Pick of the Patch - CCC October

 Hello my friends and Happy Monday. I hope you all had a great weekend. This has been a busy, but fun month for me. I celebrated a really BIG birthday on Saturday, but I've been celebrating with my family all month since my sister's birthday was on the 12th. 

My cards for the Creative Card Chicks was due to be posted on Saturday, the 21st, but I was busy with finishing up some school work and then dinner with family. Each month the CCC has a hostess who either sends a kit or posts a challenge for us to follow. Then we will all make at least one card from the kit or for the challenge and post it between the 21 and 23 of each month. For October , Roxie was our hostess and sent us a Fall/Halloween themed kit. She sent us a little kit with lots of embellishments to use and also a couple of images if we wanted to use them. So far I was able to create two cards out of the kit and used some of each. These are both Fall or Thanksgiving cards.

This one used the Stampin Up Apple Harvest stamp set although I colored them to look like peaches. The designer paper is Stampin Up All About Autumn. I believe the leaves and sentiments also come from Stampin Up. The image is colored with Copic Markers.

I did not do any coloring or stamping on this one. The pumpkins came already stamped. I think this one is Stampin Up, Pick of the Patch stamped with Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie. Again, the designer paper is Stampin Up, All About Autumn. 

Such a fun theme and kit. Thanks Roxie.

Carol's Card Kits

Hello my friends, and Happy Tuesday! I hope it's been a good start to your week. Yesterday was a long day. I have to have cataract surgery on my left eye. I'm hoping that will help a lot with the fuzziness I've been experiencing for some time now. I thought I'd have a quick doctor appointment, but no way. I was there for three hours!!!!  Finally got it scheduled though for the middle of November. Not much got done after that since they had to dilate my eyes and I couldn't see clearly even by the time I went to bed. 

Back to working on school work today. I hate having to think. LOL! Anyway, I do have two cards to share with you today. I belong to a card swap group. There are six of us in the group and so we each have two months of the year that we are the "hostess" or recipient of card kits from the other five members of the group. We get to pick the theme of our kits which is great so you can get the kind of cards you are wanting to make. This year I had April and October. I'm just now posting some of the cards from the kits I received back in April. Let's face it, I'm slow and I tend to procrastinate. The cards that I'm posting are from Carol aka momcgw on SCS. These were fun images.

 The images are from Art Impressions Flying High stamp set. 

Cardstock: Stampin Up Old Olive

Designer Paper: Pink Paislee - Outfitters

Copic Markers: E23, R11, YG63; YR12, and YR14

 

Card stock: Stampin Up Confetti White

Designer Paper:  Pink Paislee - Outfitters

Copic Markers: B0000, B01; E23, E25; E50, E51, E53; N0, N1, N2, N4; Y15; YR11, YR18, YR24, and YR27

Thanks for the fun card kit, Carol.

Glenda Gnome

 Hello, my friends. I hope you are having a great weekend. After a month or more of triple digit temperatures, I woke up this morning to 55* and now it's 69*. Nothing in Texas is half way. I'm sure it will warm up some over the coming days, but I hear there is another cold front heading our way next weekend. Time to get out the long pants and sweaters.

Friday was the first Friday of the month, so it was time for another Pattie's Creations card to share. It is always Anything Goes at Pattie's Creations, but this month we also had an Autumn/Fall theme to use if desired. I thought this image of Glenda Gnome was so cute. I've really taken a liking to gnome images.

 Materials Used:

• Image - Pattie's Creations - Glenda Gnome
• Sentiment - Sticker from stash
• Card stock - Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Bo Bunny Fright Delight collection
• Accessories  - Jolee's Boutique - Spider
• Copic Markers - E23, E25, E29; E40, E41; N7; V15, V17; YG93, YG95; YR02, YR04

I hope you'll take the time to pop on over to Pattie's Creations challenge and see what the rest of the design team has created. You might even want to join in the fun. Pattie always includes a free digital stamp on the website that you can download and use on your card. There is always a random winner and also a winner if you use one of Pattie's Creations images. You could win two images from her Etsy shop. Remember, you must use a stamped or digital image on your card. Have fun!

Gnome Home - CYS

 Hello friends, It's the 28th of the month and time for another Challenge Your Stash challenge on Splitcoast Stampers. This is an open group and anyone can join. Each month there is a hostess who picks the theme for the month, then everyone else makes a card following that theme and using only items that are in our stash. No new things are to be purchased. It's a lot of fun and helps me to think outside the box at time. This month I was the hostess and my theme was to do a CAS card - clean and simple which means no embellishments to clutter it up.

I thought this gnome was quite delightful. He can be used for a variety of occasions. 

Materials Used:

• Image - Colorado Craft Company - Slimline Gnome
•  Sentiment - Same
• Cardstock - Slimline cards,
  
• Designer Paper - Stash
• Copic Markers - B0000; E23, E25; E50, E51; G21, G24, G28; N0, N6; R14, R20, R27; and Y18

That's it. I'll be back soon with more cards to share.

