Sunbird Spark Challenge #58

Hello friends!
I don't normally do sketches as for some reason my mind
doesn't seem to wrap around them, but when I saw this one
it looked pretty super easy and my first thought was 
some embossing and a rub on I had, so that is what I did.
This is a new to me challenge I saw when leaving a comment on
someone else's post so decided to give it a try.

Sunbird Spark Challenge

I had just purchased some new Lawn Fawn Minty Fresh card stock
so I used that for the bottom half of my card and an

SU Decor Dots SU embossing folder for the top half.
From my 'spare parts' box I pulled out an already die cut

Cherry Lynn Designs ric rack piece and ran it between the two pieces.
I also had purchased a couple sets of the new Spellbinder rub ons

 tis where my cute frog and sentiment came from.

I have a love for their rub ons as they seem to be faultless and so easy too!

I added a few fun gems to finish.

It's an easy sketch so why don't you play along too
I am sure they would love to have you!

Out of This World Birthday

 At The Sisterhood of Crafters our theme for this month is
GALAXY.

I had a pretty washi tape background that reminded a lot of a
galaxy that I used as my background.  I printed and die cut a cute
little alien from my Cricut and popped him up on the background.
I die cut a few stars from a  gold metallic scrap of  paper
and popped them up with micro dots.  The sentiment was computer
generated, one I think that will work for a young boy.

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It's a unique and different fun theme,
I hope you will join us at
The Sisterhood with YOUR take on our theme.

Time Out Birthday Challenge

Time Out is celebrating their 12th birthday and I love when a good
challenge has been running as long as this one, it says a lot about the challenge
so how could I not join in.  The theme is to case the beautiful card shown,
the colors, layout or anything else you see.  If you go and visit the challenge,
you will see a beautiful variety of designs by the DT.

Here is a close up of the card to case:

I pretty much cased the layout and the flowers for my card.
I didn't add the twine, embossing, nor gold but kept it more simple.
I have a thing for Rose stencils, years ago I had the most beautiful rose garden,

so anything roses always has an appeal to me.  I purchased this Altenew

Sweet Spring stencil a few years back.

It is only a two layer stencil so it's a little tricky as the leaves are not separate to

stencil so you will always get a bit of overlapping on colors, but it kind of

adds to it I think.  The inks I used are all Altenew, I purchased many of 

their ink cube sets of four long ago and they have
been my go to for most of my stenciling.

The colors used are Coral Bliss~Heart Beat~Vineyard Berry~

Firefly and Green Field.  I love how these inks flow from light to dark

perfect for the layered stencils.  

You can read about all the challenge details on the Time Out blog.

Also entering the following challenges:

Altenew .... Color Board

House Mouse Green Challenge

Today I have an older never been used before stamp that I decided to ink up for the
 House Mouse Challenge with the option to use GREEN.
There seems to be a LOT of 'green' challenges this month, so why not join in!!

Over the last few years, three of my friends gave me all their
House Mouse stamps and along with what I already had I seem to now
have lots of them, so am very happy there is a challenge just for them!

My stamp is a House Mouse Designs 2005 Gifts To Tie woodblock stamp.
I stamped it with Lisa Horton's Cloud 9 Solid Black ink on a
Sizzix Layered Labels die then colored in with Copics.
I added a doily die underneath straight from my 'spare parts' box,
then adhered the entire piece to a scrap of designer paper,
I love being able to use those pieces up!
The sentiment is a Lawn Fawn Wavy Sentiments.
A few gems were added for sparkle.

Also entering the following challenges:

I Love Pro Markers & Other Mediums .... Happy Birthday
AAA Birthday .... Use Die Cuts
Krafty Chicks .... Happy Birthday

Think You're Lucky

All my DT for the year is pretty much all done, 
all the way through December which frees me up to actually
have some creative fun whenever I want, and when I saw this challenge
I knew I had the perfect new stamp to use for it! 

Inspiration Station

Also entering the challenge at 

The Card Concept .... Monochromatic Greens
Somewhere between clean and layered and clean and graphic,

was totally inspired by the greens and had this in my head for awhile!

Back in either January or February, I forget which I purchased the entire new
months release at Unity, all the stamps were some I would use and this stamp
Zero Luck Given was one of them.

I stamped with Lisa Horton's Cloud 9 Solid Black ink on a 
Cottage Cutz Double Stitched Nested Square.
It was colored in with various Copics, a few tiny shamrocks from
my spare parts box were added, I think they are Impression Obsession.
The sentiment is one of the five 'snarky' ones that come with the stamp.
The 'wood' plank background paper is from a set of St Patrick's
12x12 Reminisce Irish Kiss Kit I bought a couple years ago.

I'll be back again with a few more 'fun' things later this week!

Also entering the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon .... Animal

Festive Friday .... Use Three of Listed:   Leprechaun (my cat)!Green~Clover 

Happy Thoughts

 It's time for another Love Those Pretty Papers challenge
with our OPTIONAL theme of CIRCLES.
I have a stack of paper pads that are close to being used up
and that is where my 'circle' paper is from,
a Simple Stories Make It Merry pad.
The circle I stamped on and the die cut underneath all came from
my 'white' spare parts container. 
The stamp is one I purchased from Spellbinders at one of their famous
warehouse sales and is Butterfly Burst Mar 2023 stamp of the month.
I added a few enamel dots, (yes, I am trying to use them up too)!

Because the theme is OPTIONAL and the challenge is an anything goes challenge
we also make an anything goes card.

I used my Cheery Lynn Step card die since it was still sitting out from a
previous use along with a VERY old Stampin' Up designer paper
which you might have yourself!
I really wanted the paper to take center stage so I just added
a few of my already made flowers and a sentiment stamped
from Pink Fresh Simply Sentiments 'Hello'.

The side and inside view of the card.

We would love to see YOUR pretty papers over at
Love Those Pretty Papers.

Entering the following challenges:

Creative Creases .... Fancy/Fun Fold

Happy Day

 Our fun challenge at Simply Clean & Simple
has an OPTIONAL theme of Baby Animals.
But, we are an anything goes as long as it CAS!

I pulled out a Colorado Craft Anita Jeram Wishing Birthday
stamp set and used the two tiniest little critters stamped with
Lisa Horton Cloud 9 and colored with a mix of Aletnew and
Copic alcohol markers. This set has 2 more larger critters
that are just as cute as the 2 I used. I stamped them on a pretty
Pink Fresh Studio Folk Edge Circle with a Cottage Cutz
Scalloped Circle underneath, all cut from scraps of papers.
I added some PFS gems.

If you love to make CAS cards, or even if you just want a break
from the more fussy cards, then come and join our CAS challenge at
Simply Clean & Simple.

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday ....Make It Cute
Little Red Wagon .... Animal
Crafty Animals ... Animal