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

Sympathies

 I have 3 cards to share today I am sorry to say. These were all before Christmas.

First my good friend lost her cat, it was so hard for her to decide to let him go, so I wanted to do a card of thoughts that her little guy is in a better place now. She had an orange cat so this ephemera was perfect.

• Stamperia - Create Happiness Ephemera ( cat and flowers)
• Poppystamps - Stitched Landscapes die
• Wooden bird with some inking
• My Favorite Things - Cloud stencil

Next my nephews wife lost her mother. Her mother had been sick for quite some time.

• Photoplay - Beautiful Junque ephemera (flower image on tag) paper instead of ribbon through tag
• Graphic 45 - Christmas past paper
• Anna Griffin - Advent calendar tag die
• Washi Fabric, inked to tone it down

Lastly a lady from our church lost her son, and he leaves too small children. It was a very sad situation and out of the blue so I went with a more solemn card, by very lightly coloring the image.

• Christians Art Gifts -  Psalms in color, colored w/markers
• Basic Grey- Periphery Papers

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

Connie

Snowman

 When I saw that Double D Challenge had snowman this time for their challenge I new I had to play along. I just got this cute snowman free with an order I did before Christmas when I shopped for my Christmas presents :) I just had to get him out and make a little scene. I didn't put a sentiment on it because I am not sure if I will be using this as a Christmas card or a winter card just yet.  

• Simon Says - Bundled Snowman
• Frantic Stamper - Oregon Fir
• My Favorite things - Cloud Stencil
• Crafter's Companion -  Iridescent Glitter
• White gel pen for patterns on the snowman's scarf and hat

In the close up you can see the glitter a little better, I added a little gel pen to his hat and scarf, hubby said they were too plain :)

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!!

Connnie

Time to Party

 I think this set is cute for anybody but I especially like it for kids cards, it is a stamp and die set, so I stamped, colored them and then cut them out, I added a little bit of grass with my marker at the bottom to go with the cute flowers. I stamped the balloons twice since the die does not cut out the strings.

• Mama Elephant - Up We Go stamp and die set, colored w/markers
• Echo Park - Fine and Dandy paper
• Spellbinders - Labels 29 die
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words Birthday sentiment stamp

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

Connie

Enjoy every moment

 I brought out some pretty ephemera for the next birthday card I needed, I also added a flower I had cut from a piece of smooshed background I had done with inks. I placed a piece of vellum behind the frame.

• Photoplay - Beautiful Junque ephemera (frame and sentimentw/butterfly)
• 49 and Market - Coral Mini 6x6 collection paper
• Fiskars - Vellum
• Tim Holtz - Funky Foliage die
• Pearls

We had very strong winds all day yesterday and all night, luckily we didn't lose power as parts of the city did because of down lines, there were a few tornadoes that hit an hour or so north of us that did some damage to homes. We went to being in the 70's yesterday to this morning of -7 windchill. Winter is back again with a vengeance.

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

Connie