Bouqet for Mom

 

 Happy Mother's Day to all!

My mom's Mothers Day card. Image is Altenew-a May 2022 set that

comes with stamp, stencils, embossing folder and die, 

stencil is Pink and Main. I like the look of embossing after

stenciling the rose bouquet. I added sparkle with my 

Wink of Stella and used a white gel pen and some gems.

My mom and I at an Mother's Day lunch at her

Assisted Living:

A few fun challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure 

Double D Challenge: Florals for Mom 5/12 

Moving Along With The Times #166 Flowers  6/1

Word Art Wednesday #647-648  5/21

Simon Says Use Die Cuts  5/15

Triple Blooms May  6/1

Blooms

 

 

 I was in a coloring mood the other day ago so stamped and colored

this Stampin Up Birthday Blooms and layered it up for a good friend 

for Mother's Day.  Colored with Copic Markers, dies by Stampin Up.

A few fun challenges:

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - May 6/1

Moving Along With The Times #166 Flowers  6/1

The Card Concept #206 (April Flowers)  5/13

 

Word Art Wednesday #647-648  5/21

Simon Says Use Die Cuts  5/15

Triple Blooms May  6/1

Butterfly Shaker

 

 

I have not been very creative lately so I pulled up several of

my favorite challenges and made a card to fit all of 

them.  I recently bought some Gina K inks and had

a panel I had sitting on my desk (snippet), embossed

it with a Paper Studio butterfly die I had won 

previously from Mrs. A, added another layer of ink

so the butterflies would show up better.  I turned

this into a shaker card, used a pink frame I had in a

box and added an Altenew Happy Birthday that I already had. 

This was fairly quick since everything was already cut

and sitting around!

A few favorite challenges:

Snippets Playground #475  5/12

Butterfly Challenge - oops, expired but a favorite

Triple B  - Birds, blooms, or butterflies  6/1

Can You Handle the Pressure-Embossing/feminine  5/8

Simon Says Stamp-Wednesday Challenge 5/8

Butterfly cards

 

 

Sharing a couple of CAS butterfly cards. I used up a lot of snippets on these cards.

The top butterfly was sitting on my craft table, the second card I went into

my background box and pulled one out to die cut the butterfly and for

under the layer.  I used a NBUS (never before used stuff) bubble die on both.

A few fun challenges for card 2-pink:

Addicted to CAS #256: Monochrome 4/27

CAS on Sunday #281-Spring  4/23

NBUS Challenge #61  5/1 

Snippets Playground #478 5/1

Simply CAS  4/28

Happy Anniversary

 

I have not created or posted for awhile.  Hopefully I am out of

my slump.  For those that have been asking, I am 5 weeks out

from my hip recovery and am doing well.  Each day is a 

an improvement towards normal.

I was inspired yesterday by Jayce Gasper who appeared on a

live with Jennifer McGuire, it can be found here.  He is

a scientist and card maker and I learned so much from

him.  I also did the double embossing on my background.

 

The rose die is Altenew, I cut the cold layer and the

Happy Anniversary from scraps.  Base layers from

white and colored with distress oxides.  

A few fun challenges:

Addicted to stamps 465: Die cuts/stencil  4/16

Die Cut Diva's April 5/1

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge, spring flowers 4/16

Snippets Playground  4/15

The Male Room (embossing) 5/1 

Word Art Wednesday Weeks 643-644  4/24

Golden Butterflies

 

I came across these aqua/gold scraps a few weeks ago and wanted to create 

with them.  I found come gold and vellum snippets to go with them.

I wanted each of them to be unique so browsed my die cuts and picked

out a few.  Did some layering and splattered metallic gold and aqua

paints on them. A few embellishments and I was happy with

my butterfly cards.  I've already mailed several as thank you's

for food and kindness given to me while recuperating from my

hip replacement surgery.    Thank you to my friends/followers

for their good wishes.  I am doing well and have my 3 week 

checkup next week.

A few fun challenges:  

First card:

NBUS #60  -Die on left side of card   4/1

Snippets Playground #476  4/1 

Die Cut Diva's March  4/1

Ellebelle's Crafty Wednesday-March 4/1  

The Crafty Addicts #11: ATG 4/3

 The Paper Funday -option die cuts  March 4/2

Word Art Wednesday #639-640 3/27

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 

 Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I am hooked on pocket cards.  So fun, easy and cute.  This was one of

my projects when going to Shirley's.    

 

This is a pre-scheduled post, I should be a week out from

 a hip replacement today.  Hopefully when I am off 

I will do some blog hopping but may not be leaving comments.

I hope to be back in my craft room and blogging soon. 

Recovery is going well, a few little things slowing

it down but improving every day.

A few fun challenges: