Pastor Calling

 I mentioned before that our Praise team leader at church had received her Pastoral degree last year, well the end of last year she was called by a church not to far from here to be their Pastor, she went and met with them and decided to take the calling so we had a going away dinner for her, and we wanted to shower her with cards, especially this being her first calling.

• ODBD - Scripture Collection 1 stamp 
• Spellbinders - Labels 50 Decorative Accents
• Crafter's Companion - Pearls
• Dusty Concord and Rustic Wilderness distress inks on the leaves and grapes, as well as markers on the grapes

I would like to share my card today with

Simon Says Monday Challenge Bit O' Green

Double D Challenge Going Green

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

Connie

Faux Silk Technique

 Last month when our group of Ladies got together over Skype we did the faux Silk Technique. You use bold papers for your base then you crumble up some Tissue paper and smooth it out again but not all the way, add your glue stick to the paper and adhere your tissue paper over top.

April also shared a card fold with us cutting one piece of paper at 5 3/4 x 5 1/2, score on the 53/4 side at 3/4 and 1 1/2 inches, another piece cut at 5 3/4 x 2 3/4 and score the same as the other one on the 5 3/4 side, then glue them together as shown.  Sorry I am not good at writing directions.

• Spellbinders Advent Calendar - Flower, leaf , sentiment, corner and border dies
• Butterfly die 
• Starform - Out line border sticker silver

It folds flat so you can fit it into an envelope.

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

Connie

Wonderful Birthday

 I was in need of another masculine card and I had missed playing with my birds so that is where this started with my bird, and it just grew from there. So fun when you don't have an idea what you want to do but you just start with one thing and let your imagination go from there.

• Tim Holtz - Feathered Friends and Funky Nature dies
• Picket Fence Studio - Slice of wood stamp, fussy cut
• XERE - Green Ephemera paper
• Papercraft Inspiration magazine - Greetings tag die and sentiment stamp

I would like to share my card today with Triple B Challenge and A cut above Blog Challenge

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

Connie

Best Day

 Last year on HSN craft day they had this set from a new to me company from England and it was a card kit with these cut animals, scenes and tags, along with stamps.  It was a really good price so I ordered them and they just make me smile they are so cute.

I stamped the sentiment from a different set onto one of their tags, the flowers and grass are also a stamp, I wanted it to go all the way across the bottom of the card so the grass on the right has been drawn in with marker.

• Stamps by me - Create a Card kit, Best day ever collection- (racoon, tag and stamp flowers and grass)
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words Birthday sentiment stamp
• Basic Grey - Brad

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

Connie

at the beach

 My nephew moved down to Alabama last year and his kids are enjoying being at the beach more often, they have gone all winter long, and my great nephew has especially loved going, they have shared pictures of his big smile when he is at the beach. So when I went to make his card I remembered this stamp image a fellow card maker stamped out for me years ago and thought it would be perfect.  I later found out that that is where they celebrated his birthday this year too, so it was perfect.

I inked the sand and water and using a stencil the sky, colored him with markers.

• Stamp from friend, colored w/markers
• Inked sand, water and using my homemade cloud stencil did the sky, drew in the birds
• Memory box - Stitched Rectangle layers die
• Spectrum noir clear sparkle pen on water
• Tim Holtz - Clippings sticker book for sentiment

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

Connie