Wood is Good X 2

 Hello friends as always it seems 2 weeks just fly by, I want time to slow down so I can enjoy the summer.  I managed to spend 9 days at the cottage, of course being my first trip down there were a lot of forgotten items, but Simcoe is only a 30 minute drive to pick anything up I had forgotten. There are always little things like flour, I had a plan to make some mac & cheese well can't make a roux without flour, and if you flip the breaker for the outside outlets you don't get hot water, never a dull moment when I'm in charge. I didn't accomplish much crafting, the temperature was high as was the humidity.  So on with the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, Wood is Good....create a card that includes woodgrain or wood pieces on it. I decided to turn my woodgrain into masculine cards, they seem to go together and with mostly males in the family they are always needed.

I used Stampin'up's woodgrain background stamp inked with versamark vintage sepia ink, added some cotton yarn from my knitting bag and three enamel dots (I made them a long time ago) and the perfect big birthday wishes die which I cut 3 and layered them for elevation.

I finished the inside of the card with a favourite sentiment and a couple of scraps of the woodgrain. 

Bonus time!!!

Since I am trying to get some cards ahead to donate to the troops I made an extra card.

Same woodgrain stamp, the circle with the trees is elevated, the background behind the trees is a scrap of smooshed watercolour paper, the sentient was stamped in sepia and diecut. 

Finished the inside with some off cut scraps and a leaf  and another great sentiment. 

Adding this to 

Seize the Birthday ~~ anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the great inspiration on the MAIN Blog. 

Remnants of a Missed Challenge

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash~~Crafty Remnants. What a great challenge as we all have extras on our desk and sometimes they are enough to make a full card. Going back to the first challenge of 2025 at the Jingle Belles to use something new and old I picked a new die I had just received when the PO strike was over and I decided to take it for a spin on the big shot, once done I cut the rest of the layers then life got in the way and when I checked the challenge was over. The only new items were Peace cut from glitter cardstock to match the sky and the white base. 

I have so many new ideas for this die, it makes a quick CAS card, Woah I made a CAS card. I think it would work as a shaker card and a great mini slimline. 

Close up of the scene sadly the colours on the Peace die cut don't show well.

Well now you have seen what I found on my desk it's time for you to do a January clean and show us your crafty remnants. Check out the great cards the design team  have made with their crafty stash.

Rainbow Bridge

 Not a happy occasion to have to make Rainbow Bridge cards but it gives some comfort to the recipients. These cards were made for the passing of my grandson's ginger kitty named Pancakes.

I used cat in an oval  on a blended sky background added it to an embossed layer, it fit inside perfectly. 

This one was for the family.

This card was made for my great granddaughter as she took Pancakes passing especially hard.

The heart shaped die cut was layered on some watercoloured paper, The rainbow  colours were blended on the base to match the paw prints die cut.

Both cards have the same sentiment.

I want to add this to:

Show us your pussycats blog ~~ anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today and have a crafty day.

 

Midnight Flight......

Here I am working on my Holiday cards and of course adding it to some favourite Christmas challenges.  I am continuing to make Mini Slimline cards for slipping money in or if you still use them a cheque, they are perfect, I usually need as least 3 myself.  Since I had a third idea for the Jingle Belles challenge last month I had my card 1/3 made but the biggest part was having the idea so when the Jingle belles challenge came up featuring the "big guy" I was all set.  

The background is made with 3 shades of distress oxide blue inks, the moon was punch from a small piece from my scrap box. The clous are flat attached but the sleigh and reindeer are elevated. Believe was cut three times and glued together for height. A few twinkling rhinestones for stars were added. I layered the image on black and since I didn't have any blue 100 pound cardstock (I like it for bases) I blended blue distress oxide in to the edges of a white base. 

Close up showing the elevation of the sleigh and reindeer. 

Finished the inside with a favourite sentiment and some black cardstock. Next time I will make the inky background larger so I have a couple of scraps to put on the inside.

Here are the three challenges I'm entering:

Jingle Belles Challenge  ~~ Man with the Bag

Rudolph Days Challenge ~~ April 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ #85 Santa and his Sidekicks

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ I is for Inky

Thanks for visiting today and if you need to get your Holiday cards started all three of these challenges are great.

 

Holiday Cards to Die (Cut) For.....

Intriguing caption for the newest challenge at the Jingle Belles and I have so many sets of dies that have never seen cardstock I could have used  more if I could find time.  I will apologize first for the less than stellar photos but here is my card.

This is a 5.5 square card, unknown patterned paper (I think it might be the last piece. The bow is die cut out of green and gold shiny posterboard, and as I said the photography is not the best.

Finished the inside with a couple of scraps of patterned paper and a sentiment. 

I am adding this to:

The Jingle Belles ~~ Holiday Cards to Die (cut) For.

NBUS Challenge ~~ March #60

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ Get your Grinch on

Thanks for stopping by today, if you want to enter the Jingle Belles challenge you have until March 13 at 6 p.m. EDT.

Let's Hear it for the Boys!!

 It's a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and it's Let's Hear it for the Boys!!  Create a project featuring a man or a masculine card for one of the men or boys in your life. So far in the last couple of weeks I've made 2 masculine cards one for a son and the other for a grandson and this challenge is made for my eldest grandson who is a coffee lover, and I still have two more to get ready, one for the youngest grandson and one for my great grandson. It does feel good to know I am keeping up with the family birthdays. 

I have a few favourite fun folds and this triangle easel card is one of them, it looks complicated but it isn't. I used a Karen Burniston 1040 Coffee Pop-up set from 2017 the instructions are for a inside pop-up which I made last year or maybe the year before. The patterned paper is from Stampin'up and well over 5 years old and there are now just a few scraps left.  The sentient on the coffee cup is from Photoplay (a gift from a friend) 

Here is the 5 1/2 inch square card when it is folded flat ready for mailing.

I'm entering this in:

Cardz 4 Guyz ~~ #323 Lots of Layer

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out that great cards the design team have made for the "boys". 

B is for Bunny

 Happy April Fool's Day and the joke is on me, I just couldn't get things together this past 2 weeks, between trying for 4 days to get a temporary diver's license and two birthdays I was a  little stuck for time but I'm happy to say my project is done and I like it. So the new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is...................

What an awesome "bunny" Edna makes.

On to my mini slimline card.

Lot's of die cutting and gluing tiny, tiny thing. The background was made with oxide inks and smooshing, the flower line-up is cut in white and coloured, it's a die from Dollar Tree. The sentiment is computer generated and cut out with Stampin' up word bubbles. 

Closer look at the sentiment.

Inside is ready for a sentiment  and I used a section of the flower line-up.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out what the rest of the deign team have made (they were all on time). 

Somewhere Over the Rainbow......

Hello friends, family and followers, it's time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and it's Somewhere Over The Rainbow so here is what you need to do to enter your project in the challenge. Add rainbows to your project or use a rainbow colour palette. I do have a rainbow die but time constraints I went with a Rainbow colour palette. 

Last weekend there was a Card Maker Success Summit free to sign up you could also buy a VIP pass which gave access to all the videos etc, and since I have done a weekend online crop before I knew I never would keep up but the free part was good each day you had 24 hours to view the videos that aired that morning, One was on blending the oxide inks so I decided (from memory) on trying my hand at it. The inks I used was Lumberjack Plaid, Spiced Marmelade, Squeezed  Lemonade, Rustic Wilderness, Blueprint Sketch, Uncharted Mariner and Villainous Potion.  I used a Happy Birthday cover plate to cut the blended background, backed it with turquoise (the only colour I was happy with) Added it to a top fold base and a poppy die cut. 

The poppy stems were flat attached and the flower heads were popped up.

I finished the inside with a 2009 Penny Black wood mount sentiment, and a few scraps of cardstock.

Along with the "old" Penny Black Sentiment, the Birthday cover plate I have had for at least 2 years and it has never been used, the poppy die is not quite that old but also had never been used. Felt really good to give them the love they deserve. 

I am adding this to:

Seize The Birthday ~~ Anything Goes

Just Us Girls ~~ Word Week ~~ Rainbow

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the inspiration on the MAIN BLOG.

Thank You, Santa....

 As I said on my last post I want to try to make a card a week for each of the Jingle Belles challenges which will give me 48 Holiday cards, I'm hoping to spread it to one a week and not entering in the last 2 hours. 

I used the second of my large focal point dies I (Santa) bought for me before Christmas, my recent purchase is still in transit or might be at the community mail box but it's way too cold to venture for a walk. As you see the red mirror paper was out and used for the second card, I did cut two more to glue to it to elevate it. the holly was for a project last year but surfaced just for this card I did do a bit of snip, snip on it, The paper is again from Dollarama (I bought 2 of each of 3 pads) 

The inside was finished with the Hero Arts Vertical sentiment, a scrap of patterned paper and the last little snip of the holly. 

