SOS509 - Emboss Like a Boss

 I made this card for our current challenge at Shopping Our Stash. We want to see embossing on participants' creations and I decided to do a bit of both - hot and dry

I used the Prized Peony stamp set from Stampin Up and for embossing I emboss the velum in the background and also heat embossed the sentiment

613 Avenue Create - embossing

Path of Positivity  - Texture

Triple B - blooms

Crafty Catz - AG + show some flowers

Krafty Chicks - Stamp Act

SOS498 - Double Flap Masculine Card

 This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Let's Hear It For The Boys and I made this double flap music card. It would make a great birthday card for anybody that loves music.

I used a SU stamp set called Enjoy The Rhytm and all the other supplies were also from SU

Make My Monday - Masculine

2 Sisters on the blog - Mens'  card / hobby

Creatalicious - AG + birthdays

The Paper Players - It's a Man's World

SOS491 - Flowers, Flowers Everywhere

 Our newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Flowers, Flowers Everywhere and since we can't wait for spring and see flowers outside we want to see them on the cards.

For my card I used one of the SU Sale-a-bration freebie stamp sets called Beautifully Happy together with  SU ribbon, paper and butterflies. This is a very quick to do card as the set has stamp that you can use to full in the outlines instead of coloring. Colors I used are Petal pink and Calypso Coral for the flowers and Parakeet Party for the Leaves

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar - Add a Ribbon

North Pole Mischief

Happy New Year Everyone! I thought I will post one more Christmas card before the season is done.

I used a SU stamp set called North Pole Mischief, the cardstock and sparkly paper are SU too.

Image was colored with alcohol markers and I love how it turned out.

I'm entering it into these challenges:

Dream Valley - Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - anything Christmas

Winter Wonderland - anything Christmas

As You Like It - Anything Christmas

 

Cascading panels Christmas gnome card

 I loved the Cascading panels fun fold card by QueenB so I made one myself.

I used the Kindest Gnomes stamp set and matching papers from Stampin Up plus the puff snow and matching sparkle gems

The Corrosive challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes + Patterned Paper

Creative Creases - Fun Fold

My Time To Craft Christmas - Non-traditional Christmas Colors

SOS472 - 6 sided pinwheel card for Father's Day

Our newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to make a funny Father's Day card. I decided to try a new type of card called 6 sided pinwheel card - you can find the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers. It's a fun fold that looks complicated, but it isn't. It folds flat and fits an A2 envelope.

Papers and stamps are from Stampin Up - He's All That collection. Here are a few views from different angles

Crafty Friends - For Men/Boys

Get Creative - At Least 2 Patterned Papers

Stamping Sensation - Make It Masculine

SU Potted Geraniums

I just received my Potted Geraniums bundle and I had to start playing with it. 

It's a layering stamp set, but it's easy to work with, not fussy at all. SO I just played with different color combinations for leaves, flowers and pot too. Which ones is your favorite? I like the darker leaves on the right (granny apple and old olive) and flowers on the left one (polished pink and melon mambo) Also love the sentiment die - fits the set sentiments perfectly. Stencil is also SU, but probably retired, inked with Crumb Cake ink

Craft Rocket - Birthday

Moving Along With Time - Birthday

Stamping Sensation - Flora or Fauna

Die Cut Divas - Anything with dies

 

Sycamore Street Challenge 4 - Mother's Day gnomes

 I'm back with more cards made with Sycamore Street DSP and this time I combined some sketches with an upcoming holiday. I used Jaded Blossom gnome dies - love them, they are a nice size and so easy to assemble. Also love how you can combined the different sets/accessories.

he colors are a bit of in this photo - the orange is more coral IRL and the sparkly blue is lighter - but nevermind - it's quite dark and gloomy today and my camera didn't want to cooperate. For this card I used a sketch from Cheerful Sketches.

I'm also entering it into DL. Art Thankful Thursday  - Mother's Day

Next I have a girl gnomie for you with sketch from Try Stampin On Tuesday

As you see I gave her the flower that came in a guy gnome set + added a little flower on her hat.

Simon Says Stamp - Feminine

Sycamore Street 3 - Gnomies

I'm back with more cards made with Sycamore street DSP - if you didn't see my previous posts, I'm challenging myself to use up this 9 year old paper pack. Today I made a few with these cute gnomie stamps. Most of them are get well cards and I think these fun cheerful colors work well with the theme. All images were colored with alcohol markers.

Challenges:

Pearly Sparkles - Layer up

Girlz Creative Crafts - Get Well

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge - AG with patterned paper

 

Sycamore Street 2 - Calming Camelia

I'm back with more cards made with my 9 years old patterned Sycamore Street paper pack

 This time I made a few Thank You cards with Calming Camelia stamp set. I used 2 of the simpler patterns and stamped the camelia in Island Indigo to mach the paper.Card base and mats are Sahara Sand.

