Squash Card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I wanted to make a fun fold card for a dear friends birthday so I 

decided to try a squash card.   You can tell best by the

third picture how is squashes up to fold.  

It was less complicated than I expected.  The base is a 

8 1/2" by 8 1/2" piece of double sided patterned paper.

You score at 4 1/4 " diagonally and vertically so

that it is quartered.   Burnish the score lines.  Then score

diagonally from both corners, burnish well.

I just eyeballed sizes for the front and two inside layers.

The flower and leaf are part of new set  from 

Altenew: Mini White Splendour Anemone.  Colored

with Copics.

A few fun challenges:

Allsorts #790: Flowers  7/27 

AAA Birthday #63  8/1

 

 

Beautiful Blossoms #19 8/14

Creative Creases #87 8/2

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: 8/1

NBUS Challenge #64   8/1 

Triple B: Birds, Blooms, Butterflies  8/1

Word Art Wednesday Week 667-668  7/24

Girls Day

 Had a fun day a couple weeks ago at my house with a couple

dear friends.  We all had projects to share and enjoyed 

chatting, lunch and crafting.

 

 Diane had the cute duck card and the inlaid flower card:

 

Shirley had this darling phone card and the glitter flower

card.  We had a good laugh over who the phone card 

could be sent to, not a young person!

My two cards:

The lighthouse is a die by Die Versions.

Butterfly card is Catherine Pooler and the background

is stenciled after first blending of the card front.

 

Dad

 Thanks to all who extended birthday wished to my dad.  His

90th birthday was rough but he made it.  He died the following

day after being on hospice for about 7 month.  His last

day was peaceful and pain free, he died with my mom

and I at the bedside and while a favorite priest visited

and prayed with him.  

It will be busy here for awhile but I will be back to

card making and commenting soon.

Happy 90th

 

My dad will be 90 on the Fourth of July so I made a special card for

him.  Circle die cuts are I got from Pinkfresh Studio's.  Teddy bear

I believe is Great Impressions - this had been in my stash

for many years.  Embossing folder by Darice. Looking forward

to our family get together to celebrate!

A few fun challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure 7/11

AAA Birthday #62 7/1

 

Seize the Birthday #286 -Add a star  7/10

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: ATG 7/5

NBUS June Challenge 7/1

Leftover basket

 

I've been going through my basket of previously stamped images to use them

up.  I had over 12 acetate images stamped many years ago and run

through the Xyron.  Time to use them up!  A few I put Pearlex on the back

( third and fourth card)  then found it easier to use a variegated patterned

paper as a backing (first and second card).   I made about a dozen and this

is just a few of them.  I used snippets for most of the layers.  

 

 I have some Christmas ones left to play with another day.

A few fun challenges:

Card 1:

Snippets Playground #483:  7/8  All but card base are snippets 

Cupcake Inspirations #597 7/4

Card 4:

Allsorts Challenge Week 786  6/28 

Beautiful Blossoms 7/15  Mood board

Gem of a Challenge Week 11 6/27

Sweet Stampin: Fabulous flowers  7/3

Father's Day cards

 

I pulled out some old paper packs today in masculine colors to get

some Fathers Day inspiration and came up with two and a spare!  The

light house die makes two cards since you do an inlaid design, the

top one is my spare and the middle one is for my hubby.  The

lighthouse is Die Versions and the wheel is Momenta.  On my

dad's I paired a couple papers and embossed with a Tim

Holtz wood grain embossing folder, picked some coordinating papers

and come up with the third card.  Below is the snippets I used

up on all three, anxious to play with the rest of them as they

are great for masculine cards:

Have a wonderful day!

A few fun challenges:

2nd card :

Allsorts week 784  6/14 

Cupcake Inspiration #596 6/21

Die Cut Divas: Favorite shape - I like all shapes of dies, light house 

is one of my favorites  7/1

Mix It Up Challenge #71: Inlaid die cut option  6/15

Word Art Wednesday weeks 651-652  6/19

613 Avenue Create: Masculine  7/6

3rd card:

Can You Handle the Pressure: (optional-beach)  6/20

Snippets Playground #482  6/22

Butterflies

 

I think I have found my mojo!  I ink blended the yellow and pink

Catherine Pooler inks.  I then used a Catherine Pooler stencil over it with

 the same colors.  Then I embossed it with with a butterfly embossing

folder.  The butterflies and sentiment are also Catherine Pooler's,

coloring with Copic markers.  

A few fun challenges:

Allsorts Challenge 783: option lots of layers 6/7

Ally's Angels #82 6/11 

Alphabet Soup Challenge: E is for embossing 6/12

Can You Handle the Pressure 6/5 

Cut It Up #305-ATG 6/12

Word Art Wednesday Week 649-650  6/5

Beautiful Blooms Fun Fold

 

 

I have been in a creative lull, I like to design my own cards and

have just been without ideas.  I wanted to create today so I found

a fun fold card on Pintrest for my inspiration by Terri Gaines.

It was actually very simple to create and reasonably quick. I used

two embossing folders, one 3D and one regular on the white panels.

Coloring with Copics.  

 

A few fun challenges:

Allsorts #782 6/1 

Beautiful Blossoms #17 6/12

Creative Creases #83 6/7

Can You Handle the Pressure 6/2

Simon Says Monday: Lots of Texture 6/3

Word Art Wednesday Week 649-650  6/6

 

 

Flower Power

 

I was the lucky draw for the prize at Snippet's Playground last time and

was anxious to play with my goodies.  A few are stamped ready to make,

the one above with image from Crafty Roo was the first completed.

The blue background was colored and stenciled in my background box,

I added some stamping to it, colored the flower with dye inks

and splattered with white and pink.  The black border and the black and

white paper, and the butterfly were also snippets. Mixed media is a challenge for

me, but I really enjoyed making this card.

A few fun challenges:

Snippets Playground #480 5/25 

WeLove2Create #4: Mixed media  5/25

Aud Sentiments #313: Flower and a sentiment 6/1

Atlantic Heart Sketch #578  5/27

NBUS Challenge #62 6/1

Butterfly Challenge #196  6/5 Prize 1: Flower, Butterfly, Fuschia, 

Frosty blue, Forest green

Bouqet for Mom

 

 Happy Mother's Day to all!

My mom's Mothers Day card. Image is Altenew-a May 2022 set that

comes with stamp, stencils, embossing folder and die, 

stencil is Pink and Main. I like the look of embossing after

stenciling the rose bouquet. I added sparkle with my 

Wink of Stella and used a white gel pen and some gems.

My mom and I at an Mother's Day lunch at her

Assisted Living:

A few fun challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure 

Double D Challenge: Florals for Mom 5/12 

Moving Along With The Times #166 Flowers  6/1

Word Art Wednesday #647-648  5/21

Simon Says Use Die Cuts  5/15

Triple Blooms May  6/1

Blooms

 

 

 I was in a coloring mood the other day ago so stamped and colored

this Stampin Up Birthday Blooms and layered it up for a good friend 

for Mother's Day.  Colored with Copic Markers, dies by Stampin Up.

A few fun challenges:

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - May 6/1

Moving Along With The Times #166 Flowers  6/1

The Card Concept #206 (April Flowers)  5/13

 

Word Art Wednesday #647-648  5/21

Simon Says Use Die Cuts  5/15

Triple Blooms May  6/1

Butterfly Shaker

 

 

I have not been very creative lately so I pulled up several of

my favorite challenges and made a card to fit all of 

them.  I recently bought some Gina K inks and had

a panel I had sitting on my desk (snippet), embossed

it with a Paper Studio butterfly die I had won 

previously from Mrs. A, added another layer of ink

so the butterflies would show up better.  I turned

this into a shaker card, used a pink frame I had in a

box and added an Altenew Happy Birthday that I already had. 

This was fairly quick since everything was already cut

and sitting around!