 

Card Kits from Terry

 Hello again, my friends. It's Tuesday here and I'm back with some more cards to show you. Spent most of the day on classwork. Lots of reading to do. Glad to take a break. 

I've got two cards to share with you today. I belong to a card swap group. There are six of us in the group. Twice a year we each get to be the recipient of card kits from the other five members of the group. We each get to pick the two months we want to receive our kits and the theme of our kits which is fun. I'm really late posting these cards since my month was back in April. I just haven't had the time to sit down and play with the kits until now. My theme for April was Masculine, so all the kits sent to me had a masculine theme to them. 

This first set of cards was from Terry and her images and embellishments had a sports theme. Great cards for guys. 

For both cards, the images come from The Angel Company, who are no longer in business, but great images.  For card No. 1, I used Stampin Up Night of Navy cardstock; card No. 2 I used Stampin Up Chocolate Chip. The designer paper for both Miss Katie Sports Life.  I used enamel dots on both and a football brad on the All Star card. 

Copic markers were used to color in the images: Card No. 1 - E23, E50, E51, E53; N1, B18, and B26

Card No. 2 - E40; E50, E51, E53; G24, G46, and Y15.

More to come.

Hedgehog Birthday - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello, my friends. Happy Monday. I hope all is going well where you are. We were blessed to have rain today - twice! So happy to see it. 

It's been a crazy month so far. I was out of town for a long weekend vacation and then came back to classes starting, so I had to dive right back into learning. I'm in week 3 now, so things are moving along. One of the classes that is a requirement for my certificate is Office Procedures. Part of that class is that I have to do a typing test every week besides practice for 50 minutes every week. It's crazy. I worked in an office for over 40+ years. Well, it's going okay. I only did 43 wpm on my first test so I only have to bring that up 25% over the course of the semester.

On Friday I had facet joint injections in my low back - 3 on each side. It seems to be helping, but I'm giving it at least a week to see if it has really done some good. 

Yes, I do have a card to share with you for the Creative Card Chicks Monthly Challenge on SCS. Each month we have a hostess who sends out a kit to the rest of us and we all make at least one card from the kit to share. This month our hostess was Vikkijo and she sent the cutest kit with this adorable hedgehog image. I saw a FB post yesterday of a real-life hedgehog scooting around a garden. It was so cute. I think I'd love to have one, but I don't think my kitties would like it very much.

All the supplies were sent in the kit by Vikki Jo. I used my own cardstock which is Stampin Up So Saffron. The image was colored with Copic Markers - B0000; E30, E31, E33, and E37; Y15 and Y17.

Thanks Vikki Jo for a fun kit. I have plenty more supplies to work with.

Jelly Boots - Pattie's Creations

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 Hello my friends. Happy Sunday. I can't believe it's September already. We're told though that we will still be having higher temps and drier days. We are supposed to have some scattered showers tomorrow so perhaps we'll get some rain. 

I'm just a little late with this card for Pattie's Creations. I should have posted it on Friday since it is the first Friday of the month. The theme for this month is School Days or as always, Anything Goes. The Jelly Boots and Umbrella reminded me of my school days walking to school, rain or shine. Back in the day, we lived close enough to the school that we didn't get a bus ride, but it was still a pretty good hike. 

Materials Used:

• Image - Pattie's Creations - Jelly Boots and Umbrella
• Sentiment - Hero Arts - Spring Sayings
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Marina Mist; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Kaiser Kraft - Paradise
• Accessories - Gold metallic twine; bling drops
• Copic Markers - BG000, BG01, BG02; E08, E13, E23

I hope you'll take the time to pop on over to Pattie's Creations challenge and see what the rest of the design team has created. You might even want to join in the fun. There is always a random winner and also a winner if you use one of Pattie's Creations images. You could win two images from her Etsy shop. Remember, you must use a stamped or digital image on your card. Pattie always includes a freebie on the website that you can use for your card. Have fun.

Feeling Better - Challenge Your Stash

 Good morning, my friends. I do hope you are not in the way of any of the stormy weather that is hitting our country right now. For those in the path of Idelia, I send up prayers that you will be safe and no harm will come to you or your family. 

I'm a little late in getting my card posted for the Challenge Your Stash challenge on SCS for August. We are to post on the 28th of each month, but life was busy and I was late getting my card done. Each month we have a hostess who picks the theme for the month. Then we all make our card with that theme in mind and using only items we have in our stash - nothing new is to be purchased to make our card. I never have a problem with that with all the inventory I have in my stash. I did use a stamp that I've had for a long time, but have not used before. It's from Whiff of Joy stamp company which went out of business back in 2015. I was sorry to see them go. The theme for the month of August was chosen by Lorraine (smhtwin on SCS). Her theme is "Here's what's cooking." Make a card that has a stamped image or cooking/kitchen-theme DP of anything you would find in a kitchen: food, pots and pans, oven mitts, blender, drinking glasses, etc.

