Sunday, January 5, 2025

Wonderful dream

 One of my Nephews still has not received a card from this stamp and paper set yet so I brought it out again for his card.  I love being out in nature so that is my wonderful dream, hopefully it is his also :)


  • Heartfelt Creations - Woodsy Wonderland 12x12 papers - Woodsy Critters stamp and dies, Woodsy Treescape stamp and dies, colored w/markers
  • Tim Holtz - Clippings Sticker book

We are having a snow/ice/sleet going through our area.  We will be home bound for the next few days, plenty of time to work on my cards and junk journal :)
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Friday, January 3, 2025

Baby Boy

 We have another baby in the family, my great niece had a little boy. I used my old dollar stamps from Michaels, I picked up many when they use to sell them.  I tried doing like a stitched look around like it is  a quilt but not sure if I really achieved that or not :)


  • Studio G - Baby Boy stamps
  • PPD - Mini stitched square dies
  • Dritz - Serrated Tracing wheel (faux stitching look for background)

You can see the lines the tracing wheel made to section off the different areas.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, and hope you have a great weekend,

Connie

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Happy New Year

 We woke up to such bad tragedy in our country today, praying that good will over power evil and we can have peace and show love towards one another and not hate. Praying for all the families in New Orleans that were effected by this terrible act.

I bought 3 Advent Calendars this year, I like opening the doors each day of the month and seeing what fun things are behind them for cardmaking.  It was my first year for Anna Griffins had 12 days of tags dies with special little dies to use as the holes in the die or you can leave them plain, so you can mix and match them, plus decorative dies to use on them, foiled cardstock and string to put in them.  Diamond Press also had their first advent calendar, and this was my second year to purchase the Spellbinders Advent Calendar and on day 7 they had this pretty layering stencil that I used on this card.

I inked one side then flipped my paper and did it again to get this look, using gems to join them and add a bit of sparkle. That left me just enough room for a sentiment to be stamped at the bottom, I did it on a piece of pattern paper.


  • Spellbinders - 2024 Day 7 Advent Calendar Stencil
  • Simon Says Stamps - Tiny words Birthday stamp
  • Gems


Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and every time you do, so thankful for the friendships I have made through the blog.
 I hope you have a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Connie

Monday, December 30, 2024

Vintage Dragonfly

 Last July when hubby took me over to Missouri to the stamp store over there he saw these images and said oh hey these are cool, and I said yep, he said are you going to get them, I thought they were pretty big, would take up most of an A2 size card and wasn't sure what else to do with them, then he said those magical words " I would love a card with one of these on it".  It took me half a year and his birthday to come up to actually break them out.  I decided to make a bigger card so that I could add a little more to it.

First I started with inking the base of the card with inks that would go with the image.  Then I took some paper that looked older and crumbled it up, laid it out flat and ran my ink pad over the raised bits, the tore around the edges and inked them, then applied the image to that.  


The little tab at the top is a Tim Holtz die that you ink to give the border before die cutting and then I stamped an image inside, the sentiment is from Tim's sticker collection.

  • Vintage Dragonfly and Bees Ephemera
  • Wintertime - Old Papers, Vol. 1 and Clear Stamp for art Journal
  • Background using distressed inks
  • Tim Holtz - Vintage Labels die and Small Talk sentiment sticker

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

Connie

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Flowers and pearls

 I usually use pattern paper for my background in my cards because I have so much of it, but I had just bought some stamps from the dollar store that I thought might make a nice background.  The flower sticker is also from the dollar store.


  • Forever in time - Flower glitter sticker
  • Crafter's Square - Stamps for Background ( butterflies and words)
  • Distress inks - Old Paper, Gathered twigs and Forest moss
  • Spellbinders - Labels 3 die
  • Martha Stewart - Tag punch and pearl
  • Paper Studio - Pearl border
  • Taylored Expressions - Many minis occasions sentiment stamps

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

Connie