IO Hearts

The challenge at Impression Obsession is Have a Heart.  I just got some new dies from IO's newest release from the Dies R Us Store.  I used them along with some dies I already had to make this Double Z fold card. 

These are the dies I used. 

Impression Obsession Looped Hearts

Impression Obsession

   Impression Obsession Love words
Impression Obsession XO border

Double D Balloons

Our challenge at Double D Challenge Blog is all about balloons.




I needed a birthday card so I made this fun pop-up box card using  balloons.  I used Stampin' Up Balloon Adventure dies and balloon punch for the balloons.  The base of the card was created with Spellbinders pop up die.  I could not get a good picture of the card, but many of the balloons were cut from glitter paper so there is a lot of sparkle and shine.  Most of us who make cards are familiar with these cards, but when I send them to friends who are not card makers, they are  thrilled with this fun fancy fold.  Sometimes I forget what is common to me is special to them.  

If you play along you can  win this fun die from Elizabeth Craft Design. 

We hope you will join us for this challenge  at Double D Challenge Blog.  

Dies R Us Birthday

It is already the middle of January which means it is time for another challenge at DIES R US CHALLENGE BLOG.  I always need birthday cards so this is a perfect challenge for me. 

A special friend of mine, Donna Phelan, has a birthday on December the 25th.  You can find her amazing designs HERE. Her favorite color is sunshine yellow so I sent her this colorful card.  This is also a practical gift.  There is a monthly calendar, post it notes, and a pen.  I made several of this type of card for December, January and February birthdays. I love a card that has a purpose.  I might do a few more designs for March and April birthdays. 

These are the dies I used for this project.  They are  available at the DIES R US STORE.  

Elizabeth Craft Shasta Daisy

Precious Marieke Square Flower Frame

Tutti Designs Honeycomb

    Sue Wilson Birthday Frame (Birthday Sentiments)

  Karen Burniston Word Set 2 (Happy Sentiment)

We hope you will join us at DIES R US CHALLENGE BLOG for this challenge.  

Exciting News 

We also have some exciting news to share with you. we have some exciting news to share with you.  .Dies R Us now has a sister store with warehouses in the USA and Canada called Didi Crafts.  

Also If you have not signed up for the DRU newsletter you are missing out on some great sales and special purchases on European Dies. 

Double D 4th Anniversary

                                                 

4th anniversary and celebrating with some

 'PUNCH'

we want to see some poor neglected punches used

  This year our team and wonderful blog creators. Diane and Darlene, celebrate our 4th year. I can't believe it has been that long. We have become very close as a team and support each other whenever we can.  I feel honored to be part of such a talented group of women. 

                                                    

What a colorful mood board. I took my inspiration from the yellow punch and the fruit slices 

in the first three drinks. 

I found some free digital pictures of lemons on line and fussy cut them.  The leaves look black but they are dark green. I did not get into card making when punches were so popular,but I do have a few. The butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch.  We hope you have time to join us for this challenge at Double D Challenge Blog.

 You will have a chance to win this cute Lawn Fawn Stamp and Die Set.

  

                                                      

Dies R Us Anything Goes

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

Time for everyone's favorite type challenge Anything Goes.  Just remember to use metal dies from a company carried at Dies R Us.

 I love this sweet bird from Precious Marieke and wanted to make it the focal image.  I embossed a piece of card stock with Tim Holtz brick embossing folder and sponged it with stormy sky distress ink. From that point I layered the dies.  Of course, I had to add a few of my homemade flowers and and some greenery. 

Here are the dies I used for this card.

Sue Wilson Daisy Circle

Precious Marieke Spring Birds


Amy Design Musical Stave

Lawn Fawn Reverse Stitched Scalloped Squares

We hope you will start the New Year by joining us for this challenge at Dies R U Challenge Blog.  One randomly selected entry will be chosen to win a gift voucher from the Dies R Us Store.

Impression Obsession Holiday Card

I thought I would do one last Christmas card so I now have two cards completed for next year. This card was made for the challenge over at  Impression Obsession. There are a few steps to this card but it is all die cuts and some were leftover from other projects.

These are the Impression Obsession Dies I used. 

Memory Box Holiday Card Challenge

This is the my last Christmas card of the year.  I decided to enter it in the Memory Box Holiday Card Challenge. I used the Memory Box large sled, Memory Box snowflakes, Poppy Stamp Merry Christmas and Poppy stamp whispy pines for the card.  

I scored a 5 1/4  by 4 inch card base at 1/2 inch intervals and then stamped it with with a snowflake stamp in Versa Mark ink and white embossing powder. Then I took some Distress Ink pads and used a direct to paper technique to get the wood grained look.  Really quick and simple.

Poppy Stamps Merry Christmas

I got these two Poppy Stamp dies at the end of November and used them for this years Christmas cards. The challenge  at Poppy Stamps Challenge Blog is Christmas so this card fits the rules. 

Double D Twelve Days of Christmas 2

Time for the second half of the Double D Challenge Blog.  I chose 9 ladies dancing.

                                                           

I decided to do a bridge card for nine ladies dancing. I cut eighteen  Poppy Stamp dancing ladies  from 110 pound card stock and layered two of them together so they could stand by themselves.

I like how this came out.

We hope you have some time to play along. Winner of the random draw will get this fun prize. 

Obsession Obsession It's Snow Time

The challenge at Impression Obsession is It's SnowTime.  I love their snow flake background paired with the all in one frame.  I used some blue glitter paper for the background and fir trees. 

Evergreen Trees

Snowflake Background

All in One Frame Rectangle 2

Dies R Us Anything Christmas

Hope most of you have all your Christmas preparations completed and now you are taking time to enjoy the holiday.  I mailed the last of my cards, my decorating is done, and the little bit of baking I still do has been completed.  I love any card that is interactive and Karen Burniston is Queen of interactive. I did several if these cards last year and even more this year for Christmas cards. I made this one in traditional Christmas colors.

Karen Burniston Pop up tree

These cards are time consuming but not hard if you watch Karen's Video,  

Impression Obsession Merry Christmas

Sue Wilson Poinsettia Garland

Double D Twelve Days of Christmas Days 1-6

Time for a fun new challenge at DOUBLE D CHALLENGE BLOG, Twelve Days of Christmas.   If you are anyting like me,  I guarentee you will be singing this song for the rest of the day.
                                                            

Our Team Leaders,Diane and Darlene, at DOUBLE D CHALLENGE BLOG are such amazing women.  They come up with all these fun Mood Boards and post them on our team blog months before we need to have them done.  It gives us time to think about the challenge and an excuse to buy a new stamp or die.  They also send us happy mail each month.  I received this cute partridge in a pear tree from them several months ago so, of course,that was my starting place. 

I added a little color with some Copics and used a Sue Wilson Die that was sitting on my desk from a previous project. A few greens from Poppy Stamps and a snowflake from a previous project completed the card. 

This is the prize for this challenge. 

                               We hope you will join us for this challenge. It is so much fun. 

Dies R Us Winter White

We have a new challenge for you at DIES R US CHALLENGE BLOG called Winter White.  I chose this beautiful die by Sue Wilson as my starting point. 

Using the largest die, I cut an apature from a piece of white card stock and then embossed it with a snowflake embossing folder. Then I cut another piece of card stock with using only the  center piece from the die and backed that with white card stock .  I cut the centerpiece of the die and stacked that on top.  The little tree and snow flakes are from Karen Burniston's Evergreen Pivot Panel.

Sue Wilson Filigree Snowflake Frame

Karen Burniston Evergreen Pivot Panel

Impression Obsession All in One Frame