A Shaped Card

 Happy Saturday! 

I made a shaped card! I do believe this is a first for me. I have been wanting to but just never got around to it. 

It was easy peasy! I also have been wanting to color these tulips from Mixed Florals since spring began and now here it is summer! It's never too late for tulips though! 

I got my inspiration from the Moodboard at JUGS. All those beautful flowers! Although I don't think there is a tulip in the picture! lol!

And my color inspiration came from the As You See It challenge.

I used those colors and added a little Granny Apple Green to my Lemon Lime Twist because, you know how LLT is! IYKYK! The tulips are Melon Mambo but to me they look a bit red in the photograph. I want to color them in red next! lol!

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Celebrate

 Well, hello crafty friends! It's been a hot minute (over a month!) since I've blogged. I do have a card to share today and it fits two challenges! Yea!

First up is The Paper Players challenge where they have a color challenge.

 And I used this week's  Freshly Made Sketch.

I used a Basic White card base.  The rectangles were cut using the die from All That. The DSP is from Masterfully Made and that color is Lemon Lime Twist. I don't think Lemon Lime Twist photographs well! The butterflies were cut from the Sketched Butterflies dies and my sentiment is from the Banner Sayings bundle.

It's been a couple weeks since we returned from a glamping trip to California where we enjoyed biking along Monterey Bay.

And hiking through Pinnacles National Park.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Thanks

 Happy Fri-yay! Today is starting early and will be a full day with two of the grandchildren here with us. I do have a card to share though.

I used the Florals in Bloom DSP again today and the Pretty Florals dies. For my sentiment I went back a few years to my Well Said dies. And because I used a die cut sentiment I am playing along with JUGS this week!

Make it a great day, my friends!

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Hello

 Hello, my friends! Here is today's card albeit later than normal.

Yea for gorgeous paper that does all the work. I used a piece of Florals in Bloom DSP and matted it on Basic White and adhered it to a Granny Apple Green card base. The Blackberry Bliss flower is from the Pretty Florals dies with the contrasting piece in Fresh Freesia. The sentiment is from Sweet Blooms stamped with Blackberry Bliss ink.

I'm happy to be playing along at the SUOC #400 where they are CASE-ing Designer Cindy Coutts.

I'm off to make a few more cards using this design! Love it!

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

You're the sweetest

 I had to play along with the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch this week.

Here's what I came up with:

I've just been loving those little Storybook Friends critters recently. I used one of the frame dies from the same set and cut it using the Earthen Toned Metallic paper and popped those little rabbits on it. The DSP is from Storybook Moments and the card base is...drum roll please...Wild Wheat! 😂 You either loved or hated that color! Well, I didn't love it or hate it but I did find a place for it in my papercrafting. The sentiment is from Banner Sayings.  I do love that stamp set!

That's it for me today.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Happy Birthday

 I don't know who I am going to give today's card to. lol! I made it for a color challenge my upline's stamping group has right now.

Can you guess the colors for the challenge?!  Black. Crushed Curry. Strawberry Slush. I punched out a few circles and ran them through the Plaster Painting EF.  The image is from Nice & Easy Notes and makes me happy. It's another old and beloved stamp set.  I finished the card by adding a few Strawberry Slush gems.

I'm going to post this over at Seize the Birthday #325 for Anything Goes.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Happy Mother's Day

 Thank goodness for a new month and a new week.  April ended with me and the hubs pretty sick. The hubs is a few days behind me in getting well but I think/hope he is over the worse! Let's just say we had a super cold. 

I was able to get back in the studio yesterday afternoon and I completed a lot of unfinished projects! Do you know how wonderful that feels?! Just fabulous! 

 I went very simple for today's card and sometimes it just feels good to keep it simple especially when life packs a punch. I used my old and beloved Sweet and Simple Salutations and cut out the image using a Spotlight on Nature die. I used a piece of DSP from the Floral Impressions, some white seam binding and put it all on a Strawberry Slush card base. I added a few of the white butterflies from the new '26-28 In Color Butterflies.

I'm playing along with The Paper Players challenge this week where they are looking for "Feminine".

I came across this sweet photo of our neighborhood geese family. 

I think this is the first time I've seen goslings...I've seen lots of ducklings over the years but never the goslings. I guess the geese are making themselves at home.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy