leftover frame and purple pieces so I 
stenciled a background on vellum with the same stencil and 
added it to a white base and layered it up with more die
cuts as named above.
 

It was great to get three cards from a fun crafting time.

Please join us at Allsorts for a chance to win the prizes below:

 From Lisa Horton Crafts, Pansy Corner layering stencils with coordinating die and embossing folder. A second prize of two AALL and Create stencils....


 
 
A few fun challenges for top card-birthday: 
Addicted to Stamps and More -Stencils and dies 4/23
Crazy is our fame-Stencils is our Game   5/3