Cactus Card

I made this card for the challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

Stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Irresistible Blooms

MFT:  Let's Stick Together 

I had so much fun stamping and coloring 

these cute little fellas.  The faces on the cactus

give them such personality.  

All the different shades of green I almost 

turned this into a St. Patrick's day card.  

The trick was trying to figure out how to 

layer them without using dimensionals. 

There was quite a bit of fussy cutting involved,

but it all went pretty smoothly for a change. 

I like the speckled background, just fills it in nicely. 

Here's little HP all snuggled up.

Proverbs 18:24 KJV

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly:

and there is a friend that sticketh closer 

than a brother.  

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💗PJ

 

Easter Card one for 2023

I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  

We opened the windows to get some 

fresh air in the house.  It was in the 40's

here today.  That's a heatwave for us.  

I made this card for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  His Love, Sweet Songbirds, 

and Sweetly Swirled. 

I decided the oval in the sketch would make

a lovely Easter basket, and bird's nest.  

I do believe I was inspired by the birds I

heard in the yard today, being I had the 

windows opened. 

It sure was a lot of fussy cutting but I wanted 

to build it on top of the embossed musical background.  

To keep "in tune" with the music notes. 

Our little guy found another ball in the basement,

and he was most proud to bring it upstairs to show it off.  

Psalm 104:12KJV

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,

which sing among the branches. 

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Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

Hello March

Hello March. 💚  

I'm starting this month off with a super 

simple springy card. 

I love the bursts of yellow.   I just sponged it 

along the edge then used a stamp for the circle.  

I decided pink really pops with the yellow,

not sure if it's a thing, but for me it worked.  

I will submit this card to the challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Watercolor Shapes & 

Irresistible Blooms.  

HP loves looking out the windows,

it is the sweetest thing the way he rests

his chops on the window sill. 

1Kings 9:3KJV

And the LORD said unto him, I have heard they prayer

 and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me;

  I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, 

to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes 

and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 

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Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

Wildflower Path

This card came together in a whole 

different way that what I had originally intended. 

I'm still pleased with the finished look, but

goodness gracious it was a struggle.  

Of course I like the inside much better, just 

something simple and sweet about it. 

The DSP is a bit bold for the very 

delicate flower I stamped and cut out. 

I'm going to submit this card to the challenge

at: Freshly Made Sketches

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Wildflower Path 

HP giving one of his sweet little side looks, 

as he holds tight to his green pickle.  haha  

Matt 6:30 KJV

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which

to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he

not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

 

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💗PJ

 

February Flower

I took one more try with the sketch at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Irresistible Blooms

Petal Park 

I  decided for the stripes to just color them

with my markers.  Do a little freehand 

creativity.  Instead of my last card with 

all the measuring (which I'm no good at)

I just scribbled away on this one.  

It seems a bit more springy, and after the load of snow

we got, I figured I'd try to think spring thoughts.  

I sort of like the rustic, elementary 

look of this card.  

I'm sharing a picture of my plant that 

is now blooming even if the snow is in

the backdrop.  haha 

Here's a picture of the little snowfall we

had this past week.  

This picture of HP is from a few nights ago.

We were all snuggled up watching tv. 

Isaiah 40:8 KJV

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:

but the word of our God shall stand for ever. 

 

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💗PJ

 

Christmas Moose

Of course I would make a Christmas card

in February, especially since it has a moose. 

It was also a lovely way to use some 

Christmas scrap DSP.  

I will submit this card to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Merry Moose 

My husband had an Aunt who lived 

in Alaska, and she would write me, 

telling me about the moose she saw in 

her back yard.   How fabulous.  

I have a train yard.  haha.  

Speaking of trains, this train car had a whole

Christmas scene painted on it.  I thought

how fitting with the card I made. 

Of course when I went to get a better picture

another engine came down the line, blocking

this one.  So this is all I was able to get.  

Psalm 145:9 KJV

The LORD is good to all: and his tender

mercies are over all his works.

 

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Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

Carrot Card

I haven't had much of a chance to be

in my stamp room this past week.  

I had an eye appointment to which I was

very nervous about, and for good reason

apparently.  Things are just not going so 

smooth as one would hope, but such is life. 

I just told my kiddos, I'm going to keep

going and see as much as I can while I still 

can.  Same with everything, reading, stamping.  

Just going to keep living. and loving life. 

Even in the valley.  

So grateful for yesterday, we all got to hang out and

go to the train show. It was a delightfully fun time.  

Then we went to chick-fil-a which is a fun treat since

we don't have one were I live, and we love it.  

I made this card for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Thanks a Bunch 

Those carrots are lovely to stamp.  However, 

I didn't know what to do with the little leaves,

so I just added an assortment of them.   I used 

the carrot lines for my grass behind the sentiment. 

Just gave it a garden sort of vibe.  

Gen 1:11KJV

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, 

the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, 

whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