 Materials Used:

• Image - WOJ - Feeling Better in the Morning
• Sentiment - Hero Arts - Ribbon Messages
• Card Stock - Stampin Up - Real Red
• Designer Paper - Simple Stories - Summer
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Ribbon (SU?), sequins
• Copic Markers - B000, B01, E000, E00, E11, E21, E23, E25; G000, G00; R14, R17; Y23, Y26

That's all for today. I hope you're having a wonderful week. Stay safe.

Friendly Characters - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello everyone and Happy Wednesday. It's still very HOT and steamy down here in H Town. Unfortunately we did not get any of the rain from Tropical Storm Harold. It was all south of us. Everything is just drying up. I've been using my sprinkler system since it's been so hot, but even so, that doesn't really do it. We need a good rain. Also, this morning they announced a voluntary cut back on water usage here. I hate to go outside. I feel so sorry for my poor outside kitties who have to live in this, but they do have the patio and many places to get out of the sun and find some shade. They seem to be holding up very well. 

I'm a little bit late getting my cards posted for the Creative Card Chicks Monthly Challenge. It's been a busy week so far. Each month we have a hostess who sends out a card kit for the rest to use to make at least one card to share. This month it was my turn to be the hostess and I chose to use the Inkadinkadoo stamp kit - Friendly Characters. They are fun images for kids or adults. I'm including both of my cards here.

I used Stampin Up Soft Sky card stock and SU Afternoon Picnic designer paper. The ribbons, bling, and doily are from my stash. I used only a couple of Copic Markrs to color the images -  B0000; E30, E31, E32.

That's it for today. Stay cool.

Beach Time - Pattie's Creations

 Hi everyone. I am really late to this party. It has been a really busy couple of weeks and I just haven't had time to get this card posted. There have been doctor appointments and tests and then I was helping with our women's church group make greeting cards to hand out to all the youth in our Ward before they went back to school this week. They were just fun cards of encouragement to have a good school year. We had a great turnout of ladies that came to help. 

For Pattie's Creations this month, the theme was Beach/Under the Sea or Anything Goes. I chose to make my card using the theme of Beach. I do miss the beach. I haven't been there is many, many years. I remember years ago I would drive down to Galveston (about an hour's drive) early on a Saturday morning; stay a few hours while the weather was cool; and then come on home when the beaches started filling up with people. For this card, I would just have to put myself in the picture.

 Materials:

• Image - Pattie's Creations - Beach Time
• Sentiment - Jillibean
• Cardstock - XPress It Blending Card
• Accessories - bling from stash; Stampendous embossing powder - Sand and Blue
• Copic Markers - B0000; BG0000, BG01; E30, E31; G02, G03; R11, R17; Y15, Y19

That's all for this card. I hope you will pop on over to Pattie's Creations and see what the rest of the design team has created.  Have some fun and join in using your creative skills. We would love to see what you create. You must always use a digital or stamped image on your card. Pattie also includes a freebie on her site each month for you to download and use.

Free - Challenge Your Stash

 Well, I'm back again today with one more card to share with you.  This one is for the Challenge Your Stash challenge on SCS. Each month we have a hostess who chooses a theme for us and then we all make a card using our own stash of supplies - nothing new is to be purchased in order to make our card. I never have a problem with that since my craft room is full of supplies that I even forget that I have. 

 Our theme for this month was chosen by Pansy which is "Feeling Free." We were able to interpret this any way we wanted. This month I wanted to use a stamp set that I haven't used before. For a number of years I was an avid raiser of Monarch butterflies. To me they are the epitome of freedom. Their whole life cycle is fascinating to watch and then see them as they fly off after emerging from their chrysalis to freedom is just amazing. I wasn't really very happy with the way this stamp set stamped the images. They were not real clear and concise, but I went ahead and used them anyway. Sad because I may not use this set again.

 

Materials used:

• Image - I believe this came from one of my stamping magazines.
• Sentiment - Same 
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Pale Plum; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Kioshi
• Copic Markers - G21, G24; N4; V12, V15; Y19; YG01; YR65, YR68

 This is it for today. I'll be back soon to share more with you.

Wonderful - CCC June

 Hi I'm back again today playing catch up for Creative Card Chicks for the June challenge. The images Terry sent were so cute that I didn't want to pass them up. Poor Terry. She ended up sending me this kit three times because the first two have gotten lost out in who knows where. Somehow they have never shown up at my house. Lucky for me, third time was a charm and I got her cute kit.

Materials Used:

• Image - Penny Black, Wonderful
• Sentiment - Whiff of Joy - Spring Sentiments
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Cardstock - SU Bordering Blue; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Echo Park, Smell the Flowers; In Full Bloom
• Copic Markers - B0000, E25, E31, E35; E40, E42; G21, G24; R85; Y13, Y15

Great! All caught up.  Thanks Terry for the cute, fun kit. I still have some supplies to put to use.

