What Makes You Happy

 

Gail has chosen: What makes you happy or anything goes for this

fortnight challenge at Allsorts.  This is an endless list, I went with 

3 things that make me happy: flowers, coloring and purple 

for my inspiration.  

Stamp set is Slim Scenes by IO. Colored with Copics and highlighted

with Prismacolor pencils.  I cut a partial die for layering and 

embossed it with a Sizzix flower die, and embossed the front

of the card with a subtle texture embossing folder.  

To join the challenge and/or see my team mates great designs, go

to Allsorts Challenge.

 

Two prizes of a Penny Black stamp and die set from Buddly Crafts:

 

 

A few fun challenges:

Elliebelle's Corner June-July  8/1 

Triple B: June  7/1 

We Love Stamping: Nature  7/1 

Stamping Sensations: ATG  7/1 

The Sisterhood of Crafters 6/8 

The Paper Funday Challenge #77_ optional twist Embossing 

Alaska

 I thought I would share just a few of my pictures from our Alaska cruise, If you

ever have the opportunity it was amazing!  Hope to catch up on your blogs soon! 

 

This was in Washington before the cruise.

Now Alaska: 

 

 

 

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:

Creative Creases #103  6/5

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: 

Beautiful Blossoms #29 6/15

Can You Handle the Pressure: florals 5/22 

Cut it Up #330 5/27

Snippets Playground #506 5/24

 Triple B May challenge 6/1

 

 

 

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

Critter Crazy Challenge #98  6/1

Crafty Animals #94 6/1

Love To Craft#86 ATG 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

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

Simply Clean and Simple: Umbrellas 4/28

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

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: 

Die Cut  Diva's: April: Flowers  5/1

Can You Handle the Pressure: Option rainbows 4/25

Triple B: April  5/1

Beautiful Blossoms: Anything Floral #28 5/15

Simon Says Stamp Monday : Blooming Blooms 4/28

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Girly 4/30

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:

Creative Creases Challenge 5/1 

Love Those Pretty Papers- April 5/1 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Patterned paper 4/23

Stamping Sensations- April  5/1

We Love Stamping - April  5/1

 

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

Stamping Sensations  April 5/1

We Love Stamping April 5/1

 

Happy Anniversary

 

This week is our 45th wedding anniversary, time sure does fly, it

seems just like yesterday.  Looking forward to many more

years together.

I combined a few facts I found online for the inside

sentiment and for choosing my colors.

Supplies:

Mettalic card stock and vellum from my stash

My new Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangles dies

Memory Box Small Heart Collection dies 

Happy Anniversary die, ? manufacturer

 

A few fun challenges: 

A Cut Above: use dies  5/13

Alphabet Challenge: Z is for Zoom,goes fast: Years of Marriage 4/17

NBUS Challenge 73 5/1

Word Art Wednesday 692-693  4/9

Spring Flowers

 

Time for a new challenge at Allsorts, Ellie choose: Spring Flowers/

anything goes.  I used AALL & Create's: Best You Ever Had 

stamp.  I embossed it and colored with alcohol markers.  I die

cut a border die and added it on a pink strip to coordinate and

then added a black card stock strip to tie it all together.

 

You can enter the Allsorts Challenge for a chance to win one of

the following  prize offered by AALL & Create:

 

Stamps and stencils (winners will receive random selection from those shown) from AALL and Create 

 

 

A few fun challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms #27 4/15

Stamping Sensations: Hello Spring 4/2

Simon Says Stamp: Wednesday Challenge 4/2 

Simon Says Stamp: Monday: Ephermera/Laver it Up

Triple B: March  3/31 

We Love Stamping: Hello Spring  4/2 

Word Art Wednesday: Weeks 692-693 4/9

 

Spellbinder Advent Calendar Cards

  Had a wonderful get together making cards with 5 friends who

also purchased the Spellbinders Advent Calendar for 2024.

We each brought a card with everything cut out and ready to go.  What a great variety of

cards  and ideas to use!  We also ate, talked, ate some more and had a 

wonderful get together.  Three of us from St. Louis area drove down

together and stayed overnight - thank you Shirley for having us! 

The next day we got together with some other friends for a StampIn Up

Cup and a Card, great time also.

 

Do you have a favorite?

Make it feminine

 Allsorts challenge this week was chosen by Lynn: Make it Feminine,

or CAS.  My thoughts were immediately pink, lacy and flowery.

 

 

 

 

 I wanted to make it a special fold so browsed Pintrest  and found a tutorial by 

Anne Marie  (Updated link) that I liked, then made changes to make it my own.  Card 

stockis Bazill, patterned paper by Authentique: Refreshed, Rose and leaves

are from Altenew's Beautiful Day set (already stamped and in one

of my snippet containers)  Sentiments stamped on snippets of white and

die cut with frilly dies.  The little pink flower was also in the snippet

contained. Front lavender panel was embossed with a doily die and

then a dotted die to fill in the spaces and add interest.

Join in at Allsorts for a chance to win:

Two prizes from Stamp Addicts, stamps and stencils

 

A few fun challenges: 

CYHTP ATG or St. Patricks 3/19

Creative Creases #101 4/3 

Love Those Pretty Papers -March 4/1

Stamping Sensations: March, Hello Spring  4/2

We Love Stamping: March, Hello Spring  4/2

Clean and Simple

 

It's been 2 weeks so time for another challenge at Allsorts. This

week Helen has chosen CAS, or you can go with ATG. 

 I used Simon SaysStamp die called Circle of Leaves,  then scored 

that layer on my ScorPal.  On the card base I blended broken china,

 seedless preserves, and peacock feathers Distress Oxides,

splattered it with water and then diluted white paint.

Sentiment stamped is in peacock feathers and cut with a

stitched die.

See what my talented team mates made at Allsorts.

Three prizes from Oakwood Direct, 3 stencils, A5 stamp set and coordination

 Butterfly stamp and die set