Challenge Your Stash with Flowers

Good morning and Happy Tuesday! I have to look at my phone to check the day and date these days. They all sort of blend together. I will be happy when we are able to get out and about again. Keeping busy with school and a new generation of caterpillars. I haven't had any to release in a while, but hopefully, new ones will be coming soon.

Today I have a card to share with you for the Challenge Your Stash group on SCS. Each month there is a hostess and she picks a theme for the month and we all create a card using the theme and anything we have in our stash - no new products are supposed to be used. This month our hostess was Joyce (ashjoy on SCS) and her challenge was to use a flower stamp that we had never used before and we are to send it to someone to let them know we are thinking of them. I do have a card ready, but I haven't yet determined who to send it to. But I will in the next day or two. This was not hard for me because I love flowers and have tons of flower stamps. I pulled this one out of my stash that I had not yet used.

Materials Used:

• Image - Stampin Up - Lots of Lavender
• Sentiment - Stampin Up Perennial Birthday
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Green Galore, XPress it Blending Card
• Designer paper - ??
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Classic Oval Nestabilities Due; ribbon from my stash
• Copic Markers - RV11, RV13; G21

Sorry, I didn't write down the name of the designer paper. I'll have to go check that out. Two of my favorite things - purple and flowers. 

So Very Grateful - IAS #82

So Very Grateful

Hello my friends, and happy Sunday! It's a beautiful sunny day here in H Town. It is so weird that it is Sunday and no church meetings. It is no wonder that I forget what day it is. Online classes started this week, but mine are always online, so there is no issue with that. It was mostly an easy week and I was able to get my classwork done early and got started on week 2 since there is a lot more going on starting tomorrow. This semester I am taking British Isles research which focuses on Britain and Wales. My other class is Writing and Reasoning Foundations. Ugh! I do not like writing classes. It's required so I'm taking it.

Let's get on to something fun. Here is my card for the International Art & Soul challenge this fortnight. The theme is "anything BUT a square or rectangle."  It might be easy for you, but it was kind of tough for me. I don't really get outside my "box" much so I had to really think for this one.

 I started out with my die cut. Sorry, it does not have a name; it's one I purchased on Amazon that came from China. I know there is a Nesabilities one that is very similar, but a little bit smaller. I have that one also. I wanted it big though so I could make something with it. I did not have a large oval die to make the actual card. I folded a piece of which cardstock lengthwise and then laid the large die on top of it. Then I sketched an oval shape around it and it just fit leaving a little bit at the top for the fold and a little a the bottom where it could stand up. The designer paper I used for the die cut and to frame the image is My Mind's Eye Be Happy collection. I found this great stamp set from Stampin Up - So Very Grateful and also used it for the sentiment.  I stamped it on XPress It Blending card and the cut it out with the next smaller die in the nest and colored with my Copic markers - B0000, G03, G05; G21, G24; R81, R83, R85; V01, V04; and Y15. Then I just popped on a few pieces of bling for added interest and sparkle.


The lilac background is just a piece of cardstock I put behind the card to photograph it. After I got done, I thought it would have made a nice Easter card. It kind of reminds me of the Easter eggs my parents got us that were hollow and had a little scene inside.

That's all I have for today. I hope that you will hop on over to the IAS challenge webpage and take a look at what the rest of the Design Team has created to inspire you and then you will add your creation to the page. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

CCC April - Time For Tea

Hello, my friends. I hope that things are going well wherever you are. Still on lockdown here, but it is looking like things are improving and we may be seeing the light at the end of the very dark tunnel. I will be happy to be able to get back out to visit with friends again. I'm again busy with classes. School started again on Monday. We've always been online so there hasn't really been much of a difference for me. This first week is pretty easy with only one short paper to write.

I do have a card to share with you today. This one is for our monthly swap group on Splitcoast Stampers - Creative Card Chicks. This month our hostess was Kelly H (ScrappinCEO on SCS). She sent us this lovely kit with stamps from Time For Tea. The photo did not come out so well. The ribbon is a shimmery light pink although it looks taupe here in the photo.

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Materials used:

• Image and Sentiment - Time For Tea - Cardmaking & Papercrafting
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Cardstock - GP White; SU Berry Burst; Whisper White; PTI - Sweet Blush
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up Fresh Florals
• Accessories - Ribbon SU Shimmer Powder Pink; Martha Stewart Lace Border; doily? Classic Circle Die
• Copic Markers - E0000; G12, G14; R11, R12; RV19

I had fun playing with this kit. I used the Berry Blast to add a pop of color to the card since I was using that on the teapot. See you all soon.

Jolly - IAS #81

Good morning. HAPPY EASTER! I hope you are all able to celebrate in your own way with those you love. I am in my own home alone. Each of my daughters are in their homes with most of their family. One granddaughter is in her own home with her husband. So, we are in 4 different locations but plan to get together later today through virtual technology. How blessed we are to have such technology available to us.

So out of the holiday today, but I did not realize that I would be posting this card on Easter. This is for this fortnight's challenge on International Art & Soul. The theme is Use a One Word Sentiment  Multiple Times. This is really not my forte, but I was able to come up with this design for a Christmas card.

As you can see, this was very simple to put together.

Materials Used:

• Images - Stampin Up - Oh What Fun!
• Ink - Stampin Up - Real Red, Sage Shadow
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Real Red; XPress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Allison Kraft 0 It's Christmas
• Bling - Dovecraft Gemstones

That's it for today. Enjoy your Sunday. If you have a minute, stop on over at International Art & Soul and see what the rest of the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Join in the fun and you could be the winner or one of the Top 3.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

 Christmas Card Throwdown - Red and White
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes with Christmas
Daring Cardmakers - Clean and Simple - dash of Sparkle
Crimbo Crackers - Christmas Sentiment
Krafty Chicks - Christmas

Christmas Love

Hello, my friends. So good to be with you today. It's been a busy week. Monday I was able to turn in all my final assignments for the current semester. Still waiting for grade for one of them. The other, I ended up with an A, so I'm happy about that. Since then I have been working out in my yard and got my flower beds weeded. These are the kind that you have to dig out, not just pulling so it took a while to finish that up. Today I spent time planting flowers and shrubs and, of course, tending to caterpillars. Would you believe I have released almost 200 Monarchs and 6 Gulf Frittalaries? It is my first year to have the Frittalaries make their chrysalis where I can see them - like on and around my Monarch hutch.

So, on to my card for this challenge. It is for the Splitcoast Stampers Fan Club Monthly Christmas card challenge. This year it is all about the color and March is green. The main color needs to be green. I love how this one turned out.

Materials Used:

• Image - Power Poppy - Under Glass Christmas
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Garden Green, XPress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Allison Kraft - It's Christmas
• Accessories - Classic Oval Nestabilities
• Copic Markers - BG01; E23, E25; G0000, G03, G05; R17; Y18 

That is it for now. It was pretty easy to put together. I think it may be one of my main cards for 2020 Christmas.