Sail in the Direction of Your Dreams - CCC July

 Hello, my friends. Gosh, it's been awhile since I've posted a card for Creative Card Chicks. I missed June, but I plan to catch up on that one. This post is for the July challenge which we received from Sue (stampinspooky). Sue sent us the card kit with all the supplies except for the cardstock used for the base and mats. 

Materials Used:

• Image - Stampin Up - Sailing Home
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - High Tide
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Midnight Muse
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up - Come Sail Away
• Accessories - SU - Real Red Ribbon; anchor - Sue's stash
• Copic Markers - B0000, B24; E0000, E11, E40

Thanks for the fun kit, Sue. I still have some supplies left that I need to use up on more cards.

Beach Gnome with Surfboard - Pattie's Creations #208

 Hello, my friends. Well, I am a day late with getting this card posted. It's been a busy month and I haven't been able to get anything posted all month. Luckily, classes are over in a week and a half so I'll be on summer break. A little breathing room.

It's the first of the month so time for another post for Pattie's Creations.  The theme is always Anything Goes, but for the design team we can use the theme of Summer Fun. I chose to use Beach Gnome and make it into a beach scene. Just remember to always use a stamped or digital image on your card. Pattie always provides a free image for you to use if you like. You can also check out her Etsy shop with a link on the challenge blog and see what fabulous digital stamps she has. Here is my card.

 Materials Used:

• Image - Pattie's Creations, Beach Gnome with Surfboard
• Sentiment - Power Poppy
• Card stock - Stampin Up
• Designer Paper - 
• Accessories - Sailboat charm; cloud dies; fancy edge scissors
• Copic Markers -B0000, B00; E02, E11, E23, E25, E31, E42; G02, G05; N0; Y15, and Y19

I hope you'll pop on over to Pattie's Creations and check out what the rest of the Design Team has created. Join in the fun and show us your creations of either Something That Flies or Anything Goes. There are two winners each month; one winner is randomly drawn from all entries and one winner is randomly picked from those using a Pattie's Creation image.  Good luck.

Thinking of You - PC #207

 Hello my friends and Happy Friday. It is also the first Friday of the month of June so that means it's time for another challenge from Pattie's Creations. The theme is always Anything Goes, but for the design team we can use the theme of Things That Fly. Just remember to always use a stamped or digital image on your card. Pattie always provides a free image for you to use if you like. You can also check out her Etsy shop with a link on the challenge blog and see what fabulous digital stamps she has. Here is my card.

I'm sure you know how much I love Monarch butterflies and couldn't resist coloring this one to try to match them in real life. The sentiment is part of the image so I didn't have to do anything extra. 

I used Stampin Up Crushed Curry for the card base and mat. The designer paper is from Recollections. I cut the image and die to match the form of the image from Pattie. I wanted to add some type of ribbon and found this Stampin Up Daffodil Delight pom pom trim and thought it went perfect. Added just a bit of bling and done. I used my Copic markers for coloring, simple colors.

I hope you'll pop on over to Pattie's Creations and check out what the rest of the Design Team has created. Join in the fun and show us your creations of either Something That Flies or Anything Goes. There are two winners each month; one winner is randomly drawn from all entries and one winner is randomly picked from those using a Pattie's Creation image.  Good luck.

Thank You

 Hello friends. I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend with safe celebrations. I had a quiet day yesterday studying for an exam for this week's nutrition class. I just hope I can remember half of what I've read through the last three weeks. There's going to be a lot of studying this week. 

I did have some time to get this card done for the Challenge Your Stash challenge over on SCS (Splitcoast Stampers). Each month there is a hostess who picks the theme and then we all make a card to go along with the theme using only items in our stash. This month the hostess was Sharon (smadson) and her theme was "to make May Day baskets and put them on the porches. Weave something or put a basket on your card."

 Here is my card. I was in such a rush this weekend that I neglected to write everything down that I used to make this. I do know that the images were from Papertrey Ink, Thank You Florals and Vase Collection stamp sets with matching dies. I love having dies that go along with my stamps to save all that fussy cutting. I used my Stampin Up stamp pads for the basket and my Copic markers to color the flowers and added some sequins from my stash to finish it off. I love using flowers for my cards so this was a lot of fun.

Happy Day - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello, my friends. Good Tuesday morning. I hope things are going well with you. Weather here in H Town is starting to warm up. That brings the bad air quality so people are cautioned about being outside for too long. I don't get along with the heat very well, so I'm happy to stay indoors with the A/C.

Today I have a card to share with you for the SCS Creative Card Chicks monthly stamping group. This group has been around for a long time. We are down to only six members now, but we're still enthusiastic about card making and love to see what we get every month. The way it works is that we have a hostess each month. For the first six months, the hostess will send out a card kit to the other five members. For the second, six month, the hostess can either send a card kit or post a challenge and the members will use their own stamps and supplies to make their card. Either way, it's a lot of fun. This is our first month of our new season. It's been so many years I've lost track of how long we have been doing this.

For this month of May, Suzy (SuzyS1104) is our hostess and she sent a fun card kit for everyone. When making our card we are to use the items sent in the kit and only use the cardstock in our stash for the base and any mats we may need. 

 Materials Used:

• Image - Stampin Up - Cherish Friendship
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Bloomin' Marvelous
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Cardstock - Papertrey Ink - Pure Poppy
• Designer Paper - Simple Stories - Summer Farmhouse
• Accessories -  Joanne's Candy Dots, Stampin Up oval punch and scallop oval punch; stitched die, banner die; Dollar Tree - Twine
• Copic Markers - B0000; E00, E23, E25; G21, G24; R14, R29

 That's it for today. Thanks Suzy for a fun kit. There is still plenty more to play with that I haven't used yet.

Spring Daffodils

 Hello, my friends. Happy weekend. It's been good weather today, but it looks like we'll get some stormy weather later tonight and a rainy week coming up. 

I have a card to share with you. This is for Pattie's Creations challenge. It's always Anything Goes at Pattie's Creations, but we also have the theme of Flowers. My younger brother passed away this past January and one of his favorite flowers was the daffodil. I chose this image to use for my card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Pattie's Creations - Potted Spring Daffodils
• Sentiment - Whiff of Joy - Spring Sentiments
• Card stock - Stampin Up - Cucumber Crush; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - Remarkable collection
• Accessories - Nestabilities classic oval die; bling from my stash
• Copic Markers - B0000; E95, E97, E99; G21, G24; Y13, Y15, Y18

That's all for today. I hope you'll pop on over to Pattie's Creations and see what the rest of the design team has created and go ahead and join in the fun.  Pattie does have a freebie image that you can use on your card since you must have a stamped or digital image on your card. There will be two winners per challenge with each winner receiving 2 images ($3.00 maximum per image) from Pattie's Etsy Store (sets are excluded). There will be a random winner from entries who used a Pattie's Creations image, and the other random winner can use ANY digital or stamped image. Good luck.

Balloons Gretel - CYS

 Hello, welcome back. TGIF! I hope you're having a great day. It's sunny and warm here today after starting out chilly and raining. Today is the 28th of the month and so it's time to share my card for the Challenge Your Stash challenge on SCS. This is a monthly stamping group where we have a hostess who picks the theme for the month. Then all the members make a card for the theme using only the supplies they already have in their stash. No new products are to be purchased to make your card. This month our hostess is Tracy (taclary) and her theme was ~~this is my pre-birthday month, so let's make a card with balloons! Here is my card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Swiss Pixies - Birthday Gretel
• Sentiment - Art Impressions - Chocolate Therapy
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Bordering Blue; XPress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Carta Bella - Let's Celebrate
• Accessories - gold sequins; foam squares
• Copic Markers - B21, B23; E00, E01, E11; E30, E31, E33, E35; E25, E27, E57; R14, R17, R29; Y15, Y19; 0

 That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas with LOTV

 Hi, my friends and welcome back. It's Wednesday today. I was able to get my classwork done early so I have some free time to blog some cards and then spend some time in my craft room. Yay!

I have three Christmas cards to share. These are easy because I just have to pick a layout to use. The images are from Lili of the Valley and are pre-printed. They do not have a website anymore, but I believe you can purchase digital images on Etsy. (https://www.etsy.com/shop/LotvDigiShop) I just love their cute images. I did check out the site and these three images are available in digital format if you want to try your hand at coloring them. I used a few die cuts and some metallic thread to dress them up a bit.

 This first one is called Bringing Gifts. The sentiment is from Mama Elephant, Sentiments of a Yeti. The card base and matting is Stampin Up Real Red. The Designer Paper is Carta Bella, Have A Merry Christmas.

This second one is Christmas Candle

This one is called Little Bears Christmas Tree. The card base and matting for this one is Stampin Up Chocolate Chip. I neglected to write down where the sentiment came from.

Precolored images are a lot of fun to work with. I've used a few of the LOTV rubber stamps in the past. Right now I have lots of these to work with.

Have a great day!

Flowers Feed the Soul

 Hello my friends. It seems like forever since I have posted anything here. Classes have resumed so I'm busy with that and also my genealogy research side jobs. Life is good. 

I do have a card to share with you today. I'm really late getting this posted. It is for the Creative Card Chicks Monthly Challenge over on SCS. Things were a little different this month and will be for the next year to come. For this year in April we did not receive a card kit from the hostess, Sue (stampinspooky). Instead we were to use our own stamps and other supplies to make a card for Spring! and using lots of spring flowers and colors. I was loving our nice spring weather until it turned colder and nasty on Sunday. It is starting to warm up again and I hope it continues to do so. 

So here is my card. It was pretty simple except for fussy cutting the flower images. I love flower stamps, but wanted to use something that I've had in my stash for awhile that I have never used, so this was it.

Materials Used:

• Images - Stampin Up - Flowering Fields
• Sentiment - Whiff of Joy - Spring Sentiments
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Apricot Appeal
• Designer Paper - Bo Bunny
• Copic Markers - E23; R21; Y13, Y15, Y19; YG11, YG13; YR21, YR23, YR24

That's all for today. Hopefully I'll find some time to post some other cards that I've been finding a little time to put together. I've been using some Christmas images that are pre-colored from Lili of the Valley. 

 Have a fabulous week.

Dragonflies Fly

 Hello, my friends. Happy Easter weekend. Sorry I am a day late in getting this card posted for Pattie's Creations. Remember that you must always use a stamped or digital image on your card. It does not have to be a Pattie's Creations image and Pattie always has a freebie image you can use on the challenge page. This month we are using Butterflies or Dragonflies or you can use Anything Goes. We love to see whatever you create. The challenge will go through May 3 so plenty of time to get your cards in - a limit of three cards per person.

Here is my card.

Sorry, but I didn't write down the company for the sentiment. It was all pretty simple to put together. I did color the image with my Copic markers - B0000, B000; E23, E25; N3; V01, V04, V12; YG61 and YGY63.

I hope you will pop on over to see what the rest of the design team has created and we would love to see your creations. Have a wonderful Easter.

Butterfly Kisses

 Hello my friends, I hope you're having a great week so far. I know there is a lot of unrest around the country and the world but hopefully we can all take some time to share some kindness and love. I'm hoping that Spring is finally on the way.

Today I have a card to share for the SCS Challenge Your Stash challenge. This is a monthly challenge where there is a hostess each month who picks the theme for the month and the rest of the group will make a card using only stamps and supplies from their stash. No new items are to be purchased to make our cards. This group has been going since 2017. This month our hostess is Sue (stampinspooky). Here challenge is Make a Black & White card with a silver embellishment, which could be silver paper, sequins, ribbons, etc.

Here is the card I created.

Materials Used:

• Image - The Cat's Meow - Butterfly Kisses
• Sentiment - Same as image
• Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Silver Metallic; Whisper White
• Designer Paper -  Graphic 45 - Patterns and Solids
• Accessories  - silver pearls

That's it for today - No Copics or coloring. This was pretty easy once I picked out the stamp for my image. Now on to more creating.

 

More Club Scraps

 Hello. Happy Saturday. I hope all is going well for you. It is cold and rainy here in H Town. It's time for Spring. I haven't started any spring planting yet, but did go out and got a fig tree and an avocado tree. I can't wait until they start producing fruit.

Since I've been inside out of the cold and wet, I've been working on some cards from Club Scrap. I love their layouts and fun card designs and such a variety for different occasions. 

 This first group is from the set call In Transit. This is not all of them there are twelve cards in the set, four of three different designs. The ones on the right have a pocket on the front with a pull out sentiment tab. They would be good for masculine cards.

This next set is the Butterfly Box with Cards.

On the right side is a box made from the kit and on the left are four different layout cards that go in the box. The set comes with enough card stock, designer paper, and embellishments to make two boxes and eight cards (four for each box). These would make lovely gifts for a girl friend. Also, you can use the instructions to make additional boxes and cards from your own card stock and designer papers.

That's it for today. I hope you have a great weekend.

Pretzel

Hello, my friends. Happy Sunday. I hope you all have enjoyed your weekend and ready for the new week. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about getting up early and going to work since I am retired. Days are getting longer now that we are in Daylight Saving Time. I know there are many that do not like the change, but if we're going to keep it at one and not change, I vote for DST. I like it staying light longer.

Well, I do have a card to share with you today. It does have a funny name - Pretzel, but that is exactly what it is. 

I made this card for the Creative Card Chicks Monthly Swap. Each month there is a hostess who sends us a kit of supplies and we each make at least one card for the kit. Then we upload it on the 21st of the month. As you can tell, I am very late for February. Life gets in the way sometimes and things just don't go as planned. Terry was our hostess for February and sent some cute images. Some were images of beer mugs and I'm not a drinker, so I decided to use the pretzel images she sent for my card. 

Materials Used:

Image - Tim Holtz, Beer Blueprints

Sentiment - Art Impressions - Chocolate Therapy

Card stock - Stampin Up - Real Rust

Designer Paper and bling - from Terry

Copic Markers - E09, E11, E13, E15, and E18

Thanks it for today. I hope you have a wonderful week.

Berries and Bricks

 Hello again, my friends. Happy Saturday. I hope you are having a good weekend. It's a bit chilly here in H Town, but the sun is shining so that's great. It will warm up soon to 80. Yikes! H Town doesn't know what kind of clothes to wear. It's warm one day and cold the next.

