Sending birthday wishes

Hello. Playing in a few challenges today with this card.

The flower dies are from Sizzix (Simon Hurley). I used up a few of my scraps in my stash box for the flowers.  Always nice to try to deplete that box! Sentiment is from The Ton and the Dragonfly die is a new one from Craft Addiction UK. I added a bit of sparkle to the wings with a glitter brush from Scrapbook.com.

I embossed the smaller stamp die cut using a 3D embossing folder from Honey Bee stamps. Love the texture it provides as a bit of dimension in the background.  Added a bit of jute string to it as well and ended up really liking how it framed up the sentiment. 

Entering this into the following challenges:

A Cut Above - Anything goes with a die cut

Just Add Ink - wings

Allsorts challenge blog - things with wings

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Feel better soon - TSOT686

Hello and welcome back to another challenge over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday!

The embossing folder is from Penny Black.  I used the postage die from Waffle flower on some designer paper from 49 and Market to create the panels.  I popped up one of the butterflies using some of the ephemera that was included in the paper pad.  Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

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Link for joining the challenge:

Double Trouble Paper Crafting : Challenge #207 3-2-1 Recipe "Cool, Wild and/or Crazy"

Christmas blessings

Hello.  Here is my last reminder card for The Flower Challenge. Sniff! 

After 9 years of The Flower Challenge the December challenge will be our last. We want to thank all our design team members, past and present, and especially all our participants over the years. Finally, we thank Aileen Ryan for coming up with the idea and running the challenge in conjunction with Viv Hodge for the first 7 years. We will post the winners as usual on the 4th of January 2026. The challenge blog will remain open for floral inspiration. We will be back with our reminder post on the 15th.

The stamp is from Penny Black and I used watercolor Tombow markers to color the outline and then spritzed with water.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

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Mixed media tag - SSC374

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps. I am the hostess this go around and came up with this.  

I created a mixed media tag using stamps from the following companies.  Texture stamps/Lou Collins, Trinity stamps, Penny Black, Repeat Impressions, and IO.   The dragonfly was created using shrink plastic, Stazon ink, and the dragonfly stamp from Repeat Impressions.  I also used a bit of scrappers floss to tie the ribbon onto the tag. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you join us.  Link is here. 

ETA: adding this to the following challenges:

Just add Ink

Joy - SSC372

Hello and welcome back to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  We have a color challenge this time around.  I decided to go mainly with the colors and create a Christmas card. 

The big joy is a die from Penny Black.  I cut this three times and stacked it up for some dimension.  The berry branch is also a die from PB, and the rest are misc dies from different companies.  

Congratualations - SSC366

Hello. Welcome to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps. Today we have a color board for you to use.

The flower image is from Penny Black. I used Tombow markers and spritzed it with water to stamp the image onto watercolor paper.  The sentiment is from Waffle Flower.

I hope you play along.

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Get well soon - SSC364

Hi there. There is a new sketch up over at Sunday Stamps.  Here is what I did with it.

The flowers are from Penny Black.  I stamped them with Versafine ink onto watercolor paper. I did heat emboss them so that the watercolors would pool a bit with the Mei Liang watercolors.  After they dried, I used a black gel pen to enhance the centers and then fussy cut them out. 

The ribbon is colored with a copic marker to match.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you'll join us for the sketch.

Congrats

Hello everyone. Welcome to another challenge over at The Flower Challenge.  We are celebrating 100 challenges this go around and we have prizes to give away for playing along.  We are looking for you to add circles to your flower cards.  

The circle embossing folder is from Penny Back. I surrounded it with flowers cut from Pink Fresh Studio dies.  I did use inks color the dies cuts before adding them around the embossing.  The congrats sentiment is from Tim Holtz sizzix dies set. 

I'm giving away this retired Pink Fresh Studio set, which I have never used. We will be drawing winners randomly.  I hope you join us!

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Joy - TFC98

Hello! There is a new challenge up over at The Flower challenge. We are looking for you to add some sparkle to your flower creations.  

I used the Joy die from Penny Black as an anchor for this holographic poinsettia. I colored the silver paper using alcohol inks. In real life, it really sparkles.  The background is embossed with snow embossing powder through a snow stencil.

 

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Just for you - TSOT658

Hi and welcome to another sketch challenge over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday. 

I used a Penny Black embossing folder to emboss the circle.  The greenery around it comes from several different companies. Lawn Fawn, memory box, Echo Park, etc. 

The cream cardstock is from Papertrey Ink.  The rectangle dot die is from My Favorite Things, and gets a good workout from me. This one and the stitched die are pretty much a staple in all my cardmaking.  Do you have any that get a good workout too?

Link up to the challenge here.

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Also adding this into the Double Trouble challenge below.

Miss you - TFC95

Hello everyone. Here is your mid-month reminder about the current challenge going on over at The Flower Challenge blog.  Here is another card that I created for the current challenge.

The flower stamp is from Penny Black. I used Tombow markers on the stamp, then spritzed it and stamped it onto watercolor cardstock.  The sentiment stamp is from My Favorite Things.  I also layered the panel with dark purple cardstock (which looks black in the photo) to match the flowers.

Link up here.  Thanks for stopping by.

Sending best wishes

Hello. Playing in the Just Us Girls stencil challenge today.

I created my own stencil using the postage die from Penny Black. Using a blending brush and tumbled glass distress oxide inks created a soft glow to frame up the flowers. Those are from studio light, the flower centers, leaves, and stems were colored with copics.  The sentiment is from The Ton and is popped up using foam tape.

The yellow gingham ribbon was unearthed from my ribbon stash and tied with the bow easy.

Also adding this into the tic-tac-toe challenge #250. 

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Clean and simple sympathy card

Hello. Playing in The Paper Players clean and simple challenge of sympathy or encouragement. 

The silhouette sprig and sentiment stamp are from My Favorite Things.  I used the postage die from Penny Black to cut out a panel then used it as a stencil to create a tall and skinny area to stamp the sprig silhouette. Tumbled glass distress oxide ink used with a blending brush. 

I did add some shine to the dots with a black gel pen, but you can't see it in the photo. 

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Happy Birthday

Hi everyone.  The Paper Players sketch challenge intrigued me, so decided to play with it today. This also goes well with the feminine challenge over at Simon Says Stamp.

The flower stamp is from Penny Black called blooming. I watercolored them using Mei Liang watercolors, then cut them out using square nesting dies. I did use a marker to darken in the centers. The flower that's in the circle is fussy cut and popped up using foam dimensional tape. The small happy birthday sentiment is from Jaded Blossom. 

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Sending hugs - SSC331

Hello and welcome to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  Here is what I made using the sketch or inspiration color prompt photo.

The embossing folder is from Penny Black. I used an old flower die from Casual Friday Stamps to cut out the flowers from some speckled dsp from Honey Bee. The basket die is from The greetery and I backed it with vellum. The sending hugs sentiment is from The Ton. 

 

Link up here. Sunday Stamps

Adding this to the Addicted to CAS Bloom challenge today.

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Christmas wishes

Hello! Here is a card I created using distress inks and a Penny Black stamp.

I smooched bundled sage and aged mahogany onto my craft mat, spritzed with water and picked it up with the stamp. Then stamped it onto watercolor paper on the smooth side. Then took a paint brush and filled it in here and there. 

Added the sentiment and some gold pearls and layered it with the same colors of cardstock. I really like how it turned out. I also found that using red rubber stamps works best for this technique too.

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