Silhouettes

 In our cardmaking group the challenge this month for Christmas cards was to use silhouette's. I actually found more than I thought I had both in stamps and dies.

My first card uses both.

• Inkadinkado - Silhouette's stamp set
• PPD - Scalloped Snowflake Frame

With this stamp, I colored the red rubber with Aqua markers and stamped each section at a time, using my Misti stamping platform. When I was all done stamping them all, I very lightly misted the stamp with water and stamped one more time, it really gave it a nice look I think.

• Inkadinkado - Folk Wreath stamp set w/Aqua Markers
• Inkadinkado - Christmas Season stamp set for sentiment
• Stampendous - Stickers (in the corner)

I made two of these, the actual nativity was cut again using sparkle paper and the top part of the ornament was done with gold glitter cardstock. I realized just now posting that I didn't add a sentiment, will have to decide if I think it needs one.

• Die Versions - Starry Nativity Ornament die, gold glitter and sparkle cardstocks
• Impression Obsession - Pine Branch die
• Anna Griffin - Christmas Scrapbook paper

The next one I will share the side view too, so you can see the embossing better.  I am thinking I need some new gold embossing powder, or maybe it is the way I am stamping, it just seems to come out bumpy instead of smooth.

• Inkadinkado - Holiday Silhouettes w/gold embossing powder
• Spellbinders - Matting Basics A dies
• Elizabeth Craft designs - Merry Christmas sticker, colored w/gold pen

This last one is from a set of border stamps.

• Recollections - Christmas Borders stamp set
• Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A dies
• Hot off the press - 63 Thin line Border stickers

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

Connie

On your Special day

 It had been awhile since I have used this set, I had to get it out and play with it again.  The set has the stamps and stencil together. I popped up just the flower portion, the leaves and stem are glued to the background.

• Tim Holtz - THMM107 Stamp and Stencil set, colored w/markers and fussy cut,  Stencil used Antique Linen and Mowed Lawn inks
• Card Making Magic - Birthday Verses sentiment stamp
• Martha Stewart - Pearls
• String

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

Beautiful Blossom challenge I used the colors in the mood board

Stencil Fun Challenge 

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

Connie

Sending a hug

 My friends brother died recently and when trying to figure out what to do for him, I went and read his obituary and found he was in the military and with Memorial day coming up, it made me think of the Poppies they use to sell downtown where I grew up around memorial day, my mom would always be one from the gentleman.

 I have this paper pack and tags from a Card making magazine with poppies so that is where I started.  I added the tag to a die cut tag to separate all that pattern of poppies.

•  Country Diary of an Edwardian lady - Paper and tag collection from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine
• Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A die
• Anna Griffin Advent calendar - Tag die
• Recollections - Brad and lace
• Inky Antics - Simple Sentiments, embossed with white embossing powder

May we never forget the cost for our freedom, those men and women who gave up their lives for our freedom, and to the families who miss them.

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

Connie

Sending Good thoughts

 Our group got together again on line and made embossed panels together. I chose what I hoped would be good ones for my brother in law who is now fighting cancer once again. We were to emboss a panel, I chose one that I had stencil or stamped, I can't remember I took it from my pile of backgrounds I have that I made a while ago. I used the debossed side in the panel in the back and we added two different kinds of embossing powder to it and heated the back side of the panel, you can't heat from the top because we didn't use any medium to keep it on the top.  Then she gave us some measurements to make the front fold, sorry I don't have the measurements we made. 

She had in her example an image half on the folded part so it stuck up from the fold, I asked my hubby if the Slide Frame I had made a couple days earlier would be ok to add to it, he liked the frame but he wanted me to put it on the bottom half because he felt it took away from the embossing I had done if it stuck up higher.

I know the gold embossing powder looks black in the first photo but in the side picture it just show up better.

• Darcie - Brick wall embossing folder w/ gold and green embossing powders sprinkle on and heated from the back side of the panel to melt
• Cuttlebug - Script embossing folder on front panel
• Tim Holtz - Specimen die and Field Notes Stamps (numbers)
• Spellbinders - Advent Calendar sentiment stamp
• Stamped text behind the bee ephemera piece

I am sharing my card today with Can you handle the pressure? Blog 

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

Connie

Happy B-day

 I try every now and then to use my older goodies on my cards, we bought them for a reason right :)  Today I am sharing my card with The Neglected Stuff Challenge  The base die cut is from 2015, I couldn't see a date on the sticker I used with it but they have been in my sticker drawer for quite some time.

• Spellbinders - Tudor Rose Card front die, cut from smooshed background
• Stamps of Life - Mini for circles sentiment stamp
• Eyelet outlet & Brads - Butterfly corner Brad w/tag
• Crafter's Square - Pop up stickers
• Paper Studio - Enamel Dots
• Scrap paper behind the die cut

I am sure most of us have neglected goodies to share in the challenge :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and hope you all have a great and safe weekend!

Connie

Happy Everything

 Wow I have been so busy and trying to keep up with things that I totally forgot about posting on my blog. Is time just going by way too fast for everyone else too.

• Dare 2 B Artzy - Bee-utiful Stamp and die set, colored w/markers and Spectrum clear sparkle marker on bee's wing-- Fussy cut around sentiment
• Paper Doily
• Diamond Dotz

We found out after my last post that our friends Uncle that lives North of us had his house hit by the tornado that went through St. Louis.  He had a shelving unit behind him and it fell on him and then the rest of the house fell on him, he feels like the shelf falling on him saved him.  To see the pictures of his place you wouldn't think anyone could survive that.  

