Saturday, October 24, 2026

Feminine birthday

 Time for a new challenge at Allsorts blog. Lynne has chosen
feminine or anything goes.
 
My card: 
 
 
 
Open:



I was in need of some fancier birthday cards so went with feminine
birthday.  Dies are all from Spellbinders 2024 Advent calendar.  I embossed
the vase with a linen embossing folder from Stampin Up.
 
See my teammates lovely work and enter for prizes at: Allsorts challenge. 
Two prizes from AALL and Create 
 
 
 
A few favorite challenges:
 
CYHTP  (option numbers) 11/12
 
 Triple B October 11/2
 

 


Saturday, October 17, 2026

Wedding Card


 

My niece got married recently and this is their wedding card. The main
image is Wedding Trio made by Great Impressions (embossed)  and it has been my
wedding go to card for at least 30 years. It is a neglected stamp as we don't
have a lot of weddings at this stage of our life.   I added a Momenta heart
 die to this card.  The white paper is a sparkle paper which shows up much 
better in person.  
 
Not the best picture but below is another wedding card using the same 
main stamp: 


 
A few fun challenges for the top white card:
Triple B  October 11/1
 
 

Saturday, October 10, 2026

More Than One Fold

 Less than 12 weeks to Christmas so I am working on Christmas cards and
made the following one for the current Allsorts Challenge!  Liz choose my
favorite theme: more than one fold or anything goes! 



 This is actually a very easy fold. It's an A2 card and the inside white piece
is folded in half and then back to the edge.  The circle is cut our from the
front of the card and you just add your image.
 
Join us at Allsorts challenge for a chance to win Two prizes, a bundle of craft
 essentials from Stix2 plus an A5 stamp set, to be a top7, or a guest designer for Allsorts! 
 
 
 

 
Supplies:
Sentiment from Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Christmas 
Collection Stamp/Stencil 
Poinsettia: Hero Arts Poinsettia Arrangement
 Die Version: Stitched Nesting Dies 
A few fun challenges: 
Cut It Up #366-more than 1 die  10/23 
 
 

 

Saturday, September 26, 2026

It's Fall

 Christine has picked Anything Autumn/Anything Goes for
the current Allsorts challenge. 

 


I went with an offset gate-fold.  I stamped the leaves with an Autumn
Kaleidacolor ink pad and used transdescent embossing powder on
them.  I fussy cut the leaves.  Die cut some layers and my 
greeting and added paper from doodlebug design and a few gems to complete 
my card. The trees have not yet turned these beautiful colors 
but hopefully in the next couple of weeks. 
 
Supplies:
Stamps: 
 Stampin Up Rooted in Nature 
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips
Dies: 
Pawsitively Pawsome Cross Stitch Flat Bottom Circles 
Lawn Fawn Extra Sentiment Banners
 
Prizes:
2 prizes of Penny Black stamps, stencil and stickers from Buddly Crafts 
 
 
Hope you will join the fun at: Allsorts Challenge blog.
 
A few favorite challenges:
 

Thursday, September 17, 2026

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
 
AAA Birthday #89 -Patterned paper  9/23
The Diva's that cut paper: Recycle, Reuse, & Repurpose 10/1
Try it on Tuesday: Pretty Papers  10/1
 

Saturday, September 12, 2026

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

 
 
Triple B September  10/1
We Love Stamping  September-Trees/Leaves  10/1

 

 

Saturday, August 29, 2026

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: