Father's Day

For my Father in law. We were able to hand deliver his card this year. I started with regular cardstock then decided to try my watercolor markers on the water, no that didn't work at all wouldn't blend so then I went to using alcohol markers on top and tried to blend it took 3 other colors just to try and make it look some what normal, I did like the effect of the stickles to give the water some shimmer.

Stampscapes -- Old Mill Lg stamp colored w/markers
Stickles -- aqua in the water
Spellbinders A2 Distressed Edges dies
Fiskars -- Corner punch
DCWV -- Tattered Time Paper

Wishing you a great week ahead.

Connie

Caterpillar

I needed a card for my 7 year old great nephew and when I saw this technique of using the Hexagons to make a caterpillar I just had to make it for his birthday.  My inspiration for the card came from Crafter's companion Inspiration Magazine Issue 3 Summer page 14.

With mine I wanted it to look like he was in lush grass so I took my embossing folder and after embossing rubbed the ink pad over it to give it some depth and bring out the design a little more, I used a white marker for his eyes that I bought at Target in their $ section and added a little black pen to that.  His antennas are flower stamens that I colored black with marker and taped to the back side of the head. Punched out the grass for a little in front of him also.

Diamond Press -- Hexagon dies came with magazine
Cuttlebug -- Floral screen embossing folder
Fiskars -- Grass punch
Hero Arts -- It's your day sentiment stamp

It has me wondering what other things can be made out of the hexagons, I have seen flowers, can't remember if I have done a card with them though, you maybe seeing one of those soon :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and let me know you did!

Connie

Blossoms

This was a belated Birthday card for a friend at church, yes that does happen I try to be on time with my cards but that doesn't always happen.

These are a combination of rolled flowers and punched flowers that I shaped using a foam mat and a stylus to shape the petals.

Sizzix -- Branch w/leaves die
Spellbinders -- Resplendent Rectangles and Bitty Blossom dies
Martha Stewart -- Flower, leaves and butterfly punches
Stickles -- waterfall (flower centers)
Gem

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I am a bit behind again on visiting blogs we are in Michigan sight seeing and visiting with family.

Connie

Block Panel card

Hi, I am doing a post for the Dies R Us Blog today.

There are so many uses for this Frantic Stamper Color Block card panel die . Here is a picture of the die layered onto a Spellbinders A2 Matting basics A die cut.

In today's card I used different papers from my scraps bin. I stamped the sentiment panel with Paper Smooches Happy Birthday sentiment stamp set, The bird was part of the paper I cut out. Memory Box Wild feathers for the upper right panel.  Taylored Expressions Mini leaves die for the bottom right panel.  Elizabeth Craft designs - Happy Birthday die over both middle panels.  The bees are also from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

There are 3 layers to the bees, I just love this set, here is a closeup of the bees die.

I have done some ink sponging on the leaves and feathers.

Here are pictures of the dies I used in this card, links are above in the description.

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Connie

Rose Challenge

Heidi from my stamp group gave us the challenge to use a rose on our card, and I needed a card for a friend at church and I have had this rose stamp I picked up at the yard sale at my stamp store for awhile that needed to get some inking, so this is the card I came up with :)

I colored the rose with Spectrum markers and then hand cut it out and adding some foam tape to apply it to the card. I also pierced some holes on either side of the rose stem and threaded my floss through and tied the sentiment tag on that way.

Be sure to check out Heidi's blog, she does such pretty work with all her cards, I really love what she does with her Tapestry stamps.

JRL Designs -- Rose Romance, colored w/markers and fussy cut
Papertrey ink -- Hodge Podge papers
Spellbinders -- Fleur De Lis Rectangles
Taylored Expressions -- Mini tags die and many minis occasions sentiment stamp

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and to let me know you did, so nice hearing from you all.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend, we are having some very HOT and HUMID weather here.

Connie