Live this life

 I am sharing another card using a sticker that I found at Dollar Tree last year.  I check in there every now and then just to see what they have and sometimes I hit the jackpot.  Here lately our stores haven't had anything all that great, it could be my timing too. This one is a 3D sticker, with lot's of dimension.

I started off using my scraps for the background of my card.  I added the sticker over a tag that had some image or sentiment I didn't care for. Then to mimic the newsprint look in the background of the sticker I added a strip I tore from an old book.  Added a ribbon that I tied with some Jute, a sentiment sticker and a little inking around everything and the card was done.

• Forever in Time - Glitter sticker
• Paula Deen - Tag pad
• My mind's eye - The sweetest thing paper
• Making Memories - Autumn Splendor ribbon
• Jute
• Dictionary page torn and inked
• Tim Holtz - Metallic sticker sentiment 

I would like to share my card with Simon Says Challenge anything goes.

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

Connie

Birthday present

 I picked out this stamp and then went to my papers and found these and decided to use the colors in them for my coloring, but I think my coloring of the dog ended up a bit darker than the colors on the paper. It looked good in person before I sent it out, but looking at it on the post it looks a little dark.

• Inky Antics - Birthday delights, colored w/markers
• PPD - Mini Stitched Square dies
• My Mind's Eye - The sweetest thing
• EK Success - corner punch for sentiment tag

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

Connie

Purple and Gold

 I had seen this washi tape being used in different ways on cards on the Altenew  blog and just loved it but talked myself out of getting it. Well last fall when we went to the stamp store over in Missouri I saw it there in person and I just couldn't resist and hoped I would get some use out of it.  This first time using it I just applied it to my cardstock as my background, added a die cut and a gold die cut sentiment to go with the gold in the Washi tape. I just love the water color look of the flowers and all the gold touches,

• Altenew - Glitter Flurries Washi tape for card background
• Gemini - Opulent Swirls die
• Spellbinders - Happy Birthday die
• Recollections - Iridescent gem

You can see a little more of the shine of the gold in the close up picture above.

We have been getting freezing rain, sleet and snow mix, should be ending by this evening, but I hear that the East Coast is going to get hit hard again, take care and stay safe, there has been pile up accidents here.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.

Connie

Pop up Congrats

 My friend who I have had since we were babies has been able to finally retire. She is single and has worked hard all her life and has a few medical issues that makes being on her feet all the time very hard so I was so happy for her that she was able to retire in her late 50's.  So I had to make a fun retirement card. Now I know these critters are looking like they are going to a birthday party but who says you can't wear hats and have balloons at a retirement.

Stamped and colored these little guys and cut it out and glued them into the front of the Pop up box, then cut the balloons out of some background paper I had made using colorburst powders.  I attached them with acetate pieces so that they would spring when she opened it.

The Congrats die cut in the front was layered 3 times to give it some dimension and I finished all the sides off with sequins.

• Avery Elle - Critter Crew, colored w/markers and fussy cut
• Spellbinders - Scalloped Pop up box and Sentiments One dies
• Taylored Expressions - Balloons die
• Crate Paper - Party day paper
• Sequins

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

Connie

Glitter Snowflakes

 My cardmaking group is having Christmas challenges every month for Christmas, and this month is snowflakes.  We have a different person think of a challenge using that theme, and I was picked for the last week in February.  I picked us to add sparkle to our snowflakes, either by die cutting out of glitter papers, adding glitter with glue, embossing a snowflake stamp with glitter embossing powder, stickles, H2O's, sparkle pens whatever way they can choose to add some sparkle.

I went with glitter cardstock and glittered fun foam for the white snowflakes.

• Poppystamps - Dancing snowflake Tile die, cut from Paper studio Glitter cardstock
• Gemini - Frosty Christmas, white large snowflake die
• Cuttlebug - Snowflake 2 dies other smaller snowflakes out of Glitter fun foam
• Pink and Main - sentiment strip dies
• Simon Says stamps - tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp

Those of you that make Christmas cards monthly, do you have yours done for this month?  We don't have as many days to make this month... I have one more to share and I will have mine done.

Hope your week is off to a great start, we have had a couple of nice days of weather here before we get back to the winter temps.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie