"Supplies From Heartfelt Botanic Orchid and Amy Design"

Happy Monday everyone.
I'm  glad to make it back from the weekend.  Nothing spectacular happened in the last two day.
Saturday, I shopped at the Home Depot. You wouldn't believe that there are lots of things in the tool department for crafting.  Sorry, I didn't get any.  I was with the man of the house as he shopped there. In order to have patience and pretend I love looking at tools, I have to think "what can I use this for in my craft space...can I make something out of this tool"? (LOL)
When we get to Michaels (I just had to go to see if he would be the same way in "my" store).  He has this idea that he should assist in picking out items for me to craft with.  Now, this is strictly okay if he's paying for the items.  I did get some storage bins ($2.99 each)  and paper (7 for $1.00).

Today's card was made with images from Heartfelt Botanic Orchid paper pad and a die cut from Amy Design (bench):  The hardest part was fussy cutting the orchid branch and bird with scissors.  I don't have the die.  I added white NUVO crystal drops on the card.

entry for http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com

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Sending you a hug and LOVE,
Lois

"Sharing Two Because I Couldn't Decide"

Hello friends, followers, visitors and viewers.
Welcome to this blog on Thursday, July 20, 2017. 
I'm still helping "Sunshine" to count down her days before July 26th when she celebrate her ninth birthday.
I'm trying to imagine being nine again.  There is a saying..."look back but don't go back".  But, what if I could with all the knowledge and experiences I have accumulated over the years.  At nine and with what I know, I would probably be a "genius"....stop and have a good laugh at this reading...I did.

A good laugh every now and then is good for the soul and helps to put other things far from your mind.

Getting down to the real issue for my crafting today...
I'm participating in a share on another blog.  It is not a challenge for any prizes but a sketch  to help your brain to work along with your papers, dies and images to come up with a card or canvas.
To be honest with you, I started after dinner last night trying to get my papers together as well as my idea for the sketch.  I did finish the card before going to bed.  However,  I wanted to do another one this morning and to have my DH to vote on which one I should enter.  He said both of them.  Could I post both of them....sure I replied, I can put both on my page but only one on the other blog.
So here they are.  The first one which I did this morning will be posted on another blog and the bottom one will be posted at my usual challenge blog... the one I did last evening.

  Sketch Challenge 654 - (7/19/17)

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Items used are: Bella Blvd "illustrated faith" paper; Teresa Collins "Candy Cane Lane" paper; DCWV "Brooklyn Stack"; Cosmo Cricket Tiny Text; Spellbinders Standard Circle die; Darice "Picket Fence Border

Challenge #292-#293 Anything Goes

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Items used the following items: DCWV Brooklyn Stack; g.c.d. Botanique pad; Sizzix cityscape skyline die; Hero Arts Operation Write Home stamp set.

Thanks for viewing.  Hope you will come back again to see what I'm doing.
Leave a comment so I can know you were here.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"Card File Additions"

Tuesday, January 10. 2017

Hello friends, followers, visitors and viewers.
Today is the 10th of January and it is my oldest daughter's birthday.  I am reminiscing of the day she was born.  Why?  I remember clearly when I went into labor... there was about a foot of snow on the ground with ice mixed in with it....the same way it is today.  We didn't live close to a main highway then like we do now.  It seem like forever trying to get from our little country road to the major highway leading to the hospital.  Combine the fear of slipping into the ditch with no other traffic at 2 a.m. in the morning along with labor pains for the first time in my life....not a good feeling at all.  I'm thankful for an awesome God we serve because we got to the hospital (twenty miles away) without any major glitches.  I reminded her that this should be a good year because this is what I experienced when she was born.  The only difference between then and now...we live 3-5 minutes from a major highway which has been cleared of all snow and ice and if I have to go to a hospital it will not be because I'm in labor for the first time (lol).

