Daffodils

 When I saw the Double D Challenge I just had to use another of the stamps from the Magazine I had bought, this bouquet is quite large so I went with a 5x7 card this time. I colored with pencils this time around and fussy cut it out. The challenge this month was to use their pictures for inspiration, there are all kinds of flowers to pick from.

• Crafts Beautiful magazine - March 2021 - stamp, colored w/pencils
• Spellbinders - 5x7 Elegant Labels 4 and Peony dies
• Papercraft Inspiration magazine - Greetings stamp
• Queen & co. - Yellow sunshine pearls
• Clear gems

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, hope your week is off to a great start!

Connie

Blooming good day

 I had the cross-stitch already made, and I thought it might be a cute idea for my friend to just add a little bit of repositionable tape on the back so that she can take it off and use it as a book mark.  I really should have made a bigger size card so that I could use a bit of ribbon on it but I had to mail it so I left the ribbon off. The tag and cross-stitch pattern are from My favorite things so I went through my stamps from them and found this little girl and thought it would go with the cross-stitch perfectly :)

I popped the girl and the sentiment up with some foam tape so that the sun could sit behind.

• My Favorite things - Cross-stitch tag die and pattern, Blooming good day stamp, colored w/markers
• Poppystamps - Stitched Landscape die
• DCWV - Crafty stack paper
• Spellbinders - Lg. classic inverted scallop circle die

I hope your whole weekend is a blooming good one!

Thanks so much for stopping by and letting me know you did :)

Connie

Hyacinth

 I am once again using a stamp from the Magazine I picked up at Barnes and Nobles.  I colored it with markers and was going to do a clean card with just the stamp but then decided to cut one of the edges with a fancy die and add some patterned paper peeking out.

• Crafts Beautiful Magazine - March 2021 stamp set, colored w/markers
• Pink Fresh - Classic Edgers die
• Stamped sentiment unknown
• Gems

Foot update - Went to the doctor yesterday, he said I am good to start wearing my own shoes, told him I tried to do my New Balance shoes but I had a lot of pain in my incision area, and he said just because the outside is healed doesn't mean the inside is fully healed yet so I need to take this slow, I do have a pair of sandals that strap on so I am able to start off with them, if I experience any pain I am to go back to the boot, so praying no pain and the sandals will work until I can fit in my regular shoes.

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

Connie

For You

 My niece called me the other day and asked how do I store my stickers, she really loves crafting and has collected many stickers and needed some tips on how to organize and store them.  Now hubby will tell you I have a crazy organization of my craft room but he soon found out when I had my foot surgery that I knew where everything was I wanted to use :)

The next day after our talk I went and started looking through all my stickers and decided to just pick one and use it on the next card I needed to send out, and this is the one I grabbed, for all of you not knowing where to start on card making that is one way of doing it.  

I didn't like how small the tag was so I cut another tag out of patterned paper and added the sticker to that one and added a button brad to it, tying it in with the background I picked to frame it. I added a few butterfly stickers to the background, kind of hard to see with the busy background.

• Miss Elizabeths - Scrapbook stickers (tag)
• Gemini - Loving tags die
• October Afternoon - 5 & Dime paper
• Spellbinders - A2 Devine Eloquence die
• Recollections - button brad
• Hot off the press - Mix ems butterfly stickers

The sticker is 3-D with the butterfly and stamp popped up.

Hope your week is off to a good start, we had a lovely day yesterday, we went to park yesterday, I didn't do too much walking but hubby brought along a chair and stool for me and I sat in the warm sun and enjoyed being outside!

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

Connie

Celebrate

 When Birgit sent me this image I knew exactly who it would be going to, my great nephew loves animals, and here was a whole bunch of them to celebrate his birthday with him.  I colored them with markers, added the stamp sentiment and die cuts of confetti.

• Mama Elephant - Dog's woof stamp, colored w/markers
• Paper Smooches - Happy Birthday stamp
• Taylored Expressions - Confetti die

I am adding my card today to the Time out challenge blog , their challenge is to use pets on your card.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and I hope you enjoy a lovely Sunday!

Connie