Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Merry Christmas

 In my stamp group the challenge was clean and simple, going through the dies I hadn't used before I came across this sentiment die set and thought that will make a quick card, oh was I wrong I am sharing the card I made first and I cut the vellum piece first, tried to sponge glue onto the back to stick it down so I could inlay my cut piece of foil for the inner sentiment and that was quite the ordeal, then I added tiny spots of glue to the back of the letters and when adding it to the inside of the vellum piece tiny bits of glue got on my fingers and started taking the foil off the letters, in the example they show flowers around the sentiment so I stamped and colored some tiny flowers and die cut them out and added in those places that the foiling had come off.


  • Spellbinders - Stylish Merry Christmas die
  • Vellum and foil papers
  • Crafters companion advent calendar 2023 - stamp and die set flowers, colored w/markers


After that whole ordeal I am now thinking that may be the last time I use that die but decided to try another one and this time using white cardstock instead of the vellum and glitter cardstock instead of foiling and I do think I like my second card much better.


  • Spellbinders - Stylish Merry Christmas die
  • ODBD - Christmas paper 2014
  • Spellbinders Advent Calendar 2023 - Flower and leaf dies

  • Now I only needed one more Christmas card and I would have my 6 for the month but when getting these papers and image around to make my card, I thought it would be just as easy to make two of them so this month I have an extra card.



    Papers, images and sentiments from paper craft magazine
    Die cuts from Tim Holtz Funky festive dies

    There we go all cards done for the month!
    Thanks for taking the time to stop by today,

    Connie

    Monday, March 25, 2024

    Tags

     Our cardmaking groups challenge for this month was use a tag on your card.  I have a whole set of tags you can cut out from my paper pack so I went right to them for this challenge and so thankful because it made the cards go a little quicker since the month is quickly coming to a close.


    • Stamperia - Classic Christmas pack (paper and tag)
    • Close to my heart - Star eyelet


    On this church tag I added a rectangle piece of cardstock behind that I rounded the corners on top and added a die cut tag to the top

    • Stamperia - Classic Christmas pack (paper and tag)
    • Crafters companion - advent calendar bow die cut out of gold vellum
    • Corner rounder punch
    • tiny snowflakes from another die cut

      • Stamperia - Classic Christmas pack (paper and tag)
      • Poppystamps - Pin Point Main Street tags die
      • Close to my heart - Star eyelet
      I have 3 more to go and I will be done for the month, these months need to quit flying by so quickly I don't have time to get my Christmas and all my birthday cards done.

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

      Connie

      Saturday, March 23, 2024

      Dream Big

       My cardmaking groups challenge for a Birthday card this month was to use recycled items. I save a lot of Tissue boxes to the point where I really need to quite I have no more room to store them, so I decided to use a couple of them on today's card. The Flowers and the panel behind are from tissue boxes, and as you can see they do cut well with the die cuts.  The leaf behind the flowers is from the backing to an ephemera package of Tim Holtz.


      • The Greetery - Crimped Frame die (using tissue box)
      • Spellbinders - Rose Creation dies (using tissue box)
      • Cheery Lynn Design - Fanciful Flourish die ( using back of ephemera packaging)
      • Crafters Companion - Sentiment die from advent calendar
      • Gems & Brads


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

      Connie

      Thursday, March 21, 2024

      Cross

       I did two cards using this cross stamp coloring them a bit different in each one. The first is my favorite but probably because I used colors I like the second card was using colors that my daughter likes. I fussy cut the banner with the sentiment inside and popped it up with dimensional tape above the cross.


      • Impression Obsession - Cross of Flowers stamp, colored w/markers
      • Spellbinders - A2 Devine Eloquence die
      • Crafter's Companion - Advent calendar paper 2022

      On this card I decided that the sentiment would look good across the cross which I also popped up with dimensional tape..


      • Impression Obsession - Cross of Flowers stamp, colored w/markers
      • Hot off the press - 4 Lacey Rectangle Frames die
      • WeRMemorykeepers - For the Record paper

      I would like to share my card today with Simon Says Wednesday challenge Easter/Spring
      Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

      Connie

      Tuesday, March 19, 2024

      Have a nice day

       This little bird is from a stamp set I bought at the dollar store, I meant to use it on a challenge but forgot to post in time and I was too late :( The sentiment and leaf came in the same stamp set.


      • Crafter's Square - Bird stamp set (bird, sentiment and leaf) colored w/makers
      • Gemini - Torn Edge Circle die
      • Spellbinders - Lacey Circles die
      • Kat Scrappiness - Mini Slimline Stitched Rope die
      • WeRMemory keepers - For the record paper
      Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

      Connie