Sunday, September 15, 2024

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with The Creative Crafters!!

Happy middle-of-the-month!  It's the fifteenth and that means it's time for a new challenge at Creative Crafters!  As always our challenge is Anything Goes!!!  We had one whole day of fall weather and now we're back to humid.  Ugh!  So I made a fall card cause I love sweater weather and we get so little of it. Mostly we go from 90s to puffer coats lol.  This image from last month's KOM from Unity Stamps is just amazing.




Just a few challenges:


Be sure to visit the blog, play along with us and check out the other DT's projects as well!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

STAMPtember - Day Eleven - Take Two (technically Three) - Happy Birthday, Nessie!!!

Three posts today!  There's a lot going on.

My fellow Twihards will know that today is Renesmee Cullen's birthday.  Per the books, she's eighteen!  Crazy.  I hope Jacob's keeping his creeper distance cause.....yecch!  Anyways, I always make a card for Nessie's birthday, and this year I made a card slightly Twilight inspired, but that could absolutely be a card that someone might give to Nessie.



Just a few challenges:


Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!

**FALL FRIENDS IG CARD HOP** Week One - Latte Love

Welcome to Week One of the Fall Friends Card Hop, hosted by @createwithkas.  We're sharing 11 weeks of fall projects with weekly themes and if you would like to join us, please DM Kelly @createwithkas.  This week's theme is A Latte Fall Fun!!

Even though I don't drink lattes, I love all things coffee!  I had to make two cards because I couldn't decide what to make.  I used my brand new Pumpkin Spice Vibes stamp and die set from Simon Says Stamp and I've got a feeling I'm going to be using this a lot!


I love them both, I don't think I could pick a favorite!!


Sketch for this card - Hand Stamped Sentiments #446


Sketch for this card - Sweet Sketch Wednesday #286

Just a few challenges:


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STAMPtember - Day Eleven - Celebrate America

Hi everyone.  Today's a somber day for everyone, I know it is for me.  This day kind of haunts me, and I feel like it always serves as a reminder of how different our country was back then.  No one tried to politicize the terrorist attacks, we all came together, we supported our country as a whole, it was so different than we are now.

I always make a card for today, usually a thank you card, which this would work for, to honor those who were lost, and those who risked their lives to help.

Just a few challenges


Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

**STASHBUSTERS IG HOP** Week 19 - Use A Crafty Item In More Than One Way

Welcome to the Stashbusters 2024 Paper Crafting Hop!  Stashbusters 2024 is hosted by Armen @armenscraftroom.  Every other Tuesday, the Stashbusters post 1-6 creative, paper-based projects to share. Our goal is to use the items and supplies we already own to create between 27-162 projects each over the course of 2024.

Today's hop theme is "Use one item multiple ways to create interactive friendship cards".

I did two out of three!  I couldn't really nail the "interactive" part of the challenge with my time constraints, but I definitely made cards for girlfriends using the same stamp in three different ways.


Sometimes I like to split the posts up for the cards, but I didn't feel like doing that today for some reason.  All three cards use the same Simon Says Stamp stamp set in a different way.


This one I stamped on patterned papers and cut all the pumpkins and gourds out by hand.  I love fussy cutting.

A couple challenges for this one:



The copper and gold didn't photograph that well, but I stamped this one with the Lisa Horton metallic inks.  Honestly the jury is still out on these.  I've had these dry really well, like on this card, and not at all on other projects, which makes them just like every other brand of metallic ink pad I've ever had. 😢


She's my favorite.  So festive with her PSL, ready for a day of errands, and maybe a little fun in there, too.

Just a few challenges for this card:


Thanks so much for looking and happy hopping!  Laters!!

Monday, September 9, 2024

JUST FOR GIGGLES IG CARD HOP - September - Clean and Simple

Hi everyone!  Welcome to the Just For Giggles IG Hop, hosted by @craftyengineer and @itsawonderful_craft_life.

This month we hope to make you laugh but we also challenged ourselves to make "Clean and Simple" cards.

If you've been here before, you know how hard CAS cards are for me.  I tried, I really did.


This sentiment really speaks to me now, way more than when I bought it and I've had it for years.

If we made you giggle, chuckle or smile, please leave us a comment so we can know.  Now sit back and enjoy the hop!

Next up is @reclaimingmycrafts

Just a few challenges:


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