Floral

 

 I got some new stamping supplies for Christmas so have been

having a crafty week!  Sharing this Penny Black floral with some 

stenciling and embossing today.  I was able to use some snippets for the

flower in the jar and the embossed paper.  I'll add a sentiment when I

have a special occasion for it. 

 

Wishing you a crafty weekend.

 

Another view: 

Embossing Folder: Tim Holtz wood grain texture 

Penny Black Good Wishes Bouquet stamp set

Stencil:  Hand made circle and Catherine Pooler long braid 

 

 A few fun challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure (twist of friendship)  1/22 

Beautiful Blossoms #36  1/13

 

Ellibelle's Garden Pary #11   2/10

 NBUS challenge #82  2/1

Penny Black Saturday Challenge  2/10

 Simon Says Stamp Monday-something new: stamp set  1/12

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday-something new: stamp set  1/4 

Snippets Playground #523  1/11 

Stamping Sensations: Begins with a B-blooms 2/1

Triple B-blooms 2/1

 

 We Love Stamping-something new: stamp set  2/1

 

Winter Animals

  Our first challenge of the year at Allsorts! With as cold as it is Helen

has appropriately picked the theme of winter animals, or ATG's is

acceptable. This was a fun challenge, I combined my two favorite

winter animals: bears and penguins.  I went ahead and cut two

dies of each and made two different cards.   Scarfs are

paper pieced. I thought these would be good masculine 

cards for a winter birthday or next Christmas! 

 

 

 

Supplies: 

Spellbinders Warm Wishes die set

Sizziz Penguin Stocking die set 

 

Check out the great designs of my team mates, enter the challenge

and see the prize from Visible Image at Allsorts challenge blog! 

 

A few fun challenges for the first card:

Cardz4guys: Christmas Critters  1/20

Die Cut Diva's: Something new -glitter paper 2/1

Shopping Our Stash 564: Free is good glitter paper from a friend  1/14

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Sparkle and Shine 1/5

Word Art Wednesday Weeks 730-731 1/7

 

 

 

Christmas catch up

 Sharing a few more Christmas cards:

 

Made with a very old stamp from the Angel Company.
 

 Made with a new set bought from a large stamping garage sale, oh you

should see all I got for great prices!  This set is buried on my desk, I will

try to find the name.  The With Love at Christmas is a Taylored Expressions

sentiment strip. 

 

 This card and other versions of it were my main card, made from

my mom's papers she was going to use last year and a Cottage Cutz Nativity

Noel I inherited from her.

 

I hope you all had a blessed Christmas and best wishes for the New Year! 

 

Create a Scene

This is one of two posts today.  

 

 Allsorts last challenge of 2025 is starting and will run until

December 31.  Hosted by Lynn, the theme is: Create a Scene,

anything goes is always accepted too.

 

I went with a arch shaped card and used Lavinia stamps:

Flower Mini, Leaf 1 Mini and Flutterby Mini.  Dies are

Spellbinders Perfect Touch Arches and Tags.

 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and blessed holiday

season.

 

To join this challenge visit: Allsorts.

  

 Prizes:

Two prizes of Lavinia, one a collection of mini/small stamps with bottle sticker

 for scene making and three stamps as second prize (photos not to scale).

 

A few fun challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms -Floral, optional mood board #36  1/06

 

Gem of a Challenge #1  1/2 

Triple B: December (optional mood board)  1/2

 

Stamping Sensations (option fantasy)   1/2

 We Love Stamping (option red & green)  1/2

Word Art Wednesday week #730-731  1/2 

Christmas Gift Tags

 This is one of two posts today:

I made tags for Christmas this year using the new Spellbinders

Postage Stamps cutting dies and 3D embossing folder.  I had 

planned to stamp my images but these cute tags came in the

mail and they were the perfect size!  Ribbons by Really

Reasonable Ribbons, unfortunately I just found out they

are closing-sale going on now.

 

A few more:

 Wishing you all a blessed Christmas and New Year!

 

A few fun challenges using the top tag-Joy&Reindeer:

Can You Handle the Pressure: twist-any holiday  1/2 

Cardz for Galz  #265 12/23

NBUS Challenge Dec  1/2 

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Christmas/Happy Holidays 12/29

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday:  Wrap it up - Tags

Word Art Wednesday weeks 730-731 1/2 

New Baby

 Time for a new bi-weekly challenge at Allsorts. Liz  has chosen:

 New Baby/Home etc. and anything goes is always an option.

 

I went with expecting a new baby:

 

 

 

 

I used "Tweet News" by Your Next Stamps, it also has sentiments

for birthday and others.  Clouds were made using a cloud 

stencil by A Colorful Life. 

 Another view:

 

Join the challenge at Allsorts for a chance to win and to

see the lovely cards by the Design Team: 

 

Two prizes, A4 and A5 stamp sets from AALL and Create 

 A few fun challenges:  

Crazy is our fame-Stencils is our game: December, stencil fun  1/26

Let's Get Sentimental

 Time for a new challenge at Allsorts, this challenge is Let's Get Sentimental,

sentiment as your focal point or anything goes. 

 

I

 I found this background sitting in a pile on my craft table and

thought it would be perfect for a focal sentiment.  The background stamp 

is from former Repeat Impressions and the hello die from Pinkfresh

Studio's.  A few gems (a favorite way to embellish as they add

a little something extra) and this card was done in a flash.

 

Join the fun at Allsorts Challenge.  Prizes this time:

 

Sweet Poppy stamp A5 stamp set and sentiment stencil (photos not to scale)

 (plus an extra prize)

 

A few fun challenges:

As You Like it Challenge: Favorite embellishment & why  11/27

 Time Out Challenge #302 - pick 2: nature and emboss  12/3

 

Word Power November  12/1 

Word Art Wednesday week 726-727  12/3