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

Spring

 Since I am starting to post my spring cards I need to change my header on my blog.  We are actually getting snow flurries down here in Southern Illinois but it is only sticking a little bit to our deck.

This card I used some old stickers I have had around for awhile, they came from one of those daily calendars were every day had a sticker.  The bottom half of the card is a smooshed ink background, I added some inks to my glass mat and sprayed a little water and took a piece of watercolor paper and dabbed it in the ink.

• Daily calendar stickers
• Smooshed ink background on bottom
• Anna Griffin - Advent calendar tag die
• Twine
• Scrap paper

I would like to share today's card with Four Seasons challenge Spring.

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

Connie