Fern and Flowers

Time again to throw a feminine card into the batch :)

I had stamped, colored and cut these Vintage Florets out a few months ago at one of our Ladies Craft nights we have at church, but never shaped them and put them together so I decided it was about time I used them in a card.  The smaller flowers are bitty blossoms. Did a bit of inking on the smaller flowers, the fern and rose leaves.

Heartfelt creations -- Vintage Floret stamps and dies, colored w/ markers
Flower soft -- sunshine yellow (flower center)
Spellbinders -- Foliage, Labels 37 and Bitty Blossom dies
Martha Stewart -- Butterfly punch
Liquid Pearls -- Lemon Yellow (on butterfly)
Hero Arts -- Fabulous Birthday sentiment stamp
Plastic baby breaths

Hope your week is starting off nicely,
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and leave your comments, I so appreciate it,

Connie

Udderly fantastic

This is for another great nephew turning 14, I hope this puts a smile on his face and he likes it, I am running out of teen ideas.

I found the fabric birthday sentiment while looking for something else the other day so I thought that would go with this too and you just have to add a button to anything fabric right :)

Inkadinkado -- Friendly Characters stamp set, colored w/markers
Distress inks for the grass and the sponging around the image
Recollections -- Awesome boy paper
Spellbinders -- Lg. classic inverted scalloped square and Hexagon dies
Making memories -- woven labels
Fiskars -- Corner and grass punches
button w/ DMC thread

I helped my husband work on the truck for two days this week and he was finally able to get the whole brake line fixed.  I felt so bad for him, his hand and especially his ribs took a beating but he wanted to get it done, he had to take out 3 things in the engine to get to the lines so he had to get all that back together after getting the line fixed. It is nice to be back to two cars again.  Hopefully next week he can climb up on the roof and get that fixed and we will be all set.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and share your thoughts,

Connie

Cattails and Butterflies

I found a similar style of cutting on the silhouette and tried cutting it out but just didn't like how choppy the cut seemed, so when I found this die from cottage cutz, I thought I would give it a try and it cut perfectly, I am very happy with the way this turned out.  I made this for my nephews wife but I can see this being used for a masculine card too :)

I cut it from green cardstock, first colored the cattails with brown marker and then tried yellow for the flowers and orange for the butterflies, well those colors just looked like more shades of brown when colored on the green cardstock so I added stickles to those and I think the diamond stickles actually brought out some of the orange on the butterflies.

Cottage Cutz -- Fancy cattails and butterflies die
Damask Rose -- paper from cardmaking and papercrafts magazine
Spellbinders -- A2 matting basics A and Romantic Rectangles dies
Glimmer mist on the Romantic Rectangle die
Distress ink -- frayed burlap
Stickles -- yellow and diamond
David Tutera -- Celebrate sentiment
Ribbon

We are having beautiful weather this week and while out and about we are seeing some trees starting to change color too.  Autumn is in the air :)

Hope your all enjoying a great week so far,
Thanks so much for stopping by, and taking the time to comment too, love to hear from you,

Connie

Birthday phone

This is going to my great nephew who started High School this year.

Recollections -- Awesome boy paper
Silhouette -- die cut (phone)
SRM -- Happy Birthday sticker
Fiskars -- Border punch
Piercing

My hubby's hand and ribs are still healing, but he has rode his bike two days in a row now, I think I would be a bit nervous to hop right back on while still healing.

Hope you all have beautiful weather this weekend before Autumn officially starts :)

Thanks so much for stopping by, and leaving your comments,

Connie

Michelle's Inspiration

Yes I do realize I am a few days late for my challenge post, but things have been just a bit crazy around here, I will have more at the end of the post to explain.

My middle of the month inspiration comes from Michelle and you can see the Beautiful card that inspired mine Here on her blog .  For some reason when I click on the link it sends me to the comments so if that happens to you too, just scroll up to see the card :)

Here is my version, and yes this will be going to another nephew of mine :)

I first sponged on some Mustard seed distress ink all over my piece of cardstock, then laid the stencil over and sponged the wild honey, well to get the sun in the corner of my stencil didn't quite reach to the opposite corner so I had to move the stencil and try again.  Hopefully you understand what I am saying, LOL!   I used 3 stamps from the set, one bird I have perched on the flourish and the other flying through the air.  I just loved the stamps that Michelle had chosen to use and of course she hand sponged her rays, no stencil there, she does such beautiful work with brayers and her inks and stamping, hope you get a chance to check out her whole blog.

Distress inks -- Mustard seed and wild honey
Tim Holtz -- Rays stencil
Inkadinkado-- flourishes stamp set
Technique Tuesday -- Happy Birthday stamp set
Spellbinders -- A2 matting basics B
Ki -- metal accents

We have had a string of bad situations this week, first we found a leak in our closet and found out the vent pipes on our roof is leaking.  Then Sunday after church my hubby was driving his truck home ( I had to work in the office that morning, so I drove separately) and his brakes failed him.  We were so thankful it happened on our street and no one was around when the truck went right through the stop sign.  It took part of Sunday and Monday to remove the line (from front to back of truck). Yesterday after I went grocery shopping we went out and bought all the parts for him to fix the truck today.  Well before work my hubby decided that he would ride his bike, I didn't go with him because I am still dealing with the sciatica pain.  Well on the way home on a fairly busy street near us he turned to check traffic and when he came back he hit a pot hole and flipped over the handle bars.  He rode it the rest of the way home and showed up bleeding from his arm and leg, went in to take a shower to get ready for work and realized his hand was in pain, and bending over his ribs hurt.  He ended up with a fractured hand and bruised ribs, he wants to get out there and finish fixing the truck and  replacing the vents on the roof and mowing the lawn but I am making him take at least today off.

We are praying for a calm rest of this week,
Hope your week is running smoothly,
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie