Make a wish

 I needed a teen card for my great niece, so I went with this cute little mouse sticker I bought, the set was so cute and I meant to use them in my journal but I thought it would work good on her card. The sentiments and papers are all from the same paper pack.

• My Mind's Eye - Quite Contrary paper (sentiments, circles and Papers)
• Pink Fresh - Classic Edgers die
• Spellbinders - Labels 8 die (mat for the make a wish sentiment)
• Park Lane - Mouse Sticker

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

Connie

Beautiful Day

 I haven't used these flowers in a very long time, so I got them out to play, there are stamps that go along with them but I decided to layer pattern paper with cardstock for the flowers.  I only did two layers for each flower but if you layer them all together they give a very nice thick flower, but thought with mailing I should keep it down to just two layers. I added a little color by sponging on ink to the flower centers and then added some stickles too, the leaves come with the die set and then I also added the leaf flourish and of course had to add a butterfly also cut from pattern paper.

• Heartfelt Creations - Delicate Asters dies
• Spellbinders - Foliage Flourish die
• Basic Grey - Picadilly paper
• Stickles - Vintage Photo
• Gemini - Butterfly die
• Tim Holtz - Remnant Rub on tiny text

I would like to share my card with the following Challenges:

Triple B - Birds, butterflies and Blooms  I used blooms and butterfly

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge 

We had some rough storms go through Saturday evening, two F1 Tornadoes hit in our town and the one next to ours but we did ok, many signs down, trees down onto houses, the cats are not happy when you lock them into a bathroom, it would be much nicer if we had a basement.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hi, hope you have a good week,

Connie

Patterns

 Another friend just broke her foot, I was stumped on what to do and that is where going to challenges help, Stencil Fun blog has a pattern challenge this time and I do have a few stencils with patterns and I really like this one, so I started with some light spring colors (sorry I forgot to write down what I used) then the rest of the card just came together using a flower I had already stamped, cut out a leaf die and a sentiment.

• Hero Arts - Kelly's Floral Tile stencil
• Simply Cards and Papercrafts - Layered Peonies stamp
• Greetery - Crimped frame die
• Spellbinders - Mosaic Vine and Labels 29 dies
• Words to the Rescue - Get well stamped sentiment
• Gems

Hope you enjoy a nice weekend, we are supposed to get some bad storms this afternoon. 

Thanks for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Garden Wall

 I bought another papercraft magazine with a stamp set included, I liked that it had different elements for garden stamping, the brick wall stamp was jagged, but I was able to stamp it into a solid brick wall very easily.  The flowers and butterfly were fussy cut, but the brick wall I stamped directly onto the background as well as the stenciling of the sky, I added a few blades of grass with my peg stamp.

• Creative Stamping magazine - Cardmaking magic - Climbing flowers stamp set, colored w/markers including the brick wall, flowers, butterfly and sentiment
• My Favorite things - Cloud stencil
• RS Tapestry - Grass Blades mini peg stamp
• Spellbinders - Labels trio die

I would like to share my card today with the following challenges:

Four Season Challenge Spring

Colorful Options Pastels

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

Connie

Four Corners Christmas

 I have done a Christmas version of these cards HERE.  In our stamp group the challenge this month is to use snowflakes, so I broke out a few different snowflake stamps I have to make the background and then just added sentiments to them after cutting them up.  I will share the piece I stamped at the end of the post.

The top two I had stamped with a blue I had but it just seemed to blend in with the stamping and I wanted it to stand out a bit so I went over with black ink, but then I went looking a little more and found a darker blue color that stood out well, so I used that on the bottom two and I also changed the direction of the cards.

• Inkadinkado - Holiday Silhouette's stamps set for big snowflake and sentiments

• Inkadinkado - Holiday Silhouettes stamp set (snowflakes)
• Diamond Press - Happy Holiday's stamp set (sentiments)

Here is what my sheet looked like before cutting it up into 4 panels for my card fronts

If you want a one layer card for mailing and quick cards for Christmas this is a good one to do.

I would like to share my card today with Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge, they have a great inspiration board but I did not use it this time.

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie