Be Still....

Hello friends ~  

Today's card is holding on to the final days of summer. 

I made this card earlier this summer and never got around to posting it.  The stencil challenge at Just Us Girls reminded me to post it and add it to their challenge.

 

The Flower Bunch stencils are from Altenew which I colored using Distress Oxide Inks, and the panel is cut using Rounded and Braided Rectangles from Pink Fresh Studio.  I placed the stenciled panel over a layer of gold mirror cardstock.

I added a bit of Wink of Stella to the center of both flowers and stamped the verse from Psalm 46:10 on the lower left corner.  I don't know the maker of the stamp.  It's an oldie that I no longer have the packaging for.

 

To finish it off, I added a pretty vellum butterfly sticker from Spellbinders.

 I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Just Us Girls ~ Stencil Week

 

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Pumpkin Chai Latte

Hello friends ~ 

It's cold and rainy here today so I've made you a pumpkin chai latte to enjoy.

 

I was mainly playing around with the new to me, Holiday Citrus Layering Stencil from The Ton.  

 

Even though the Holiday Citrus stencil is meant fro Christmas, I decided to repurpose it for a fall card instead.

 

I popped it onto this large coffee mug from Marianne Designs and added a sprinkle of cinnamon to the whipped cream using silk microfine glitter from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

 I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Fall Challenge

 

Time Out Challenges ~ inspired by the coffee mugs and warm colors

 

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Peace On Earth

Good morning friends ~ I'm popping in with another card I made for WCMD for last weeks festivities over at A Cherry On Top. 

 

The challenge was to use faux stitching so I created the background using faux stitched dies, crossing them over in the center of a cream colored card stock.

 

I added greenery and pine cones from The Greetery and a chickadee from Honeybee Stamps.  You can see that I added some clear glitter to the pine cones to give them a frosted look.  They shine much better in real life.  The sentiment is pre-printed from Memory Box.

  

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ Christmas

A Cut Above ~ October 

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Sunflower Card ~ World Card Making Day

Good morning friends ~ Did you participate in any of the festivities for World Card Making Day?  I played along over at A Cherry On Top and was able to add quite a few cards to my stash.  

The fall card challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to use up some of this design paper from Graphic 45.  It's been in my stash for much too long.

 

This fabulous sunflower die is also an oldie from Cheery Lynn Designs, and to this day is still one of my favorite sunflowers dies.  

 

I'll be popping this card into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

A Cut Above ~ October Challenge 

Sunday Stamps ~ Autumn Whispers

 

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Little Blue Bird

Hello crafty friends ~ I have a pretty blue bird card to share with you today.  I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest that was similar in design as this, so I cased the layout using my own dies. 

 

Oldies but goodies include, Wonky Stitched Scalloped Rectangles from MFT, Winter Robin from Dee's Distinctively Dies, Olive Branches from Cheery Lynn Designs and Potpourri Flowers from Poppystamps.

 

I cut the olive leaves and the smaller flowers out of white cardstock and rubbed on a bit of Distress inks to add color.  The larger flowers are cut from blue scraps found in my scrapbox.  All topped with fairy gems from Honeybee Stamps.

 

 I like that this whole card was made using scraps, except for the card base.  

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Cut It Up ~ Use  more than one die cut

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ Birthday 

 

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Sweetest Christmas Card

Good morning friends ~  Today's card was made for the Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge.  I was so afraid I was going to miss the deadline, but phew!  I made it with three days to spare. 

 

This card is a little heavy on the stripes, but that was totally intentional as you'll see why when you see the inspiration tile Darlene and Diane gave for the challenge.

 

Stripey!  Right??

 

I stenciled a sweet candy cane background using stencils from Pretty Pink Posh.  The mug is from Ink N' Splatter.  I won this die last year from ACOT and hadn't even clipped apart the pieces yet.  It's a cute, chunky little mug!

 

It's a little busy to look at in my opinion, but it's kind of growing on me. The candy canes look brighter in real life.  Anyway, I'm happy to add a Christmas card to my stash.  
 

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge

 

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes 

Stencil Fun ~ No Option 

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Stenciled Cosmos

Happy Monday to you!

 

About a month ago I was inspired by my sweet friend Marcia's post using these wonderful cosmos stencils from The Ton.  Like any good enabled friend would do, I went out and bought me some. 

 

The first card I made, I used the colors they suggested in the packaging.  I tried to keep the stenciling light.

 

For the second card, I used a rainbow of color, much like Marcia did. 

 

I used the Pierced Feature Frames from Papertrey Ink to make an eclipse card.

 

The verse is also from PTI.  I'm tickled with these new stencils and can't wait to ink them up in more color combinations.  

I'll be adding one of these cards to the following challenges.

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms ~ Anything Goes using photo option

 

Stencil Fun ~ No Option

 

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Sunflower Postage

Hi friends ~ I'm bringing you a little sunshine with this bright and cheerful sunflower postage card featuring Sunflower stencils from Waffle Flower.

 

I honestly can't get enough of all these fantastic WF stencils!  For it's first use, I stenciled both the rectangle and the circle images not knowing if I'd use them both on a single card, but as you can see I did.

  

I don't have the coordinating dies for this set, but I found that the Elizabeth Craft Designs postage stamp fit the rectangle image perfectly.  I also rummaged through the circle dies and found this Stitched Pinked Circles from Impression Obsession that fit pretty well.

 

I used the WF postage stamp stencils around the edges of an A2 card base, giving it the look of an air mail envelope and then stamped a couple of the postage stamp images from their postage stamp set.  
 

 I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes September

Triple B Challenge ~ Yellow

 

I hope this is Clean and Simple enough for the CAS Mix Up Challenge ~ Sunflowers.  If not, I'm sure they'll let me know.

 

Time Out Challenge ~ Seasonal Colors Where You Live

 

 I chose these colors because we've had beautiful blue skies to set off the lovely yellow sunflowers growing in our garden right now. 

 

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Halloween Pup

Hello dearies ~  

 

What started out to be a Christmas card, turned into a Halloween card.  I had seen a Christmas card with this style of background on Pinterest and set out to make one for myself. 

 

 

Using Waffle Flower Postage Stamp stencil and die, I pulled out Crackling Campfire DOX ink but when I put ink to the kraft cardstock it was orange and not red. I had never used this color before and the color on the cover looked red to me.  It was a head slapping moment for me when I realized campfire isn't normally red.  Anyway, I proceeded to turn this into a Halloween card by stamping some postage and Halloween images into the sections of the stamps.  I also added some black ink splatters and set that aside to dry while I perused the Halloween dies.

 

Spellbinders Woof-or-Treat die won out.  I bought this little guy last year and never used it so this is his maiden voyage.

 

The sentiment and spider are both from Poppystamps.  You can see in the close up that I added some Onyx Black Liquid Pearls to their eyes.  Isn't that the life of a crafter, sometimes we just have to switch gears and let the process play out.  I like how the background has a vintage-y look to it.  I will try again to make a Christmas background.

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Two Old Bats Halloween ~ Anything Goes

Cut It Up ~ Black and Orange

A Cut Above ~ September Anything Goes 

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