I'm adding this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ What did Santa Bring You

Thanks for stopping by today and a NEW Jingle Belles Challenge starts on Friday, so stay tuned to see if I am fulfilling my New Year's item 1 on the list. 

What did Santa Bring You?

 Hello there and welcome to my first Jingle Belles Rock Challenge card!! I don't make New Year Resolutions but I do have a list of things I would like to work on for 2023 and first on the list is "make more Christmas/Holiday cards" so first up is for the Jingle Belles. I was really at a disadvantage today as I had to clear my table from the Pajama card and as always a clear table requires my helper (picture on the right) to inspect the area, many, many times as I was getting all parts together. I found no pawprints on the cardstock.

Very simple card, the plaid paper is from Dollarama (last year) the Santa hats were already stamped and coloured I just had to fussy cut them and they are popped up. The plaid is layered  on black and then on a white base. The metallic Ho Ho Ho was layered on a second die cut. I love plaid have trouble not to use it on every card. 

Finished the inside with a couple of banners made from left over paper, the paper size is 6 1/2 X 4 1/2 so there is very few scraps. I added the Hero Arts vertical sentiment that I stamped in Memento red.

Of course I'm adding this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock ~~ What did Santa Bring You

Check out the new Header!!

There are a few more items that "Santa" (I'm my own best one) brought me and some that are still in transit, if I can I'm going to try to get another one done, as per my "New Year's" list of making 2 Jingle Belles cards every challenge thus giving me 48 cards. So if it is your goal to make your holiday cards early this is the way to do it.

Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned there might be another one tomorrow. 

It's still Trees, Trees, Trees at Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

 The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are guest elves at Christmas Kickstart Challenge for this month and since I was having trouble with the die set I went with plan C but I was determined to make my die cuts into a card. 

As you know by my first post for the challenge I had die cuts I wanted to make into a tri-fold card and couldn't figure it out and of course the "C" plan was (I thought) very involved but I found a very good video on how to make a Shadow Box card, you can find it HERE.  

Here is my first attempt.

Each die section is 4 3/4 inches wide so I cut each one individually to use as layers, the card folds flat to put in an envelope. 

Closer look to see the layers.

Thanks for stopping by and if you haven't already joined the fun at Christmas Kickstart for the Trees, Trees,Trees, challenge it's time to dig out the tree dies or stamps or both and enter, there is a prize this challenge too. 

  

Ode to Lindsey.

 For the Ode to Lindsey theme at A Tiny Craft (atc) challenge I looked through her posts and found that with most challenges she dug through her stash of inky backgrounds so that was my starting point, she also liked to use die cuts. Although difficult to go through her blog yet again it was a lovely read, her blog posts were always interesting, comical and informative.  I decided to try a drink die I've had in my stash and I might have used it or maybe not. 

I checked out the fancy drinks that are served in a Hurricane glass, and was so surprised at how many there was. I picked one of my favourites (can you guess which one?) and three that were just pretty and interesting.

First I scrounged around and found some oxide ink backgrounds I bordered them on black and then on an ATC base 2 1/2 X 3 1/2. Then I die cut the die 4 times in white, (14 pieces) and coloured the pieces as shown then paper pieces the drink and lemon slice.  The names were computer generated.  

And now a closer look at each one.

Interesting fact a Blue Hawaiian is different than a Blue Hawaii

The original Singapore Sling was created sometime between 1910 & 1915 in Singapore.

Interesting fact is that you won't find 2 recipes the same. 

Hurricane drinks were invented at pub in New Orleans to use up an abundance of Rums in 1940

June Bug or June Bug Annihilator was first made in a TGI Fridays Restaurant in Busan South Korea, and is a favourite in most TGIF restaurants. 

Stop the presses....I found a purple background just the right size and made one more ATC this one is in a favourite colour of Lindsey, Donna and myself, any other purple lovers out there?

Purple Zydeco

Because this was a late entry the name of the drink did not get computer generated at home, not much history on the drink but it's not any less potent than the other 4. I added a few more fruit die cuts in lieu of a type written name. I'm sure Lindsey would get a giggle over the lemon slice with eyes and feelers.

There you are, my Ode to Lindsey who lost her battle with ovarian cancer in July, 

We lost a talented team mate she will be missed by all crafters and friends.