Peach Roses Card

I used colors (various shades of peach)

that I rarely touch on today's card!

I'll add a sentiment to the front and inside 

when I'm ready to send this card.

I'm leaving it blank for now since it can be used for 

several occasions, when needed.

All images, inks and card stocks were

from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking, have a great day =)

I'm entering my card in the current challenge at Through The Craft Room Door

CAS White Botanicals Embossed Card

This is a card I made to have on hand -

minus the sentiment tag.

I'll add the words I want to use when the time

comes for whatever I decide to use it for.

Wedding ? Sympathy ? 

Thanks for looking, have a great day =)

Edited to Add :

I turned it into a wedding card 

Blue Florals Sympathy

All images, inks, card stocks, paper punch, die

and Texturz plate were from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking, have a great day =)

Lindsey Ladybug Spool Doll

This little lady(bug) was created with a 

pattern and a wood kit that I bought years ago.

I had forgotten about these kits I bought,

so I've been working on them and will

be sharing the other spool doll critters eventually.

I added my own fabric scraps, buttons, paint, etc.

to the wood kit components. 

 I improvised on a couple of things:

I cut felt leaves since the pattern called for

Rag Mop Ringlets hair (not to be found anywhere)

and black beads for the antennae since I had no pom poms.

As a result of using the smaller beads, I shortened the antennae

so they don't look nearly as cute as the pattern shows (below). 

The wood parts used to create the body

(not including the bead head):

Even on the coldest winter days with snow on the ground,

"ladybugs" will come out of the woodwork around the windows

of this old house on sunny days:

 Hyla cat will find sunny spots to lay in,

no matter where they may be.

My work table has a perfect view of the birds outside.

After the winter we've had with just 9 sunny days so far

(according to a recent news report and I believe it, it's been awful),

 I won't run her off even though she gets in my way as I'm crafting. 

I'm entering my ladybug in the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

613 Avenue Create - anything goes/use a critter

Use Your Stuff - hearts, pink or red

Thanks for looking, have a great day!



Edited To Add 2/21/2019:
 This sweet gal was the randomly chosen winner
out of 112 entries this week at
Through The Craft Room Door :)

What a surprise to see this show up on my blog reading list !!!!

AND


3/1/2018  Top Rockers

It was chosen as a Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create!
There were 266 amazing entries this month !! Wow!




I'm excited to have won recognition from each of these
challenge sites, they are always full of many terrific entries.

Blue Butterfly Card

Hello!

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the current challenge at

Retro Rubber : Tic Tac Toe

Participants are to choose three squares in a row

and make a card using the items listed in the three squares.

I chose butterflies, stripes and blue.

I'm also entering my card in the current challenge at 

Love To Scrap - anything goes / monochrome

and

Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

Closer view of the front

and 

a look at the inside 

(currently blank)

Nearly everything used came from Stampin" Up!

and are all well over a year old ;)

Most of the stamps are nearly 20 years old!

(time sure does fly...... doesn't seem that long ago that I bought them)

 Stipple Butterfly (2001)

French Script (2001)

Leafy Glade (2000)

Triple Line Plaid wheel (1998)

Pappilion Potpourri (2012?)

Midnight Muse, Marina Mist, white and textured black card stocks

Midnight Muse, Dapper Denim, Marina Mist, Memento Black inks

Aquapainter

White gel pen

Doily and circles dies

Stripes embossing folder

Linen thread

I meant to add thin black wire for antennae! 

Maybe just draw on a couple thin black lines

before I send it out.

Thanks for looking, have a great day =) 

Edited To Add 2/24/2019

My card was one of the Top Picks at

Retro Rubber !

Fun Foam Hearts Valentine Cards

Layer three die cut fun foam heart shapes

then wrap with baker's twine; tie in a bow.

Glue to the top of a texture embossed background

then a card base for a quick valentine card ! 

(I should've added a pink layer between the red and white card stocks)

Another simple Valentine card using fun foam heart shapes:
stamp them with little words

then glue them onto a card.
Reminiscent of candy conversation hearts !
(I think dry embossing simple lines around the edges
would have added a little something extra to this card,
made it better)

The last quick valentine card I whipped up

using some old fun foam heart shapes from my kid's old craft stash:

die cut a couple layers of decorative paper and card stock

then glue on fun foam hearts!

(a small little paper punched label across the large center heart,

or a die cut X and O may have improved this card;

I was going for really quick and simple cards with these)

Thanks for looking, Happy Valentine's Day ! 

CIE Farewell Challenge

Today's card was created for the

Cards In Envy Farewell Challenge  sketch.


Rubber stamp images and inks, Stampin' Up!
Striped paper, unknown

Thanks for looking, have a great day =)

Snow Much Fun Album PGS 18 19

Simple premade scrapbook pages, before

and after I added my photos, die cut letters and 

metal rims to circular snowflake elements I 

removed from one of the other pages.

Thanks for looking, have a great day =)

Snow Much Fun Album PGS 16 17

Simple premade scrapbook pages, before

After adding my photos and die cuts.

There are two extra circular snowflake elements

that were removed from one of the other pages.

Thanks for looking, have a great day =)

Happy Hearts digi kit

Above are three projects I created with the lovely new digi kit

Happy Hearts by

JMC Designs 

and now available at Plain Digital Wrapper. 

The first layout uses a "white space vol. 29" template by

Connie Prince.

The center project is a wallpaper for my desktop computer.

The bottom layout is based on a "sweet solo 3" template by 

Ponytails. 

Each portion of the kit is on sale for $1.00

through February 18th, 2019! 

69 Elements - 2 arrows, 2 glitter hearts, 2 heart banners, bow, 5 brads, 2 butterflies, 3 buttons, double heart, 5 flowers, 6 folded hearts, 3 frames, 2 hearts, heart border, heart charm, heart circle, hearts, 2 heart scatters, 2 heart swirls, 4 leaves, metal heart, metal hearts, 4 ribbons, 5 small flowers, staples, 4 stars, 4 strings, 2 tags, tape

6 Cardstock - 12X12 300ppi 

24 Patterned Papers - 12X12 300ppi

54 - 6 of each - Arrows, Cork hearts, Flowers, Frames, Metal Hearts, Small Flowers, Spirals, 6 wordart 

each in colors of palette

8 Journal Cards 

3 X 4 
300ppi

5 Graffiti 

300 ppi

3 Alphabets

6 blank hearts, 6 hearts with words 
300 ppi