Happy Happy Happy

 I got this fun word die from a friend some years back and just had to cut it out in shades of pink and purple to make a birthday card. The bold graphic look of this just makes me, well... happy! As both dies were given to me, I have no idea who made them...but it was great fun using up scraps and snippets of card stock from my ever-growing stash. For some reason, no matter what I do, that middle die cut word doesn't photograph accurately. It's a deep lavender but keeps looking pale.

You can see the left over bits after I die cut my words, here:

Snippets Challenge 446. I used snippets for all the die cut words, Yay!

SSS Wednesday Challenge, AG 

Snowy Christmas Greetings

It's nice to get back into my craft room after a two month hiatus, and I hope to get back into a more regular blog posting schedule as well. I pulled out a stamp and die set by Reverse Confetti to make this snowflake design, and also used an embossing folder by Cuttlebug and sentiment from my stash. My craft room is rather a mess right now, after having pulled my craft table out to take on a craft weekend with friends, so I'm not sure who makes the sentiment.

  January Rudolph Days challenge

Double D Challenges, SNOW 

ABC Christmas, A is for Anything Christmas

D.L. Art Thankful Thursday 316, AG 

SSS Wednesday, AG

Rainbow Birthday with Snippets

 Whew, I'm having trouble finding my mojo lately, after having taken a break from cardmaking for the past two months. I finally decided to just pull out some dies and attack my very large stash of snippets and scraps...and came up with this card. The dies were given to me by a friend, and I have no idea who makes them but I decided to go with a rainbow color theme. The stamped sentiment and die are by Taylored Expressions and I used some enamel dots from my stash as well.

I cut a bunch of shapes from different colored scraps, and plan to make up a batch of these to keep on hand. Of course, that hasn't made my stash of snippets any smaller, but it was still a lot of fun! Here are the snippets after I die cut.

 Snippets challenge 445, use snippets and show what you used.