I have started working on Christmas cards and have a couple to share with you. I'm going to post two of them here for the Christmas card challenge on Splitcoast Stampers. Each month has a different theme and I'm playing catch up so I'm doing January (Berries) and February (Bricks). They are both simple

 

 

Materials Used:

• Image - Power Poppy - Season's Greetings.
• Sentiment - Same as image
• Cardstock - Stampin Up; True Thyme; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Stash
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Splitcoast Challenge #324
• Copic Markers - E02, E04, E07; E30, E31; R46, R56; W4, W5; Y26, Y28, Y32; YG01M YG61, YG63

 

Materials Used:

• Image - Stampin Up Festive Fireplace
•  Sentiment - Stampin Up - Oh What Fun
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Always Artichoke
• Designer Paper - Maja Designs - Christmas Season
• Accessories - Stampin Up - Window Punch
• Copic Markers - E31, E33, E35, E37; G24, G28; N2, N4; R14, R27; Y15, Y18, Y19, Y26

 

That's it for today. Have a wonderful weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birthday Gifts

 Hello my friends. I hope you are all doing well and not being impacted by the terrible weather across the country. I am not a cold weather person, so happy to be here in the sunshine and warmer (at least for now) weather in H Town. 

I do have a card to share with you today. This is for Pattie's Creations' monthly challenge. The theme for the month of March is Birthdays or Anything Goes. You must always use a stamp or digital image on your card and it does not have to be from Pattie's Creations. Pattie does provide a freebie if you want to use that for your card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Pattie's Creations - Gift Time
• Sentiment - Crafter's Companion - Happy Birthday
  
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Primrose Petals; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Pink Paislee - Birthday Bash
• Accessories - Stampin Up border punch; Recollections - Bling from my stash
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Copic Markers - B21, B23; R81, R83, Y17, Y35

 Check out Pattie's Etsy shop for lots more images for birthdays and other occasions. Then check out what the rest of the Design Team has created.

Beautiful You in Red

 Hello, my friends. I hope you are having a great week. We have been having warmer weather for which I am very thankful. Did I ever say that I hate the cold. Glad that is pretty much behind us for this winter. Time to clean out the flower beds and decide if anything is being planted this year. 

It's also time for the monthly Challenge Your Stash challenge over on Splitcoast Stampers. Each month there is a new hostess who gets to choose the theme for the month. Then everyone makes their card following the theme and using just things that are found in their stash. We are not to buy anything new to make our cards. Then we all post our cards on the 28th of the month. That's today. This month the theme was chosen by Jeanette (Forest Ranger). Her theme is ~~My husband Brent and I celebrated our 40th anniversary earlier this month. The color for 40th anniversaries is Ruby Red, so let's make monochromatic RED cards this month. They do not need to be anniversary cards.

It wasn't too difficult once I chose the stamp set to use.

Materials Used:

• Image - Stampin Up -  Beautiful You
• Sentiment - Same as imageSDA
• Card stock - Stampin Up, Ruby Red, Whisper White
•  Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Madeleine collection
• Ink - Stampin Up - Red Riding Hood
•  Accessories -  Nestabilities Die

That's it for today. Things have been a little quiet here, but hope to get back in my craft room soon.

 

 

Pure Prairie Spirit

 Hello again. I'm back today with another card. I wanted to get this one in for the Power Poppy Blossom Challenge which ends in a few days. I thought I had missed it, but I didn't. The theme for this challenge is Clean Slate which means clean and simple without layers. I did that by stamping the image from the Pure Prairie Spirit stamp set directly on to the card base and inserting the sentiment up in the corner. Then I colored the image with Copic markers.

The markers I used were B0000, B00, B01; E23, E25; G21, G24; R81, R83; RV11, RV13; V20, V22; Y15, Y19, Y38; YG11, YG13, Y402, and YR04.

I love playing along in the Power Poppy challenges. Check it out. You could win a $20 gift card to her shop. What's great is that Marcy has a FREEBIE that you can get and use to enter the challenge. 

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Power Poppy - Clean Slate

Some Birthday Cards

 Good morning. Happy Saturday. I wish I could say it had warmed up here and to many of you it might seem warm (53*) but to me it's still cold.

Last year I bought two card kits from Club Scrap - Legacy and Regatta. I thought the Regatta cards would be good for masculine cards and the Legacy for females. I'm just getting around to posting these and the kits contained all the supplies, so nothing from my stash and no stamping or coloring.

One of the things I like about these was the different folds that they used in some of the cards. I also liked the sentiment "Congratulations on being born." Just a few fun cards to share. Hope you have a fabulous weekend.

Valentine Gnome

 Good morning, my friends. Happy Friday! I hope you are having a wonderful day. It's cold here, but probably not as cold as it is in some other places - maybe where you are. I'm allergic to the cold, so I try to stay in as much as I can! LOL!  I have my heating service guy coming this morning to replace part of a duct that was destroyed by the opossum that got in my attic the week before Christmas. I didn't know that happened until I realized that my craft room was not getting any air. I didn't connect the two until the heating technician came yesterday to check it out and found the damage. Gladly they were able to schedule me for today. It's been hard to work in that room since the temps are down in the low 60s. 

I did get a card ready to share with you today. Today is the day for the Design Team to share their cards for Pattie's Creations challenge. The theme this month is Love, Love, Love or Anything Goes. Pattie always includes a freebie on the website to feel free to grab it or just make your own design. It's all good. You can enter the challenge three times so you get more chances to win. Pattie also has a discount going on at her Etsy shop so check it out. You can get 30% off.

On to my card for this month's challenge. The challenge starts today and ends on March 1. So you have a whole month to play along.

Materials Used:

• Image - Pattie's Creations - Lovey, the Valentine Gnome
• Sentiment - My Favorite Things - Valentines
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Real Red; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up Sending Love collection
• Copic Markers - B0000; E51, E53; N0, N6, N10; R12, R17, R21

That's it for today. Have a great weekend. See you back soon.

Party Girl

 Hello, my friends. Happy weekend. I hope everything is going well. 

Today I have a card to share with you for the Splitcoast Stampers - Challenge Your Stash challenge group. This is the sixth year of that this challenge has been going. Barb (barbaralynn) is our leader who started the group and is also the hostess for the month of January 2023. Each month the hostess picks a theme and then everyone in the group makes a card using only those items found in their stash. No new purchases are supposed to be  used in making our cards. The theme that Barb chose for us to use this month is - Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary for 6 years of this group. Make a celebration card that has metallic on it.

This month I've used an old stamp I've had for many years and have never used. This is Julie Nutting's Party Girl. 

Materials Used:

• Image and Sentiment - Julie Nutting - Party Girl
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Taken With Teal; Teal Metallic; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up - Picture Perfect Party
• Accessories - Enamel Dots
• Copic Markers - BG11, BG15; E50, E51, E53; RV63, RV 66; Y15, Y18

  That's is for today. 

 

Christmas Classics

 Hello, my friends. Happy Thursday. We are having a lovely sunshiny day today although the temps are rather cold. I'm staying in for the most part although I did make a trip to the dry cleaners and then treated myself to some Crumbl cookies! Yummy!

Today I have the last of my 2022 Card Kit swaps that I received. This one is from Barb (barbaralynn) who is also our leader and keeps us all on track. These were simple, but fun to create.

The images are from Northwood Rubber Stamps. There is no name for the designer paper and the enamel dots and sequins are from her stash. I used my Copic markers to color in the images. G24 and R37 for Ho Ho Ho and E23, G24, R14, R27, Y17, and Y35 for Noel.

Thanks to all the card kit group for the fun kits. Can't wait for the 2023 kits to start coming.

Frosty Friends

 Hello, friends. Happy Tuesday. Wow! What a weather day. There was severe weather over to the west of where I live, but luckily, we didn't get any of it except one or two claps of thunder and a couple heavy downpours of rain. A girlfriend got heavy rain all day at her house. It is all cleared off now and even got a bit of blue sky before clouds and darkness have starting rolling in for the night. I hope you are all safe from the wintery storms rolling across the U.S.

I have two cards to share with you today. The stamp set was sent to me from Tracie (tclary) who is one of the members of the card kit swap group I belong to. These are from the kits I received back in October. The stamp set is called Frosty Friends from PhotoPlay.

I used Stampin Up Cranberry Crisp cardstock for the base and mats on the cards. It is an older color and I can't believe I still had a few pieces of the cardstock since it went so well with the designer paper. The designer paper is from Carta Bella, Christmas Market collection. The embellishments are from Tracie's stash. I used just a few Copic markers to color the images - B0000; G21; N6; R17, R46; and Y17.

That's it for today. I have two more cards to share from another kit. I'll be back tomorrow to showcase them.

Snowman Roundabout

 Hello, my friends. Happy Monday. I hope you all have a great week. We are supposed to get some severe weather tomorrow so I hope we all stay safe. I hear that it is moving across the states. 

I have some cards to share today. These are from a card kit swap that I belong to on Splitcoast Stampers. There are six of us in the group and each month is assigned to one of the members which means we each have two months out of the year (one in each half). For our month we get to choose the theme we want and then the five other members send that person a card kit for that theme. The kit includes images and sometimes sentiments, designer paper, and all kinds of embellishments that they want to include. It's always exciting to see what is in your kit. These cards are from my second month last year which was in October. My theme was Christmas. These did not get done in time to use them for my Christmas cards last year so they'll get put away for my cards for 2023. 

This card was from a kit sent by Terry (terry serman). She sent a bunch of images and fun ribbons and other embellishments. I only made one card so far, so I have tons more stuff to play with. 

The image is from Newton's Nook and the designer paper is from Stampin Up Penguin Playmates. It goes so well with the images. I used SU Tranquil Tide for the card base and the mat. I also used some tiny snowflakes around the circle sentiment. I colored the image with Copics - B63; BG53, BG57; G21; N6; R17; YR02.

I'll be back with a few more cards.