Wishes of Grace & Adventure

Hello There!

Happy Monday!

A quick post today.  

When I made my other ginger jar card I made a second one, a little bit different.  This one is purple and gold. 

The background is the Floral Mosaic Stencil by Honey Bee Stamps. I stenciled the jar with the coordinating stencil, Ginger Jar Details both by Honey Bee Stamps as well.  The gold corners and gold trim and the white panel are part of another die set, Antique Layering Frames, also by Honey Bee Stamps. The sentiment/coordinating die are by Spellbinders.

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

 

Snarky Birthday Wishes

Hello there!

It's Thursday, almost the weekend! 

It's also time for a new challenge at Seize The Birthday!

Jules is our host this fortnight. Her topping is Add A Tag!

I had to use a snarky sentiment from a set by Spellbinders.  I remember my grandmother doing just this - keeping a tissue in her sleeve.  If she had short sleeves or no sleeves she'd tuck it in her bra.  LOL  I don't know if you can see it well, but I added an actual tissue piece in the sleeve of the arm on the card. 😄 

The arm die is actually a Grinch arm by Kat Scrappiness. The tag is by Waffle Flower and the patterned papers are by Catherine Pooler Designs. Tissue by Cotsco (LOL). 

Of course if you're not into the Toppings you can still play with us in our Anything Goes Birthday Challenge.  We love having you play either way!

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

 

Jars Full of Birthday Wishes

Hello there! 

A few posts before I'm out of town. The first one is for the Color Hues Challenge. 

I had a bit of a quandry as to which of my CP inks was more Marigold.  I finally settled for Glitz. And then for the purple I used Grape Crush and a bit of Serene.

I pulled out some very fun dies and stencils by Honey Bee Stamps, part of their Countryside Cottage collection from last spring I believe.  The jars are stenciled and so is the patterned background.  The sentiment and coordinating die is from Spellbinders - Nature's Dance.

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

 

Hello Friend

 Hello!

Happy Wednesday!

I've been playing in my craft room this week.  With all the yucky pollen falling in NC this week, I've kept inside as much as possible. Everything outside has a thick film of green dust covering it. The last couple days there's even an ominous green tint to sky/air. Not great for spring allergies. Wearing a mask helps but not with the dust that forms on your clothes. Even the dog comes inside with a green tinge. 

Anyway, I created a card for the present challenge at JUGS (Just Us Girls).  I saw this beautiful floral die by Kristina Werner and had to have it.  I thought it was perfect for this challenge. It is a tad time consuming placing all the flower parts inside the inlay die but I think it's worth it.  I did layer the inlay several times.  The sentiment stamp/die is by Simon Says Stamp and the smaller sentiment is from Waffle Flower.

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

Garden Gnome

Good Evening!

Are you enjoying March Madness or Marching into Spring? Either way hope it's joyful!

A quick post again with another CAS card.  I'm not sure I'm getting any better at CAS cards or not.  I still look at them and think I need more, but I have refrained so far!

Tonight's card is for the CAS challenge at Addicted to CAS.  Their theme is Garden.  So I pulled out two very adorable stamps sets, Backyard Borders(veggies) and Gardener's Greetings(gnome) by Catherine Pooler Designs for this.  I did a little masking to set my "garden" gnome behind my veggies. I colored everything up with Copics, added a sentiment by Stamplorations and then set it on a background of green. 

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

 

May Your Day Bloom With Happiness

It's Friday!  

Happy almost weekend everyone!

It's a gorgeous day here in Cary, NC yet still a little chilly. Spring here is always back and forth.  Freezing one day, hot as July the next and then somewhere in between for a few days after that. That's where we are now,in between before HOT this weekend. SMH

But with that said, the trees are blooming, as are some flowers and the sun is shining. And I'm enjoying it for the moment from my craft window. I've been in more of a crafty mood lately, so I'm seizing my time, particularly since later next week we will be traveling. 

