I finally got around to creating with some new goodies released this month at Creative Worship Stamps. While I plan to use the Loaves & Fishes set in Bible journaling, I also thought it would make a cute card! How about gifting it with a homemade loaf of bread and sharing it with a friend?! I'm playing with the Addicted to Stamps & More challenge where we are to use die cuts and/or stencils. I used both.The background was stenciled with the Denim Texture and Speckled stencils. I then layered a navy Cathedral Window die cut. I used an Exacto knife to cut the edge of the basket so I could tuck in the loaves and fishes. The greenery really made the card come to life! I colored images with Prismacolor pencils.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Loaves & Fishes
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Birthday Candles
I'm playing along with The Paper Players challenge where Joanne is hosting theme week and it's all about using candles. I immediately went to my stash from The Greetery and used stamps, dies and stencils. The yellow "sparkle" stamps were made to look like gold glitter by going over the images with a gold glitter pen. There is no marking on the pen so I have no idea of the source.
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Birthday Collage
I fell in love with these distress colors on a card I saw on Pinterest, so I pulled them out and made a masculine birthday card. I smooshed Speckled Egg, Evergreen Bough, and Vintage Photo distress inks on the background then splattered with Ground Espresso. I stamped the tag using the Autumn Collage Tag set by Creative Worship Stamps and used the sentiment stamp from Texture Tiles 1 to the leaves before coloring. The sentiment is from the Spring Collage Tag set. I tore a small rectangular piece of kraft paper then sponged the edges with Vintage Photo ink and ran it through a crimper tool. The butterfly was die cut then stenciled - part of the Jumbo Curiosity series from The Greetery. I'm entering this into the Seize the Birthday challenge - Anything Goes.
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Just Us Girls
Hello friends! It's stencil week over on the Just Us Girls challenge blog and I was eager to try out a new layering stencil set just released by Papertrey Ink. (note: I missed the deadline to link this up!) 😔 I am also entering this card into the Four Seasons Challenge where the theme is fall.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Word Art Wednesday 9/2
Hello and welcome to another Word Art Wednesday challenge! This week, Karen has chosen Isaiah 26:3. Our sponsor is Lawn Fawn who will be giving away a $25 gift card to some lucky participant!
I stenciled the background then used a twig wreath die to frame the verse. I added die cut corner leaves to balance it all out.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Tic Tac Toe Challenge
These baby cards are a CASE from previous cards I created using these dies. This time I'm entering them into the Tic Tac Toe Challenge #300 where I focused on the far left column of letters/numbers, sentiment and diecuts.
I started with the eyelet lace frame die and cut once with white then once with the patterned paper for each card. The sentiment was layered with white over a color paper.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Freshly Made Sketches
Michele Ferguson has a great new layout for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. It was hard to keep it clean and simple but I started with a leftover stenciled background from another project.I used the smallest stitched pocket die and the frame from the Picture This stamp set for the two tilted "squares". The flower was clear embossed then colored with Copics (it was fussy cut from the summer tag stamp set).



























