Happy Anything - Challenge Your Stash

 Hello, my friends. Happy weekend. It is for us here in Texas who are not feeling any effects from Hurricane Ida. I pray for those in Louisiana who are in its path and pray that they will be kept safe.

I am back today to share a card for the Challenge Your Stash group on Splitcoast Stampers. For this challenge we make a card to go along with the theme of the month chosen by one of our members. Then we each make a card for that theme using only items we already have. We are not to go out and buy anything new to finish our card. This month I was the hostess and my theme was to use dies or punches - no stamps. Most all of my friends know that I love flowers and butterflies. I've had this die and paper in my stash for a very long time an it all just went together and easy since I didn't have to do any stamping.

I called it Happy Anything because I didn't put the rest of the sentiment on the card front. You can put anything you like on the inside like birthday or anniversary or anything else you want. I used Stampin Up Dusty Durango card stock for the mat and the die cuts. The designer paper is Authentic Delightful collection. I'm not sure where the dies came from. I keep a book with samples, but this one didn't have a name next to it. I used some bling from Studio 18 to finish off the card.

Off to see what the rest of the group came up with. Stay safe.

Cupcakes Party - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello, my friends. It has been a busy couple of weeks and I am very late getting this card posted for Creative Card Chicks. Our post date is the 21st-23rd. I had an unexpected, but pleasant, visit from my daughter who lives in California. It was great to see her and her husband. We had last been together for Christmas in 2019, before the pandemic hit so I missed my trip to see her for Thanksgiving in 2020. We had a great time together with my other daughter and her family that live here in Texas. Visiting kept me from getting my card uploaded.

Creative Card Chicks is a group on Splitcoast Stampers. Each month we have a hostess who makes up a card kit of images, designer paper, and embellishments and sends it out to the rest of the members of our group. Our hostess for August was Terry and she sent fun images of a tower of cupcakes to make a party card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Taylored Expressions - Sweet Tooth Tower
• Sentiment - Taylored Expressions - Sweet Tooth Tower
• Cardstock  - Stampin Up; Neenah Solar Crest Super Smooth White
  
• Designer Paper - American Crafts, Photo Play/Make Some Noise
• Ink  - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Doodlebug Sequins; Ribbon - Stampin Up
• Copic Markers - B00, B02; E23, E25, E27; E40; G21, G24; R11, R35, R81; Y13, Y17; YG07

That is all for today. I hope I won't be so tardy for my next post which should be tomorrow. 

A Blooming Marvlous Day - IAS #115

 Hello, my friends. Happy Sunday. It's been pretty nice most of the day although HOT and HUMID. It does look like we might get some rain dumped on us this afternoon. Not that I'm complaining. We can use the rain although my gardens are looking pretty pathetic. I'm trying to decide what to do with them over the winter and then what to do in the Spring. I really want a butterfly garden, but I'm not sure I have enough sun in my backyard for that. My pecan tree really blocks out a lot of it. Maybe I'll have a tree service come and cut some back to allow in more light.

Today I have a card to share for International Art & Soul.  The theme for this fortnight is CAS - Clean and Simple. This means that the card should be relatively simple with a lot more open space and not a lot of embellishments. It was my turn to pick the theme.

As you can see, this one was relatively easy to make. I first stamped the flower image on a piece of Xpress It Blending Card and colored with my Copic markers. I then add the little bee and colored it and then added the sentiment. They are all done on the same piece of cardstock. The colored cardstock is from Stampin Up - Mauve Mist and Sweet Sugarplum. I then used some Diamond Stickles on the bee's wings and a yellow Liquid Pearls for the centers of the flowers. The images were all stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black. Only four Copic markers were used for the coloring - G21, G24; V01 and V04.

That's it for this one. I hope you will hop on over to IAS and join in the fun with your own creation. See what the Design Team has made to inspire you. You could be the Winner or one of the Top 3. I hope to see you there.

On the Dunes - Fun in the Sun - IAS # 114

 Hello my friends. Happy Sunday. It's bright and beautiful and HOT here today. Well, it is August in Texas. What else can you expect? It has been a quiet week compared to the last many weeks with going to school. It's nice now to be able to spend some time with friends (out to lunch and book club) or working on genealogy family research, or just some quiet time with a book. You know. That regular life. I did manage to spread out some cedar granules over my back yard and flower beds. They are supposed to help repel mosquitos out of my yard. I hope it works. I'll let you know next time.

With the summer here, I'm sure many of you are traveling around the country or your own state by various modes of transportation. Our them over at International Art & Soul comes at just the right time for this. The theme is A Mode of Transport and was chosen by Design Team member, Hazel. I don't have many stamps to go with this theme, but I actually made two different cards. I wasn't sure which one I liked the best. I chose this one and will save the other for another occasion.