A few favorite challenges:

Snippets Playground #475  5/12

Butterfly Challenge - oops, expired but a favorite

Triple B  - Birds, blooms, or butterflies  6/1

Can You Handle the Pressure-Embossing/feminine  5/8

Simon Says Stamp-Wednesday Challenge 5/8

Butterfly cards

 

 

Sharing a couple of CAS butterfly cards. I used up a lot of snippets on these cards.

The top butterfly was sitting on my craft table, the second card I went into

my background box and pulled one out to die cut the butterfly and for

under the layer.  I used a NBUS (never before used stuff) bubble die on both.

A few fun challenges for card 2-pink:

Addicted to CAS #256: Monochrome 4/27

CAS on Sunday #281-Spring  4/23

NBUS Challenge #61  5/1 

Snippets Playground #478 5/1

Simply CAS  4/28

Happy Anniversary

 

I have not created or posted for awhile.  Hopefully I am out of

my slump.  For those that have been asking, I am 5 weeks out

from my hip recovery and am doing well.  Each day is a 

an improvement towards normal.

I was inspired yesterday by Jayce Gasper who appeared on a

live with Jennifer McGuire, it can be found here.  He is

a scientist and card maker and I learned so much from

him.  I also did the double embossing on my background.

 

The rose die is Altenew, I cut the cold layer and the

Happy Anniversary from scraps.  Base layers from

white and colored with distress oxides.  

A few fun challenges:

Addicted to stamps 465: Die cuts/stencil  4/16

Die Cut Diva's April 5/1

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge, spring flowers 4/16

Snippets Playground  4/15

The Male Room (embossing) 5/1 

Word Art Wednesday Weeks 643-644  4/24

Golden Butterflies

 

I came across these aqua/gold scraps a few weeks ago and wanted to create 

with them.  I found come gold and vellum snippets to go with them.

I wanted each of them to be unique so browsed my die cuts and picked

out a few.  Did some layering and splattered metallic gold and aqua

paints on them. A few embellishments and I was happy with

my butterfly cards.  I've already mailed several as thank you's

for food and kindness given to me while recuperating from my

hip replacement surgery.    Thank you to my friends/followers

for their good wishes.  I am doing well and have my 3 week 

checkup next week.

A few fun challenges:  

First card:

NBUS #60  -Die on left side of card   4/1

Snippets Playground #476  4/1 

Die Cut Diva's March  4/1

Ellebelle's Crafty Wednesday-March 4/1  

The Crafty Addicts #11: ATG 4/3

 The Paper Funday -option die cuts  March 4/2

Word Art Wednesday #639-640 3/27

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 

 Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I am hooked on pocket cards.  So fun, easy and cute.  This was one of

my projects when going to Shirley's.    

 

This is a pre-scheduled post, I should be a week out from

 a hip replacement today.  Hopefully when I am off 

I will do some blog hopping but may not be leaving comments.

I hope to be back in my craft room and blogging soon. 

Recovery is going well, a few little things slowing

it down but improving every day.

A few fun challenges:

Walker Bag

 

My latest project, a walker bag. After knee or hip replacement you

need a walker for about 1 week then advance to a cane. They cost anywhere

from $16 on up and I was able to make this one for $3.00!  Having a 

walker bag enables you to be more independent like getting a drink 

                            for yourself. Many of my friends have had surgery and needed 

something like this.  I plan to make more.

 

St. Patricks Cards

 

 My projects at Shirley's were St. Patrick's Day cards.  One this one I brought

the die cut basket and shamrocks and we each did our own think

with arranging and the background.  Baskets and shamrocks

were cut out of snippets.   I was quite happy with these.

A few fun challenges:

 

First card:

Can You Handle the Pressure: Embossing twist of circles  3/6

MTTC #528 Create Your Own Background  3/7 

MTTC #528 Create Your Own Background  3/7 

 

Creative Knockouts #515 Stencils  3/1

Creative Knockouts #515 Stencils  3/1

 

Snippets Playground #474  3/3

Second card:

Clean and Simple on Sunday #277 Male/Boy  2/29

Simply Clean & Simple February  3/1