Butterfly Garden

I am off to spend a couple of days helping out with the grandkids, so managed to squeeze in two butterfly themed cards today, using Stamplorations stamps. This one uses Trendy Butterflies, along with layered Spellbinders dies and sentiment by MFT. A little inking and fussy cutting, and a subtle stamped background with a script stamp by Finnabar finishes it off.

 Butterfly Spot challenge 126. I used the elements of Jade, Jasmine, and Jewels
Stamplorations Cutplorations Summer challenge, die with Stamplorations product

Stamplorations Anything Goes challenge

Virginia's August show and share
DL.ARt August linky
Crafty Hazelnut's August PP challenge
Creative Inspirations August challenge, seasonal. I chose Spring for my card
Cardz TV challenge 96

Butterfly Joy fold

The Butterfly Spot challenge this month includes the Joy Fold as one option, and I was determined to give this a try. I've done a fold in the past that was called a Joy Fold, but it looked different from this one. Thanks to a wonderful tutorial on the blog, complete with measurements in inches (yay!), I was able to put this together tonight. The paper is by K&Co, and the butterfly is by Tim Holtz. I added some paper lace and a bit of jute for texture. The inside of the card is stamped with "Thinking of You". This came together so easily that I might add it to my card repertoire! I didn't add too much to this card because of all the patterned paper, and because it was enough just for me to keep all the folds straight, ha!

Butterfly Spot challenge 126, J is for Joy Fold, jade, jasmine,juicy orange, jewels and  jute. I used the second option of theme and color, and the third option of Joy Fold and butterfly. Oh my goodness, I just realized that I even completed all of the options when I added jewels!
DL.ARt August linky
Cardz TV challenge 96
Crafty Hazelnut's August PP challenge
Creative Inspirations Aukgust challenge, seasons. I chose Spring, when the garden is filled with butterflies

Happy Holidays, and a bit of gold glitter

I mentioned that I've been unearthing a lot old stamped backgrounds and left over odds and ends from past projects lately, and have been trying to use at least a few of them. That pile isn't getting any smaller, but I give myself a pat on the back anyway! This card base was stamped with an old, wood-mounted background from Stampin'Up (flourish background), and I added a deer image from my stash, a fancy doily die and star die by Spelllbinders, and even some glittery gold ribbon that I found way at the bottom of a drawer. Isn't it fun when you can just shop your stash??

SSS Wednesday challenge, use a die
CHNC challenge 450
Word Art Wednesday
Crimbo Crackers challenge 190
Stamplorations summer theme and sketch

Cardz TV challenge 95
Lost Coast Designs August challenge 81, AG

TTCRD August challenge, AG
The Artistic Stamper August challenge, AG
Creative Inspirations August challenge, something seasonal. I chose winter and Christmas
ABC Christmas challenge, R is for Reindeer
Craft Stamper August challenge, AG with stamping
DL.Art August linky

Noel

I recently won this beautiful Christmas die set by Creative Expressions so just had to pull it out and die cut some layered GLITTER sentiments! I have quite a few glitter sheets in my stash that I never think of use, so why not now? The hem-stitched rectangle is by Spellbinders, the deer head is by Little B, and the snowflake is by also by Creative Expressions. This was all made from scraps, including the snowflake, which was cut from an envelope. All I had to add was some seam binding ribbon and an embossing folder by Darice.

Pixie's Snippets challenge #358, use snippets
SSS Wednesday challenge, use a die cut
ABC Christmas challenge, R is for Reindeer
CHNC challenge 450
Word Art Wednesday
MFT Color challenge 123. I was inspired by the colors of purple, raspberry, gray and white
Creative Inspirations August challenge, something seasonal. I chose winter and Christmas
DL.Art August linky
Virginia's Show and Share

Happy B-day

I decided to make another bee-themed card while I had my bee stamps out, and even managed to use my hexagon embossing folder by Darice to mimic honey-comb. The bee is a Michael's Crafts bargain wood-mounted stamp, and the wood-grained stamp is by Winnie and Walter. I layered a label die by Gina K with a tag die by Avery Elle. Some bakers twine and a sentiment by MFT finished it off.

