Happy Birthday Cupcake!

My Favorite things has a sketch challenge that I thought would work perfect for my great nieces card.  I paper pieced her dress and hat but colored the rest with markers.

My Favorite things - Cupcake day stamp, paper piecing and coloring w/markers
Carta Bella - Alphabet Junction paper
Lawn Fawn - Fancy Scalloped Rectangle dies

Hope you are enjoying a fun and creative weekend!

Connie

Animals

There were a couple challenges out there to use animals on your card.  I thought that would be a good theme for my nephews card.  I used my homemade cloud stencil to ink up the sky.  I was hoping these sprigs would look like bushes but now looking at it they could be young trees.  I had some left over cardstock that I had embossed with a wood folder, thought that would make a good texture for the bears, I popped the larger one up on foam tape.

Poppystamps- Mama & baby bear, Stitched Landscape and leafy sprig dies
Memory Box - Flying birds die
Homemade cloud stencil for sky

I am linking my card today in the following challenges:
Poppystamps - Animal Menagerie
DiesRUs Challenge - Wild Things

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

Connie

Hello

I wanted to make a card for a gentleman at church that is going through Chemo and isn't feeling very well.  When I saw the challenge at the Double D Challenge blog, I decided instead of having the outside say get well I would say that inside but have Hello as my greeting on the front.

I once again used my coloring calendar for the leaves and added a button that I stitched onto the card.

Donna shared in her post HERE how she embossed a brad to make it a different color, and I have a few dragonfly eyelets that are pastel colors and since I don't use those colors often they have been just sitting in my bin, so when I saw that she embossed hers I just had to give it a try and turn my light blue dragonfly into silver :)

Coloring for Calm 2017 calendar image, colored with pencils
Eyelet outlet - Dragonfly was blue embossed with silver embossing powder
Button stitched onto background
Hello die cut

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

Connie

13th

I bet you can't figure out how old my great nephew has turned :)  I have used this skateboard guy on a few of my teen cards.  I colored him up with markers going off the paper I used for the background.  The numbers and sentiment are from a sticker sentiment book.

Stampendous - Skateboard kiddo, colored w/markers
Crate paper - Party day
Spellbinders - A2 distressed edges and lg. deckled rectangles dies
K&co. - Vellum stickers and sentiment

A few of you have been asking about my eye, I have to take the eye ointment he prescribed for a week, then go off it and see how my eye feels, they said those abrasions can take a while to heal, so after the week if my eye is feeling ok I should be good and I can quit the ointment but if not I may have to use until that feeling goes away.  But I am no longer in pain, just irritating and I can live with that :)

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

Connie

Deer in a Row

This stamp reminded me of a Scandinavian print, and I noticed that they do a lot of repeat patterns so that is how I came up with this design of my card. I added a few dots with my white pen for a snowy background and added some border stickers in white to frame the red piece.

Stamp from Make cards Nov. 2018 magazine, embossed with white detail embossing powder
My Minds eye - O Christmas tree paper
Hot off the press - White Jewel border stickers
White gel pen

I had planned on making two of these cards, I thought I had cut the red piece the same, but after I finished stamping and embossing the second set I realized that my paper was a 1/2 an inch bigger than the first so it would not fit onto my card base, and instead of making a larger card, I went with cutting them out individually and making 3 more cards.

Stamp from Make cards Nov. 2018 magazine, embossed with white detail embossing powder
My Minds eye - O Christmas tree paper
Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle layer die
Stamp in up - Frosted snowflake Sequins
Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp

Stamp from Make cards Nov. 2018 magazine, embossed with white detail embossing powder
My Minds eye - O Christmas tree paper
Spellbinders - Labels twenty - nine dies
Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp

Stamp from Make cards Nov. 2018 magazine, embossed with white detail embossing powder
My Minds eye - O Christmas tree paper
Hero Arts - Wood frame die
Spellbinders - Deckled rectangle die
Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp

I am linking this up with CAS Christmas card challenge blog and Merry Little Christmas challenge blog

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

Connie