Q is for Quilt

      Ok, finally!  The card for Letter "Q" in the 30 Days of Holidays at Beccy's Place is finished !  It took me the best part of 3 days to complete it, with lots of breaks to take care of the respiratory issues, but it's done and I'm so happy.

     My "Q"s are: Quilt, Quilted, Quarter card, Quatro fold, and QuicKutz die.  My tutorial for the Quatro Fold came from Beccy's Place and it's such a simple one.  Thanks, Beccy.  :-D

     The papers cut for the quilt were all scraps and I used a Gina Marie quilting die.  The quilted deer inside is one of Beccy's pre-colored images and it was cut with a QuicKutz die.  The card folds to easily fit into an A2 envelope.  Here are photos to show you both the front when folded and the inside when open.

 

Front when Folded 

 

Inside when Opened

     Challenges:

12 Months ... Christmas

613 Avenue Create

Alphabet

Do-Al(l) Creatives

Dragonfly Dreams

Friendship

Lil Patch of ...

Peace on Earth

Scor-Pal

Snippets Playground

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Christmas Reindeer in Blue

     My second post for the day and this one features a Bugaboo Stamps reindeer.  There's a back story to this which I want to share.  A friend and fellow DT member used the prettiest quilting die on a card last week and I fell in love with the die.  I emailed her and, being a good enabler, she shared with me a link to the online shop where she had gotten hers.

     When I visited, my plan was to mind my budget and buy only that one die.  But... well, if you're a true crafter, you already know what happened.  I saw another quilt die that I liked, couldn't decide between them so they both went into my cart.  Then I noticed that if I purchased additional products, I could get free shipping and the shipping cost was pretty much the same as another die (ok, maybe  two), so when all was said and done, I had 5 new die sets in the cart!

     I used one of them as the background on this card, turned as they say in quilting, 'on point.'

Colored with ProMarkers & sequins added for sparkle
Image cut with double stitched die from CUTplorations
Quilted die from Gina Marie
Sentiment die from Die-Namics
Flocked star from Deja Views
Glitter added to some of the quilting pieces

     Challenges:
Catch the Bug
Crafty Hazelnut's ("S"= sparkle, sequins)
Crafty Sentiments
Cute N Crafty Christmas
Double D
House that Stamps Built  (Brrrrr, Bird, Blue, Blocks)
I {heart} ProMarkers
Ike's World
Lemon Shortbread
Scrappy Land
TTCRD

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Autumn Butterflies

     Most of us think of spring when we think "butterflies" but I've noticed that there are more of them in my garden in the fall than in the spring.  I don't know what's growing there that time of year that they particularly like, but whatever it is, they prefer it to what's there in the spring.

     This image is from Conie Fong.

Image colored with ProMarkers
Image is hand cut with scissors
Background squares cut with Sizzix dies
Only scraps used for the background

     Challenges:
Butterfly wheel (jade, juicy orange)
Coloring in Scrapland
Crafting by Designs
Cute N Crafty
Dare 2B Artsy
Dragonfly Dreams
Get Creative
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Pixie's Snippets

     That's all I have for today.  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie