Gnome Christmas

 I have a couple more of the Crystal art cards, the first went to my daughter since I was sending a package, and the other is for our friends here in town.

These are so fun to do and I love how they have sparkle crystals in the set as well as bigger gems. If you missed the others in this set that I have made I found these sets on HSN.com, I am not sure if they have any left.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all enjoy this week of festive fun as we celebrate the wonderful birth of Jesus!

Connie

HOORAY

 Using more goodies from my 2024 Advent calendar, for a great niece. The stamps and dies were all on the same day, I colored them with markers, I realized after the card was done I had forgotten one of them, the Hooray and sentiment stamp were also from the calendar just other days :(

• Diamond Press Advent calendar 2024 - Stamps and dies, colored with markers
• My mind's eye - Quite Contrary papers
• Spellbinders - Labels Trio die and sequins

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

Connie

Warm Hello

 Using a nee set of papers that had ephemera in the pack that I fussy cut out, adding the flowers behind the frame and adding the sentiment. My hubby's sister, loves the farm life so I thought she might like this combo. I added some washi tape to the base to ground the things to the left of the frame, the plant has been popped up and the other two are glued straight to the card.

• Stamperia - Golden Harmony papers and cut outs
• Ieebee - Fluttering Blooms washi tape

I am sharing my card with NBUS Challenge 

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

Connie

Little One

 A young family at church just had a little boy, we had a baby shower the week before she had him. I stamped out the train and colored them with markers, then cut each one out and positioned them on a line a drew on the pattern paper.

• Studio G - Train and sentiment stamps
• Kat Scrappiness - Mini Slimline stitched Rope die
• Spellbinders - Labels trio dies
• Sorry forgot to write down the paper but it is a very old pack

 

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

Connie

Hi There

 My Hubby made this digital stamp for me on his computer and I printed it out and colored it with markers. I brought out some old papers I have had for a very long time, trying to remember to use my older goodies as well as my new goodies :)  This was a birthday card, trying different sentiments then just happy birthday all the time.

• Digital stamp made by my hubby
• Cloud 9 design - Christy & Friends papers
• Martha Stewart - Border punch and circle punch
• Fiskars - Essential sayings sentiment stamp

We are having our coldest day of the season today, have to get out for church and hubby wants to take me out to lunch after, first time I am not looking forward to not having to cook, LOL! Just want to be home and warm.

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

Connie

Dog in a Barrel

 Using more of the Advent calendar goodies from last year, the dog is only from the chest up, so it took me awhile to figure out how to use him, I thought he could have got into the barrel and is peeking out, the sentiment stamp was from the Spellbinders calendar too. The clourds and sun were dies from Diamond Press.

• Spellbinders 2024 Advent Calendar - Dog dies and sentiment stamp
• Diamond Press 2024 Advent Calendar - Clouds and Sun dies
• Impression Obsession - Whiskey Barrel Planter die
• Fiskars - Grass punch
• RS Tapestry - Grass Blades peg stamp

I still have a couple dies left from last years calendar that I just haven't had a need for, one is a suitcase, but I do think I have an idea for that, just not sure yet.  Feels good to have used almost everything from the calendars in the past year, we will see if I can do that again this year :)

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

Connie

Coffee Lover

 I made this card last month for our Coffee loving Pastors birthday, I have been trying to use all the goodies I have left from last years advent calendars before I started opening the ones this year. The cup and border dies are both from 2024 calendar.

• Diamond Press - 2024 advent calendar - cup dies, sentiment stamp and border die
• BasicGrey - Periphery paper
• Spellbinder - Blossom die

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie

Sympathies

 I have two to share today, the first is for my friend, who lost her cat this year. I tried to color this like her cat, she has it on display at her home and she told me every time she walks by it just touches her so.  That is why we do this in hopes that others will feel the love that goes into our cards, so it was an encouragement for me to keep going :)

• ODBD - Kitty stamp colored w/markers
• Taylored Expressions - Care & Comfort II sentiment stamp
• Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle layer die
• Gems

This next card is for my best friend I had while living in England, she told me that her sister had passed away. I used some stickers I had bought from Amazon to use in my junk journals but thought would be nice for a thinking of you card.

• Stickers from Amazon
• Basic Grey - Periphery paper
• Spellbinders - Romantic Rectangle die
• Ieebee - Fluttering Blooms washi tape
• Diamond Press - Gold pen
• Pebbles - Sentiment rub on

We actually have had a couple of days above freezing and we are going to get back to artic cold so today we are decorating the outside of the house after hubby get off work, we will have about an hour of day light so whatever we can get up in that amount of time will be it for this year :)

Hope the rest of you in the states are staying warm they say this is one of the coldest and snowy starts of the year we have had in awhile.  Praying for those out in Oregon getting all that rain, hope you are all staying safe too!

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

Connie

Birthday wishes

 I broke out my dollar store stamps for this next card, clean and simple. I also am using some new dies I bought from Michaels with a coupon, they make frames.

• Crafter's Square - Flower stamp, colored w/markers
• Recollections - 8 piece frame die set
• Fiskars - Essential Sayings sentiment stamp
• Diamond Dots - Gems

That's the end of all my Autumn birthday cards :)  I have been working hard on trying to get my Christmas cards written out and mailed, but half way done :)

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

Connie

Many Happy Returns

 Using more of the cute Studio Light images for my next card, framing her with a couple of dies.

• Studio Light - Charming Autumn paper elements (deer and foliage)
• Poppystamps - Nordic Pattern Rings dies
• Cardmaking Magic - Birthday verses, sentiment stamp, fussy cut

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

Connie

Autumn Bouquet

 Yes I still have Autumn birthday cards to share.  I decided to try my hand at making my own bouquet wrapper, is that what they are called, I have looked at dies many times but just never bought one.  I used some of the papers that came inside an Amazon packaging, the paper is very thin and I thought it might be easier to form, I did a little bit of inking of the paper too. For this one I used a 3 inch piece.  The flowers I used is still more stamps from the magazine I bought at Barnes and Nobles this past fall, they call them summer florals but I have been using them on my fall cards too :)

• Creative Stamping Magazine - Summer Florals stamps, colored w/markers
• Crafter's Companion - Advent calendar paper
• 3" piece of Amazon packaging for the Bouquet wrapper w/inking
• Diamond Press - Advent Calendar 2024 Banner die and sentiment stamp
• Spectrum Noir- Clear Sparkle pen on butterfly stamp
• White Gel pen for center of flowers
• Diamond dots

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by in this busy season,

Connie

Pocket and tag

 I shared a bag and a tag before now I am sharing an envelope and I added a tag, these are really nice for journaling but I have found I like doing them instead of cards too, my hubby's sister really liked it. The maker of the envelope just came out in a new release a month or so ago with an insert for the envelope, I may just have to get that one too :) Although as I found a tag that fit well you can use anything to fill the envelope. I made a bunch of the envelopes a long time ago and so I can't remember the paper I used for them. I also have a whole bin of the Tim Holtz labels I made ahead of time and can't remember where the stamp I used inside is from.

• Spellbinders - Essential Envelope and Delicate Asters die cut from Color Burst Background
• Tim Holtz - Vintage Label die w/stamp
• Daisy Mae Designs - Tag die
• Cardmaking magic - Birthday verses sentiment stamp
• PPD - Mini Stitched square die
• Ieebee- Fluttering Blooms washi
• Ribbon and twine
• Stickles

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

Connie