Up, Up and Away.........

Hello my crafty friends I hope your week is going well and you are having good weather, we had our preview of summer for a couple of days and now it's -1 C or 30 F and been snowing so I'm back wearing my winter coat. The only thing to do until the real summer arrives is see what new challenges are being promoted, starting with Up, Up, and Away at Shopping Our Stash so create a card with something you will see in the SKY, balloon, plane, bird, rainbow....so many options. A couple of Thursdays ago while at bowling the score board puts animated pictures when a strike, spare, headpin etc happens well one was a biplane and an idea was planted, sometimes you don't know where or when inspiration will happen, now own to my card. (just as I envisioned)

The stamp set I used is Sky is the Limit  from a Sale-a-bration promotion not sure of the year but this is only the second time it has seen ink, I did a bit of colouring and fussy cut the plane and cut a second propeller which is popped up, then flat attached it to the acetate. The background was blended with broken china distress oxide ink on a Studio Light cloud stencil (second attempt at clouds) Both sentiments are from the same set. 

Side view.

Another angle but nothing really shows it perfectly except to see it IRL

I am entering this in:

The Male Room ~~  vehicles or transport

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you get a chance to create a card for the Up, Up and Away challenge at  SOS. 

WTHeck Embellishments!!

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash this is a good one for most of us.  Have you gone through your stash lately and picked up some things and immediately asked yourself "why did I buy this?" well this is the challenge for you. Take that :WTHeck item and feature it on a project. I didn't have any difficulty with finding things I've been gathering for YEARS, I have more brads than any one person could ever use in 3 lifetimes and lately I have not been using I guess since those stick-on enamel dots were available and much easier to use, but for my project I did have to use brads, but that is not my WTHeck item, have a look you might remember them.

Tin box and there they are still in their cello package.

Flower Fusion from Stampin'up and I rarely use those colours. And I know there will be lots of readers that are saying how great they are, and love the colours. 

So on with how I made them look good.

When I ordered some things from a friend she tucked in the two piece layering die set as a freebie and I immediately grabbed some cardstock and cut it then tucked it away for safe keeping, so when I saw the theme I knew it was perfect for the base of my Flower Fusion felt flowers. I made an oxide ink smooshed background and since the die cut was 5.5 inches I decided to make a mini slimeline card. I also went through many many any containers of brads to use as centers and decided the gold gave them a bit of pizzazz 

Closer look at the flowers. 

Finished the inside with a scrap of green and a felt flower.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the SOS BLOG and check out the WTHeck embellishments the rest of the team have used. 

Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

 Hello family, friends and followers, welcome to Shopping Our Stash's last challenge for 2021. Challenge #460 ~~ Do you want to build a snowman? We want to see a snowman or more on you project. The stash busting challenges will resume January 4, 2022. It's nice to have an easy challenge for the last one of a very stressful year. I hope you are all staying safe and well.

I have a lot of snowmen stamps and a few dies too but I dug deep for this 2008 Holiday Line-up set from Stampin'up, there are 3 stamps in the set, snowmen, elves and reindeer. (note to self to make one with the reindeer) I die cut with long rectangles from Spellbinders, the embossing folder is Gently Falling from Stampin'up and the die cut sentiment is from Elizabeth craft designs Winter Wishes. 

Finished the inside with some scraps and a sentiment from Impression Obsession.

I'm entering this in:

Color Hues ~~ Challenge #31 Green and Red.

Cardz 4 Galz ~~ #161 It's Snowtime

Winter Wonderland ~~ End of Year Anything Christmas Goes.

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ #57 if it's Christmasy link it up

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Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to stop by the MAIN BLOG and check out what the rest of the teamies have made. 

Challenge #329 at Shopping Our Stash is ~~ Transportation!!!

At Shopping Our Stash we want to see what you would travel in....lots of ideas...trucks, cars, boats, planes, balloon well you get the idea. I decided to go with something older than me ....a bi-plane. I needed a masculine get well card, if you think a birthday card is hard try making a get well card.

I used Scrap and Stamp with Frenchie's tutorial for the fold, very interesting and very easy to do. the background paper is old and it's the first time I've used the bi-plane image and I've had it for eons. i used a circle of velum for the propeller and  a brad from my stash. 

The card when it's open. (the recipient loved it)

Stash items are:

Patterned paper ~~ Stampin'up (3 or 4 years old)

Stamp set ~~ Stampin'up  1/12 to 2 years old

scrap of velum who knows how old lol.

Thanks for joining me today and please stop by the SOS Blog and check out the different types of Transportation the rest of the Design Team have made.

Mid Week Reminder ~~ Shopping Our Stash ~~ Winter Wonderland

Just thought I would pop in with a reminder that there is another week of the Winter Wonderland challenge at Shopping Our Stash.  If you are reading this that means you made it through the "BIG" day, did you venture out to the sales on Boxing day? Not me I'm still recuperating from dinner on Sunday, turkey, ham, hashbrown casserole, dressing and home made cranberry sauce.  Since this is supposed to be a quick post  I need to get on with the card.

Here is a mix of old and new, the horse and sleigh is from Stampin'up (last year) it has never been cut before, the greenery and bows are new as is the embossing folder. 

Let it snow is also from my stash, I love a window scene and this one is perfect.

Thanks for stopping by today and if you have some time let us see your Winter Wonderland cards remember not Christmas. 

It's a COLOUR challenge at Shopping Our Stash

What a fabulous Thanksgiving day we had, lots of good food and great family!! As Canada celebrated Thanksgiving the U.S. celebrated Columbus day I hope it was awesome. If you were not celebrating any holiday I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Shopping Our Stash challenge #273 is a Colour challenge, Alica has picked some awesome fall colours.  Now fall colours are one of my least favourite on the colour wheel but I dug my heels in and made it work. I guess that is why it's called a "challenge". Here is what I created.......

Here is the colour inspiration for you . 

I used a bundle set from Stampin'up that I have had since last year, I've used the flower dies but not the paper and it had every colour in the colour swatch. 

I carried the paper to the inside along with a flower, the sentiment was bought when I first started making cards. All the flowers were cut from scraps. The Thinking Of You was a die cut that was in my little box of treasures. (sometimes I cut several in different colours to see which I want to use)

I would like to enter this in 

Allsorts Challenge ~~ Colours of Autumn

Thanks for joining me today and don't forget to head over to the Main Blog and check out what the rest of the design team have made and don't forget to read the rules on how to enter. 

The Embossing Powder Challenge #85 Continues

Welcome to another Monday challenge at The Cheerful Stamp Pad one week is over but you still have another week to join the fun of embossing on your project.  The sponsor is Stamp On It for this challenge.

This is the card I made for the challenge and for a friend that has had surgery, I’m hoping it cheered her up. I saw the design on one my favourite blogs, Frenchie Stamps and was posted by her friend in Canada. I was so excited as I had everything to make this card. Stamp set from Stampin’up called Secret Garden in hand but the dies that go with it were not where they should have been so after searching for a while I decided to go old school and fussy cut them.  The flowers were stamped on vellum with versamark watermark and embossed in pewter embossing powder then coloured with SU’s in colour markers on the reverse side from the embossing. The crocheted mat was made by Jessi, isn’t it just a beautiful backdrop for the flowers click on her name and check them out she has them for sale. Although you can’t see it very well the strip of turquoise is dry embossed with butterflies.

Inside of the card before i stamped the sentiment.
Thanks for stopping by to check out my blog today come back again soon you are always welcome.