Wish upon a star

 I am using a set of stamps I have used a few times before, I think I have used it mostly for teens but I think it would work for anyone. I have fussy cut the fox and added him to the background I inked, and then added the stamped stars with white embossing powder.

• Lawn Fawn - Upon a Star stamp set, inked background, colored fox w/markers and white heat embossed with white embossing powder of the stars
• Distress inks - Faded Jeans, Black soot and Dusty concord for the sky, Forest moss for ground

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

Connie

Flower Bouquet

 Using more of 2024's advent calendar stuff, I wanted to use it all by last year so that I would start fresh with this year but still had a few left. These flowers, gems and bow are from the advent calendar. I am not sure if I went to far using the papers or not, I used pattern paper for everything, the die cuts  and framing and background. This card was hand delivered so I was able to use the bigger gems on it.

• Diamond Press - 2024 Advent Calendar- Flowers and bow dies and Gems
• Spellbinders - Decorative Labels 28 die
• Craftsmith - Sea Glass papers
• Bow and flowers from scrap pattern papers

I would like to share my card with Love those pretty papers challenge 

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

Connie

Best Wishes

 When I saw the challenge over at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge to use something new I had to share the card I made for my Hubby's coworker who got married on New Years day, she asked hubby if he would take pictures. I used my new items from my Advent calendars, the sentiment die and the embossing folder which I embossed 3 times to fill the background of the card.

• Spellbinders - Lace hearts die and from 2025 Advent calendar sentiment die, sequins
• Diamond Press Advent calendar - Embossing folder, embossed 3 times to fill background

The heart and sentiment dies were cut from Hero Arts gold sparkle cardstock.

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

Connie

Gold Stenciling

 In our last group Teams Meeting we did some gold embossing with a stencil. I started off with yellow pattern paper and then laid my stencil down and added embossing ink to the openings of the stencil, then added my gold embossing powder on top of that, gave a pretty effect. We also did this different opening which whatever we chose to be the closure would hold the flap shut, sorry I didn't write down any measurements.

I water colored the flowers and popped it up on dimensional tape to hold the flap shut. We had put a whole piece of paper behind the card to hid the gluing of the flap on the back of the card but I didn't like how it couldn't stand up on it's own now, so I cut the bottom flush with my card.

• Precious Marieke - Flowery collection stamp, watercolored w/ Spectrum Aqua Markers
• Simon Says - Freestyle Flowers Stencil, embossing with gold embossing powder

I am sharing today's card with Stencil Fun Challenge 

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

Connie

Dreams come true

 Sharing another birthday card using some lovely papers and ephemera.  I just love these sets for making lovely cards! It is kind of hard to tell but I added a journaling card from the collection behind that flower spray, and it needed a little something to balance it out so a butterfly came in along with a few gems :)

• Prima - Aquarelle Dreams papers, Journaling cards and Ephemera
• Gems

I just had to add this to the Love those pretty papers Challenge I went with anything goes.

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

Connie