Feathered Friends

 Our cardmaking group has for the Birthday challenge this month to do some fussy cutting on your card. I had recently picked up this card making magazine from Barnes and Nobles that had these great Autumn stamps inside so I just had to stamp them out and fussy cut to go with my bird :)

• Tim Holtz - Feathered Friends die
• Creative Stamping magazine - Everyday Autumn art stamp set, colored w/markers and fussy cut
• Crafter's companion - Advent calendar paper
• Martha Stewart - Border punch

This second card is for Sketch challenge in the group.

• American crafts - Art Journaling Acetate Ephemera
• Ms. Sparkle & co. - Watercolor paper
• Inky Antics - Simple Sentiments

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

Connie

Holiday Wreath

 This is the Month of October Christmas cards. I decided to look through my coloring calendar images to see if I had any Winter Greenery ones that I could color up, that is the challenge for this month in my stamp group. I found 3 I liked, so I got down to coloring them up.

• Coloring for calm calendar - image colored w/markers
• Paper Studio - Have a cozy Christmas paper

• Coloring for calm calendar - image colored w/markers
• My Mind's eye - O Christmas tree paper
• Recollections - Christmas sticker sentiment

• Coloring for calm calendar - image colored w/markers
• Martha Stewart - Border punch
• Paper Studio - Have a cozy Christmas paper
• Recollections - Christmas stickers 

After coloring all of them and fussy cutting them out and making the cards it took longer than I thought it would so I went to my Graphic Fairy images I have downloaded from their site and found a few I thought would work nicely for the challenge.

• Graphic Fairy digital image
• Bo Bunny - Father Christmas paper
• Lawn Fawn - Fancy Scalloped Rectangle die
• Tim Holtz - Fancy Festive dies (Branch and pinecone)

• Graphic Fairy - Digital image
• Bo Bunny - Father Christmas paper
• Spellbinders - Curved Rectangle die
• 49 and Market - Christmas Spectacular Acetate Foliage

For my last card my cardmaking groups challenge was using a Santa on your card, I had recently downloaded this free digital from Paper wishes site, so I thought I should use it :)

• Paper wishes - Digital image
• Bo Bunny - Father Christmas paper
• Spellbinders - Captivating Square die
• Starform - Sentiment sticker
• Sequins

All caught up for another month :)

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

Connie

Collage cards

 This first one I used a dimensional sticker from $ store that I added to a tag, plus some scraps from a paper pack.

• Forever in Time - Glitter stickers
• Crate Paper - DIY shop papers
• Banner die
• Hero Arts - nesting tag dies

The next one I used papers and ephemera that is from my friend Esther, she gave me these goodies many years ago and I still haven't used everything she has sent me.  This has quite a bit of dimension so I used it for the birthday card I will be hand delivering.

Papers, and tag collage from Esther

Spellbinders - sentiments one die

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

Connie

Flying High

 We went back to Michigan to visit family and my sister was throwing my brother in law a 60th birthday party.  I went through all my stamps and I don't have any real funny stamps for a 60th so I went with this couple. They wouldn't fit on an A2 size card very well so I went with a slim line card style.

• Art Impressions - His & Hers Flying High stamp set, colored w/markers
• My Favorite Things - Cloud stencil

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Ephemera card

 I got a new set of Tim's ephemera and I had to use it on my nephews card. Mushrooms are a stamp and I did a little inking around the edges of the card.

• Tim Holtz - Collector Layers ephemera (House and report card)
• Hampton Art - SC1019 stamp mushroom, colored w/markers
• We R memory keepers - For the record paper
• Tim Holtz - Small talk sentiment sticker

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

Connie