Bouquet

 I found these stickers they were on sale, I am thinking they may be meant to use in a planner but I thought they would be pretty on cards too, the other things in the pack I figured I could use in my junk journals :)

I also added some faux tape to it also, I saw this on You tube HERE. She does a lot of things for journals I have made quite a few of her things. I thought if I could make some faux aged tape (the girl doing the video calls it washi but to me it looks like the stuff from old photos) I could be making my own :)

• Spellbinders - Romantic Rectangles  and A2 Matting basics B dies
• Paper Studio - Agenda 52 Wildflower stickers
• DCWV - Once upon a time paper
• Hero Arts - Birthday messages sentiment stamp
• Faux aged tape
• Gems

Here is a picture of my faux tape I made, I used Vellum since I didn't have any Glassine. I used a few colors of alcohol inks and applied them just like she did, pretty much wiping it on then pouncing. I forgot to write down the colors but I know for sure Butterscotch was one, the other two were a light orange and a light brown or tan. I used some smaller pieces of score tape and the wider ones I think were from Scrapbook.com, their brand of double sided tape. As you can see I did tear a little chunk off the wider strip and it worked fine tearing it.

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

Connie

16th Birthday

 Another great nephew has turned 16 so it was time again for another car card :) Using the car die from an old advent calendar :) The paper pack had cut out tags in it and that is what I used to stamp the sentiment and add his name with stickers.

• Spellbinders - Advent calendar 2023 - Car die
• We R Memory keepers - For the record Papers and tag
• Letter and numbers stickers
• Stamped sentiment

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

Connie

Dandelion Shower

 One of the ladies in our group told us about a little girl in her town that has had cancer in the past and sadly is dealing with it again and has lost one leg already. She is turning 10 and she asked if any of us would like to make her a card and send it.  I decided on this cute little girl.  I have had her for a lot of years now and this is the first time using her, I am thinking what took me so long is she is on purple rubber with no padding and sticky on the back so I ended up using double stick tape to add to the back of the stamp and used it in my stamp positioner, let me just say that the double sided scotch tape worked great, too great as I had a heck of a time removing it from my Misti after I was done stamping.

• Little Darlings Rubber Stamps - Penny's Dandelion Shower stamp, colored w/markers
• Spellbinders - A2 Devine Eloquence die
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny Words Birthday stamp set

I am sharing my card with NBUS Challenge never before used schtuff

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

Connie

Barrel Planter

 It has been awhile since I did some die cuts with flowers and I hadn't used this pot in some time so why not combine them :) I cut a frame with the arch dies by putting two sizes of them together and cutting them at the same time. The stencil is thinner than my card base so I had to try and piece it together to cover the front, can you see the seam?

• Impression Obsession - Whiskey Barrel Planter die
• Spellbinders - Be Bold Blooms dies
• Sizzix - Rounded Tags die (cut a frame)
• Tim Holtz - Brick and stone stencil using Lost shadow distress ink
• Martha Stewart - tag punch
• Taylored Expressions - Many Minis occasions sentiment stamp

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

Double D Challenge Pots

A cut above Challenge Use die cuts

Stencil Fun Challenge Optional use your flag colors

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

Connie

Birthday Bouquet

 I went with a digital stamp for my next card, I hadn't done one for awhile and thought this would be nice for my friend. I used a stencil to add a bit of inking to ground it.

• Power Poppy - Pure Prairie Bouquet digital stamp, colored w/markers
• Penny Black Background Basics Stencil w/Antique Linen Distress inks
• Honbay - Sentiment stamp
• Pearls

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, Have a great week,

Connie

Cat with Balloon

 I am determined to use the goodies once again from the advent calendars this past year and so today I brought out the cat die and sentiment for this card for our great niece.  I cut the cat from some paper I had that I smooshed ink onto, thought it would make a great spotted cat :) The background is a scrap of pattern paper that I stenciled the clouds onto and the heart is from another scrap.

• Spellbinders - Advent Calendar 2024 - Cat w/balloon die and sentiment stamp
• Spellbinders - Labels trio die and Scallop Classic ovals lg.
• Papertrey ink - Hodge Podge paper
• Impression Obsession - Classic corners die
• My favorite things - cloud stencil
• Hot off the press - Butterfly stickers

Hope all those in the states enjoy a great 4th of July, making it a nice long weekend this year.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Birthday wishes

 I made this one for my teenage great niece. My sister said when she went over to her house her son asked what is that on the front, my sister said that is like the view master picture slides, the family thought it was a movie reel. When I first saw them too I thought view master, I guess it depends on when you grew up and if you ever played with a view master, LOL!  Hope she liked it either way :)

• Tim Holtz - Vault Picture show die set
• Papertrey ink - Hodge Podge paper
• Gina K - Sentiment stamp
• Park Lane - Text stamps (splotches)
• Winter time - Mini decorative & Art Journals (butterfly stamp)
• Flower Gem
• Scrap papers for reel

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

Connie

Field Notes

 My little brother loved this card, using the clipboard die, I put a couple of pieces of paper under the clip, stamping on both, so he could flip and see what was under.

• Tim Holtz - Vault Noteworthy dies (clipboard, arrow clip and tab) Field Notes stamp set
• 49 and Market - Curators Meadow Paper and Vintage Blushed Sage Rub ons

So fun to play with those clipboards :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, Hope you have a great week ahead,

Connie

Florals

 It was time to do some coloring again, using an older stamp that was in one of the cardmaking magazines.

• Scrapbooking made simple - A simple Hello, great day stamp, colored w/markers
• Crafter's companion - Advent calendar paper
• Spellbinders - Floral Ovals die (from scrap paper)
• Open Studio - Gold foiled greet tab
• Gems

I would like to share my card with the Beautiful Blossoms Challenge 

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, Hope you all have a great weekend and get some relief for those in the heat of it all.

Connie

Masculine Blessings

 It is not hard to find things that have been neglected in my room of goodies, so I went looking for something for our friends birthday and found this classic stamp that looks like an old chalkboard, I haven't used it in like 7 years, that is just a shame.

• ODBD - Chalkboard Birthday stamp
• Spellbinders - Classic Rectangle Lg. die
• Basic Grey - Periphery Paper
• Pebbles - Glitter candy dots

I am sharing today's card with Neglected Stuff Challenge (chalkboard stamp)

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope the rest of you are making it through this HOT weather with heat index in the 100's.  I have been limiting my time outdoors, just going out to check on my plants quick and water them and then back in the house for a shower, crazy, hope our whole summer isn't like this.

Connie

Days Of Christmas

 In our stamp group the challenge was to make cards using themes from 12 Days of Christmas, I just so happened to have gotten some stamped images from Penny Black years ago from one of the girls that use to be in our group. I just have had them in the envelope not really sure what to do with them, but this challenge was the perfect way for me to get them out and use them. All colored with markers. I also forgot to write down the papers I used in the first two but they were from a cardmaking magazine.

• Memory Box - Stitched circle layers die
• PPD - scalloped Snowflake die

• Spellbinders - Classic Square large die
• Tim Holtz - Funky Festive dies

• PPD - Mini stitched layers die
• ODBD - Christmas 2014 papers

• PPD - Mini Stitched Square die
• ODBD - Christmas 2014 paper

• Spellbinders - Classic Square Large die
• ODBD - Christmas 2014 papers
• Silver pen around image

That is it, she gave me these 5 days, and I used them all :)

Thanks for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Sealed

 I love the look of the wax seals but with all the bulk of them I have never bought them, well I saw these stamped ones and I was able to buy the kit that also had dies with them to cut the flowers and the faux string, so I bought it.  I added some crystal glaze to the seal to make it look more like wax.

• LDRS - Sealed with Good wishes stamps and dies Kit 274
• Nuvo Crystal Glaze on Seal

If you are interested in the stamps and dies, I purchased them from HSN, but I am thinking they may be sold elsewhere, I just haven't seen them anywhere else.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by, Have a great weekend, Summer is HERE!!

Connie

Young boy

 One of my fellow cardmakers sent me a few stickers to use on my cards and I am finally getting around to using some of them, I thought this one would be cute for a great nephew on my hubby's side of the family, I like the vintage look of the image but decided to go with more fun papers with it.

• Playtime kitties sticker
• Carta Bella - Alphabet Junction papers
• Kat Scrappiness - Mini Slimline Double stitch die
• Spellbinders - A2 Distressed Edges die
• Honbay - Sentiment stamp

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

Connie

Stitching

 When I saw this challenge from the Penny Black Saturday challenge blog I thought it would be a great addition for the card I wanted to make for a friend of mine. I used a Paper piercing template for the design, I used the small scallop and the straight edges to make up a frame for these flowers. I stitched it using 2 strands of floss. 

• Penny Black - Rose Bowl stamp, colored w/Spectrum noir Sparkle pens
• Stampin up - Paper Piercing Pack Essentials w/ 2 strands of floss for the stitching
• Gina K - Sentiment stamp
• Memory Box - Paper

I tried to get a close up picture of the sparkle the pens left behind but it still doesn't show up well. I hope the sparkle at least last until my friend receives this in the mail.

A friend that is a substitute teacher gave me that stampin up piercing set when a fellow coworker was retiring from teaching and she was getting rid of all the stuff that was in her classroom, I hope to be using more of them in the future for stitching on cards. I had never heard of them so I googled it and the few you tubes I have watched of them they just used them for piercing with no stitching, but I like the idea of using them as templates to stitch.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, and hope you have a great week ahead,

Connie

Wander and Wonder

 Playing with more ephemera and washi tape postage and used some scraps of paper from my scraps bin.

• 49 and Market - Nature Study General Elements (mushrooms, butterfly and sentiment) Ticket Essentials and Curator Meadow Postage washi tape
• Scrap paper, dotted and ledger

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend,

Connie

Flowers and bird

 I don't know that there is a better combo than birds and flowers :)  Using some ephemera pieces once again and since it was being hand delivered I was able to use more of my big gems and pearls with it :)

• Tim Holtz - Organic Layers Ephemera (bird and Flowers) and Rose Design tape
• Crafter's Companion - Paper from Advent Calendar
• Memory Box - Sentiment tag
• Queen & co. - Pave Gem
• Kaiser - Pearls

I am sharing my card today with Simon Says Monday  Monochrome challenge There is pink in the flowers, bird and paper 

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

Connie

Branch Frame

 When I saw this die set I just loved the possibilities with it, and it comes with so many dies. I loved that it came with it's own bird too :)

• Honeybee - Lovely Layers Seasonal Frame die set
• Craft Consortium - Wood Textures paper
• Papercraft Inspriation - Greetings stamp
• Tim Holtz - Vintage Labels die
• Diamond Dotz (along the vine)

I am sharing todays card with the following challenges:

Double D Challenge frames

Word Art Wednesday 

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

Connie

Graduation

 I have 3 great nephews graduating this year. I don't have anything for just that is strictly for graduation so I went looking through my stuff to see what I could use and found a few things to put together.

• Close to my heart - Frames, tags, borders stamp set (adding a gem at the graduation on the list)
• Spellbinders - Labels one die
• Memory Box - Contour Typewriter Keys dies (for grad)
• Old number stickers I have with no name on them for the year

• Lawn Fawn - Big scripty words stamp and die set
• Inkadinkado - Curly Q Alphabet stamp set (numbers)
• Spellbinders - Back to Basics Tag die w/ gold brads
• BasicGrey - Basics White paper

• Crafter's companion - Foil Transfer sentiment using silver foil
• My sentiments exactly - Little birdie stamp set (so proud of you, stamped with silver ink)
• Sequins

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

Connie

Bees and Butterflies

 Sharing a paper pack I saw the last time I went to the Stamp store over in Missouri, all the pretty yellows jumped out at me so pretty, I am just a sucker for these pretty paper packs with ephemera. The sentiment and the little butterfly tag are old things but all the rest is new.

• Paper Rose studio - Bees & Butterflies Quick card collection
• Memory Box - Greeting tab
• Cardmaking magazine - Butterfly rag
• Brad and Diamond Dotz

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

NBUS Challenge Never before used Schtuff

Four Seasons Challenge

Sisterhood of Crafters Flowers challenge

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

Connie

New goodies

 I had to have the new die set from Tim Holtz with the mini clip board, when I saw his video of it, I had to order it. I can see a lot of fun things to do  with it.  I also used some other goodies from him.

• Tim Holtz - Vault Noteworthy dies, Field Notes stamp set and Cello Tape
• Recollections - Mixed Media paper

I am sharing todays card with Simon Says Monday Challenge Tim Holtz products

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

Connie

Blue Bird

 Hubby and I have been very surprised in the amount of Blue Jays we have been seeing this spring, gave me inspiration for this card, even though he isn't a blue jay he is a blue bird :)  I used some dimensional stickers from Hobby Lobby for the bird to rest upon and framed it all with a wooden die cut frame. Had to add some stenciled clouds to the background :)

• Tim Holtz - Feathered Friends die and small talk sticker sentiment
• Paper Studio - Dimensional stickers
• Hero Arts - Wood Frame infinity die
• My Favorite things - Cloud Stencil

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. We have warmer temps now, sure feels like summer but our skies are hazed over by all the smoke coming down from Canada's fires.  I sure hope that the firefighters are able to get it under control, I can't imagine what it must be like up North.

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

Connie

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