To a dear friend

Just a quick sign-on today. I just finished a card that I will be sharing over on CAS C& S #463 challenge for this week.  I didn't have much of an idea what sentiment to use, but after I put the card together I just knew I had a friend who would love the color combo.

PRODUCTS:

Paper: SU Just Jade, Watermelon Wonder, and Pineapple Punch

Inks: SU Just Jade, Watermelon Wonder, Pineapple Punch, MEMENTO Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Hand Penned Petals, Sentiment from Plentiful Plants

Stitched Sentiments Die-cut by MFT

**I embossed the flower with Gina K Fine Detail Black EP then colored the image I had stamped and embossed it.

That is all for today's post. I hope you have a blessed upcoming weekend.

Blessings, Bernie B

Hooray! It's your Birthday

 I just finished up a card last night that I will be posting over for the CAS On Friday challenge.

I broke out my Altenew Mini Delight: Crystal Lotus stamp/die and chose to use Altnew Crisp Dye Ink: Iceberg and Ultramarine for the layering. The Yellow Paper from the Lawn fawn Watercolor Wishes pack. I glued the flowers on the stitched squares by SU. The Hooray! is from  Stamp'n Ups Message Die using one of the coordinating stamp sets. The white background is a retired SU EF. Honestly, this card went together quite quickly. It will be a design I will be using again.

That will be all for today. My attic has warmed up enough to do some organizing and purging. Hopefully, I'll be able to resist my Craft area! Have a great Tuesday. Bernie B

Best Wishes Birthday Card

 Hello all. Just on here today to post a card that I created for the Flower Challenge blog. We were to use Scraps and of course, Flowers. 

For the Scraps, I used a sentiment I had put in my stash for another card but used it here. The sentiment is from MFT Happy Hummingbirds. The Pink background was another scrap using Lawn fawns, Water Color Wishes cut with MFT Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangle STAX. Having hung onto these scraps and many more, makes cards go together quickly.

The papers used are from SU: Melon Mambo and Polished Pink. I was happy that the colors matched my scrap from Lawn fawn. The Tulips and their leaves are from SU Flowering Tulips bundle. I do love tulips and love this stamp and die set. There are so many beautiful examples on Pinterest and I tried to make this one my own even though I had gotten inspiration from the many bloggers who posted theirs.

Have a wonderful Monday and a Blessed week!

Bernie B

Happy Birthday Wishes

Just popping on here today with a card that I made for my 5 yr. old grandson. I borrowed this stamp set, SU Driving By from my demonstrator. After it was stamped and colored, I cut it out with one of the A2 Stitched Rec. STAX SET from MFT. I looked through Pinterest for some ideas and this is a combination of several designs.  I just love black and red combos. The solid CS is from SU and the black stripes are from an MFT stripes collection pack.

I colored the image with several different colored Prismacolor Pencils, the Happy die is by Altenew and was part of their Mini Delight set for March and the sentiment is MFT's Bitty Birthday Wishes.

 That will be it for today. Tonight I am going to a card class with a friend to play with some SU products. I hope you enjoy your evening.

Blessings, Bernie B

Just Thinking of You Today

 This is another card I created using SU Flowering Tulips w/ matching dies and DSP. As I said in my previous post, the tulip dies have proven to be challenging for me. They are pretty especially being 3D.and I will continue to play around with them to use in upcoming cards.

I will not be linking this card to any challenge but thought you might want to take a peak.

Well, I'm off to make some birthday cards. I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

Blessings, Bernie B

Best Wishes

Just stopping by to post a card I just finished up to add to my birthday stash. I've worked at making tulips from the SU Flowering Tulips stamp set with matching dies. I struggled a bit with getting them to look like I wanted to but finally decided on this one that is on the card. Honestly, I did a card recently using the stamps, with matching dies and like them better. I'll give the 3D tulips a few more tries and see if I like them as well. I am going to post this over at Seize the Birthday without using topping.

PRODUCTS:

SU Flowering Tulips stamp and die set

SU Matching DSP, which I love, by the way!

SU Card Stock, Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody

Ink: 

MFT Stitched Scallops Basic Edge

MFT Happy Hummingbirds sentiment

SU Pumpkin Pie Gems

That is it for this afternoon. I hope you have a good evening.

Blessings, Bernie B

SU Pumpkin Pie Gems

Celebrate the Season

Hello and Happy first day of March! Our weather here in Central NC is calling for some very nice temperatures this week (70's)which causes me to do the Happy Dance.

Today I took down the rest of my Christmas. I left very little out and was just waiting for today to decorate with my Spring decor inside and out. I'll be changing some of that up again in June for Summer decorations.

I was able to get upstairs to my crafting area to create a card for Addicted to CAS-Snowflakes, and CAS C&S#459. 

I really needed to use some snowflake dies I was given by a friend many months ago and had not used. The color combination for CASC&S 459 just sparked an aha moment when I saw it. I love this color combo.

Products Used: SU Fresh Freesia, Soft Seafoam, Flirty Flamingo, SU Itty Bitty Christmas,

SU Snowfall EF, Unknown Snowflake dies, MFT Stitched Sentiments Die-namics( I cut the edge with the stitching to fit the space) and raised the sentiment with foam, and finished the snowflakes off with SU jewels. It really was a fairly quick card that I will use for future projects this coming Christmas holiday.

As always, thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear what you think of this finished card.

Blessings, Bernie B

On a closing note, I was chosen by Addicted to Case as one of the Top 3 for challenge #212 Triangles. Thank you Design Team for choosing my card.