The Flower Challenge #88: Add a Heart

 

It's the month of hearts!

Welcome dear crafters. The Flower Challenge celebrates all things love

for the month of February. 

'Add a Heart' is your challenge. 

I went with a Valentine theme, and began with The Greetery's Falling Hearts bg die,

and filled Heart Leaf Posey Pocket with Wildflowers.

I've had  a love affair with Loopy Bow ever since the Greetery released it.

Signed and Sealed  heart with sentiment over bow.

Play along all month. Remember challenge ends on the 25th!

The Flower Challenge #88 Add a Heart

The Flower Challenge #79 Background Stamping

 

It's a beautiful Spring day and The Flower Challenge this month is to create

a card with Background Stamping.

My Easter card features new stamps, dies and a foiled sentiment from The Greetery.

Spring on a card! Come play along, we love seeing your takes on the

theme challenge!

The Flower Challenge #79 Focus on Background Stamping

The Card Concept: Peace on Earth

 

Greetings, all! 

The Card Concept has a new challenge, Peace on Earth.

So much inspiration for your holiday card. And colors too!

I chose the prominent wreath as my main element, and constructed my own from 

The Greetery's Rustic Wreath. All pieces die cut from watercolor paper and spritzed

before stamping. I added some berries from Merry Sprigs, and mounted my wreath on 

The Greetery's Deco Frames die. Bow is from Fit to be Tied.

The Rustic Wreath has a base die, and the branches are arranged around that base, tucking

in the ends. The ends are the only part I glued in place. You can see the dimension in this

photo.

I hope this time of year brings you joy as we remember the reason for the season!

Blessings, friends!

The Card Concept #165 {Peace on Earth} 

The Flower Challenge: Birthday Celebration and Use a Shape

I'm so excited to be playing along with a favorite challenge blog, The Flower Challenge,

where they are celebrating their 5th birthday. Along with all the festivities and prizes,

they've asked us to use a shape on our cards.

 

The shape of my card is the gorgeous Hourglass from the Greetery. I've paired it 

with the Greetery's Winterberry Bouquet. 

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The card is a shaker, filled with sweet snowflakes and chunky glitter. The berry set

is a series of stencils and stamps. There's even a mask for for berry bouquet, which

I used over my image before sponge inking the background.

I added some sprigs and a blossom with berries to the front of the hourglass, with

a banner greeting.

The final step was the addition of Nuvo Glimmer Paste.

Happy Birthday Flower Challenge gals!

Play along through the 25th. 

Have a great and crafty weekend!

The Flower Challenge #61 Use a Shape and 5th Birthday

A Pumpkin Card

 

Hi! Are you feeling 'fall' yet? 

Here's a sweet scene to get you in the mood.

Meet Me at the Pumpkin Patch. Can't seem to put that sweet little leaf from

the Greetery awey just yet...

Birthday Cabin

 

I have a fall card to share today, a birthday card for a friend.

Sitting Pretty is one of my top 10 Greetery sets, and here's why:

This is the view from our family cabin in Shaver Lake. So many of our friends have 

enjoyed this sweet scene with me, among them, the recipient of this card. I hope she 

enjoys the card as much as I did making it.

I love creating scenes like this, with details and layers. The mountains hold a special 

place in my heart. We in California have watched sadly as drought, and forest

mismanagement have led to more and more fires. Our cabin and the neighborhood 

were spared, while others were not. The fire crews assigned to Shaver 

surrounded our village, and diverted the fire around the town and neighboring

homes and cabins. Never have I been so thankful to so many valiant and

devoted men and women! They even texted many of us with pictures of

our property to let us know we were OK.

If you get a chance, there's a fabulous documented video done by Jeff Aielo from 

Facebook's Talk of the Hill, who works for PBS, called:

Afterburn: The Creek Fire Documentary - A Valley PBS Original Documentary

Jeff and his wife gave us daily reports of the fire's growth and devastation. 

They continue to be the voice for those of us who demand action and better

 management of the forests.

The Greetery

Sitting Pretty, Sitting Pretty Accessories Dies

Rustic Wreath Twigs Die

Botanicuts Wheat

Reflections Stamp Set

Curio Autumn Findings

Fall Foliage

Written in Ribbons Stamp Set

 

The Card Concept: Harvest Adventures

 

You've picked a wonderful day for a visit! The Card Concept has a new challenge, and it's 

full of Autumn inspiration!

Colors? Leaves? Truck? Fall Season? Like I said, lots of inspiration.

My style is full of layers, and it's not really clean, so I'm going with 'stamped and layered card'.

Perfectly alright to choose your own style (or make one up!).

I definitely stuck to the color swatches on the inspiration photo.

Here's a closeup of how I arranged some of the Greetery's Botanicuts under the stamped leaf.

Hope to see you in the lineup on the challenge blog, and hope you're enjoying

a wonderful autumn season!

All products used: The Greetery

Harvest Home, Botanicuts: Ginko, Curio Autumn Foliage, 

Rustic Wreath Twigs, Let's Have a Word: Autumn Die.

  The Card Concept #161 {Harvest Adventures}

Hi there! Finally got a day to play with the Greetery's Curio set, and it took me

most of the day to complete this card. There's many pieces, once you combine the

sets, and I kept playing with ideas, die cuts, and colors.

The details in the the sets are wonderful! What you choose to include in your curio

is your choice.

A front view shows the my curio closed, with elements of summer collecting.

My curio 'opens', and has a butterfly on the outside as well as on the inside. There's even

a bee in a bottle. Such adorable details! The door idea was 'borrowed' from Norine Hope's

release card. 

Such fun to make. More of a showpiece than a card to send, but it does fit an A2 envelope.

I have so many pieces left over,  I think I'll make one more! Hope #2 goes quicker!

Have a great weekend!

 

Winter Scene

 

Christmas in July greetings to you!

This holiday season promises to be a busy one, and it's always nice to have

a stash of greeting cards ready.

My first Christmas card of the season is this sweet all die cuts shadow box nature scene

from Sizzix, featuring elements that has me longing for cool, quiet days.

I'm a big fan of card and envelope sets, so each Christmas card will have it's own

special stylized one for sending.

This one stenciled with the Greetery's Berry Branch stencil, with some splatters.

The tree is treated with some Shabby embossing powder.

Not putting this die set away just yet, plan to do some more cards in different 

color ways. 

Hope I inspired you to stay in and create! 

Supplies:

Sizzix: Christmas Shadow Box die set

The Greetery: Berry Branch Stencil, envelopes

Stampendous: Shabby Green Embossing Powder

Sitting Pretty Get Well

Summers in my valley. hot. hot. hot. Great for growing summer fruit...

A greater reason to stay indoors, and craft!

The Greetery's Summer Release flew across the country and into my mailbox in 2 days!

A reason to celebrate, and another happy reason to stay in the craft room.

Thankfully I have no one in mind for this Get Well card, but the serene scene seemed

perfect for someone on the mend, don't you think?

I'm off to play with some more of the Greetery's treasures from this order. 

Did I mention it's hot outside? Like I said, great excuse to spend the day crafting!

Stay cool, my friends!

 

The Card Concept: Long Summer Days

 

Card Concept's newest challenge is: Long Summer Days. 

Welcome, and just have a look at the inspiration photo... so many ways to be challenged!

Here's my card, hope it inspires too.

It also has a greeting for you, 'Happy Summer.' The Card Concept Challenge will

be on summer break, so this is the last challenge for a while. 

By the way...

 I was inspired by the beach theme, the colors, and the sea horses for my  

Mixed Media Shaker card.

See you all in the fall!

The Card Concept #158 {Long Summer Days}