I've been perusing through some of my UFOs lately and I found this panel of tulips I had begun water coloring a long while back. In fact, I believe the stamp belongs to my friend, Bonnie Klass(Stamping With Klass), because I know I don't have it. I'm sure a long way back during one of our crafty days together at her craft room is when I stamped it. I think it may be Penny Black? So now it's finished into a card(which may see its way to Bonnie's mailbox!). 😊 Thanks, Bonnie! 

I'm skirting in at the last minute for Jaydee's challenge at The Paper Players.  I seem to do that alot but hey, that's why they have deadlines isn't it? For us last minuters?  hahaha

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

 

UGH Also Spells HUG

Another quick post for today.

I've been wanting to play with this word die by Spellbinders and today was the day! I used the color challenge by Sunday Stamps and also the challenge at JUGS, using the background emboss folder by Simon Says Stamp.  I embossed glitter emboss powder on the flower centers and embossed the secondary sentiment with white powder. 

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Sunday Stamps Challenge #381 - Whispers of Spring

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

 

Some Bunny

 Hello Wednesday! 

Half way through the week!

I have a quick post to skirt into the challenge at CAS On Friday.

I used some dies, Penguin Pals Add Ons, by Whimsy Stamps to make my bunny. The sentiment is a very old one from My Favorite Things.  The plaid paper was in my stash and the border die is an old one by Spellbinders. I glittered his ears and tail for a little more texture.  The next pic picks up the glitter a little better...

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Challenge #329 - Sketch 

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

What's Up Duck?

 Hi there! Back again with another fun post...

AThis time for CAS Colours & Sketches.  I haven't played in this challgne for a while and I couldn't resist their current colour challenge.  Nor could I resist playing with this rubber duck die by Simon Says Stamp yesterday.  Puddle by Lawn Fawn. Grass (could be My Favorite Things, it's pretty old).

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

A Flutter of Happiness

 Hello there!

It seems to be a crazy weather Monday everywhere in the States!  Blizzards to the north, severe thunderstorms/possible tornadoes to the south! YIKES!

So I'm sharing a little bit of spring time happiness to distract us all from that and other craziness.

I had to play with Michele's sketch again over at Freshly Made Sketches.  I've had this gorgeous patterned paper and birdbath dies from Honey Bee Stamps for a year now and just pulling them out to play.  I wanted to keep with the colors in the background so I matched my birds to it. 

Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you come back soon! Stay safe out there wherever you are, not just today but always! 

"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

Irish Blessing

 Hello and Happy Friday!

What a week it's been!  Weather wise it has been all over the place - spring, the dog of summer and then back to winter! We had frost this morning after near 90s yesterday.  And the trees are budding, which does mean the dreaded pollen is coming! Got to love NC in March! LOL 

Well in the spirit of green, I have a card to share with lots of green. St. Patrick's Day is next week and so I thought I'd make at least one card for the holiday.  

I used green and gold colors for the Color Hues Challenge and then I decided to try Michele's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and see how it worked.  Not sure it completely passes for the sketch, but I made a good effort I think. My background is from a marbled stencil by Hero Arts I did in two green inks and gold glaze. 

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Simon Says Wed Challenge - Bit O' Green

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"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance

Hoppy Birthday

Hello!

It's Thursday again!  Funny how that happens, huh? 

That means a new challenge at Seize the Birthday. 

JoAnn is our host this time and her Topping is Use Green as Main Color.

I decided to pull out my Waffle Flower frog dies for my card. That is where I began and then knew I wanted balloons coming out of a picture frame.  I wanted to jazz it up a bit so I chose some beautiful green and white background pattern paper by Honey Bee Stamps. I probably could have arrange the balloons a little better so as not to "grow" out of his head, but oh well.  HAHAHA

If you're not feeling a Green kind of Topping this time, you can always play in our Anything Goes Birthday Challenge and still share your creation.  Either way, we love having you play along!

We have two Surprise Guests today so be sure and check them out and welcome them - Jennie and Valerie! Welcome! Don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team's creations also on the STB blog. These ladies are super creative and crafty! 

Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you come back soon!

"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.  

 ☘ Irish Blessing ☘

Nance