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.