90th Birthday

 My girlfriend's mom turned 90 and although she comes to our church whenever she is in town, I didn't know her very well, so I asked my friend what does she like, does she have a favorite color?  She said she likes music and dancing and favorite color is Black.  I was a bit surprised and then thought what I am I going to do with that information.  I went searching through my things and I found some paper that I have had for over 10 years I thought just might work :)

I managed to cut the paper so that the let's dance and the couple along with the piano keys were all on the top, added more music paper to the bottom. Under the Number tag was something I wanted to cover up so that was the perfect place to put the numbers. The faux stamp of the lady dancer was in the paper pack too so I fussy cut that out. Then finished it off with the sentiment die cut that I cut twice and layered and some trim and pearls to break up the top and bottom pieces.  

• Graphic 45 - Curtain Call paper
• Fiskars - stamp scissor
• Taylored Expression - Whimsy#s die
• Spellbinders - Lacy square and Sentiments One dies
• Recollections - Pearl border
• Lace pom pom trim

I would like to share my card with the following challenges:

Seize the birthday One or more numbers

Neglected Stuff Challenge Papers

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

Connie

Lotus Blossom

 My friend Beth sent me this stamp over a year ago and I made one card with it, a thank you and have never used it since I thought it might be a good one for the Simply Clean and Simple Challenge .

I was planning on just adding the flower but I felt it needed something extra so I added a rub on, I have had for many years, luckily it still worked well. Hopefully it still counts as clean and simple.

• Stampin up - Lotus Blossom Layers stamp
• Kat Scrappiness - Mini Slimline stitched Rope die
• Paper Studio - Distressed Floral paper
• Basic Grey - Lace Border Rub on
• BoBunny - Sunshine Rub on sentiment

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

Connie

Love of Horses

 A lady at church has a horse and she loves riding, whenever she gets time to go riding she is in her happy place, although most of her pictures when riding is on a dirt trail, I made her horse sitting in a field of grass :) I inked the bottom and stamped some grass with the same ink, then stenciled in the clouds.

• Graphics Fairy - Horse image, fussy cut
• My Favorite things - Cloud Stencil
• CRS Tapestry - Grass Blades stamp
• Tim Holtz - Tiny Text, Remnant Rubs sentiment

I would like to share my card with Simon Says Wednesday Challenge 4 legged friends

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

Connie

Vintage Thinking of you

 A lady in our cardmaking group has cancer and has started her treatments, she has to go through chemo and radiation, I was trying to figure out what to do for her when I was looking through my papers and for some reason this image from a paper pack just seemed calming to me, so I thought it would be good for this situation.  After the card was done I felt it needed more so I punched out some flowers, gave them a bit of dimension by shaping them with my stylus, and adding some stickles in the middle of them.  The tag at the bottom I added a stamp too and then decided that another flower would look good with it too.

• Stamperia - Daisy Art Collection paper (image)
• Crafter's Companion - Distressed Florals (background paper)
• Tim Holtz - Label Die
• Winter Time - Art Journal stamp
• EK Success - Flower Punch
• Distress Stickles - Scattered straw
• Digital Sentiment 
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die

I would like to share my card today with Love those pretty papers Challenge anything goes with Optional Coastal theme.

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

Connie

Envelope/Tag card

 I broke down in one of Spellbinders sells and bought some more of the dies that go with their Essential Envelope dies, I used it for one of my cardmaking friends that also has the set :) The new dies are the front cover, the scallop, tab tag and flowers.

• Spellbinders - Essential Envelope and Every day Add-ons dies
• Basic Grey - Porcelain Paper
• Hero Arts - Your day sentiment stamp
• Crafter's Square - Gel dots
• Inside tag has stickers from Amazon

I wrote my message to her on the back of the tag.

I would like to share my card with Beautiful Blossom Challenge 

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

Connie