Saturday, March 16, 2024

Green theme

 I used my layering dragonfly stamp on today's card, now that it is warming up we have all kinds of insects coming out, and the trees are starting to bud with flowers and leaves. I cut the background which looks pretty dark in the picture from green pattern paper, and stenciled the background with a river rock stencil.


  • Hero Arts - Color layering dragonfly stamp, fussy cut
  • Spectrum noir - Clear sparkle pen on wings
  • Poppystamps - Thicket Frame
  • Honeybee - River Rock Stencil using Iced Spruce distress ink
  • Craft consortium - Ink drops organic paper
  • Starform - Happy Birthday sticker

I don't know if you can see the sparkle on the wings of the dragonfly in this picture or not.

I would like to share my card with the following blogs

Colorful Options - Green Challenge
Double D Challenge - First signs of spring challenge
Stencil Fun Blog - Easter/Spring Challenge

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

Connie

Friday, March 15, 2024

Glitter bird

 I came across this card kit that you add glitter to the different areas to make up the bird, can you believe that the picture on the front shows black glitter for this bird but there was none in the kit and I did not own any either, so I went with a bronze color instead so we made up a new bird :)  I was thinking of trying to add some black reinker to some of my white glitter but I don't have a lot of it and didn't want to waste it if it didn't work, I think there is one more bird in the set that needs black glitter so if you have an idea for me I would love it :)

The kit also comes with some card blanks that has adhesive around the edge to add glitter so I used theirs this time. First I stenciled on some clouds and also added a die cut branch for him to sit on.


  • Martha Stewart - Glittered Bird Card kit
  • My Favorite Things - Cloud Stencil
  • Memory Box - Woodland Branch die
  • Hero Arts - It's your day sentiment stamp

We had some crazy storms go through yesterday, we saw on our phone that it showed there was a chance of rain and we had been under a Tornado watch all day with nothing happening, so we decided to chance it and go out for my birthday dinner, the restaurant we were headed to is about 20 minutes or so from our house, well we got about 7 minutes into it and thought wow that sky is getting black, but we kept going, then the wind started kicking up and ahead we could tell it was raining pretty hard so I told my hubby to turn around, as we were turning around we got pelted by hail, not sure what size it was but it was smacking the windshield so hard we thought it was going to break, he drove pretty fast and got us ahead of it enough that we were able to get in the house safely before it hit us here.  There was one confirmed Tornado in another town and some poles and trees that were knocked down in another, but we did ok :)

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

Connie

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Bunny Trail

 There were some really cute and pretty images from my Marjolein Bastin 2023 daily calendar, I just had to use a couple of them for some Easter cards this year.


  • Marjolein Bastin 2023 daily calendar - Bunny image
  • Spellbinders - Labels 8 die
  • Paper Studio - La Petites 3D sticker flower
  • Stamps of Life - Postmarks 2 stamp sentiment
  • Little flower stamp

The second one is for my sister in law who loves tulips, well any flower really :)


  • Marjolein Bastin 2023 daily calendar - Tulips image
  • Impression Obsession - 6 in 1 Rectangle frames die and Sentiments II stamp
  • PPD - Stitched Mini Scallop border die to cut sentiment

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

Connie

Monday, March 11, 2024

Moving on

 Another couple is leaving the church and moving out East to live closer to their kids and grandkids. We need to stop this trend. This couple did so much for our church and also the husband got us through the pandemic when our Pastor moved to another church he stepped in and preached until we found a new Pastor that took quite some time, He was a Pastor then they became missionaries and retired here, we were so blessed to have them.


  • 49 and Market - Vintage Artistry colors and corals 6x6 papers, Avesta Rub-on (butterfly) and Ticket essentials Grove (faux stamp)
  • Inkadinkado - Garden Greetings stamp, colored w/marker
  • Eyelet

I would like to share my card today with the Flower Challenge Blog make a square card

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

Connie

Friday, March 8, 2024

Magnolia

 I love Magnolia's so when I saw this die I just had to pick it up. It was pretty easy to layer together. I used my inks and a blending brush to add the color to the flower and leaves. I needed to stamp the sentiment twice and when I did the second stamping the card had moved a bit and so I ended up having to stamp again on a white strip to cover my mistake but I think it looks ok.


  • Memory Box - Magnolia Blooming bud die
  • Graphic 45 - Botanical tea paper
  • Hot Off the press - 31 white jewel border stickers
  • Stamps of Life - Standup4sentiments stamp
  • Gems

I would like to share my card with the following challenges:
NBUS Challenge flower die

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

Connie