Get well

 I had to have more play time with my 49 and market goodies and I thought these would work well for a gentlemen in our church who came down with Covid recently, glad to say he is feeling much better now.

• 49 and Market - 6x8 Vintage Artistry Essentials paper (background paper and leaf)
• 49 and Market - Vintage Artistry Essentials Ephemera bits (tag and butterfly) did a bit of inking around the tag and background papers
• Tim Holtz - Sentiment words, Thin dies
• Jute

I am adding today's card in the Simon Says Challenge which is anything goes

We had a bit of flooding in the ditch behind our house again and out in the road in front of our house but thankfully it didn't come up into our yard, it looks like we may have a couple days without rain before we get some more next week.

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

Connie

Do what you love

 Masculine card today for a guy who likes fishing, I know this guy would rather be out in a boat then on the shore relaxing but he will get the idea :)  I think the longest thing this card took was coloring that water, first time I showed hubby he said oh wow that water is to dark, so I went back in my room and tried everything to lighten it, when I came back out he said oh that's much better.  I cut the image out with decorative scissors and added photo corners then mounted that all onto some pattern paper.

• Northwoods stamp- 2010
• Provocraft - Scissors
• Tim Holtz - THMM113 sentiment stamp
• Pink & Main - Sentiment strip die
• Photo Corners

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

Connie

Sentiment

 When I saw the challenge over at Sisterhood of Crafters which is Sentiments only, I thought of this die I have that I am not sure if I have used yet. I cut it out twice to give it more dimension. I also just had a zoom meeting with my stamp group where we made backgrounds using our gelli plates using Oxide inks and this one I also used a stencil on top. The flowers also come with the sentiment die, I put it on a vellum die cut so that you can still see the background through it.

• Sizzix - Phrase, Happy Birthday to you die
• Spellbinders - Labels 11 die
• Background made on gelli plate by adding oxides to the base, placing a stencil on top and sponging the oxide ink through the stencil, removing and making the print.
• Hero Arts - Filigree Patterns 2 stencil
• Me & my big ideas - gems

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Dreams come true

 A few of the girls in my cardmaking group was sharing different ways they are using up their scraps so it made me go to one of my 6x6 paper pads and I had all these thing strips in there, I decided to put them together for the base of my card.  I added a strip of another pad at the top and used scraps to cut out and layer the pretty die cut so that it had good dimension!

• BasicGrey - Picadilly paper scraps, inked before adding to card base
• Quick cards - Floral Garland die
• Tim Holtz - Crochet die and clippings sticker for sentiment on kraft cardstock

Thank so much for taking the time to stop by today, and hope you have a great weekend!

Connie

Topiary

 When I saw the Retro Rubber Challenge of anything goes, I decided to break out this set that I bought at a used sale at my stamp store, it is a set of topiary stamps from Close to my heart but there is no name or date on them but since I bought them probably over 3 years ago I know they are old.

After picking out the stamp I started going through papers to get an idea what colors I wanted to go with and I came across this set that was in my advent calendar from Crafters companion, isn't that gorgeous, so purple coloring it is :)  I put a little sparkle pen on the flowers, punched out the butterflies and added some gems, cut it out with this oval die and added a tag with stamped sentiment and colored the brad with a marker to match!

• Close to my heart - Stamp set name unknown, colored w/markers
• Crafters Companion - Advent calendar paper
• Spellbinders - Floral Ovals die
• Martha Stewart - Butterfly and tag punches
• Stamps of life - minis4circles sentiment stamp
• gems
• Brad colored w/marker

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

Connie