Shades of Greens

 It is sure signs of spring out there, our grass is greening up and growing strong, the trees flowers are starting to pop up and trees are getting their leaves, so love it!

Todays card is using another coloring calendar I haven't used in awhile, colored with pencils. This card is being hand delivered so I could go ahead and use my big gems on it :)

• Cheerful Journey 2018 coloring calendar image, colored w/pencils
• Graphic 45 - Botanical Tea papers
• Memory Box - Stitched circle layers die , Greetings tab
• Spellbinders - Floral Doily Motifs die
• Gems

I am sharing today's card with Sisterhood of Crafters Shades of Green Challenge

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Stars

 I am a little late posting my March Christmas cards but I did manage to get 5 done. Our Challenge was to use stars.

Starting with these two snowman stickers that had stars with them.

• Me & My Big Ideas - Snowman stickers
• Spellbinders - Curved Rectangles die
• Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die

Me & My Big Ideas - Snowman stickers

PPD - Wavy Stitched Rectangle die

Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp

Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die

These next two cards uses a die I got free when ordering something from Scrapbook.com they say they are snowflakes but to me they look more like stars :)  I stitched them with some gold thread.

• Spellbinders - Stitched Prism snowflake die, with DMC gold metallic thread
• Studio G - Sentiment stamp

• Spellbinders - Stitched Prism snowflake die, with DMC gold metallic thread
• Elizabeth Craft Designs - Merry Christmas sticker
• Sequins

This last one I used score tap around the edges of the card and embossed with silver embossing powder, I also used the same powder on the stamps.

• Creative Stamping magazine - Stamps with silver embossing powder
• Scortape around the edges with silver embossing powder

The side view showed the embossing a little better on the stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and hope you have a great week!

Connie

Lighthouse

 I needed another masculine card and I wasn't sure which way to go, so I just started looking through all my old stamps, and this one jumped out at me. I did a bit of water coloring with my Spectrum Aqua markers this time. I did a lot of inking on the edges of the card, image and border strip.

• Art Impression - Lighthouse window stamp, water color w/Spectrum Aqua markers
• Basic Grey - Porcelain paper
• Spellbinders - A2 Curved borders one die
• Hero Arts - All Occasion messages sentiment stamp

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

Connie

For the love of Birds

 I was following a girl on youtube as she opened the Advent Calendar from Diamond Press last year and I had gotten a die that I had already opened in a previous door, she had a cute bird on a branch die, and you know how I love my birds, so I was quite bummed when I didn't get that.  I mentioned it on the Diamond Press facebook group, and a few mentioned I needed to contact Diamond Press and see if there was anything they could do. I told them I would do that and I did. 

Meanwhile another girl mentioned a few days later that she didn't really care about that die and she would be willing to give it to me, I thought that was so sweet of her but I told her how I had contacted Diamond Press and wasn't sure what was going to happen there, she said she would send it anyway and if I get one from them I can pass it along to someone else.  Meanwhile on my post another girl mentioned the same thing happened to her.

I did hear back from Diamond Press and they said they had one left in the warehouse and they were sending it.  I ended up getting two of them now, so I sent the other one to the girl in my post that mentioned she didn't get one either, and I made the first girl a Thank you note for sending me her die and sent along some goodies to her, along with this card using the bird die :)

• Diamond Press Advent Calendar - Bird and Branch dies
• My Favorite Things - Cross stitch Rectangle die
• Basic Grey - Wholy Cow rub ons (sentiment)
• Paper from a friend

I am sharing today's card with Double D Challenge Birds

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

Connie

Card Fold

 In our online group meeting this month April showed us how to make this fold, and also We did a technique were we stamped a background using Distress Oxide inks and then added gold powder on top, before heat embossing we took a small brush and brushed off some of the embossing powder, giving it a bit of distress look to it.

• Hero Arts - Wallpaper stamped background with Crushed Olive Distress Oxide ink, embossed with gold embossing powder, brushing some away before embossing
• Spellbinders - Textured Flowers dies, smoosh ink technique then shaped
• Recollections - Rhinestone gems
• Crafter's Companion - Sentiment die

Inside panel 

• Memo card from Amazon
• Fabric Washi

There is a double panel inside, this is the first panel you see when opening it.

That Washi tape panel shows onto the front when it is closed but I couldn't get a good picture of that.

The next picture is the second panel were I will write my sentiment to the person getting this card.

This last picture gives you an idea of what it looks like from the top.

Sorry I don't have any of the measurements and I had a hard time getting it all folded right myself, I couldn't even begin to try and tell you how we did it, sorry.

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

Connie