NOEL

 My cardmaking group is doing their Christmas challenges again and each of us take a week to share what we have done to hopefully inspire others to get their Christmas cards made.  Our challenge for the month of January is use our sentiment as the focal. 

My challenge for everyone is to use those big letters that we have had from years ago for our scrapbooking and use them on our cards.  I have these thick chipboard letters and I went through them trying to see if I could come up with a Christmas sentiment and I had enough letters for NOEL :)

I made another mini slimline card.

• K&co. - Roam Chipboard Alphabet
• Spellbinders - Resplendent Rectangles die
• Graphic 45 - Christmas Emporium paper
• Die-versions - Holly die w/gold sequins

Maybe I have inspired you to give it a try, using up our old goodies and getting one more card closer to having them ready for this Christmas.

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

Connie

Birthday Challenge

 Double D Challenge blog has a Birthday Challenge to celebrate their 7th birthday, wow how time flies.  I needed a card for my great nieces birthday and thought this would be perfect, I had recently come across this banner that a cardmaking friend had sent me awhile ago and thought it might be perfect for a 14 year old.  I added it with my new die cut sentiment I bought last year through HSN.

• Gemini - Wish you a Happy Birthday die
• Forever in time - Mini Pennant Flags
• DCWV - Old World Stack paper
• Stamps of Life - Cupcake stamp set, colored sprinkles w/markers
• Sequins

Here is the mood board to give us ideas of what we can do on our cards, my inspiration came from the bottom left photo.

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

Connie

Hello

 A lady from church fell and broke both her ankles, even had to have surgery on one, I wanted to let her know I was praying for her so I sent her this card. I know I don't need anymore but I bought another bird for myself for Christmas.  I had to use it on her card. The hello die is from the Advent Calendar this year.

• Simon Says stamps - Layered Warbler die
• Poppystamps - Grand Gothic Luminary and Climbing Vine dies
• Basic Grey - Periphery Paper
• Crafter's Companion - Advent Calendar (Hello) die

Hope you are all staying well in this new year!

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

Connie

50th

 One of the ladies in our cardmaking group recently celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary so all of us girls decided to send her cards. I tried going for a more elegant feel to the card.

• Anna Griffin - Christmas scrapbook paper
• Gemini - Opulent swirls die
• Spellbinders - Splendid circles die
• Memory Box - Stitched circle layers
• Taylored Expressions -  Whimsy #'s die
• Tim Holtz - Funky Festive dies and Metallic cardstock

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed a nice New year and that the year ahead will be a wonderful one!

Hugs,

Connie

Glitter flurries

 Last time I used this washi tape I used the full sheet to cover my card, this time I used half a sheet and then applied the tape to another piece of cardstock and fussy cut some of the flowers out to add to the top of the card. Since there is gold touches in the washi tape I cut some leaves out of gold metallic paper to go with the flowers. I stamped the text for the top of the card and used a die cut border to go between.  I used my circle punch once again to punch out some circles to add to the background.

• Altenew - Glitter Flurries Washi tape, fussy cut the flowers for the main image
• American Crafts - Border stamp for top half of card
• Tim Holtz - Crochet and Funky Floral #3 die
• Honbay - Sentiment stamp
• Spellbinders - Labels 29 dies
• EK Success - circle punch

The side view shows the gold in the flowers better :)

Wishing you all a very Happy New year, hope you all stay safe and that 2023 is a great year for you!

Thanks so much to all of you that stop by so often and give me such great encouragement and your friendship.  

Hugs,

Connie