MAWTT Challenge 103, bees
Word Art Wednesday
Virginia's Show and Share
Through the Craftroom Door
Creative Inspirations
DL.Art August linky
Stamplorations Summer Tagplorations challenge

 SSS Monday challenge, birthday
SSS Wednesday challenge, add a die cut
Cardz TV challenge 95
Cut It Up challenge, die with sentiment
Die Cut Divas August challenge, dies with hot colors
Cardz TV challenge 95
Cards und more August challenge, summer colors
Lost Coast Designs challenge 81, AG

Craft Stamper August challenge, AG with stamping

Busy Bee

I used to do cross-stitch, until my eyesight wouldn't allow it anymore, so I have a LOT of aida cloth in my craft stash. What better way to use it than to add texture to paper craft projects, right? I used an old wood mounted stamp by Anita's stamps, and a computer generated sentiment on vellum The textured base was made by rubbing a Distress Ink pad direct-to-paper, and the bee is by Rubber Stampede.

MAWTT challenge 103, bees
Word Art Wednesday
 Creative Inspirations, something seasonal
 Virginia's Show and Share challenge, AG
Through the Craftroom Door, AG 
DL.Art August linky
 Stamplorations summer theme and sketch, AG

 Cardz TV 95
Craft Stamper august challenge, AG with stamping
The Artistic Stamper August challenge, AG
Lost Coast Designs challenge, AG

SSS Summer Kid's Challenge, Lots of Love

We also had our other granddaughter, Remi, here for several days, so of course she also got into the act.  Remi, at age 8 is able to use my Big Shot with supervision. She loves flipping through my dies and choosing paper scraps to cut out. These bunnies are from a spring Spellbinders set, and she handwrote her sentiment. She added Stickles glitter glue to some flowers from my stash, and glittered up her sentiment strip. The stitched heart is by My Favorite Things, and she punched hearts with a Fiskars punch.

SSS Summer Kid's challenge, sparkle
DL.Art August linky

SSS Kid's Summer Challenge, Sparkly unicorn

I have two granddaughters who just love to craft, so that's one thing we share together. My 5 year old granddaughter, Blair, also loves unicorns and glitter. So, when she spent several days at our house, she made this birthday card for her older sister. The unicorn stamp and die are by Concord and 9th and she colored the unicorn with Pentel markers, with LOTS of Stickles glitter glue. I didn't have a rainbow die or stamp large enough, so she just drew hers on with marker. Blair has an incredible amount of patience for a 5 year old and worked on this card for about 45 minutes. She was SO excited to give this to her big sister!

SSS Summer Kid's Challenge, Sparkle
DL.Art August linky

Christmas Tree Two-fer

For those of you who have already seen these cards individually, please skip on ahead! When I finally inked up this Christmas collage stamp by Deep Red, I decided to make two different card designs with it. This just happened to fit the Two-fer challenge on Christmas Kickstart #16, so here they are. I entered them separately in a few other challenges, but put them side-by-side for this one. The one on the right is heat embossed with gold embossing powder and I added a metallic gold bakers twine. The one on the left is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa, and the glitter die cuts were made with a die set by Little B.

Christmas Kickstart Challenge 16, two cards with the same stamp

Trendy Garden

My daughter has been having trouble linking her Flickr account posts to a few challenges so I suggested that she use my blog to link to the challenge she had trouble with . So here is her card and description.

"I've been making a lot of Christmas cards this summer and then realized that I didn't have a single card to give my friend when her birthday came around. So I pulled out a baggie of punched flower shapes that I had made our of random card stock scraps, and layered them to make these embellishments. The flowers weren't standing out enough against the bold stripes so I die cut a few circles from black card stock to add an extra layer. Popped them up on foam tape and added a stamped sentiment by Altenew."

 Pixie's Crafty Playground challenge 357