HELLO

 I have a couple friends that are going through some rough times right now and wanted to let them know I am praying for them.

• K&co. - Ancestry,com papers
• Memory Box - Sylvan Corner die
• Gemini - Butterfly die
• My Favorite things - Happy Greetings die
• Paper Studio - Gem stones

If you look closely the wings on the butterflies in the corner die lift up as do the ones in the big butterfly die.

When I came in the next day to make a card for my other friend, I still had the mess from my first card to clean up.  I looked at the piece of paper I had cut the Hello die from and wondered if I could use it for my other friends card and this is what I came up with, just tore the piece with the sentiment, inked the edges, applied it to a background that I used two of my other scraps to cover the base of the card. I added some washi tape between the two pieces.  Added another die cut corner to the opposite corner as the sentiment.

• Poppystamps - Angle Corner die
• Gemini - Hello die
• K&co. Ancestory.com paper
• Washi tape

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

Connie

Father and Son

 My nephew and his sons birthdays are very close together, I thought I would post their cards together this year since I managed to do them both in the same day.

First my nephews card. The base background is a stamp, the piece right behind the bird is a background I made with Simon Hurley's stamping foam, using a basket to get the design., everything else is die cuts.

• Tim Holtz - Feathered Friends die, Papillion CMS106 stamp, Funky Nature dies and Clippings Sticker book
• Simon Hurley - Stamping foam background using a basket for impression (behind bird)

For my Great nephews card I went with adding some balloons which is the challenge over at 

Double D Challenge blog . The Balloons were cut from the pattern paper using his age.

• Hot off the press - Cardmakers  Card Quotes Definitions (sentiment)
• Spellbinders - Large Deckled Rectangle die
• Taylored Expressions - Balloons die
• Crate Paper - Party day paper

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

Connie

Masculine Fall

 I needed a birthday card for my nephew, not sure what to do, decided to look through the challenges out there and found the Stencil Fun Challenge Blog with the option of fall theme and I don't use my stencils nearly enough so I decided to go for it.  Trying to find one that would go with a fall theme was a little difficult but I thought a pebble background might be nice. The leaves were cut from backgrounds I made using the smoosh technique with distress inks.

• Honey Bee - River Rock Stencil
• DCWV - Corrugate Neutrals cardstock
• Spellbinders - Fall foliage die
• Tim Holtz - 3D oak leaf and Leaf fragment die
• My Favorite Things- Label Maker sentiment stamp

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, hope your week is off to a good start,

Connie

Floating book card

 In our zoom meeting we did a new to me technique we made a floating book card, I had never seen one before, you can google and a whole bunch will come up so I won't try to remember all that we did. The front oval pattern is one we did using a background stamp, I still have the outer piece to use on another card. Stamped the image and colored with my markers ahead of time the stamp came with a die to cut it out. I added the sentiment and the butterflies after our zoom, didn't have time to finish it that night.

Here is the inside when you open it up.

And here is a picture of the mechanism that helps it pop out when you open the card, there is one on each side, it keeps it suspended from the base of the card. I don't know any other way of saying it :)

• Cottage Cutz - Violets Flower stamp and die set, colored w/markers
• Fun Stampers Journey- Canvas prints stamp (oval piece on front of card
• P13 - Sweet Garden papers
• Hot off the press - Life Happens Greetings stamp (front and inside greetings)
• Martha Stewart - Butterfly punch
• Recollections - gems

I suggest that you use a lighter weight cardstock for this, mine was the thicker kind and it would for sure need extra postage to send so this will be going to a friend here in town that I can hand deliver to.

I am sharing this today with

 Beautiful Blossoms Challenge 

The Flower Challenge

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

Connie

Trees

 It isn't the last day of the month yet and I actually finished my Christmas cards for this month, It actually wasn't too bad I used a few old sets of papers that had Card toppers in the pack so I just added the paper, picked my images and then I added a few die cuts that I had made in advance that I thought would go nicely with them. The first two cards are 5x6 the last is an A2 size.

• Stamperia - Classic Christmas
• Tim Holtz - Funky Festive dies

• Echo Park - Christmas collection 2018 papers
• Tim Holtz - Funky Festive dies 
• Sequins

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

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

Connie