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This month's Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to use paper piecing.  

I paper pieced the lemons from Gina K. Designs More Fun Fruit by stamping them in black ink and clear embossing them on Gina's Amethyst Poly-Glaze Foiling Sheets that I had foiled with Gold Foil.  After I detail cut the images, I colored them using yellow alcohol ink markers.

 

 

Here's another angle that shows the foiled paper piecing a bit more clearly.

 

 

My card's inspiration came from this week's Inspired by ... Lemons Challenge.

 

 

 

I used two of Gina's Embossing Folders - Lattice and Swiss Dot - to pull in the texture of the fabric elements of the inspiration photo.

I used Gina's Single Stitched Oval Die cut and leaves from her Botanical Duo Die cuts to pull it all together using this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch.

 

Vivid Blooms

The newest Challenge at the Cut it UP! Challenge Blog is Send Me Flowers, which was the perfect opportunity to break out these gorgeous Vivid Blooms from Spellbinders.

 

 

I used scraps of paper that were on my studio table with three different shades of green for the leaves.  The sentiment is from Kristina Werner's Encouraging Words Stamps.

 

I'm also linking-up at the TGIF Challenges Paper Flower Challenge.  I'm also joining D is for Die Cut at little red wagon challenge.

Jingle Your Own Bells

The Jingle Belles are still creating with Jingle Bells this week.

I combined the Bells from Unity Stamp Company Bells & Holly with a snarky sentiment from Tim Holtz Snarky Cat Christmas.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers R is for Rude (in a good Christmas way of course).

 

 

And there's a fun prize for one lucky participant, so come join us.

 

Thursday Link Love

Blogland discoveries for the week:

• Brown Butter Blondies (my husband doesn't like chocolate (WHAT!), so I make more blondie type treats.
• Burger Bowls
• I'm all about Peak Flavor
• interesting Fabric Collages
• Shrimp Spring Roll in a Bowl
• i grew up hearing Legend of Belle Star
• Strawberry Rhubard Chrisp
• DIY Night Stand
• Trompe l’Oeil Exhibit

Have a tremendous Thursday. 

Forever Starts Today

I love the gorgeous simplicity of the Unity Stamp Company Forever Starts Today image.

I stamped it in two different colors for two completely different looks.  The first one embraced neutrals.

 

 

The second card is much more dramatic in purple & glitter and the coordinating die cut.

 

 

I love them both.

Office Supply Thanks

I had a request to make a thank you card featuring common office supplies.

The first one features die cuts from Taylored Expressions Tools of the Trade.

 

 

The Thank You die cut is from Kristina Werner Big Type Greetings.

For the second one I used stamps from Brutus Monroe All Set for School with the same Thank You die cut.

 

 

I love how they both turned out.

Lilac Mother's Day

I love lilacs ... and I love these pretty Botanicuts Lilac Dies from The Greetery.

 

 

I paired them with a sentiment from The Greetery To Mom with Love.

I'm linking-up at the Simon Says Beautiful Blooms Challenge

it’s also a Spring theme at the Sweet Stampin’ Challenge. 

Christmas Bells

This week the Jingle Belles are asking you to create a card featuring Christmas Bells.

I started by die cutting lots of Impression Obsession Jingle Belles from silver metallic cardstock.  I used foam tape under some to create some dimension on my purple glittery card base.

 

 

I finished with a sentiment from Kristina Werner's Merry Trees Stamp Set embossed in silver.

 

I'm also linking-up at Addicted to Stamps and More Christmas Challenge.

Thursday Link Love

Another week of skipping through blogland:

• Radish is the new Tomato
• Lemon Blueberry Cake
• 99 Books for Building your own Spirituality
• Monster Cookie Bars
• 10 Tips for Beginning Painters
• Baked Brioche French Toast
• Ground Beef Burrito Bowl
• 2026 Wedding Trends
• Homemade Spaghettios 
• Dubai Chocolate Ice Cream (shown)
• things to do in May
• Lemon Pretzel Dessert
• S'Mores Quesadillas

Have a tremendous Thursday!

Mother's Day Bitty Botanicals

I used The Greetery Bitty Botanicals stamp, stencil & die cut to create some more Mother's Day Cards.

I created a wreath using the individual blooms & topped it with The Greetery To Mom with Love.  

 

 

Here is another floral wreath on a yellow card base for the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Challenge at Little Red Wagon.

 

 

I had a few more blooms left, so I made a clean & simple design with another sentiment from the same set.

 

I'm linking-up at the Simon Says Stencil Challenge.

 

 

And I'm using lots of flowers for Die Week at Just Us Girls.  I'm also joining Crazy is our Fame, Stencils are our Game Bouquet Challenge.  And the Paper Craft Crew has a Mother's Day Challenge.