Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Season's Greetings

 Today's card came together fairly quickly using seasonal ephemera which is actually hard for me to use. I fiddle around with that stuff not really knowing where to put it, how to use it, do I pop it up or not, and etc! lol...not really!


So, there it is. I used the challenge at Stampin' Up Only Challenge #386 where they want us to Case the Catalog.


I'm not sure what I CASE'd other than layers of ephemera! lol! 

We had another gorgeous day at the beach yesterday! 


Happy Stamping!
Tracy

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

It's Halloween

 Happy Tuesday! 

Today's card came together fairly well using limited supplies. We are glamping at the Oregon coast this week. I brought crafting supplies. I always bring crafting supplies! I knew I wanted to use Clever Cats...here is today's card.


I used the challenges at The Paper Players and the Color Throwdown.




My Clever kitty is all dressed up for Halloween wearing a Timid Tiger hat that's been glittered up with Wink of Stella. Her broom awaits her midnight ride. I snagged a couple bits from a past Christmas ephemera kit for the green and red strips she is sitting on. I had a white rectangle already embossed with the Exposed Brick EF and a Garden Green piece embossed with the Countryside Blossoms EF in my stash that I brought! That was not planned. Everything went on a Timid Tiger card base. I finished it with a few Delightful Decorative Dots.

The beach was amazing yesterday when we got here. It was HOT, calm and beautiful! If you are familiar with the Oregon coast you know this is very rare to have all three on one day! Here's a photo.


And it looks like today is going to be fabulous too! I'm off to enjoy it!

Happy Stamping!
Tracy

Thursday, October 2, 2025

You are much appreciated

 My DIL asked me to make a card for her boss, the principal at her school. She wanted it to be related to "sour" as the theme. She said like lemons. Okay...I'm sure her boss is not sour! They just had different themes for each day. Anyways, here's my card.


I had originally thought I would use the long retired Lemon Zest stamp set. Ummm, apparently I don't have it. Did I ever have it?? I ask my stampin' bestie if I could borrow hers. She couldn't find hers either. Okay. Fine. I found a lemon slice stamp and die in the retired Cup of Tea and this is what I came up with. The DSP is from Fruit Salad. 

I used the Freshly Made Sketch #706.


It was kind of stressful making it. I hope it's okay for what she needs/wants.

I'm going to go back to happy stamping now! 
Tracy

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

I miss your face!

I was happy making today's card!


 

I used the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch #532.


I had this sketch marked and was wanting to create a card using it even before this challenge! 

I used the little critters from Just Me & You. I went with a note card. The images are small and I stamped them on the smallest square from the Stylish Shapes dies. I colored them very carefully with Blends...they're pretty tiny for my comfort zone. I used the green gingham from Christmas Tags & More DSP, some Baker's Twine and a few Delightful Decorative Dots.

I think this sketch would be fun with quite a few other images too!

Happy Stamping!
Tracy