I worked on two cards for your viewing.  One was done over the weekend and the other on Monday after viewing MojoMonday.

entry for WordArtWednesday.blogspot.com

Supplies used:

Recollections brown and blackcardstock; Prima 6 X 6 double sided paper

die: ODBD stitched die to cut out a part of a Heidi Swapp project life card; Paper Artist cutting dies for the hearts

embossing folder: Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations

stamps: Tim Holtz Stampers anonymous

entry for MojoMonday.blogspot.com  #479

Supplies used:

sketch from MojoMonday #479

Neenah white cardstock; design papers from my stash; Ranger watercolor paper

Distress inks; blueprint sketch and evergreen bough

die: Spellbinders Shapeabilities D-Lites Medallion

Focal Sentiment: Reminisce-Devoted Faith Collection-His Word

Happy Birthday again to my daughter and all the other people celebrating today.

Thanks for the visit.  Thanks for the love.  Thanks for the comments.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"Thinking About You"

Happy Wednesday to my friends, followers, visitors and viewers.
We made it to the middle of the week.  We can breathe a little easier after today because the weekend is ahead.
When Wednesday comes, can you get your mind off of the weekend or do you just live in the moment?  As a matter of fact, what are you thinking of that you can't shake this morning, afternoon or evening?  Is it me?  I hope not.   Is it someone who is sick?  Is it your child or spouse?  Your mind can be on a number of things at this moment and it is okay if you don't want to share.
Today's cards focus on the theme "Thinking Of/About You" .  I'm still working on some cards along those lines for my sister.  I made one yesterday and another one this morning.
Here they are.

This card was made using craft cardstock, dark brown and beige Recollection cardstock and DP from Recollections Steampunk Botanica. 

 I used an image from Pinterest.  I copied it twice and colored it with colored pencils. They were fussy cut out with scissors.  When I adhered it to the card, I did it in a 3D effect but it will still go through the mail.  

Die cuts of garden greens from Sizzix were added to add fullness to the vase of flowers.  

Bronze crystal Nuvo drops were added to the bottom of the card.  

It will be a "Thinking Of You" card....I just didn't photograph this with the sentiment.

This was an easy fun card to make.  I selected colors to go with the image after I had colored it with colored pencils.  

Supplies:

Image from Pinterest, colored with colored pencils in pink, brown and white

The image was place on top of a rose piece of paper that resembled a note card (free printable from Pinterest).

The sentiment was printed from my computer using MS Word.

The next layer is a piece of DP from Hunkydory the Little Book of The Orient

The next two layers (the stripes and polka dots) comes from Nicole Floral Pattern DP

The background layer is pink Recollection

All layers were matted with black Recollection.

The card base is Neenah white cut at 5.5 x 6.5

The design was from sketch challenge 610 from SCS.

I'm thinking about you today and hope you are doing well.  

1 Thessalonians 5:18 New International Version (NIV)

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Have a Blessed Day!

Sending You A Hug and LOVE,

Lois

"Using Acetate"

Hello friends, followers, visitors and viewers on this rainy Tuesday.
You may be experiencing really good weather where you are and I hope you're enjoying it. For some of us, on a rainy day, we will be enjoying a good movie while still in bed.  I'm not that kind of person.  For me, rainy weather makes for a good crafting day. Do you agree?
I've used a piece of acetate on my card today.  I had all intentions of doing the "smooching" method with some distress inks and water on a piece of cardstock....but....while looking through  Scrapbook &  Collage Papers, The European Collection by TweetyJill Publications, I saw a sheet of paper that looked like what I wanted to accomplish.  Therefore, I placed the acetate over the top of it and created a frame (blue Recollection cardstock) over the top of the acetate and the design paper..  Going a little further, I added the Spellbinders Romantic vine die cut (Neenah white cardstock) on top of the acetate and three blue Prima flowers on top of the die cut.  It still looked like it needed just a little more embellishment, so out of some distressed paper, I die cut three butterflies to add.  I used "thinking of you" stamp from Hero Arts with black Hero Arts pigment ink  and the stitched circle die from Our Daily Bread design to cut it out.  Here is what the card looks like:

Front view

Side View 

I've seen some other ideas that I want to try....today is a good day to try those ideas since we are having rain in our area.  Can't get outside to play so I'll play inside with some crafting material.