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

Connie

Birthday Wreath

 I seem to be a sucker these days for ephemera, if I see a pack with what looks to be some neat ephemera it is hard for me to pass them up, these set was from Walmart. I was hand delivering this one to our church's secretary so I could use some bigger gems on it :)  I popped up the wreath to give it more dimension too.

• Hello Hobby - Die cuts (Walmart)
• Best Occasion - Paper
• Crafter's Companion - Sentiment stamp and die set from Advent calendar
• Queen & Co. - Twinkle Goosebump gems

As you can see it even had foil on them.

As some of you know we are just on the other side of the river from St, Louis and they were hit by a couple tornadoes yesterday 5 people died in different areas of the city and many were injured. They could use prayer in the coming days.

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

Connie

Flowers just for you

 Using this kit again for another cute card.  I love the little background scenes they have to pair with their pieces of ephemera. The background is the card base, all comes together quickly and nicely, .the sentiment was on sheet that you cut out, so I just used a die to cut it out.  I bought this set off of HSN craft day, it is a company from England.

• Stamps by Me - Create a card kit
• Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle Layers

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

Connie

Healing Wishes

 I went with a Graphic Fairy image for this get well for a friend. I so need to take more pictures, this was the best head on picture I had and it is still tilted bad. But I think you can get it :)

• Ms. Sparkle & Co. - Water color paper pad
• Graphics Fairy - Image
• Martha Stewart - Border punch
• Spellbinders - Candlewick Rectangle die
• Words to the Rescue - Get well stamp set
• Diamond Dotz - yellow

I am sharing this with Fourseasons Challenge Spring.

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

Connie

Jar of flowers

 One of the girls in my group did some cards using library cards and I thought what she did was pretty cool, she said she wanted to see what I would do, so here is my take on it.

I used a stencil on my library card that I printed on my computer, honestly I downloaded this years ago from a free site but back then I wasn't concerned with documenting where I got things from, they are just in my free folder :)  The jar and flowers are stamps with dies.

• Tim Holtz - Doily Layering Stencils w/Kitsch Flamingo ink, mowed Lawn and Forest moss around the edges of the library card
• Printed Library card
• Tim Holtz - Flower Jar stamps and dies, colored w/markers
• Crafter's Companion - Advent Calendar paper
• Hero Arts -  All Occasions message sentiment stamp

I would like to share my card in these challenges:
Stencil Fun Challenge Bouquet

Retro Rubber Challenge Spring flowers 2018

Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you have a great weekend!

Connie

High Score 25

 I made a card using these dies a little while ago for a great nephew, when hubby saw it, he said oh that would be perfect for his co worker that had just bought these flying games for his system, so I made a note of that and when it was time to figure out what to say on the computer screen he wanted High Score 25, because he won't let anyone know his age, he just tells everyone each year that he is turning 25.

I had some cork ribbon I used for the table and I made up a bag of chips and cola that he likes to snack on.

• Spellbinders - You've got game die
• Die Versions - Alphabet & numbers die
• Michaels - Cork ribbon
• Starform - Silver border out line sticker
• Hand made the chips and cola
• Home made cloud stencil

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

Connie

Nature

 It was time once again for a bird card don't you think, and my nephew hadn't had one yet, so out he came to play.  Do you see that gray piece for the body of the bird, that is a piece of tissue box, I have so many of them saved I thought I had better start using some of them, LOL!

• Sizzix - Feathered Friends die
• Spellbinders - Mushroom die
• The Grettery - Wood slices die
• Memory Box - Sentiment greeting tag
• All papers were from my scrap bin except for the bird body base that was a tissue box

We went to the garden center and bought more dirt for our raised garden beds and some peppers, tomatoes, and I also picked up a lavender plant and some hanging baskets of pretty flowers.  I have wildflower seeds to plant too, thankful we have had a break in the rain to get some stuff done outdoors.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a good week!

Connie

Get well soon

 An older gentlemen in our church had to go through Chemo and Radiation and it took a big of a toll on him, he missed church and that is when you know he isn't doing well because he just doesn't miss church.

• Tim Holtz - Organic Layers Ephemera
• ODBD - Vintage Ephemera Collection papers
• Crafter's companion - sentiment die

Hope you all have a good weekend, we have a chance of rain all day today, so not much is going to be happening outdoors.

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

Connie

Christmas Sketch

 I totally forgot to post the last 3 cards I made for our April Christmas challenge that was a sketch yesterday, it was a busy day.  For this sketch I used stamps from a magazine with stamps included, that I won from Flowers, Ribbons and Pearls blog.

• Simply cards & Papercrafts magazine - Christmas flowers and Foliage stamps, fussy cut and  colored w/markers
• Spellbinders - Labels 29 die
• ODBD - Christmas paper 2014
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die
• Nuvo Crystal Glaze - on berries
• Spectrum clear sparkle pen

• Simply cards & Papercrafts magazine - Christmas flowers and Foliage stamps, fussy cut and  colored w/markers
• Spellbinders - Labels 11 die
• ODBD - Christmas paper 2014
• White gel pen on berries
• Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas stamp
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die

• Simply cards & Papercrafts magazine - Christmas flowers and Foliage stamps, fussy cut and  colored w/markers
• PPD - Distressed Edge Rectangle die
• ODBD - Christmas paper 2014
• Simon Says - tiny words Christmas stamp
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die
• Nuvo crystal glaze on berries

So there, April Christmas cards are made :)

Wow can you believe it is May already, we are supposed to have some dry weather coming up so we hope to get our garden planted in the next week.

Hope you are all well and enjoy your weekend,

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie