Friday, December 5, 2025

Many Happy Returns

 Using more of the cute Studio Light images for my next card, framing her with a couple of dies.


  • Studio Light - Charming Autumn paper elements (deer and foliage)
  • Poppystamps - Nordic Pattern Rings dies
  • Cardmaking Magic - Birthday verses, sentiment stamp, fussy cut

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Autumn Bouquet

 Yes I still have Autumn birthday cards to share.  I decided to try my hand at making my own bouquet wrapper, is that what they are called, I have looked at dies many times but just never bought one.  I used some of the papers that came inside an Amazon packaging, the paper is very thin and I thought it might be easier to form, I did a little bit of inking of the paper too. For this one I used a 3 inch piece.  The flowers I used is still more stamps from the magazine I bought at Barnes and Nobles this past fall, they call them summer florals but I have been using them on my fall cards too :)


  • Creative Stamping Magazine - Summer Florals stamps, colored w/markers
  • Crafter's Companion - Advent calendar paper
  • 3" piece of Amazon packaging for the Bouquet wrapper w/inking
  • Diamond Press - Advent Calendar 2024 Banner die and sentiment stamp
  • Spectrum Noir- Clear Sparkle pen on butterfly stamp
  • White Gel pen for center of flowers
  • Diamond dots

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by in this busy season,

Connie

Monday, December 1, 2025

Pocket and tag

 I shared a bag and a tag before now I am sharing an envelope and I added a tag, these are really nice for journaling but I have found I like doing them instead of cards too, my hubby's sister really liked it. The maker of the envelope just came out in a new release a month or so ago with an insert for the envelope, I may just have to get that one too :) Although as I found a tag that fit well you can use anything to fill the envelope. I made a bunch of the envelopes a long time ago and so I can't remember the paper I used for them. I also have a whole bin of the Tim Holtz labels I made ahead of time and can't remember where the stamp I used inside is from.


  • Spellbinders - Essential Envelope and Delicate Asters die cut from Color Burst Background
  • Tim Holtz - Vintage Label die w/stamp
  • Daisy Mae Designs - Tag die
  • Cardmaking magic - Birthday verses sentiment stamp
  • PPD - Mini Stitched square die
  • Ieebee- Fluttering Blooms washi
  • Ribbon and twine
  • Stickles


Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Sunflowers

 I didn't manage to get all my Fall birthday cards posted before December so I will be still sharing those through the next week.  It seems weird because we have just received our first snowfall of the year and I think just looking it must be at least 4-5 inches, I have not gone out and checked.


  • Stampin up - Painted Harvest stamp set, layered stamping
  • Elizabeth craft designs - Bees die, using vellum for the wings
  • Fiskars - Essenteal sayings sentiment stamp
  • PPD - A2 stitched banner die set
  • Paper from scrap bin


Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
Connie

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.  I had shared all my cards I had made this year for family, so I thought today I would share a Diamond Dots project I bought last year for the Autumn Season and never got around to doing, so this year I was determined to get it done.  After I finished and I was trying to decide what to do with it, hubby surprised me and stopped at Michaels after work one day and brought home this frame, I wasn't sure it would work but it was called a floating frame and it worked perfectly for this.  I tried to get a picture of it without the reflection of the glass. The image is 12x15 inches.


  • Diamond dots kit from Walmart Fall of 2024
  • Floating Frame from Michaels
For those that came to see a card I will share one of those too :)
For awhile I was pretty good at going through my scraps and not used items that I had cut out and ended up not using for other cards but I had gotten away from that and my bin is getting full so hopefully I will start to use up goodies from that bin.  For this card for my friend I ended up using a very delicate but I made on my silhouette machine, I have not used that machine in years so you know how long that has been unused. Some die cut flowers and a background that I made with our stamp group in one of our online meetings.


  • Silhouette - Corner cut
  • Background I made
  • Spellbinders - Scalloped Classic Ovals die
  • Crafter's Square - Sentiment stamp
  • Altenew - Nature's wonders enamel dots
  • Tim Holtz - Flower dies

So thankful for you friends who stop by and give such great encouragement of my cards, wishing you much to be Thankful for too!

Connie