Snowy Holidays!

These darling images are from Green Duck Sales. They have a great fan club program that you can check out:  www.diecutclub.com  or you can follow them at www.facebook.com/DieCutClub. 

IC581 - It's the Oh So Beautiful Paper website. I found this wonderful SNOWFLAKE. I got this snowflake die cut just after Christmas and thought it was perfect to use from my inspiration. Die cut the snowflake and mounted. Added a sentiment on a punched ornament and added an additional snowflake and gem on the ornament.

CCC17FEB is adding people on our cards. I thought this wonderful Green Duck embellishment was perfect to add to my card. I added a gem to his ornament as well. Working on my Christmas cards for 2017 as I was way behind last year.


For a list of the die cuts used please visit my SCS link: Snowy Holidays!

Birthday Love

A good friend of mine asked me for a tennis birthday card for his mom and this fun lady just needed some sun because she sure looks like she brings sunshine where ever she goes.

Stamped image colored with copics. Cut straight line down fun tennis girl and fussy cut around the leg, visor and punched out the tennis ball. Sprayed red, orange and yellow through the sun stencil and mounted the birthday girl.


Copics used: E01, E11, E31, E33, E35, E37, R20, R24, R43, R46, R59, C0, C3, G14 & FYG1


For a list of the stencil or stamp I used please visit my SCS link:
Birthday Love

Skiing Joy

Super fun challenges this week on SCS. I created this card for 4 challenges including 2 Christmas card challenges. I am hoping to get my Christmas/Holiday cards done much earlier this year so I am not scrambling at the end of the year. :) Wish me luck.

LC621 - And the Whole World Smiles

CAS412 - Freeze!

SCSCCJAN17, CCC17JAN - Getting Started on my Christmas Cards for 2017

Stamped the image and colored with copics. Doodled the border and added some snow and the sentiment. Finished off with doodling the smile on the mittens because who does not love happy mittens and stickles on the snow.


Copics used: Y13, Y17, R20, R22, R24, E08, E31, E33, E35 & B00.


For a list of the stamps used please visit my SCS link:
Skiing Joy

Quilted 4 You!

Today's Featured Stamper Twila Davis aka tjdstampsalot has a fantastic gallery. I found these GEMS!

I loved the wonderful use of all the different patterned papers. It is a great way to use up some scraps as we all have them. I pulled out some of my patterned papers and most were not enough to do the long strips so I cut them down to squares. I turned mine on an angle and added my sentiment strips to the top rather than the bottom as Twila had on her cards. I finished mine off with some texture once I pieced the cards together.

Quilted 4 You!

Quilted Note Card

Wonderful inspiration challenge today on SCS it is the fantastic Etsy shop of The Altered Diaries. I found this stunning Diary.

I loved the colors. Using my quilt die cut and several DPs with the colors I pieced the quilt cards together. Finished off with the tatted butterflies to mirror the crown in the center of the diary and the sentiment.

Quilted Note Card

Key to My Heart

Today's challenge on SCS is called Key to My Heart.  The key to my heart is my nieces and nephews. I lived away from them for 10 years and recently moved back and love having them over.

These darling images are from Green Duck Sales. They have a great fan club program that you can check out:  www.diecutclub.com  or you can follow them at www.facebook.com/DieCutClub.

My 10 year old niece came over last Sunday and helped me create more Valentine cards for her to give to classmates. She loved using the Big Shot to do some fun textured BGs and loved playing in the sequins to add some sparkle to the cards. We layered the papers then added the Green Duck embellishment and some sequins and ribbon.

Thank you for looking at the cards my niece helped me create.

Check out my exciting news above on these fantastic Green Duck Embellishments!!!

Key to My Heart

Black Beauty

Today's super fun Ways To Use It challenge we are making our own stamps.WT618 - Make a Stamp

So my barbed wire came out great and worked like a charm and I got three great stamps out of it. I was going to do the entire panel and a setting sun BG but I had to set it aside for a bit. When I got back to it I found that one of my sweet fur babies had taken off with it. One might think with the bright green foam I used I could find where they hid it but I have looked high and low and that stamp is no where to be found. So I used part of it in the upper left corner and have another piece left over for another card. My girls love to play with foam. Just goes to show why I have to keep my craft room closed. LOL!

Die cut barbed wire on foam and stamped with Versamark on white and heat embossed with copper. Added a sunset color by sponging yellow, coral, light blue, dark blue and purple to the barbed wire panel. Embossed the white panel with stars. Stamped the horse and colored with copics then mounted on dimensionals on the black. Finished off with some twine and a button.

Horse Stamp used is Inkadinkado. Darcie Star Embossing folder used on the panel.

Copics used:  C1, C3, C5, C7, G12 & G14

Black Beauty