Get well wishes

 There is a gentlemen in our church that is going through some very rough health troubles right now and I wanted to let him know he is in my prayers.

I used a wooden bird for my main focus, I decided to give him a little sparkle and color with my Sparkle marker and it was now way to dark instead of too light, so I quickly rubbed the marker off before it all soaked into the wood and thought the uneven look gave it a good textured feeling, so I stuck with that.

I used some strips of of paper to make up the background and inked around them.  the border of the tag was made using a border punch and after adding the sentiment I felt it needed a little more so I added some dots with my fine tip pen and then inked around the whole tag and card.

• Ms. Sparkle & co. - Wood Veneers, colored w/Spectrum sparkle marker in Earth color, then partially wiped off
• Inkessentials - enamel accents in black for eyes
• Basic Grey - Porcelain Papers
• Martha Stewart - Border punch
• Inky Antics - Simple sentiments stamp
• Pen dots

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

Connie

Happy Valentines day

 For my hubby, used some papers that a friend gave me, leaves stamp and die cut from Advent calendar 2021 to make a heart and heart stickers from $ store.

I would like to share my card with the Sisterhood of Crafters hearts challenge

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a nice day!

Connie

Thank you

 I was in need of a couple thank you cards, my first friend is a substitute school teacher and one of the teachers in the school she works at was getting rid of most of her supplies and she texted me pictures of the items and I would tell her what I wanted, it took a lot of her time and I was so thankful that she thought of me so I just had to make her a card. I got punches, stamps, embossing folders, ect,

• Gemini - Thank you so much die
• Lilybee design - Head over heals paper
• Simply Cards and Papercrafts - Layered Peonies stamp
• Martha Stewart - Leaf punch

The flower on this is one of those layered stamping so no coloring just lining up the stamps.

This next friend asked if I could use any storage containers she was getting rid of, one was perfect to hold all my Christmas stamps that are still on wood blocks, the other I am still trying to figure out what to use it for but I am sure it won't be long and I will have that figured out.

This background stamp I used on this card was one I received from my other friend :) I used some rub ons with it.

• Inkadinkado - Thank you stamp
• 49 and market - Vintage artistry essentials paper and Blush & Sage Rub ons

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today, 

Connie

Happy 16th

 Yes another of my great nephews has turned 16, just amazing how quick time flies.  I brought out my truck stamp again, stamping it on a piece that I had smooshed some distress ink on. The flags, sentiment and the tire mark border is all from the same stamp set.

• ODBD - Special boy stamp set, stamped on watercolor paper that had been smooshed with Forest moss distress ink
• Spellbinders - Lg. Deckled Rectangles dies
• DCWV - Natural Stack paper
• PPD Stitched curvy coved rectangle die

The side view doesn't show very well but the background paper has touches of bronze in it!

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

Connie

Cutie pie

 I won these die cuts from Birgit's blog back in 2017, and I think I have used them every year since and I still have more to go, I guess I need to make more cards then just my daughter and hubby, today's card is for our daughter.  I made a little banner using the heart die cuts and some twine. I punched the flower border and colored with markers, then inked in the grassy area.  I added some tiny heart stickers I got form $ store a few years back. I popped up all the die cuts with foam tape.

• Preprinted die cuts from friend 
• Martha Stewart - Border punch colored w/markers and grass inked with mowed lawn distress ink
• Heart stickers for flower centers from $ store
• American Crafts - Twine

I am sharing my card today with Double D Challenge blog which is using hearts.

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

Connie