Happy Birthday with Wild Hibiscus

First I would like to apologize about the long breaks between posts. Working, visitors, traveling, summer activities etc. don't leave much time for crafting let along writing a blog. I don't like that one bit and feel like my batteries are slowly draining and I need to recharge them in my craft area.

Today I do have a card for you that I made for a Cardologist friend. We had recently talked about both owning Altenew's Wild Hibiscus set and not having played with it yet. So she challenged me to use it for her birthday card.

In the close up you can see the Wink of Stella shimmer:

And here the glittery flower centers:

Stamps: Altenew (flowers, leaves, butterfly), Winnie & Walter (sentiment)
Other: Stencil (My Favorite Things)

I stamped the flowers, butterfly, and leaves on watercolor paper, colored them with distress inks, and cut them out. The stenciled background I made a while ago on a Thursday night. It belongs to Dora. Thought it worked well on this card.


Challenges:


Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Flora and Fauna"







The Mixed Media Card Challenge #25 "Sparkle"







Seize the Birthday "Bold and Bright"







Thank you so much for your visit and your sweet comments. They never fail to cheer me up!

Be well,

***Happy 4th of July!***

Happy 4th of July to all my visitors who celebrate this day!

We had friends over yesterday for a nice summer meal eaten outside, followed by a bike ride to a nearby beach to watch the fireworks over the lake! So fun!

Usually we are always traveling this time of the year and I rarely get around to make a card for this holiday. This year we are home but I still left it till the last minute and only had time to make a few cards for my Thursday night friends. So I kept it fairly simple.

Stamps: STAMPloration (brush strokes), Winnie & Walter (sentiment)
Dies: mymomenta (star), Avery Elle (zig zag border)
Other: embossing folder (Darice), star gem (Recollections)


Challenges:

Inkspirational #112 "Anything Goes with Red"







STAMPloration CAS Challenge June
(my card even has some navy blue in it)
ETA: It's already July, so ,of course, this one has closed already, duh!






Just Us Girls #350 "Summer"







Just Add Ink #318 "Just add S"







And welcome to my new follower who shares my first name

Susanne of Susanne's Hingucker

Why don't you go and visit her blog?


Be well,

Keep Smiling...

First of all, let me welcome my new follower

Christine of Stempel-Wahn

Check out her blog, you will be inspired by her beautiful cards!

Today I am showing you a card I made with one of my first stamps. I bought it in the children's section of a bookstore on my first trip to the US. I just love grinning faces and was immediately charmed by Sandra Boynton's greeting cards. So when I found a stamp featuring her grinning cats I had to have it. Looking at them cheer sme up. I grinned the whole time I was making that card. To be honest, though, I haven't used the stamp much. Especially lately. But I wanted to make a card for a cat-loving person with a great sense of humor.

Inside sentiment: "Sunshine is good for your teeth"

Used some Distress Inks with a Tim Holtz stencil, then clear embossing paste over that, sprinkled with gold glitter. The rest is self-explanatory, I think. Let me know if you have any questions.

Stamps: Sandra Boynton (cats with sentiment),  Hero Arts (background)
Other: Stencil (Tim Holtz)


Challenges:


Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday "Sunshine"


 


That's it from me for today. My bed is calling me...

Be well,

You Are A Star

Made another card with the set "True" from Winnie & Walter, this time with the star. And a background made with water soluble crayons. Added some shimmer to the stars as you can see better in the close up. And I am happy that I found several challenges it works for!

On the inside I will write: "Let your light shine"

Stamps: Winnie & Walter (stars, word "star"), Uniko (rest of the sentiment)
Other: Water soluble crayons (Caran d'Ache)


Challenges (click on the links for more information and lots of inspiration):


Winnie & Walter Rerun #11







Winnie & Walter "The Gossip Column with Taheerah - Spectrum"







Virginia's View Summer Challenge "Make It Colorful"







Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Add Some Shimmer"






Thank you for your visit and comment!

Be well,

Love You For W&W Rerun

Hello there,

Winnie & Walter have a rerun every month where they put the spot light on an older stamp set. You can play along even if you don't have that particular set by using any of the cards made by the DT as your inspiration. But, oh surprise, I do own this month's rerun set "True" and was more than happy to bring it out to play.

Stamps: Winnie & Walter (heart)
Die: PTI (love)

The hearts are silver embossed on grey card stock, then filled with Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents. The love die is cut out from a piece of glossy glitter paper by Recollection, mounted on vellum (with the heart raised).


Challenges:

Winnie & Walter Rerun #11





Winnie & Walter "Join In To Win"



CAS Mix Up June Challenge








Be well,

Very CAS Bird Card

Wanted to play in the June Mix It Up Challenge where we are to combine Essentials by Ellen with Technique Tuesday products. So I dug out those fun chickadees and made this very CAS card. It took me, of course, much longer to make than it looks like... Did some paper piecing, watercoloring the shadow, added some washi tape, and die cute a speech bubble for the sentiment (which is from the Mondo Magnolia set).

Stamps: Technique Tuesdays (bird), Essentials by Ellen (sentiment)
Die: Lawn Fawn (speech bubble)


Challenges:

Essentials by Ellen June Mix Up Challenge (with Technique Tuesdays)








CAS Mix Up June Challenge
My third choice is either fussy cutting (the bird body), paper piecing, and/or washi tape (the last two are not on the list...)






Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Father's Day/For a Guy"






AAA Cards #66 "Watercolors"
I did watercolor the shadow!






Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your week will be spectacular!

Be well,

Brick Wall Birthday Card

Yesterday I finally had a bit of time to craft and so I have a card to share today! It was more fiddly than usual but I do like how it turned out. The little banners cut out the letters and I thought it looked better when I inserted them again in another color rather than leave them empty.

Stamps: None!!!
Dies: Poppystamps
Other: Brick stencil (TCW)



Challenges (as always, click on the links to be dazzled by what the DT created and by the gallery and to find out the rules on how to play along):


Time Out Challenge #58 Home Sweet Home Photo Inspiration







Seize the Birthday (no topping)







and since the banners are all cut from snippets I am hopping over to


Pixie's Crafty Workshop Week #232






Be well my friends and thank you for stopping by,