Lots of Roses....

Good morning my friends and welcome to my dusty blog.  I'm having so much fun playing along in some of the many cardmaking challenges out there and today I'm visiting the Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge.  As I have a hoard of pretty papers in my craftroom, this is perfect for me.

Today I'm using the Floral Fashionista paper from Heartfelt Creations from 2018. The colors and florals just speak to me and they have done all the heavy lifting for my card.  A little sentiment from my stash ... also from long ago (Life Lines from Flourishes.)  I'm not even sure if that company is still in business. 

 

This card was so much fun to make so I hope you enjoy it!

Ice Skates...

Good Saturday morning my friends.  I'm here this morning to share a Christmas card I have made to enter in the Peace On Earth Christmas challenge.  It has a miss matched use of different items from my stash and I think it turned out really cute.  

I used an embossing folder with no name on it and smooshed it with some white ink which helped to brighten it up a bit.  The wreath and skates are from Heartfelt Creations and the Snow word is just a random die I happen to have in my stash as well.  Also used lots of glitter on the skates and the snowflake.  This one is going in my box for the nursing home.

Bicycle Corner Tuck Card ....

Good morning my friends and welcome.  I'm here on the lovely Monday morning to share a fun fold card with you that has been around for a year or so but it is new to me.  I find I'm really enjoying making these cards and YouTube has a lot of videos about making these so I decided to give it a try.  I dearly love how this one turned out and I will be making more of these for sure.  I'm entering this card in the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge.   (Any embossing folder with a twist of wheels)

I used a purple cardstock for the card base and papers from the Heartfelt Creations Sweet Magnolia Collection and the bicycle if from the Heartfelt Creations Young at Heart Collection.  The sentiment is from Just Right Stamps and is from long ago and far away.  The lovely embossing folder is a Sue Wilson folder named Fanciful Flowers.  

Here is a closeup of the bicycle...

 

And at last the inside of the card with a look at the sentiment.  

I hope you enjoy this card...it was a joy to make.  I'm always looking at new and different ways to make a different card.  

That's it for me this morning...I'm off to enjoy my Sunday.

And So It Begins.....

Good morning my friends and welcome.  It is so very hot and humid here in East Tennessee our minds wander to anything Winter, or Christmas.  Anything to get to stay indoors!  I've decided to start on my cards for Christmas and now I can play in the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge.  This one has been one of my favorite challenges since it started.  I don't play along often but now I think I might be around more often.  I also am planing to enter this one into the Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge as well.  

The gorgeous embossing folder is from Gemini and it's name is Yuletide Decorations.  I just had to add some sparkle for good measure and the pretty paper is from Heartfelt Creations Festive Holy Collection.  I just love the birds and Holy!

Well this is about it for me this morning.  I need to move along and get some chores done.  Have a great day!  

A Christmas Card for my Stash and to Use Some of my Hoarded Papers...

 Good morning everyone and welcome.  I've decided I will enter this in a couple of challenges...Peace on Earth Christmas and the Love Those Pretty Papers challenges.  Like many of you I have looking around in my craftroom and I'm seeing all these paper collections that really need to be used.  They are doing no one any good just sitting here collecting dust.  

I have made an Interlocking Fun Fold Card and have managed to use quite a bit of paper.  I'm sorry but I have no idea the name or the company of this pretty paper pack but it has been here for such a long time.  I forgot I had it...so it needed to be cut into!

The inside of my card once it has been unfolded.  I love this design and it is such a pretty presentation!

Well my friends it is Friday and soon the weekend will be upon us!  Enjoy!

Butterfly Happiness Card...

Good morning friends and welcome to my blog.  It's kinda dry and dusty here on my blog so I'm trying to get rid of some of the spider webs and add a card here and there.  It's also a chance to share a card I made for the Love Those Beautiful Papers Challenge.  Like many of you I am a hoarder of pretty papers and find there are so many sitting in my craftroom just begging to be used.   Here is my card:

This is just one of the pretty card fronts from Heartfelt Creations and one of the tags cut out of the paper pack!  It is a very quick and easy card...it doesn't even have glitter added.  Such a fun card that reminds me of a walk in the garden!

Well that does it for me...I'm off to start my day!

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge...

Hello my friends and welcome to my blog!  I'm here to play along in the very first challenge over at Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge .  These ladies must of been thinking about many of us.  I love pretty papers, I'm a hoarder, I admit it!  So this challenge is going to be such fun for me!  Having been on card making design teams for many years, I have lots and lots of papers just sitting here begging to be usesd.  I'm going to get back into making cards for the nursing home and for family and friends.  I have been sitting back doing very little in the way of card making so today I begin a new chaper in my crafting world.  

The design of my card was copied from here:  https://youtu.be/xUCTCq-eD18  Jackie Bolhuis at Klompen Stampers made this video of making this card.  Thank you Jackie!

When the card is opened there is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" spot for another pretty piece of designer paper.  These papers are from Heartfelt Creations and they are notorious for having gorgeous papers to play with!  

Well this does it for me today!  I hope you like my card, it was a lot of fun to make.  I just love fun fold cards!