Blue Bird

 Hubby and I have been very surprised in the amount of Blue Jays we have been seeing this spring, gave me inspiration for this card, even though he isn't a blue jay he is a blue bird :)  I used some dimensional stickers from Hobby Lobby for the bird to rest upon and framed it all with a wooden die cut frame. Had to add some stenciled clouds to the background :)

• Tim Holtz - Feathered Friends die and small talk sticker sentiment
• Paper Studio - Dimensional stickers
• Hero Arts - Wood Frame infinity die
• My Favorite things - Cloud Stencil

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. We have warmer temps now, sure feels like summer but our skies are hazed over by all the smoke coming down from Canada's fires.  I sure hope that the firefighters are able to get it under control, I can't imagine what it must be like up North.

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

Connie

Silhouettes

 In our cardmaking group the challenge this month for Christmas cards was to use silhouette's. I actually found more than I thought I had both in stamps and dies.

My first card uses both.

• Inkadinkado - Silhouette's stamp set
• PPD - Scalloped Snowflake Frame

With this stamp, I colored the red rubber with Aqua markers and stamped each section at a time, using my Misti stamping platform. When I was all done stamping them all, I very lightly misted the stamp with water and stamped one more time, it really gave it a nice look I think.

• Inkadinkado - Folk Wreath stamp set w/Aqua Markers
• Inkadinkado - Christmas Season stamp set for sentiment
• Stampendous - Stickers (in the corner)

I made two of these, the actual nativity was cut again using sparkle paper and the top part of the ornament was done with gold glitter cardstock. I realized just now posting that I didn't add a sentiment, will have to decide if I think it needs one.

• Die Versions - Starry Nativity Ornament die, gold glitter and sparkle cardstocks
• Impression Obsession - Pine Branch die
• Anna Griffin - Christmas Scrapbook paper

The next one I will share the side view too, so you can see the embossing better.  I am thinking I need some new gold embossing powder, or maybe it is the way I am stamping, it just seems to come out bumpy instead of smooth.

• Inkadinkado - Holiday Silhouettes w/gold embossing powder
• Spellbinders - Matting Basics A dies
• Elizabeth Craft designs - Merry Christmas sticker, colored w/gold pen

This last one is from a set of border stamps.

• Recollections - Christmas Borders stamp set
• Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A dies
• Hot off the press - 63 Thin line Border stickers

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

Connie

On your Special day

 It had been awhile since I have used this set, I had to get it out and play with it again.  The set has the stamps and stencil together. I popped up just the flower portion, the leaves and stem are glued to the background.

• Tim Holtz - THMM107 Stamp and Stencil set, colored w/markers and fussy cut,  Stencil used Antique Linen and Mowed Lawn inks
• Card Making Magic - Birthday Verses sentiment stamp
• Martha Stewart - Pearls
• String

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

Beautiful Blossom challenge I used the colors in the mood board

Stencil Fun Challenge 

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

Connie

Sending a hug

 My friends brother died recently and when trying to figure out what to do for him, I went and read his obituary and found he was in the military and with Memorial day coming up, it made me think of the Poppies they use to sell downtown where I grew up around memorial day, my mom would always be one from the gentleman.

 I have this paper pack and tags from a Card making magazine with poppies so that is where I started.  I added the tag to a die cut tag to separate all that pattern of poppies.

•  Country Diary of an Edwardian lady - Paper and tag collection from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine
• Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A die
• Anna Griffin Advent calendar - Tag die
• Recollections - Brad and lace
• Inky Antics - Simple Sentiments, embossed with white embossing powder

May we never forget the cost for our freedom, those men and women who gave up their lives for our freedom, and to the families who miss them.

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

Connie

Sending Good thoughts

 Our group got together again on line and made embossed panels together. I chose what I hoped would be good ones for my brother in law who is now fighting cancer once again. We were to emboss a panel, I chose one that I had stencil or stamped, I can't remember I took it from my pile of backgrounds I have that I made a while ago. I used the debossed side in the panel in the back and we added two different kinds of embossing powder to it and heated the back side of the panel, you can't heat from the top because we didn't use any medium to keep it on the top.  Then she gave us some measurements to make the front fold, sorry I don't have the measurements we made. 

She had in her example an image half on the folded part so it stuck up from the fold, I asked my hubby if the Slide Frame I had made a couple days earlier would be ok to add to it, he liked the frame but he wanted me to put it on the bottom half because he felt it took away from the embossing I had done if it stuck up higher.

I know the gold embossing powder looks black in the first photo but in the side picture it just show up better.

• Darcie - Brick wall embossing folder w/ gold and green embossing powders sprinkle on and heated from the back side of the panel to melt
• Cuttlebug - Script embossing folder on front panel
• Tim Holtz - Specimen die and Field Notes Stamps (numbers)
• Spellbinders - Advent Calendar sentiment stamp
• Stamped text behind the bee ephemera piece

I am sharing my card today with Can you handle the pressure? Blog 

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

Connie