Have fun in whatever you decide to do today.  Come again!

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"Cards For Challenges"

Good Monday Morning, Friends, Followers, Visitors and Viewers.
I'm glad your weekend was fantastic.  
All went well with us this weekend and we're looking forward to the agenda for this week.
It's gardening time and our first step is to get our little space ready to plant some vegetables (the man) and flowers ( the woman).  We think the cold spell with the frost is over and things can start to grow.
I have some cards that I made for some challenges and would like to share them with you also:

First and Third Challenges - April 17, 2016 thru April 29, 2016 at SOC... FT042916 

We all need a word of encouragement. So this challenge will be about making creations that encourage.

Neenah white cardstock; purple Bazzill cardstock; purple Recollection cardstock; purple embossed piece from Amazon; cross sticker; Penny Black sticker and sentiment computer generated

Purple Rain Challenge at SOC

Purple Rain

Purple Recollection cardstock; Ranger watercolor paper; Colorbok pattern paper; black & white image of Prince from Google; two doves from Google; Prince's symbol from Google; purple watercolor in ombre

 

Monday Greetings Challenge - ANYTHING GOES - GCC042516
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Neenah white cardstock; red and black Recollection cardstock; Ranger watercolor paper;
blue, yellow, pick and green watercolors; 3D lighthouse Jolee sticker; 3 faux gems from Recollection

 

Neenah white cardstock; black Recollection cardstock; Colorbox pattern paper;  Ranger watercolor paper; orange, yellow, blue watercolors; Recollection flower and gem; stamp from Hero Arts;  
The Romantic vine die from Spellbinders was used to die cut the vine from the water colored paper.  The red and white polka dotted paper was placed behind the cut.

Off to have a fun day in the dirt.
Hope you enjoyed the view.
Come again!

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"Combining Two Crafting Dies Into One"

Hello Friends, Followers, Visitors and Viewers.
Congrats, you made it to Hump Day!  Let's celebrate by playing with more than one crafting die today.
I'm going to use two Spellbinders dies...Elegant Ovals and Romantic Agenda.  You may use any two dies that you have in your craft room (make sure they can be combined to look like one).
How did I choose these two dies?  The suggestion came from watching a craft show on the TV last week.  The young lady who was demonstrating was asked if it was possible to combine dies to make your own.  She stated how she would cut out patterns from different dies and throw them up in the air and if they landed together she would challenge herself to put them together into one on a greeting card.
Hum-mm...I may want to try this.  I have to admit that I didn't throw anything into the air.  I took out some dies (not all), and started looking at what could be combined (possibly).  I tried my first two selections together and they seem to work fine.
I'm calling this card a prototype for future cards that will be made in the same design:

Thinking of You

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cardstock: Neenah white, Recollection brown and Designer Paper from Craft Smith paper pad

die: Spellbinders Elegant Ovals #3 cut out three times and overlapped.  Spellbinders Romantic Agenda cut out and placed in the center of the elegant ovals

stamp: Cardmaking for Connoisseurs clear stamps sentiments

ink: black Hampton Art pigment ink

embellishments: three pink Martha Stewart flowers surrounded by greenery cut from Martha Stewart punches

Entry for    Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #224-#225 - Anything Goes 

Worry Ends When Faith In God Begins

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cardstock: Neenah white, Recollection black, light green and dark green.  Ranger Watercolor paper

pendants made using scrap pieces of Designer Paper

water color: yellow

die: Tattered Lace to cut out the bottom piece on the card with the rose which  was fussy cut from a piece of cardstock.  I  added glossy accent (you can't see in this picture) around the rose.

Thanks for viewing today.   I hope you try the technique of combining some of your dies into one and sharing your projects for us to see.   

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois