Weekender Go Wild

This card kit from Spellbinders was fabulous fun! The Weekender 2026 "Go Wild" collection has you covered with fabulous dies, rub ons, stamps, and paper ephemera. I look forward to creating many tropical scenes and incorporating it with other sets. All of these cards were designed by Spellbinders wonderfully talented team. Great, easy to follow tutorials!

Be True

 

This week's Wednesday challenge at Simon Says Stamp calls for masculine themed projects using Tim Holtz. I made an altered playing card with Tim's stamps, stencil, and sentiment. The background was created with tissue paper with gold paint and then embossed with the hexagon stencil in gold paste. The top hat was covered in clear glaze.

Going Wild

 Hi, hope you are having an awesome week! The weather has been so uncertain lately, hot one day and cold and rainy the next. Today is one of the nice ones so I may have to spend some time outdoors on garden maintenance. I always fancied myself a gardener but have come to the conclusion that is quite a lot of work and I'm having a hard time keeping up with. I will just do the best I can!

These cards feature more from the Spellbinders Weekender kit. The first card is made from a five layer tropical leaves stencil, the bird is from the paper embellishments pack. I cut it out a little closer to the edges since it felt like too much white border.

The second card was from Yana Smakula's youtube tutorial. Lots of colorful layers for the toucan.

Color Cube Inspiration

I love the Color Cube system by Sarah Renae Clark, it's a great tool to get you started with some lovely color combination inspiration. This card used the layering stencils from Honey Bee Stamps and the sentiment is Simon Says Stamps "XL Birthday Greetings"from a previous Stamptember.

 This colorful summer card used Crafter's Companion stencil "Summer Scene" from the Garden Gnomes collection, beach chair and umbrella are from an older Spellbinders large die of the month that was one of my favorites and a definite keeper. The sentiment was a free die that came with a Papercrafts magazine.

Weekender 2026

 This year's Weekender 2026 kit from Spellbinders is pretty wild! Jungle, tropical themed dies, stamps, and other goodies that are really fabulous. For this oversized card that is a little larger than a business size envelope, I used the waterfall and leopard die sets. Looking forward to the upcoming event at the end of May. Snag a kit before they're gone and join the fun! This is my second event and I'm so pleased with everything about it.

Happy Mother's Day!

 Thinking of my Mom on Mother's Day and all that she did for us. I can't imagine how difficult it was with six children and I wish I could have her back for even a few minutes to thank her and hold her close. 

 This beautiful photo of her was used for my altered playing card that was made with Tim Holtz distress oxide inks, Stamperia stencil with gold texture paste, Hero Arts frame and rub ons sentiments. Embellished with some crystal roses and butterflies. 

 Happy Mother's Day to all of the Moms and caregivers!

Lucky Shamrocks

 Today's Monday Challenge at Simon Says Stamp calls for a Bit of Green. I used Tim Holtz paper and I'm not sure who made the bottom paper piece, shamrock die, and paper rolls made from retired Stampin' Up! paper. This is an altered playing card and was really fun to make.

Joy Ride

 Hope you will bear with me for a bit but I am smitten with the AALL & Create stamps right now. They make me smile! This is for the Make It Cute challenge for Wednesday at Simon Says Stamp found HERE.

I used the Nomad Wheels dies that are great for SO many scenes, Ginger's Gingerbread and Winter Is Magic stamps.

Springtime

 These are the projects I've been working on for various challenges. The playing card challenge for the week is to use the prompts of Purple, pink, magazine, weaving, text, vellum, black splatter, and spots. Whew! I got all of them on here.

The next two are for the AALL & Create Fanatics Memorydex, one for a nature theme and the other vintage. AALL & Create stamps and dies used for both.

Peeking Bunny

 Hero Arts Peeking Bunny and Wood Fence cutting dies, sentiment is by Trinity Stamps. Created for the Wednesday Simon Says Stamp challenge found HERE.

Art Meowseum

 

A jumbo sized playing card that was altered with a page from a vintage Walter Foster art book, Art Meowseum stamp by Hero Arts that I followed using the original painting colors. Other prompts for this challenge were metallic, purple, flowers, scribbles, and white splatter. The frame id a die from Honey Bee Stamps that I cover in Simon Hurley's "Gold Rush" lunar paste and the went over with Tim Holtz Black Soot distress oxide ink.

Cat Lady

 AALL & Create supplies for the wheels challenge on Simon Says Stamp found HERE.

I used the Nomad Wheels dies and Free Broom Rides stamps. One cat short of crazy!

Ace of Hearts

 I'm enjoying the altered playing card challenge, I feel I have enough in my crafting stash so I don't have to buy anything new to participate. The prompts for this week were shaker box, sheet music, black mark making, flower, turquoise, and light blue. Got them all on there!

Scarlet Tanager

 For the Pop Of Color challenge at Spellbinders I used Post Card Hello hot foil plate and Nature's Frame layering stencils. I'm ready for Springtime!

Classic Car Birthday

 Happy birthday to my wonderful husband, Jim! This card uses all Spellbinders.

Post Card Hello

 For the foil and shine monthly Spellbinders Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge of Things With Wings found HERE. I used Post Card Hello glimmer foil plate and stencil. 

It's a Wrap!

 Products used for this card were Spellbinders "Wrapped In Care" dies, "Soft Hearted" hot foil glimmer plates with bright pink foil. The dots were made with Nuvo "Shocking Pink" and glow in the dark. This is for the Spellbinders Foil and Shine challenge found HERE  and the Simon Says Stamp Monday foil challenge found HERE.

Foil and Shine

 A lovely monthly challenge from Spellbinders is on for January and the theme is foil and shine. I used Rainbow Confetti foil with the December Glimmer dies of the month with an older club die for the hearts (January 21 Slimline Kaleidoscope Hearts). It's really pretty in real life but difficult to photograph the pretty foiled rainbow effect. 😍

Memorydex Challenge

 A new challenge has begun from AALL & Create Fanatics on Facebook. AALL $ Create products used were Click Chic dies, Shutterbug stamps, and Prima Marketing paper. The camera belonged to Jim's Dad!

Cupcakes

 All "ingredients" for these cupcakes are from The Greetery!