Sending you hugs

 We have a new young family that started attending our church this past year and her little girl had to have surgery. Our Pastor asked if I could make her a card. I had no idea what to do, so I just started looking through all my stamp sets and I came across this stamp that I thought would work for her. I was a bit intimidated since I have not colored anything but white people and had no idea if I even had colors that would work for her but I ended up being happy with how it turned out. The sentiments in the stamp set with her didn't work well so I found a stamp sentiment from another set to use. 

I stamped her out twice the second time with some post it note so I could mask her off to add in the grass and sky. The tree, cat and bird are all die cuts.

• Hot off the press - Janie's Girls stamp set, masked to add background, colored w/markers
• Simon Says stamps - You got this sentiment stamp
• My Favorite things - Cloud stencil W/tumble glass ink
• CRS Tapestry - Grass blades stamp
• Memory Bos - Bare Sapling, Grove leaves and Flying bird dies
• Impression Obsession - Cat die from pattern paper

I would like to share my card with Simon Says Monday Challenge 4 legged Friends

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

Connie

Hello You!

 When I opened this die set from my advent calendar I just new it would be going to a fellow stamper, I haven't seen anything like this kind of faux stamp die, so it was pretty cool. I did use my Wood veneer cardstock I bought from Amazon for the handle, it came with a few different messages you can use with it, I picked the hello you. Stamped a flower image on one of Tim Holtz's Vintage Label dies. Had to have some paper so I stamped off this piece and then took my hole punch and added holes along the side and finish it off with some florals.

•  Spellbinders Advent calendar- Hand stamp dies (wood veneer card stock for handle)
• Creative Worship - Your story stamp set (Paper, which I used my hole punch on the side)
• American Crafts - Art Journal stamp on paper
• Tim Holtz - Vintage Label die
• Wintertime - Art Journal stamp (flower on label)
• 49 and Market - Nostalgic Memories Laser cut florals

We made it through the storms, there were a few people throughout the city that lost trees that fell on cars and houses. The tornado touched down ten miles past us.

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

Connie

Happy Days

 I used all kinds of things from stash for the next birthday card for my hubby's coworker.  I tore a page from a Botany Book with a tear ruler I found on Amazon. I love the pet tape from Arden, I thought it would work well on my cards and the big eyelet I have had for many years.

• Botany book page, torn with a tear ruler and inked
• Arden - Hidden Creek, Filmstrip pet tape
• Mushroom label sticker
• Eyelet
• Tim Holtz - Clippings sticker book (sentiment)

We have some severe weather heading our way this afternoon and evening, hope everyone in the line of the storms stay safe.

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

Connie

Pink Birthday

 It was about time that I used another of my goodies from my Advent calendar. This time it is a stencil from Diamond Press. I cut my background piece of pattern paper and I used the stencil on the top and then flipped the paper and did it on the bottom also to frame the sentiment. I felt it needed a little something more and found these flowers I had bought years ago that went with it perfectly!

• Diamond Press 2025 Advent calendar - Stencil, used on the top and bottom of pattern paper
• Colorbok - Layered Flowers
• Hero Arts - It's your day sentiment stamp

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

Just us girls Challenge Stencil

Seize the Birthday Pink

Word Art Wednesday anything goes

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

Connie

Prayers are with you

 We have a husband and wife team now heading up our worship team at Church. Just after taking this on the husband ended up having eye trouble and had to have two surgeries to try and correct it, he ended up losing partial eye sight in that eye. 

I went with a collage of sorts to let him know he is in our prayers. I fussy cut the sentiment and kept it natural with the burlap and wooden leaf.

• Tim Holtz - Document collage papers
• Burlap
• Recollections - wooden leaf
• Mama Elephant - Blessed stamp set, fussy cut and inked

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

Connie