Faithful

 My friend went in for brain surgery and when looking through my stuff to see what I could use for her card I came across these stickers and I liked this set that mentioned Faithful, and the first thing that came into my head is how God is faithful to us in all things.  I added a die cut under the flowers to match the black background of the sentiment and felt it needed more so added the die cut corner too.

She made it through surgery and the doctor says he doesn't feel the mass is cancer but we are awaiting the results to come back.

• Crafter's Square - Pop up stickers
• Provocraft - Soft Serenity paper
• Spellbinders - Scalloped Classic Ovals Lg die
• Gemini - Opulent Swirls corner die

I have another friend in our Life Group from church that was going through some health problems too, I had come across these Pre embossed papers I had bought along time ago and couldn't find them, Yah!!! I came across them and thought I would use one for her card, I just used my sponge daubers to apply the ink and added the sentiment.

• Hot off the press - Color me flowers papers that are pre-embossed, colored with ink daubers
• Simon says stamps - You Matter stamp & die set
• Sequins

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend!

Connie

Serenity

 I just love this set from 49 and Market I just had to use it for this next birthday card.

• 49 and Market - Vintage Artistry Serenity 6x8 paper, Serenity Laser cut elements (flower, leaves and sentiment)
• Queen & co. - Baby Blue Rhinestones

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

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge

Triple B Challenge

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

Connie

Spring birds

 Last week I had decided to take some time and make up quite a few of these birds I have had for many years, I think I have only used them a couple times but wasn't sure I liked them so I decided if I had a bunch of them made up already maybe I would use them.  Then I saw the challenge over at

 Double D Challenge blog which the theme is Things that fly and I thought now is as good as anytime to use them and it gave me inspiration for the next birthday card I needed.

• Memory Box - Contempo birds and Woodland Branch dies
• Die-Versions- Beautiful bird cages die
• Martha Stewart - Flower punches (formed with stylus and foam mat)
• Stickles for center of flowers
• Fiskars - Cloud punch
• Stamps of life - Minis4 circles sentiment stamp

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, Hope you have a great week ahead,

Connie

Cardinals

 In my cardmaking group the Christmas challenge was to use our papers that have critters of any kind on them.  I have wanted to use my new cardinal die so I remembered I had cardinal papers I could use, so I brought them together for these cards and I believe now I am caught up on the amount of Christmas cards I wanted to have by the end of April :)

On this card I got the die cut that my bird is in out of my bin of unused die cuts and I can't remember where it is from, I backed it with some paper from my scraps bin.

• Spellbinders - Tweet Cardinal die
• Paper Studio - Have a cozy Christmas Paper
• Hot off the press - 31 white jewel border stickers

Spellbinders - Tweet Cardinal die

Paper Studio - Have a cozy Christmas Paper

• Spellbinders - Tweet Cardinal and Ironworks accents dies
• Paper Studio - Have a cozy Christmas paper
• Stampendous - Chain letter Holiday Silver sticker (sentiment below the plaid piece)

Love those cute little cardinals :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and hope you have a fun and creative weekend,

Connie

Vintage postcard

 I was going for a touch of vintage look to this card.  I used a piece of pattern paper for my base and then lined up my stamp so that the colors on the paper would be were the rose would stamp.  The butterfly seemed kind of plain to me so I added a little ink to it with a sponge dauber.

The sentiment and postage was from the same stamp set, I just inked them with red instead of the gray I used on the postcard stamp.  Added some pearls that I tried to color to match the paper but didn't do so well.

• 49 and Market - Coral Mini Collection
• Hot off the press - Postcards stamp set (2015)
• Spellbinders - Candlewick Rectangles die
• Pearls colored with marker

I would like to share my card today with Retro Rubber Challenge spring scene

The stamp is from 2015

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

Connie