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

What we love

 Using some of those things that have not seen the light of day in quite some time Probably many years for the Neglected Stuff Challenge I looked on the packaging for the tag book and it says 2003, I know it had been awhile since I bought it but didn't know that long. I tried to look on the Paperwishes sight to see if they still sold them but couldn't find it. I used two tags from the booklet of cut outs and the little leaf, these papers are thin so I did add the leaf image to some cardstock so that it was stiff enough to pop up on the bottom tag. The embossing folder was gifted to me a few years ago, I have know idea what the name of it is .

• Stampin up - Embossing folder (sorry no name)
• Hot off the press - Tag Art #2 book
• Brazzill - Brad

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

Connie

Faux Step

 Our stamp group got together over Teams again to make a Faux step card. I didn't have enough time to get a stamp around ahead of time so I went with some ephemera I had to embellish it, we did do some heat embossing with a few different colors of embossing powders before putting the card together that we used on the panel behind the image and for the front bottom piece.

• Stampin up - Vine stamp 2000, embossed w/ gold, silver and Opaque sparkle embossing powders
• Provocraft - Textile Embossing folder
• American Crafts - Ephemera pack (flower and butterfly)
• Memory Box - Greeting tabs

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

Connie