Challenges:
Dare 2B Artzy - Flowers
Dragonfly Dreams - Butterflies and/or Flowers

Stamping Sensation - Anything Stamped with option of flora/fauna

Sycamore Street Challenge 1 - Butterfly cards

 I gave myself a challenge - I found a pack of older SU patterned paper called Sycamore Street that was released in 2013 (yeah, 9 years - can't believe I had it for so long). At some point I cut it up to 4x5.25 inch pieces and put them away. SO I think it's time to finally use them. The patterns of this collection are quite busy and some of the colors are retired so it's going to be a bit challenging. I also don't have any stamps that were meant to coordinate with this paper pack. I will be posting few cards as I will be making them and here are the first 2 cards I made

these are pretty simple - using older punches and dies and of course the patterned paper.

Challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper challenge - Anything with patterned paper

International Art & Soul - Things with Wings

Allsorts - something beginning with B (Butterflies and Busy papers)

SOS468 Elegant Sketch

 This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is a sketch. Here it is:

and here is my card:

It's very shiny, so it was hard to take a good picture. I used papers and stamps from Simply Elegant suite from a current SU catalogue. This paper has copper and silver embossed design and I used copper embossing powder for the flowers and silver for the sentiment.

And one more picture trying to capture all the shine without a glare.

Crafty Hazelnut's PP Challenge - Anything Goes with PP

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

SOS466 Spread Your Wings

 This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Spread Your Wings and we want participants to feature something that flies. My flying thing is a butterfly and on this card I used a variety of things. Cardstock and patterned paper are from Simon Says Stamp March kit, butterfly die cut as well as the little metalic butterflies are from Stampin Up and the sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker that was included in one of last year's SSS kits.

SOS465 - Silver Flowers Birthday Card

Out newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Full METAL Jacket and we want to see anything metal or metallic. I made this birthday card for my daughter's friend

For my card I used a large Stampin Up stamp called Daisy Garden and embossed it in silver on Night of Navy cardstock. I had this stamp for more than 6 months and this is the first time I actually used it. Sentiment is from another SU set called Friends are like Seashells. I also added a silver ribbon.

challenges:

Use Your Stuff - Birthday

Everybody Art - Birthday

My Time To Craft - Embossing

 

SOS460 - Do you want to build a snowman?

We have a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash called Do You Want To Build A Snowman? and here is my contribution

Most of this card was created with Penguin Pals DSP from Stampin Up - snowman was also fussy cut from the DSP. Die cut sentiment and the little self adhesive snowflakes are retired products from Stampin Up. I made a whole bunch of cards using these papers and I will show you more soon.

Paper Players - Winter Wonderland

Send a smile 4 Kids - Winter Cards for kids

Cardz 4 Galz - It's Snowtime

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes + option: things with wings

Echo Park - WInter Magic - 25 cards from a pack

I started to make Christmas cards and I'm planning to give out a bunch as gifts so I needed to speed up the process so I came back to using up the whole paper pack.

Started with 6x6 Echo Park pad called Winter Magic - everything is blue, white and I added silver accents here and there.

These are probably my favorites - using Merries Moments stamp set and dies from Stampin Up, so I made 4 of them with just slight variations

Dragonfly Dreams - Winter/Christmas

Stamping Sensation - Christmas

Aud Sentiment - Christmas + Sentiment

More cards using various stamps and dies

Allsorts - Christmas

and some featuring the cute patterned paper from the pad

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

and several cards using the cut aparts from the pad

Bloom Where You're planted Window Card

I finally got to play with my new SU collection called Bloom Where You're Planted. This card was inspired by one made by Mary Anne Cowan - you can find her video tutorial here

 I used all parts of the collections, dies, stamps and paper.

Challenges:

Dream Valley - dies and/or punches

Everybody Art - dies

Friends are Like Seashells

I'm still working on Monterey Bay paper pack from PaperPlay and I decided to make some gender neutral cards with the new Friends are like Seashells stamp set from Stampin Up. I love the sentiments from this set and since I didn't want the cards to be too feminine I restrained from sparkly embellishments and only used some clear Nuvo drops.

First one is using the current sketch from The Paper Players

 I'm also entering it in Beyond The Blue - Rustic Wood background and

AAA Birthday - Patterned Paper

Masculine cards using Retro Rubber Sketch

 I'm working on another 6x6 paper pad - this time I used Monterey Bay by Photo Play which has nautical themed papers and I made couple of cards using the current sketch from Retro Rubber challenge.

I used Sailing Home stamp set and dies from Stampin Up - I had it for 1.5 years at least :)

Watercooler Wednesday - Masculine

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

MME - Love Me - 23 cards from 6x6 pack

 I don't make a lot of Valentine / love themed cards - but I did use up a partial 6x6 pack from My Mind's Eye called Love Me. I made 23 cards, from some designs 2 of them.

these are made with retired Stampin Up stamps and dies (except love word)

Inspirational - Hearts

Cut It Up - All You Need Is Love

A whole bunch with Penny Black stamps - set called Stuck On You

My Time To Craft - Love

Daring Cardmakers - Share The Love

Flourishes stamps - all colored with alcohol markers

Fab n Funky - Love, Hearts