Thankful for Yellow Flowers

Hi Crafty Friends,
Poppy Stamps has the most gorgeous Nordic Garden Collection. I created pots of my favorite color flowers (Yellow) using Poppy Stamps Nordic Scalloped Flower Pots 2782, Poppy Stamps Scatter Flowers 2773 and framed with Poppy Stamps Fine Eyelet Frames Dies. I wish there were actual flower pots that looked just like these. I would put them right by my front door.

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:
Q: What are your favorite flowers?
A: Me? Yellow Roses

Step #1: I began by creating my flower pots out of different shades of yellow paper from the Poppy Stamps Sunrise 6x6 Paper Pad SP103.

 

Step #2: I die cut the Nordic Scatter Flowers in all the shades of yellow and yellow plaid paper and lined them up to make it easy to mix and match.

 

Step #3: I mix and matched the darker yellows, paler yellow, and plaids to make an extravagant garden for the bottom of my card. I layered the frame dies and arranged the flowers on the bottom of the smallest frame layer.

Step #4: I layered two of the eyelet frame dies on top of one another and turned my card landscape style. I placed the pots along the bottom of my card and filled them with my mixed and matched flowers. I finished my card with two banner sentiments from the Poppy Stamps Sentimental Banners Stamp & Die Set to alternate corners.

 

 

2764 Fine Eyelet Frames

2773 Nordic Scatter Flowers

2782 Nordic Scalloped Flower Pots

Old School Music Players

Hi Crafty Friends,
Scrap Diva Designs has some fun old school music player dies. I love the Scrap Diva Designs Boom Box Dies & Mini Record Dies. They remind me of how playing music changed through my childhood.

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:
Q: How did you listen to music as a kid?
A: Me? Started with cassette tapes, then CDs, then an IPOD, now on my phone

 

Sweetest Berry in the Patch

Hi Crafty Friends,
C.C Designs Release Day! We’re setting sail on a berry sweet adventure with our Berries & Buccaneers Card Hop, filled with fruity friends, brave crews, and handmade fun!! Our 4 stamps sets this month are inspired by Strawberry Shortcake and One Piece. We have an Instagram hop going on right now for your chance to win $15 to the store. I made an strawberry stenciled background for my favorite characters from the Strawberry Delight Set. The layering background dies are Waffleflower Lacey Layers A7.

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:
Q: What is your favorite fruit?
A: Me? kiwi

 

Orange You Glad We're Friends

Hi Crafty Friends,
It's Preview Day 2 at C.C Designs and we have the cutest Strawberry Shortcake inspired sets, Strawberry Delight and Fruity Friends. I made an orange inspired card using Waffleflower Oversized Fruit Stencil for my background and my favorite pun sentiment from the Strawberry Delight Set down the side.

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:
Q: Which Strawberry Shortcake character is your favorite?
A: Me? Apple Dumpling

 Challenges:
Word Art Wednesday Weeks #760-761
Creative Inspirations Challenge July Summer Sunshine

Friends Stick Together

Hi Crafty Friends,
I am so excited to be sharing my first Thermoweb Design Team Card. I made a fun summer friendship card featuring Thermoweb Off the Grid Toner Card Fronts with Thermoweb Deco Foil Color Harmony Shades of Green and Thermoweb Gina K Fancy Transfer Bubblegum Foil.

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:
Q: Do you have cactus or succulents at home?
A: Me? No, I don’t have a green thumb… I think I could even manage to kill succulents.

1. I made my Thermoweb toner card fronts colorful by using Distress Oxide Spun Sugar Ink on my pink grid background and Distress Oxide Twisted Citron on my green.  I wiped them with a microfiber cloth so that the black toner design would grip the foil then ran them through my Gina K Fuse Foiling System Machine.

2. I cut my backgrounds with stitched rectangle dies and layered the green on top of the pink then added the cute Lawn Fawn Cactus from Lawn Fawn Celebrate Summer Set. The FRIEND was diecut from Lawn Fawn Oliver’s Stitched Alphabet Dies and I arranged them in a whimsical way above the cactus.



 

Supplies:
Thermoweb Off the Grid Toner Card Fronts 
Thermoweb Deco Foil Color Harmony Shades of Green 
 Thermoweb Gina K Fancy Transfer Bubblegum Foil
Gina K Fuse Foiling System Machine

Challenges:
Word Art Wednesday Weeks #760-761
 

Joyful Christmas with Maggie 2024

Hi Crafty Friends,
This was Christmas 2024 when my Best Buddy, Maggie and I went to the local tree decorating and Santa Visit in Western Springs, IL. We had fun seeing the different tree decorations and taking pics in the selfie Polaroid set up. The papers and stickers are from the Echo Park Baking Spirits Bright Collection.

Layout #1: JOY Polaroid Selfies 

Layout #2: Tree Decorations 2024

Challenges:
ABC Christmas Challenge N is for No Stamping
Word Art Wednesday Weeks #760-761
Inspiration Station #87 Christmas in July Inspired by the Christmas Tree in the photo with the glitter ornaments
Double Trouble Challenge #220 Christmas in July Thing 1 and Thing 3 (Stars in the photos and stripes around Santa's Workshop)

 

Vintage Scrapbook Pages

Hi Crafty Friends,
This layout is all about preserving sweet memories with older photos and giving them new life in my scrapbook. I used warm browns, gold accents, layered tags, and simple embellishments to keep the focus on the photos while adding a little vintage charm.

This simple scrapbook page preserves a sweet November 1986 photo with a soft, classic feel. I kept the design clean with cream cardstock, a delicate branch frame, and a small date label so the vintage photo stays the focus.