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