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.