Challenge #367 - OLC Stencils

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It makes my day to see my little blog growing.

 I needed to make a quick thank you note today for a friend who purchased a few cards on my Etsy shop.   I sure so appreciate her support.   I came across the fun challenge at: 

Less Is More 

I pulled out my little folder that holds a few stencils.  I don't have to many because I just can't seem to create anything nice with them.  However this little splotch I thought would be fabulous, and so I sponged it on the card stock, then tried to darken the edges with multiple colors, but it didn't look very nice, so then I started moving the stencil around a bit.. and WOW.. it made all the difference.  I love how it turned out.   I'll share a really lame attempt at a tropical card I tried to make with the stencils..too.  Let's just all say, "YIKES" together.  😉 hence NOT the entry card.

I also am sharing a picture of the little wooden mason jars. They each have a magnet on the back.  I will be adding them to my Etsy shop this evening.  I think I will sell them for $2.00 each.  Please stop by my shop later for details.  

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RRCB82~Two Step Stampin UP Easter Egg

 I made this card today for my etsy shop.  I had a request for Easter cards.  I then realized that the stampin up set I was using was an older one which made me think of

 Retro Rubber Challenge Blog

This particular stampin up set is from 2000 and is a two step Easter egg set.  I honestly didn't know what to choose on the tic tac toe board..but I finally headed in the direction of the far right column.  Embossing, green, and vellum.   First off let me say I'm never quite sure how to play, because should I just stick with all green or may I use other colors.  Well folks I chose to incorporate a rainbow of colors but made sure green was on the card both the outside and inside, and much to my surprise I had a super small piece of vellum in my paper stash.  I never use the stuff because I'm not sure how to work with it well, and then glue it down is also another problem, hence the ribbon today to cover up the adhesive.  For embossing I used the polka dots folder for the background. 

I also made a few other cards for my shop today.  So I thought I'd share them here on my blog along with the beautiful flowers I got today.  I love daisies, however the sign said that these are mums, but they look like daisies to me, and they just make me happy.  Now I have to figure out how to take care of them.   I also wanted to mention that the one card below is a dogwood flower and it has such a neat Easter meaning..because the flowers look like a cross.  My Dear Aunt Ann had these metal dogwood flowers above her organ keyboard.  I'm now the owner of these and keep them in my Bible Study room.  I think these cards will also work well for my SCS post.   

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Has anyone else noticed a little less activity on their blogs lately?  Perhaps it's the nice weather, or Perhaps it's just my blog.

YIKES❕

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Challenge # 263 - Sketch~Basket Bunch Stampin UP

 Introducing the  first card today that I made in my new stamp room.  Exciting news right?  Well it's not all daisies.. I can't even believe I'm going to say this, but I'm not happy in here.  I guess I had a system on the porch.  All jammed in there with my supplies at my finger tips and big old teacher desk.  Let me just say it's really giving me pains in my neck/back, I won't go into detail about my condition, but the uneven floors in our home has been a problem for me since surgery.  Our porch is the only level place in the house.. hence my craft room / bible study room was out there until I got this bright idea to turn our daughter's room into the "new stamp room"  Oh boy.  I don't think it will stay here folks.  Hubby might try to move the table a bit to see if it will help, but being it's a small room we don't have many options.  At least I know I can always have his help and move my supplies back out to the porch.   Sorry for the long story.  *sigh.   I'll give it a couple more days in here to see if the pain goes away.  Any ways thankful to have a home and a place to move my crafts back too.  

Onto the card now.  I made a simple little Easter card for the challenge at:  CAS Colours & Sketches

Using the basket bunch from stampin up and some washi tape.  It came together rather easily, even while dealing with the new room. 😉.  A little bit of coloring for Mr. Rabbit and that's all there was to it.  

Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit, and listening to me vent about the room.  

