Paris in the Fall

     A little breath of Paris this morning with an 'all-die-cuts' card, something a little bit different from my normal 'hand-colored-image' style.  The Eiffel Tower die cut was sent to me by a friend so I have no idea what company made the die.  Sorry.  However, the larger white flowers along the left side of the Tower, to which I added glitter, were cut with a Spellbinders die and the smallest flower on the right side of the Tower (cut from pearl-ized paper) was cut with a Memory Box die.  All of those were cut from scraps.  The sentiment is heat embossed with white EP.

     Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge
Crafty Creations
Crafty Friends
Crafty Gals Corner
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Outlawz Festive Fri
Pixie's Snippets
Simon Says Stamp

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Welcome Home

     Neighbors on my street have been traveling the whole summer and got home just in time for the Labor Day holiday so they shuffled the things in their bags and took a weekend at the beach.  lol  I thought if I did a card welcoming them home, maybe they'd stay more than one day.

     My card features this sweet little girl collecting her travel bags and it's from Whoopsi Daisy.

I was inspired by the sketch at The Outlawz.

     I colored with ProMarkers, then cut the image with a stitched, scalloped die from Memory Box.  I cut the mat for the image with a larger die from that same set.  

     The butterfly dp was a large scrap I had in the basket and, with glitter and embossing, I thought it was the perfect way to enhance this card so I cut shapes dictated by the sketch and added them appropriately.  The sentiment was printed and added above the image and my final touch was the sheer bow with a tiny button.

     Challenges:

Butterfly (all 7 elements)

Crafty Gals Corner

Cute N Crafty

Dream Valley

Give a Crafter a Cookie

Lemon Shortbread

Paper Shelter

TTCRD

     Have a wonderful week and stop by again tomorrow for the next post.  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Waitin' for a Train

     Friday always means there's a new challenge at QKR Stampede and this week our theme is "Transportation."  Cars, trains, boats, planes, horses or other 4-legged critters - if it's used for transportation, we want to see you use it on your project for our challenge.  I used this fun old train  (Digi 19205 - "Train") for a masculine travel card.  Doesn't this train remind you a little bit of The Polar Express?  Maybe I should have done it as one more Christmas card.  :-D

      I used ProMarkers and chalks to color the image, then die cut it with a Spellbinders' die.  I also cut the mat with a larger die from that same set.  The papers are both from SU.  The sentiment is computer printed and hand cut, with punched corners to match the look of the die cut pieces.  The twine is sparkly, metallic, fibers and I frayed the ends just because I loved the look of it that way.

     Clean, simple, masculine and monochromatic.  I love it!  :-D

     Challenges:
Card and Scrap
Classic Design Team
Crafts and Me
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper
Dream Factory
Emerald Faeries
Lunagirl Moonbeam
Paper Creator's Crafts
Southern Ridge Trading Co.
Stempelsonnen

     I hope we're going to see you playing along this week.  Remember, you can use any image by any company, not just QKR Stampede.  But if you do use a QKR image, you'll be entered into a separate drawing just for people who used them and that will increase your chances of winning by a very high percentage!  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie     

Summer Travels

     Have you ever noticed how long it takes for a planned summer vacation to finally get here, only to have it disappear into a puff of photos and memories in far too short a time?  I think I've found the solution -- travel at a snail's pace, enjoying the journey with no specific destination in mind.  :-D   Hmmm, that might work for aging and having birthdays, too!  What do you think?

     This delightful image is one I found in my collection from Emerald Faeries and I don't remember what it's called but I think it's adorable.  I colored with ProMarkers, chalks and glitter.  This is a single layer card with the image and sentiments right on the card front.    I added one layer of sheer ribbon and a single layer bow made from satin ribbon.  It's about as CAS as you can get.

     Challenges:
Art Impressions
Color Crazy
Crafter's Cafe
Craft for the Craic
Craft Rocket
Crafty Catz
Crafty Girls Creations
Emerald Faeries
Outlawz Twisted Thursday
Sasayaki Glitter
Simply Papercraft
Star Stampz

     I hope your weekend time is going well and that you've managed some down time or at least some slow time.  Remember, it restores the soul and rejuvenates the creative flow.  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie

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Hawaii Mouse

     Look what I did last night!  Too many "vacation" days without crafting and I begin to twitch.  :-D  I used this darling little traveling mouse from Rick St. Dennis.  It's the image we got for playing in Part 1 of the Progressive Challenge over there last month.  This is Part 2, using the image.

     I colored the image with my ProMarkers and then hand cut it for that out-of-the-box look.  The really fun part is that all the papers, including the black CS for the matting, were scrap pieces.  Even the two ribbons were scraps.  That's what I had with me so...  Because I had those scraps, I had decided on a pink color palette for the image but then discovered I only had yellow and blue card bases and everything looked better on the yellow than the blue.  The image is popped up on dimensional dots.

     Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge
Animal Friends
Clear It Out
Country View Crafts
Craft-Dee BowZ
Crafty Boots
Creative Craft Cottage
Deep Ocean
DL.ART
Fan-Tastic Tuesday
Outlawz Coloring
Ribbon Girl
Stamp and Create
Tinker-Dream
Whoopsi Daisy

     OK, I'm gone again (until Friday with DT posts for Pattie's Creations and QKR Stampede.)  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie