Happy Birthday

 

 I was a one of the winners of an Altenew blog hope for having my name

randomly drawn.  I got a $15 gift certificate and used it for Cupcake mini 

delight, it came with the stamps and dies! I gathered up some

white paper scraps to re-use for lots of die cutting of the cupcake and

"happy" sentiment.  I also used snippets of blue card stock, and

snippets of papers from My Minds Eye .  I used Sweet Sketch 235

for inspiration on the card above. 

 

A few more cards I made: 

 

 

 Nice to build my stash of birthday cards can can be used for kids or adults.

 

A few fun challenges for the top card:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch #235 10/10

 

Snippets Playground #541  9/28 

AAA Birthday #89 -Patterned paper  9/23

The Diva's that cut paper: Recycle, Reuse, & Repurpose 10/1

A Cut Above  10/1

Try it on Tuesday: Pretty Papers  10/1

 

Thinking of you

 Hello! Time for a new challenge at Allsorts! Gail has picked

Thinking of you/Sympathy/or Anything Goes: 

 

 Open:

 This is a Simple Corner Fold card I saw on Pintrest, you can get directions

here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2462974793720019/

I highly recommend if you do to try the fold on plain paper the

first time. You do need double sided paper.

 

Allsorts is offering in addition to the top 7, and guest designer the

following dies from Highlight Crafts.

 

 Join us at Allsorts Challenge here: https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/

Supplies:

Stampin Up Spotight on Nature stamp set and papers

Thinking of you stamp from a magazine set 

Stampin Up Stitched rectangle 

 A few favorite challenges: 

A Cut Above  September 10/1

Beautiful Blossoms #44 9/12

 

 

Creative Creases challenge #119  10/1

Ellie's Garden Party #19 10/5

Simon Says Stamp Monday-stamp  9/14 

Triple B September  10/1

We Love Stamping  September-Trees/Leaves  10/1

We Love to Create  #8 9/26

Word Art Wednesday #768-769 9/16

 

 

All Creatures Great and Small

Brenda has chosen a theme of All Creatures Great or Small, or Anything goes

for the current challenge at Allsorts. 

 

I went with a Swing Fold Card and used a unicorn as my creature. 

Front:

 

Back:

This was such a fun card to make.  The  Swing Fold card was quite easy to

make.  I cute the front rectangle and patterned paper with StampIn Up Rectangle 

Stitched Framelet die  The cute Unicorn set was a birthday gift from

Simon Says Stamp years ago and it was time for it to see ink. I made the

rainbow by cutting all of my Spellbinder Perfect Touches Arches and Tag

dies  and then coloring them with Copics to match the Unicorn.  I had

some rainbow leftover so used it on the inside.  Sentiment is on the

back of the card.

 

Supplies: 

Simon Says Stamp Magical Birthday set 

StampIn Up Rectangle Stitched Framelet dies

Spellbinder Perfect Touches Arches and Tag dies 

Patterned Paper Echo Park Fairy Garden 

 

Join the fun at Allsorts Challenge.

 

Prizes:

 

                                                             

2 prizes of stamps, stickers and scenescapes 

from Lavinia Stamps (photos not to scale) 

 

A few fun challenges:

Creative Creases Challenge  #118  9/3

NBUS  #89 9/1

Paper Funday #90 -August-twist of fancy fold 9/1

Simon Says Stamp Monday-Lots of layers 8/31 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: ATG  9/2

We Love Stamping: Summer Blooms  9/1

Christmas fun fold

                                        

                                         

 I'm having lots of fun making Christmas cards this year.  I'm trying lots of new folds & 

using stamps that have not seen ink yet.   This fold was quite simple and quick.  The sentiment

is from Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Christmas Stamp/Stencil-lots more I can do

with the rest of the set still, this sentiment is NBUS (stamp) Papers are Stampin  Up. Belly

band is embossed with a poinsettia embossing folder.  Snippets used for the sentiment 

and the gold border. I will do inside sentiments  later once my grandkids pick which 

cards and sentiments they want for teachers .  

  

Made with the following challenges in mind:

Snippets Playground #539  8/28

NBUS challenge #89   9/1

Can you Take the Pressure (twist of bees) 9/10

Creative Creases # 118  9/3

Love Those Pretty Paper - August 9/1 

We Love Stamping  9/1 

Triple B (Blooms)  9/1 

Word Art Wednesday  #766-767  9/1

Simon Says Stamp Monday-lots of layers  9/31

 

Embosssing

Lynne has picked the fun theme of Embossing: Heat or Dry for Allsorts challenge:

 My card:

 I started with a scrap piece of gold card stock and picked out a 3D embossing folder: 

Secret Garden by Gemini, that I had not used before. I went with a bright paper, 

smooshing on some gold pigment ink. My flower is from a new Penny Black

set: finest petals-I decided to emboss it in gold to keep with the embossing theme,

and colored it with Copic markers.  I cut out a white and a vellum oval (the vellum 

has a faint gold design on it to ground my image.  The Happy Birthday is a sticker placed 

on leftover gold card stock. And of course a few gold gems to complete my card.

 See what my teammates created and join the fun at Allsorts Challenge.

 

Prize:

                                              

Supplies:

Penny Black: Finest Petals 

Gemini 3D Secret Garden embossing folder

StampIn Up Layering oval dies 

 

A few fun challenges:

NBUS Challenge: embossing folder and flower are new 9/1

 

Sweet Sketch Wednsday -sketch 332  9/1

 

The Paper Funday #90 9/1 

Triple B-August  9/1 

 

We Love Stamping- Summer Blooms  9/1 

CYHTP (optoin-tie it up) 9/1 

Snippet Christmas Card

 

White snippet used:

 This Christmas I am use several (numerous) Christmas NBUS stamps to make  

my Christmas cards versus one main stamp.  I did get a new  sentiment for the

 insides. This stamp is a Unity itty bitty: A child is born,

 it finally saw ink, being stamped in a pigment galaxy gold on a

white snippet and embossed.  A few die cut layers using Stampin Up 

stitched rectangles.

 

A few favorite challenges:

Snippets Playground #358 8/17 

NBUS challenge #89 9/1 

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #187: CAS 9/1 

Colors of Summer

 Sarah has picked the fun theme of Colours of Summer for Allsorts Challenge.

 My card:

I started with blending cheery summer colors of Distress Oxide on my

background: squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry and cracked

pistachio.  I then stenciled on top of this with a stencil in the same

colors.  I stamped a sentiment stamp randomly in gray on the background.

My focal image is a Poppy Metal flower die which I dipped in

Oxide inks until I got the color I wanted.  I layered the flower on a 

vellum die cut so t would stand our from the background.  Birthday wishes

is by StampIn Up.

 

I hope you will join in with this fun theme, be inspired by my

team mates and join at Allsorts Challenge for a chance to

win: 

                                                 

 

Supplies:

Catherine Pooler Loop Braid stencil

Hero Arts old writing stamp (retired) 

Poppy Metal Flower Die 

Quick Cutz Nesting Lace Oval die

Distress Oxides

 

A few favorite challenges: 

Beautiful Blossoms #43 8/13 

Can You Handle the Pressure: ATG (option celebration) 8/6

Ellibelle's Garden Party #17   8/5

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: ATG (spellbinders  option) 8/4 

The Paper Funday #89  8/2 

Time Out Challenge #318 8/6

 

Triple B August 

Word Art Wednesday-#762-763   8/5