Four corners

 Thankfully before the Covid hit I was able to get one challenge done from one of the other girls.  If I am feeling up to it, I am going to try to do another challenge this afternoon, usually afternoons are my best time, and I know how much getting in the craft room is a good thing for me most days, I will let you know how that goes.

I want to thank all of you for your thoughts and especially prayers for me, my hubby having it to now is a bummer, we just take turns taking care of each other :)

The challenge is to take a 8x10 1/2 inch paper, stamp down the middle both ways then cut the paper into 4 sections at 4x 5 1/4, that gives you 4 card fronts.  I have been sending out and needing a lot of thinking of you cards here lately so I made all of these in those to have on hand. Did a little splattering, sentiment and gems.

• Inkadindado - Garden Delight stamps
• Distress oxide - Rusty Hinge
• Archival inks - Fossilized Amber, Fern Green, Red Geranium
• Gold Paint splatters
• Mama Elephant - Butterfly kisses sentiment stamp

The last two I put on a lighter cardstock base and went with Stampendous - Sincere Sentiments stamps

Thanks for stopping by,

Connie

Busting out

 Hey everyone I just wanted to let you know that I have caught covid, it has really knocked me out, feeling a little better today in my lungs so I think I may be on the up swing of this, just very exhausted yet, so I am hoping later today I will be able to come an visit your blogs. 

I had a card already to go for another challenge for my group.

I just went with a picture I saw so I really can't give any dimensions for you. I stamped my image and then found a die that was close to the size, I marker the corners around that die and then took my metal ruler and an x-acto knife and cut from one corner to the other in an X and then pilled that back and attached with a brad.  I did add a little foam tape underneath to keep it lifted.

• ODBD - Morning glory stamp, colored w/markers
• Graphic 45 - Botanical tea papers
• Recollection brads

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

2 for I

 My stamp group is holding another week of challenges starting today, we each challenge each other to a technique or style of card and the others show what they come up with. When I saw This card HERE, I just wanted to give it a try so I thought it would be neat to see what the others come up with.  Instead of doing a the card the way she did it I decided to turn my card around.

So neat to get two cards for one.  I stamped the image on both white cardstock and a kraft cardstock, coloring only the one I stamped on the white, when done I put the two cards together and cut them at the same time to make sure I had them equal, instead of adding my sentiment between the two panels I just added a strip of paper and added my sentiments to the kraft part of the card.

• Simon Says stamps - Flower Garden stamp, colored w/pencils
• Spellbinders - Happy Birthday die, cut twice and layered

Simon Says stamps - Flower Garden stamp, colored w/pencils

Die-Namics - cross-stitch die

Cardmaking and Papercraft - Sentiment

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

Connie

Hope for Tomorrow

 I love this sentiment for anyone going through a rough patch in their life. The bird image comes from the same paper pack as my card base paper. I use my punch around the page punch and did a little inking of it to give it a more vintage look and added some little flowers that I shaped and added some stickles to the centers to bring a touch of spring to it!

• DCWV - Primrose Stack paper for image and paper
• Martha Stewart - Punch around the page punches
• EK Success - Flower punch, shaped and layered
• Stickles - Scattered Straw to centers
• Simon Says Stamps - Tiny words Faith sentiment stamp

I would like to add my card to the Four Seasons Challenge which is Spring.

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

Connie

Layered Trees

 I bought this die last year on sale and never got around to using it so I just had to get it done, it took me a few days of being in my craft room to get all these cut and then put together.  I used different color combo's together in different layers trying to figure out which one I liked the most, you will have to tell me which one is your favorite.

Instead of going with the little circles that came in the die set, I chose to go with another die set for all the ornaments. The presents did come with the tree die set, I cut those out from pattern papers.

I only took a side view of one of them because they are all the same I put foam tape behind the tree and some presents.

• Sizzix - Layered Christmas Tree die
• Marianne Design - Craftable Christmas tree ornaments dies
• Graphic 45 - Christmas emporium papers
• Gold paper strips

•  Sizzix - Layered Christmas Tree die
• Marianne Design - Craftable Christmas tree ornaments dies
• Echo park- Christmas collection kit papers

I would like to share my card with the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge 

There are 4 done for this month :)  I think I am a bit behind but I am sure I will make them up sometime.

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

Connie