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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Connie

Make A wish

 Sharing some new goodies, I have had them for a little while but finally got around to using them. I got some Wood Veneer cardstock from Amazon and tried it out making the nest from it, hoping it would look more like twigs. I also did a bit of inking on it. My new bird is nestled inside.

• Simon Says stamps - Rustic Nest die cut from Wood Venner cardstock and Sweet Songbird die
• Graphic 45 - Botanical Tea papers 
• Poppy stamps - Eyelet stitches die
• Tim Holtz - Funky Floral #3 dies and Quote Chips
• Queen & Co. - Baby Blue Pearls

I would like to share my card today with the following Challenges,

Triple B Challenge 

NBUS (Nest and Bird dies)

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Connie

Just for you

 Once again I only managed to get head on pics of my first card, and it has already been mailed. But I did add a bit of dimension with foam adhesive tape, to some of the ephemera in this paper pack.

• Studio Light - DIY Block Vintage Roses paper pack. Papers and ephemera
• Diamond Press - Heart Gem

I would like to share this card with Love those pretty papers challenge.

The next card is one I sent to one of the older ladies in our congregation that is home bound. I am sure like us all she is dreaming of spring.  I haven't used these stamps before.  The bird stamp is solid and the actual bird is clear, I stamped onto pattern paper so the bird would have some kind of pattern to it, and fussy cut it out, as well as the umbrella, and the two sentiment tag, the dream was also stamped onto pattern paper and punched the circle out.

• Autumn Leaves - Wellies n Brellas stamp set (fussy cutting)
•  Martha Stewart - Circle punch (dream stamp)
• Spellbinders - Lattice Rectangle die

 

 

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

Connie

 

Hello

 I went to my Graphics Fairy collection once again to make a card for a lady in the church who just went through surgery. They have a great collection of vintage images, clipart and such if you are interested.

• Graphics Fairy - Vintage images
• ODBD - Hello Die
• Spellbinders - Sequins

I would like to share my card today with the Double D Challenge Postal Challenge

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Connie

Let us begin

 Went with more Ciabella products for the next Masculine card I needed, adding some die cut gears cut from metallic cardstock to go with the theme of the ephemera.

• Ciabella - Engine of the future 12x12 paper and Creative pad Ephemera elements
• Memory Box - Deluxe Gear set dies
• Tim Holtz - Vintage Labels dies and stamp

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Connie

Balloon Kitties

 I thought this stamp would make a cute card for a preteen birthday. Colored it with markers.

• Inky Antics - Balloon Kitties stamp set, colored w/markers
• Echo Park - Fine and Dandy paper
• Gemini - Torn Edge circle dies
• Diamond Press - Advent calendar star gems from 2025 calendar

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

Connie