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Challenge # 190 Things with Tails~Hedgehugs & We Must Celebrate Stampin UP

 The sun is shining and it looks glorious outside.  However, there is a cold wind and so I enjoy the sun from the windows.  I also enjoy watching our squirrel friends play in the yard, deck and apparently now on top of our A/C unit outside.  Those little rascals.  No wonder HP gets so excited.. he just wants to run outside and play too.  I thought I'd share a couple pictures of the little fellas.  We have about 5-7 squirrels that make our yard  their home.  So when they decide to come down from the nest or in some cases out of the snowmobile shed next door.. the yard comes a live with excitement.

I made this card today for the challenge at: Cardz 4 Guyz 

Where the challenge is "Things with Tails" 

Ironically I couldn't include HP in this challenge, since he no longer has a tail.   It was docked when he was just a puppy, before we got him.   

So back to the card,  I  chose Hedgehugs  for the tree stumps, and We Must celebrate for the little critters and the mushrooms.  Both sets are from stampin up.   I also used a lawn fawn die to cut the grass.  haha.. cut the grass. That cracks me up.   My background paper is a gift from a friend and I thought it would work lovely here, it's also what the grass is too, I didn't want to many green shades.  I even embossed the little log behind the scenes, but it doesn't really show up so well.  I think the card turned out rather cute.  

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SKETCH # 255 Basket Bunch Stampin Up

 I made another Easter card today, and this one I will be submitting to the challenge at: Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

 

I used my stampin up, Basket Bunch.  I think it's such a cute set.  Loving that little bunny.  I chose to use the eggs for the scallop look on the sketch.. apparently I should have mowed the grass so to speak, so you could see the eggs peaking out a bit better.  But I left it long pretending it would be an Easter egg hunt, so tall grass would work best for such an adventure.  I filled the basket with beautiful blooms and of course the darling bunny.   I added a hit of gold glitter paint to the center of the flowers to give them some sparkle.  I love this bright and cheery background.

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Tuesday Morning Sketches #444~Basket Bunch Stampin UP

 Ohh.. this is a lovely sketch to work with at: Tuesday Morning Sketches

I find it so charming and so many possibilities.  However I too stuck with  an Easter theme.  I don't have many Easter cards on hand and it's approaching fast.   So I took this opprotunity to make one.   I used my stampin up set called Basket Bunch, I stamped the images and colored them in, and then off to the big shot to die cut them out.  I think it turned out so sweet.  I even like the little gold bow that matches the gold on the DSP.  I shared two pictures so you can see how sparkly that paper is.

I even spruced up the inside of the card too.  So for sure this card is going to someone 

"egg-stra special" 

I'm adding a picture of this Christmas card I made awhile ago.  It's all from scraps that I had laying around and I just found it on my shelf .  It's amazing what one can find when they start cleaning off shelves for the big move to another room.   I have great hopes in finding my wondrous wreath bow die.  That's been missing for quite sometime.  grrr.  I'm one of those people that count my stamps and dies.. and have the number on each set they go with.  So when one decides to run off on me, it's frustrating.   

Well up last are the pictures of this little fella with his surprise.   I mentioned in my last post he was peering in the house and did everything but knock on the patio door for a treat.  So I found a couple graham crackers for him to snack on since the corn is gone.  He dropped that cracker quite a few times.  But so fun to watch him go back after it. 

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CAS Game #110 - Ombre~Happy Harmony Stampin UP

 I made this card for the challenge at: AAA Cards

 I used a couple older stampin up sets that I had in my stash.  I know one is from 2007 called Happy Harmony.  I don't know what the name or year of the other one is.  I only have 2 from that mismatched set. 

 I thought the images worked lovely with the Ombre technique, and the sentiment says it all. 

I'm also sharing a picture of this cute little fella.  Mr. Squirrel was looking for something.  He did everything but knock on the patio door.  You'll have to check out my next post to see what he was after.  I got a few pictures of the little darling.  

Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit.  I hope you will take a moment and look around at my other cards, projects and pictures.  I'd love to have you sign up and follow my blog and my facebook page.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping.