Forever Young

Welcome friends, family and followers and welcome to a new month and a new challenge. For the next 13 days we are promoting "Forever Young" and want to see your projects made for the young ones. This is a welcome distraction from the holiday cards I should be making, but what I made was a fairly simple mini slimline card using lots of older items even a NBUS (never been used stuff)

I haven't used Penguin Party (SU) for a long time and thought it perfect for a little one.  I stamped and fussy cut the panda and he/she is popped up. I used a cloud stencil from Essentials that I had to have in 2022 but never got it out to try until now and it wasn't as scary to use as I thought it might be. The large birthday die was cut twice and layered for a bit of elevation. 

Side view on how it is elevated, the balloon was coated with s nuvo glitter brush.

Finished the inside with a very old birthday sentiment woodblock set from Stampin'up 

Thanks for stopping by and check out the inspiration from the design team.

The Aliens have Arrived!!

 It was my Great Grandson's 7th birthday on Thursday and the theme he picked for it was "Space" it sure makes it easier to plan a party. Since my left hand is still not completely mobile I needed to find a shortcut for a card and I found some Alien Artist Trading Coins I made in 2021that were perfect.

I tried a new to me Galaxy technique for the background (note to self use a splatter box) I popped the 3 coins up on a slimline card which is 3.5 X 8.5 inches. I also s

decorated the envelope.

close up 

another closeup, you can see the white splatters 

I added an appropriate space sentiment to the inside.

I am adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ anything goes (must try double stenciling)

Thanks for stopping today and have a great weekend.

Creeper

 Hello crafty peeps, I finally made a "non-design team card", it is for my 6 year old great grandson's birthday which was June13th (today as I'm writing this)  It's hard to come up with a card when children are not involved in sports so I had a choice of a video gaming card or a Zombie card, the creeper card won as I couldn't locate my one an only zombie. I found the instructions HERE for the card on Pinterest. 

I just happened to have the square lattice embossing folder (retired SU) and a one inch square punch. I still had 2 pieces of Gable Green SU cardstock left to use as well for the Z Fold card.

Very hard to take a good picture of a Z fold card, I used a Hero Arts Birthday sentiment for the inside and a Birthday sentiment from a retired SU set for the banner. 

Here is an overhead shot of the Z fold card.

I would like to add this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ #263 put a sentiment on a banner (I hope inside sentiment qualifies)

Birthstone Challenges ~~  Challenge #3 Emerald and Pearl

Thanks for looking today and have a crafty week. 

Happy Birthday!!!

At Shopping Our Stash we are going to be helping you get that stash of Birthday cards done. Challenge #416 is Happy Birthday, that is self explanatory. I am always needing birthday cards, I quickly had to make one for my Great Grandson on Saturday, that's what happens if you don't have a stash.

Talk about shopping my stash, I found this super cute computer generated image already coloured in my "parts" box so just added some co-ordinating paper and voila' a birthday card for a little one.

Finished the inside with some scraps left over from the front and a very old long retired Birthday sentiment set from Stampin'up. 

I'm entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~ #185 A Touch of Green.

Time Out Challenges ~~ #157 Birthday

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find time to join in the Birthday fun at Shopping Our Stash.

Your Birthday it is............

My great grandson's birthday was on Saturday and he is a star wars fan, believe it or not I have never seen a Star Wars movie. I started out to create a Darth Vader card but it just wasn't working out so I changed to Yoda and of course I was pressed for time since plan A didn't work. Because Yoda is greenish I accenteed with green.

The image was computer generated and Yoda is on a wobble. The background is a die cut with green meta;lic poster board (no longer available at Dollar Tree) my supply of  gold is dwindling but the other 4 colours are being hoarded. 

After I coloured Yoda I fussy cut him out. and popped him up on a wobble.

Computer generated saying I found on pinterest andI personalized it for my great grandson.

I am entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~  #185 A Touch of Green

Just Us Girls ~~ Trend Week  Black Background 

Thanks for visiting today and have a great week.  Stay in and Craft. 

Z is for Zaphod Beeblebrox

So happy to be able to find time to make a card for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, As I said before I was having trouble coming up with something for theme until it was too late to make it. this time I had an idea and ran with it. I googled the theme and came up with nothing but anything space related will work so it's aliens and a galaxy background, and to my astonishment it's pretty CAS for me.

I bought these super cute aliens and dies from a friend, I knew they would come in handy one day. I made the background when I was at the lake last week and decided I liked it without the black soot layer. It was much prettier to go with those adorable aliens.

Close up of the adorable alien.

The sentiment came with the stamp set, and is perfect.

Thanks for stopping by today and checking out my card, head over to the Main Blog there are many more really cute Z is for Zaphod Beeblebrox cards on display.

It's a Panda Bear Birthday!!!

Happy Tuesday!!! Time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and Mimi has picked a perfect theme for the challenge ~~ For the Kids!!! It's perfect for me as my Great Grandson turns one in June and I needed to make a couple of birthday cards and the theme of the party is Teddy Bear Picnic, so I chose to made a Panda bear card.

Although the panda bear stamp is reasonably new all the papers were scraps out of the scrap box, the polka dot piece was an extra base for an ATC card quite a few years ago. As soon as I saw Sketch Saturday I knew it was perfect for my image. The Panda is from the Sale-a-bration promotion in March and was free (with purchase of course)

close up of the image.

Since it's his first Birthday I wanted to put the 1 on the card, which ties in with Seize the Birthday's challenge "it's just a number"

I am entering this in:

Sketch Saturday  #513 

Seize the Birthday  ~~ It's just a number (mine is one)

Thanks for stopping by today and for lots of fantastic inspiration head over to the SOS Blog and check out the rest of the design team's projects.

Saturday!!! and a NEW Challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky stampers!!!

Challenge #88 K is for Kids starts now at the Sisterhood of Snarky stampers.  Time to make some cards for the little "darlings" , I lucked out with this challenge as I had three commissioned cards for some "grands" so you are going to see all of them of course there is no snark on any of them.

When asked to make a couple of cards for a friend's grand children I wasn't ready for the themes, as you see this is Trolls (I didn't know they were back)  so I found a colouring book page on pinterest coloured it and made a shaker card. 

The second card is as you see...Hot wheels. it was a bit easier as I just printed two images, again from pinterest and cut one car out and attached it with a wobble. 

Third card (for a different grand)  was to have a train on it so I made it into a shaker card, all "boys" no matter what their age loves an interactive card.

Sentiment found on a verse site and I liked it so well I used it on both boy cards. As you see I didn't have enough room for his name on the outside and just squeezed it in on the inside.

Congratulations for making it the end of a long post now head over to the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers check out the rules and see what the rest of the design team have made. p.s. I think there is some snark on some of theirs.

Fly Me to the Moon ~~~

Tuesday ~ my day to post on the Eyelet Outlet Blog and I was so excited to get some monster brads and I had a plan and it's always nice when a plan works out.

Along with the super cute Monster Brads from the Eyelet Outlet I used Enamel Stars, Arrow Birthday Brads,  Red Swirl Jewels and awesome Washi Tape.

I knew that the washi tape would make an awesome background for the rocket ship and the red swirls would work for the flames 

These little guys look so happy to be traveling in space.

love those arrow brads, everything I've used is available in the Eyelet Outlet Store and there is so much more it's worth the "virtual trip" to check out the store, don't forget to check out the daily specials too.

Finished inside of the card,  

When I showed my card to Hubby he loved it, he asked who it was for and then said he would even love to receive it. 

Who every heard of a Spring dragon? I found one!!!

The new challenge at Clear it Out Tuesday is Kids and the stash item is Primary colours. Paper, brads, buttons or what every you want in primary colours. Our sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Stamps and that is where I found this adorable Spring Dragon called Clyde. Bugaboo is one of my favourite stores and every Friday they have a freebie and what is best they are Canadian. Now here is my card I hope you have your sunglasses on!!!

I just had to make that flower into a “cone flower” or Echinacea just because I like purple too.

Doesn’t Clyde have and adorable face?+

Here is the inside and since I couldn’t decide if it was a Birthday card or get well card I left it blank.
Thanks for visiting today, head over to the “Blog” check out what the design team have made and say “Hello” to our two new teamies.

Birthday Dragon………

Hello crafty friends and family, I just had to post a picture of the 5th Birthday card I made for my great grandson. It  was a lot of fun to make and a big thanks to one of my “snarky sisters” for the “wobble”

The image is from Bugaboo digi stamps I fussy cut him out and attached him to a “wobble” you can find what they are by clicking HERE I received one with my Christmas card in the one on one swap. you can make him wobble by giving a little tug on his tail.

Here is the finished inside of the card. The sentiment inside and the Happy Birthday are from a birthday set retired from  Stampin’up.

I would like to enter this in the BINGO challenge at Catch the Bug Challenge Blog. My ine is Bugaboo image, texture and the colour Green.
Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog today and come back again soon.