Materials Used:

• Image - Lili of the Valley - Vintage Sports; Gina K Designs - My Island
  
• Sentiment - Gina K Designs - My Island
• Card Stock - Stampin Up - Whisper White; Confetti Tan; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Whimsy Stamps - Glorious Sky Slimline collection
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
  
• Accessories - circle punch; Silver gel pen; wavy paper cutter; Stampin Up Close to Cocoa and Glorious Green markers
  
• Copic Markers - B32; E25; E30, E31, E33; R12, R14, R17; N2, N2, N3, N5

That's it for now. I hope you will pop on over to the International Art & Soul challenge website and see what the rest of the time has done for your inspiration. Maybe you can get an idea for a project to enter into our challenge. You could be chosen as the Winner or one of the Top 3. It's all fun.

Blossom Bear - Creative Card Chicks

Hello! Happy Thursday night. It's been a great week. I finally GRADUATED with my Applied Associate's of Science degree in Family History Research yesterday from Brigham Young University-Idaho. All my classes have been online. The day started out kind of low key. I did have lunch plans with a few of my friends, but they turned that into a big surprise luncheon with more of my friends. They really made it so special. It was such a fun time. The Convocation was virtual yesterday afternoon. It had seemed so surreal until I was listening to them play Pomp and Circumstances and saw photos of all the graduates, and I got all emotional. Then I saw my own picture and it was real. I'm finally a graduate with a degree. That's not the end though. I'm planning to try for accreditation through ICAPGen - International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. Hopefully I can complete that in a year and then I plan to go back to BYU-I and work on my Bachelor's Degree. When I get that, I most likely will be able to walk the stage to receive my diploma. I'm counting on it anyway. Here is a photo of my friends, from left to right around the table: Judie, Peggy, Carole, Liza, Pok, Thora, Me, and Sharon.

 So, on to the task at hand - posting a card for the Creative Card Chicks challenge on Splitcoast Stampers. This month our hostess was VikkiJo. She sent us all a kit with images, papers, and embellishments to use to make a card or two or how ever many we can get out of the kit. 

Materials Used:

• Image - Anita's Back Street, Inc. - Bear with Wheelbarrow
• Sentiment -  Whiff of Joy
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Pool Party, Whisper White
• Designer Paper - Flower and Field
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Close to My Heart - pink brads; Stampin Up - pink ribbon
• Copic Markers - B0000, B000, B12, B14; E23, E25; E31, E33; G21, G24; R81, R83, R85; Y15, Y18; N10; W02, W04

That's it for today. Now that school is done for awhile, I hope to get more stamping done.

SCS Fan Club Christmas Card Challenge

 And here I am again for the third time this month. I'm a little late with this card also. It was supposed to be posted back in March, but life got in the way, and I didn't find the time to get it uploaded although it has been done. This gives me the chance to get my Christmas cards done although I better step up my game or I'm going to be way behind in getting them done. 

The SCS Fan Club is doing sketch challenges this year so each month there is a different sketch to follow and you can make whatever kind of card you want as long as you follow the sketch. It's okay to tweak it a little bit, but as long as they can see the basic sketch, you'll be fine.

This was a pretty easy sketch to use although saving the image didn't do so good.

Materials Used;

• Image - Great Impressions - Snowman
• Sentiment - Stampin Up , Warmth and Wonder
• Cardstock - Stampin Up, Soft Sky and White Glitter; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Fancy Pants, Timbergrove collection
• Copic Markers - B0000, B000; E30, E33; N0, N4; R56; YR04

I believe this is the final one for the day. I need to get back to stamping.

Happy Birdday! - Creative Card Chicks June 2021

 Hello again. Yes, it is still Sunday. I thought I'd do so catching up with posting some cards that are late getting posted. We're now experiencing the rainy part of the day. We've got light rain and thunder. I haven't seen any lightning as yet, and only a few drops of rain right now at my house. The loud noise does upset the kitties. 

This card is one I made for Splitcoast Stampers Creative Card Chicks hostess challenge. Each month, one of the group is the hostess and sends out a stamping kit to each of the other members and then we each can make a card to more with the supplies from the kit. Sometimes it is a challenge. Then we each will post our card(s) on the 21st-23rd of the month and see what everyone has done. In June, our hostess was Debby (littleDeb) and she sent this fun Flamingo kit. I used my own sentiment for it which I thought went quite well with the image.

Materials Used;

• Image - Innkadinkadoo - Flamingo Fun
• Sentiment - Whiff of Joy - Spring Sentiments
• Card stock - Recollections 110#; Stampin Up Pretty in Pink
• Designer Paper - Paper Studios
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Twine & Pearls - from her stash
• Copic Markers - E02, E04; E40; G20, G21; R81, R83, R85

I don't know what the emobossing folder is and the paper that is embossed is a light weight and not sure where it is from either. This was a fun kit and had me thinking to get a card made.