Kraft Cards

 Before I finish sharing my Easter cards I thought I would share my Christmas cards I finished for our stamp group challenge this month that is use Kraft cardstock on your cards.

I am thinking last month I forgot to do one of my stitched pieces from my Spellbinders 2024 stitched advent calendar, so I made sure I would do one this month and the next door was this cute penguin. Yep I gave him a pink belly :) After embossing the kraft background I directly swiped the background with my white ink pad. The little snowflakes are part of the penguin die set.

• Spellbinders - 2024 stitched advent calendar - penguin, pink floss for the stitching
• Sizzix - Snowflake embossing folder, swiped the raise areas with white ink
• Simon says stamp - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp
• Pink & main - Sentiment strip dies

The next two cards uses the same stamp I just stamped them in different areas of the background and one is colored w/markers and the other is colored with pencils.

• Sentimentally yours - Poinsettia Perfection stamp, colored w/markers
• Strathmore - Toned Tan mixed media card stock

• Sentimentally yours - Poinsettia Perfection stamp, colored w/pencils
• Strathmore - Toned Tan mixed media card stock

Next card I stamped the deer in brown ink and then added some clear sparkle pen to just the snowflakes

• Sentimentally yours - Poinsettia perfection stamp set, with clear sparkle pen on the snowflakes
• Kat Scrapiness - Mini Slimline - Stitched Rope die
• White gel pen for snowy background

Lastly I stamped these snowflakes, I am still debating on whether or not to add some white gel pen lines coming down from the top of the card so it looks like they are hanging on from a string or just to leave them floating, what would you do? I also am leaving this under some weight the card did a little bowing after heat embossing the stars and sentiment.

• Sentimentally yours - Poinsettia perfection stamp set, white heat embossing of the star stamps and sentiment
• Strathmore - Toned Tan mixed media card stock

There you have it my Christmas cards are done for this month :)

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

Connie

ATC Challenge

 The last Challenge in the group was to make an ATC (Artist Trading Card). Our group has an ATC swap every month, but I am not really into that so I don't do that. But I thought I would do this challenge because I could use my own ATC to use on a card.

Here is my Trading Card I made using one of Tim's Pocket cards as my base. I added a few items from his snippets and my own faux cello tape.

 For my recent birthday my hubby took me over to the stamp store in Missouri and I picked up a package of music note papers, and I used that for the base of my card.

• Tim Holtz - Pocket Cards, and Field Notes Snippets
• Hunkydory - Musical Notes Paper
• Simon Says Stamps - Tiny Words Birthday sentiment stamp
• Martha Stewart - Swirling lace border punch
• Prima Flowers
• Gems
• My Faux cello tape using alcohol inks

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

Connie

Inspiration

 Another Challenge in my cardmaking group was to make a card inspired by another member in the group. I found one of the girls who used 3 different leaves and put them together, I thought that would make a good sympathy or thinking of you type card.  

Now those that have been with me for many years know that every card I share goes to someone, maybe one or two a year I have no plan for at the time of making it and this is one of those, thankfully no need for it right now but I always thought it would be nice to have some on hand that I can send out right away if need be, so this will be set aside for that reason, hopefully it won't be needed any time soon.

I added rub ons to the card base instead of pattern paper.

• Spellbinders - Foliage die
• 49 and Market - Vintage Artistry Essentials Foliage and Vintage Artistry essentials Rub ons for background
• Memory Box - windswept stems die
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words Faith sentiment stamp
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strips die
• Twine

I would like to share my card today with Seize the Birthday challenge Green as main color

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

Connie

Scraps Challenge

 Another challenge in our cardmaking group was to use scraps, now I was keeping my scraps to just a basket but now I have 4 different containers that I put smaller scraps, I really need to stop this, but I just hate throwing away paper I think I may be able to use at some point.

I started with the circle die and went from there, cutting scraps out with my dies. I just kept looking through my die container for things that would go together. The circle the sentiment is stamped on was the leftover piece from the circle die.

• Memory Box - Surely stitched circle die,  Pennington Rose Blossom  and Leavenworth Butterfly Trio dies
• Stamps of life - Postmarks 2 stamp sentiment stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie

Sketch

 My Cardmaking group has a sketch for this month, and it is a circle with a sentiment strip at the bottom. this is what I came up with for the next birthday card I needed.

• Melissa Frances - Wreath die
• The Greetery - Robin and Wren stamp and dies
• Diamond Press - Sentiment stamp from advent calendar 
• Spellbinders - Labels Trio die
• Scrap paper

These bird stamps are layered, you stamp multiple times with different stamps lining them up to get the different colors. I also did a bit of inking around the wreath with a little darker color of green.

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

Connie