Apple Pie, Anyone?

 

Hello friends! Of all  the vehicles to show card craft making, posting on my 

blog is my favorite. I get to show you the how's and the what's, including lots

of details, my favorite part of creating a card!

The Greetery's latest,  Harvest Fest, came fast, and I've been playing with it

ever since! The pie die got my attention during the release, and I watched  

Angelica's video 3 times! So full of ideas!

My first 4 'pies', baked and ready for cards.

No. 5 pie begged for a card, so I went with apple, added some cinnamon

spice, and Granny Smith apples, and gave it a background from Fall Folk

Stencil.

A few sugar sprinkles,  and my pie is done!

More pies coming up! 

Have a delicious week, my friends!

The Flower Challenge Reminder #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

 

Good Morning and welcome to a challenge reminder for The Flower Challenge.

For the month of July we are asking you to create a CAS card.

For some folks, a masculine card is the hardest to make. For me, it's a CAS card!

Clean  and simple... plenty of white space, and a main  focal. Oh and, a flower

of course!

I picked Honey Bee's Lovely Layers Water Lily, to use as my centerpiece, 

and added just a bit of Tiffanylou's Blue magicals to simulate water the

lily is floating on.

The layers make the petals pop off the card. Not so simple, but oh so pretty!

Happy Birthday is from The Greetery's Full Panel Leaves Stamp Set. It seemed

to fit the wavy leaf perfectly! 

I'd love to see what you make with this month's challenge. Believe

me, I need all the CAS ideas I can get! 

Blessings  sweet friends!

Reminder #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

The Card Concept Spring Bouquet

 

Hi and welcome to a new challenge at The Card Concept: Spring Bouquet

I love the  colors with this photo, and used them for my Clean and Layered card.

Starting with the Greetery stamped background in Ranger's Oxide grey ink, 

I die  cut the Poppystamps trellis )thought it looked lacy over it, and then

the tulips  from the greetery (also inked)

The die cut 'birthday' is also from the Greetery, as is the silver embossed 

wishing you...

Our challenges are for 2 weeks, and hope you're inspired to play along!

The Card Concept #194 {Spring Bouquet} 

Easter

 

The end of March brings the beginning of April, and all things Easter!

Sending out the last of my Easter greetings today, and sharing this one

made with The Greetery's Spring Meadow Background, Bountiful Wreath

and, some blooms from Spring Meadow.

The sweet Easter eggs are from a group of eggs from SSS.

Springs of spring are Tim Holtz Thinlits called Flower Field.

And of course a favorite from Tim Holtz, Mr. Bigz Bunny Die.

I love putting scenes like this together. So therapeutic!

Wishing all of you a blessed spring and Easter!

The Card Concept: Christmas Trees

Hi and Merry Christmas! The Card Concept has a new challenge for you, and once

again with the brilliant idea of giving you the choice:

Lovely and warm fall themed card or

Cool, contemporary colors for a holiday card.

My inspiration for you comes from a card I saw Norine Boyes do, with a tree from

Spellbinders.

She placed droplets of reinker onto a stamping block, sprayed the block, and created 

her own paper. After die cutting the image or tree, she added paste to simulate snow. 

The process was a blast! and I love the result of the greens blended with spaces. of

white.  

Hope you're inspired today, and choose one of our inspiration photos for your card.

Have a wonder week!

The Card Concept #184 {Happy Thanksgiving} or {Merry Christmas} 

 

Spiders!

 

Hi there Poppy Peeps! Come join me on the Poppystamps blog today to see how I 

created this slightly spooky Halloween card.

Any thing with spiders spooks me... how about you?

Spiders! A Halloween Card by Nancy Penir

Autumn Blessings

 

Hi and welcome to fall! And it's fall at the Card Concept Challenge blog, 

where our inspiration is this photo:

Fanciful Fall! All the colorful patterned leaves were my inspiration. 

The leaves from the Greetery's Botanicuts Mighty Oak, are such 

a fun leaf set to color, and I cut the dies from watercolor card stock

 before inking with Distress Oxide Inks. When you spritz them with water, 

the random droplets appear. They rather reminded me of the

polka dot patterns in the inspiration photo.

Shiplap Die holds the Autumn sentiment from Bittersweet Bouquet, 

another set from the Greetery's Autumn release.

Style? Layered, Elegant and some Mixed Media with the Oxide Inks.

Will you join us for the challenge? I'd love to see what inspires you!

Sending Sparkle

Hey everyone, I'm up today with some inspiration on the poppy stamps blog,

Sending Sparkle by Nancy Penir

Hoping you'll pop by and see how my card was created with some of 

their fabulous dies!

So many ways to add sparkle to your cards! And what a fun impact.

Happy Crafting!