CCEE2025 Youth Day

Welcome to another challenge from the CCEE gang!

Today, let's make a card for a kid of any age!  We all have little kids in our life, but we also have those "big" kids who never seem to age (or grow up!)  Your choice, a young person....or a person who never ages!

I always loved swinging as a kid. This silhouette  is from Sweet and Sassy as is the sentiment. The leaves I stamped and cut out are from Stampin' Up. 

CCEE2024 Father's Day

Father's Day in the USA falls on June 14th this year.  Make a Father's Day card.  If, your father has gone to his heavenly reward, make a masculine card of any type for any man in your life...son, grandson, nephew, boyfriend, etc. 

I used a Stampin' Up sailboat for my card and I computer generated my sentiment. This was an easy and quick card because I am leaving town today for my first visit with my sister in parents since the quarantine so I had a lot to get done before leaving. 

I am still fortunate that my 91 year old father is with us and still managing to live on his own with my mom and my sister who lives near by. We thank God for their health. 

Use the keyword CCEE2024 if you load to SCS, and play along if you like. You can check out all the ways we are honoring father's on the CCEEStampers blog site you can find here. 

Sunshine and retirement = things to be enjoyed!

Summertime is here and I was playing around with some beach sets making my own background papers today. So, decided to use this one for a card for a couple of the Saturday challenges I found:

http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/just-us-girls-539-word-week.html

https://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/week-12-anything-goes-craft-card-making.html

The images in the background are old Stampin' Up stamps, and the retired fellow is from Artistic Impressions. Various Stampin' Up inks were used for the background, I stamped the image and sentiment in versafine black and colored the image with Copic markers. 

Christmas Angel

I find it fun and more enjoyable to work on my Christmas cards all through out the year rather than waiting until the actual Christmas season arrives. So when I saw that the Double D challenge was to make a background using your stash of papers, I decided my Christmas scrap bag was the perfect one to visit this week. After arranging these scraps I decided on this angel image from Unity to add to the front. Since I left her mostly white, those background colors from all those Christmas paper scraps contrasted nicely. I love making beautiful things with even my scraps that are left over from previous projects. It reminds me of how my grandmother would use pieces of fabric left over from some of my mother's  (her daughter in law)  previous sewing projects for her quilts. It was fun finding those in these beautifully made quilts.I was fortunate to have these two talented ladies in my life, whose influences had a lot to do with my paper crafting.

Here is where you can find the double d challenge:

http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2020/06/use-your-scraps-challenge.html

CCEE2023 - Roses

This is our first challenge for the month of June and the theme is roses. I used an old retired rose stamp from Stampin' Up, and not sure of the source for the sentiment. The sentiment is stamped with versamark and then embossed with white embossing powder.  I used design papers for the my background panels. I still love fussy cutting, so that is what  I did for my rose.  Please check out the lovely rose creations made by the other them members over on the CCEEStampers blog site which you can link to HERE. 

Little Red Wagon Challenge 552

This card was made for the Little Red Wagon challenge this week to create your own background. I used Simon Says ink pads to make my background using Unity stamps. Actually all stamps used on this card are from Unity Stamps. I colored the main image with copic markers and also the flowers in the background stamping.

You can find this challenge here:  http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-552-patterned-paper-or-create.html

GDP243

This card is for two challenges this week. For the Global Design Project  the theme is floral.

http://www.global-design-project.com/2020/06/global-design-project-243-theme.html

and also for the http://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2020/06/cic494-reminder.html

Here is my card....

I used Distress Oxide ink and versafine black to smash and splatter on this card. The floral image and the sentiment are from Unity Stamps.  The circles are design paper punched with a circle punch..