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Friday, March 24, 2023
Triple Panel pop up
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Monday, October 24, 2022
Kitchen Appliances
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Coffee a gift from heaven
It is challenge time with my friends on CCEE Stampers challenge blog.
Today is National Coffee Day!
Make a card using any coffee theme. Coffee images, coffee dyed paper, etc.
I have used Gina K master layout 4 die set for my card today. I have paired it with Darcie's milk and cookies stamp set.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Friends
Good Morning Crafting Friends,
Today I am sharing the card I made for a friends challenge. What is better thana few girlfriends getting together and having a fun time catching up.
Art Impression stamps have the best girlfriend stamp sets.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Celebrate the little things
Hi Crafting Friends,
This week on CCEE Stampers blog our challenge is to use die cuts.
Die Cuts Only - create a card that is created using dies only, no stamps. If you must, you can use a stamp for the sentiment, but bonus points if you use dies.
I have a friend who has a special birthday this month. As she loves her coffee dates, I chose to use Karen Burniston's Coffee cup pop-up for my die set today.
My card is another 5 x 7 card, the size wasn't planned but I did want to show off the designer paper. I made the coffee cup as per instructions, instead of added coffee beans I used the Happy from the Happy Birthday die and the numbers from the numbers set. The lace is a lace sticker from my stash.
Supplies :
DCWV designer paper - Navy Florals
Karen Burniston dies: 1040 - Coffee Cop pop-up, 1031 - Numbers, 1030 - Happy Birthday, 1056 - Crosshatch squares
Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Spring Butterflies
Hi everyone,
It's a brand new month on the CCEE Stampers blog. Which means our new challenge hostess for the month is Frances
Just like Slimline & Mini Slimline cards, the 5 x 7 inch card size is becoming more and more popular. For this week’s challenge create a 5 x 7 inch card.
I haven't really thought about making 5 x7 cards before, but they are an ideal size for showing off designer paper backgrounds.
I like this bright designer paper is super paper for a spring card, so I added some die cut butterflies for the theme and a die cut sentiment for a fun card.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
New Life
Hi Crafting friends.
It is time for the first challenge of the new year with the design team on CCEE Stampers blog.
It’s a brand-new year. Use something brand-new or something you’ve never used before, on your card. It could be a stamp, a die, or even a technique.
I made this card for a special occasion, next month will be celebrating an new life into our family, our first grandchild.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
On the 1st day of Christmas
This my card for the first December card challenge with the team on the CCEE Stampers blog.
Music plays a huge part in the celebration of the Christmas holidays for many, many people. We hear holiday music played in churches, piped to us in stores, coming through our radios, and featured on holiday specials on T.V. throughout the month of December.
For today's challenge, "Celebrate with Song," Lynn is asking that the CCEE Stampers use song lyrics from a holiday song (either secular or religious) as the sentiment on the front of a Christmas design.
I had this DCWV 12 days of Christmas designer paper pack in my stash that I had purchased some time throughout the year. It has some artist trading card size pieces the coordinated with the designers paper., that I wanted to show case.
So I have made and interactive card using Karen Burniston's Rocking Rectangle Pop-up.
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Blue Christmas
It is time to for this weeks challenge on the Crazy4challenge blog. Design team member Frances has asked that we make a card with die cuts only.
Create a card that is created using dies only, no stamps. If you must, you can use a stamp for the sentiment, but bonus points if you use dies.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
A little bunny turns one
Today I have made this card for the challenge on CCEE Stampers blog.
Include a number or numbers on your creations this week. You can make an aged birthday card; number themed designer paper, number themed embossing folders or dies. Anything goes as long as there is a number somewhere!
I had a request for a 1st birthday card, it had to themed pink with a bunny. I found this DCWV designer paper stack in my stash.
I then made the scene inside using the Karen Burniston dies, for the layout I basically just followed the one on the packet.
I then added the Happy Birthday sentiment die cut.
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Warm Wishes
It is week 3 and time for the sketch challenge on Crazy4Challenges blog.
I started with designer paper for the background and added the Lawn Fawn cup die and added the die cut banners.
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Honey bees
Today is challenge 2135 on the CCEE Stampers Blog.
September is Honey Month. For our challenge this week, include something related to honey on your card – bees, honeycombs, beehives.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Celebrating Chocolate Chip Day
Hi Crafting Friends
May 13th is Chocolate chip day. Our challenge on the CCEE Stampers blog is to use chocolate on our card.
Who is not won over with a chocolate chip cookie in their life? So, on your creation this week, represent this day any way you would like from chocolate chip cookies, to chocolate of any kind, or making use of brown as your main color focus.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Love
Today's challenge with the team on Crazy 4 Challenges blog is Love.
Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Baby Tag Book
Baby - Create a card using baby as your inspiration, example: new baby, baby shower, grand baby, baby animals or even just a baby sized card.
For my card I have used the picket fence Jungle babies stamp set.
For the inside of my card I used Karen Burniston's Tag Book Pop-up die set. Instead of making a tag book, I added it to the inside of a card. I have seen a few of the design team use this technique for their cards so I thought I would give it a try.
I love the way this has turned out, an unexpected surprise when you open the card.
Here is the side view of the center pop up tag.
Joanne Grzelak
Liz Williams
Lois Bak
Lynn McAuley
Frances Byrne
Vicky Gould
Kelly Santi
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Fortune cookie day
Fortune cookie day - According to the days of the year calendar it is Fortune cookie day, use this to inspire an oriental themed card.
Joanne Grzelak
Liz Williams
Lois Bak
Lynn McAuley
Frances Byrne
Vicky Gould
Kelly Santi
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Happy Birthday Pop up cake
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
Wishing you a Happy Birthday
This week hostess Liz has challenged us to make a feminine birthday card in honor of her and Lynn's mother. It just so happens that tomorrow is my birthday so there is a lot of green on my card.
Joanne Grzelak
Liz Williams
Lois Bak
Lynn McAuley
Frances Byrne
Vicky Gould
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Party Bears
This was a perfect challenge to use my Stampendous bears from the woodland friends set. The bear head and body comes as two separate stamps, after fussy cutting them I have angled the heads for some added expression.
The pop up platform for the centre of the card was made with the Lots of pops die designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs . The party hats were made with the Props 2 die set. I have just used the designer paper for the front of the card as the main focal point is in the middle.
Joanne Grzelak
Liz Williams
Lois Bak
Lynn McAuley
Frances Byrne
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Sweet Strawberries
For the last few months a couple I have been working with the Twist circle pop up designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. You can watch Karen's video on how to use this die here .
Previously I have used this as a landscape design but I wanted to use this designer paper with the layering design. In the portrait layout you can see part of the arm when you open the card after I attached my decorated circle, to hide it I attached an extra strawberry and it just folds under the circle when I close the card.
Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.
Frances Byrne
Anja de Regt
Barbara Anders
Jessie Rone
Joanne Grzelak
Karen Aicken
Vicki Burdick
Raquel Mason
Rebecca Endie
Cas Counsell
Tammy Hershberger
Maryann Einam- Thats me
November Guest Designer Liz Williams
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Cheers
Maryann