Live every day

 Before slimline cards became all the rage there were so many things I had in my stash that I just never used because they didn't work on my cards, now I am trying to go through them every now and then and make cards with them, using the slimline design. This lady is one of them, I punched some butterflies out of the pattern paper in the pack to go with her.

• Graphic 45 - Steampunk Debutante paper pack
• Momenta - Slimline dies
• Martha Stewart - Butterfly punch
• Mark Richards - clear gems
• Tim Holtz - sentiment sticker

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

Connie

Be You

 I bought this ephemera pack, it was on sale and I thought that it would be nice to have for my junk journaling but while looking at some of them I thought they would also be great for birthday cards so I used them on this one for my great niece.  I added a black die cut underneath to mat it and a dimensional flower from the $ store, some fabric tape and some sequins.

• Carta Bella - Ephemera pack (Sentiment and bee)
• Spellbinders - Labels 20 die
• Crafters Square - Metallic flower sticker
• Sunny Studio - Gingham pastels paper
• 49 and Market - Artoptions Fabric tape
• Sequins

I know a few people that live down in Florida and I am praying they are all making it through this Hurricane ok.

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

Connie

Bells

 I tried to combine the two challenges in each of my groups, one being use a bell and the other watercolor backgrounds.

My first card I used those shimmer powders that you add water too for my first background.  I didn't like the touches of white I had showing through so I kind of went over the whole background with a  paint brush to kind of fill in the spots. I colored the stamp image with markers and then also die cut it with the joy die so it would fit in the center of the die.

• Penny Black - Jolly follies stamp set, colored w/markers and Immense Joy die cut from gold cardstock
• Background - Nuvo Shimmer powder - Green Parade

 

The next one isn't really watercolor but shimmer mist, I haven't used these in years I think and it actually wasn't clogged. The sticker wreath was one my Sister in law gave to me last year and I am finally getting around to using it, can you see the bell?

• K&co. - Holly Berries & Wreath sticker set
• Background sprayed with Tattered Angles Glimmer mist - Gold
• Spellbinders - Labels 18 die
• Gartner Studio - sentiment epoxy sticker
• Offray Ribbon

My last was a very quick and simple one, I used another glimmer background to go with this gold foil sticker, I felt it said it all. I made a little boo boo on the corner when going around the card with a gold paint pen, so I used a corner punch to take most of it off.

• Paper Studio - Christmas bell foiled sticker
• Background Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist Gold
• Gold Metallic pen around the edges 
• Corner punch

I would like to share my card with Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge blog 

Well there is 3, for this month, hubby took me to a scrapbook store over in Missouri this weekend and I bought another paper pad I couldn't resist so I think my other two will be done with that pad :)

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

Connie

Masculine Thinking of you

 I needed a sympathy card for a guy at church so I went with a more masculine feel to the card.  I used an image from my coloring calendar once again.

• Coloring for Calm 2018 calendar image, colored w/markers
• ODBD - Vintage Ephemera collection papers
• Doodlebug designs - Sentiment stamp
• Impression Obsessions - Rectangle 6in1 frames die

We are finally headed for a cool down, it will be nice to be able to go outside and actually breathe again.  Wishing you all a great weekend.

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

Connie

Shadow box card

 I think this is the quickest I have posted a card I made with our group in zoom. Lately I have had cards I had made for challenges that needed to be posted before.  We had our time together on Monday, it was a pretty quick card to put together and April added a fun technique with this card fold.  W

We took our cube inks that are around 1 1/4 inches I am guessing and slightly applied them to a sheet of paper going on a diagonal, I think I used 3 inks on this one, pinks and greens from Gina K.  You use one ink at a diagonal and then add the 2nd color the other diagonal and the go over very lightly with the 3rd color which was my green.  I cut out flowers with mine and for the centers I just punched some circles out and added extra ink to them.

• 49 and Market - Vintage Artistry colors Natural paper
• Memory Box - Stitched Circle layers die 
• Spellbinders - Textured Flowers die
• Gina Marie - Birthday words sentiment stamp
• Sequins

We put the sentiment on back, I will write more when I send it out.

It would be too hard for me to explain how this goes together so hopefully you can google Shadow box card and find a video on it.  The tab on either side gets glued together and when flattened it fits into an A2 envelope.  We cut the cardstock at 11x4.25 and scored at 1/2", 1", 4 1/2", 5", 5 1/2", 6", 6 1/2", 10", 10 1/2 ".  

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

Connie