Pineywoods Papercrafter

First things first for April is to do the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  

I have had these Hoppy Days Ahead Stamps for a couple of years now and don't pull them out other than at Easter.  I decided that had to change and I am using them for the Anything Goes challenge.

I stamped the bunny and one daisy and cut them out.  the remainder of the card is stamped directly on the front panel, which is cut with the SSS Wonky dies.  I love the little detail of the wonky lines around the panel.  My bunny is smelling the one flower I cut out.  I decided not to raise up the bunny or the flower since my post office is getting pretty picky about the thickness of a card.  So much fun to make a card with the set that is not an Easter card.  

 

I do want to show you all some of the Easter cards that I did make this year.  I wanted to make this accordion fold flag book card.  It's really quite fast to make and the inside is a nice surprise.  Although I did have to have the thickness checked to make sure it would mail okay.  

See the fun surprises that are on this inside.  I used some of the images from an older Stampin up Easter set to make the side panel and the flags with the greetings on them. 

This card came together from pieces I had in my extra bits box.  I just throw things in that box that I colored but didn't use or extra things that I cut while using a die or something I colored just for something to do.  The background was made as an extra for my card class while showing them how to use ink direct to paper.  The tulips were a small image I had colored one day. They were all in the box and just looked like they would go together well.  I even had the sentiment in my book so I didn't have to stamp one. 

I got this Pretty Pink Posh Valentine Cupcake a couple of months ago, I've made a few cards with it.  They all seem to look a lot like this one, because the cupcake is so large on an A2 card that there is not much space left.  I may have to try a larger card to have a little more design space.  But I do love the simple design and the large cupcake you get from it.  

Using up a few scraps for this card.  I love to make patchwork on a card front.  Then I used the very pretty tulips in the Stampin Up set called Mixed Florals. They are fun to color, and I decided to cut them out as well.  The lady bugs had to be added because we seemed to have a lot of the about the time I made the card.  
Just the other day I realized I was falling way behind in making my Christmas cards.  These fun Frosty Littles from Hello Bluebird Stamps seemed to be the perfect thing to make a couple of cards come together fast.  I stamp the whole stamp set and color everything at once. Then You can die cut the ones you want and use all or some of them.  I still have enough for another card after making these two. 

 Why do I only post when it's time for a Simon Says Challenge?  Because Simon reminds me it's time to make a card and put it up.  I make a lot of other cards but seldom get around to adding them here.  

Here's the one for the Wednesday challenge today, which is to highlight Hero Arts products.  I have a few Stamp and Cut sets from Hero Arts.  I chose to use the set titled PRAYERS today.  

 

 Yesterday I saw the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge again.  I get a notification each week for this challenge, but my emails get so bogged down that I didn't see it until today.  Yes, I get too many emails, and half of them are not even things I actually subscribed for.  Wish I knew how to get rid of them.  No matter if you unsubscribe, they keep coming anyway. . . the joys of computers.

This morning, I pulled out my one and only Pink and Main stamp set (Floral Sprays) to make this card.

I may have to go shopping at Simon and look for more Pink and Main stamps.    

I enjoyed coloring this with my alcohol markers and doing a little ink blending for the background.  

 Last Year in November I won a stamp at the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.

I received the stamp in December and then I saw the Challenge for January 5.   The stamp was perfect, with a few alterations for a card for the first  Monday Challenge of the year.  

                            This is the stamp set I won.  House Mouse - Noel by Spellbinders

I think I will be checking out the Wednesday Challenge as well.

 

 Just wanted to say Happy New Year to all who might chance to see this.  This is always a good day to start to improve ourselves.  And however long we last at accomplishing those improvements is better than not starting to change at all.  

We had a beautiful morning view the other day - rather ethereal. 

(528) 3 Colours to Paint a Simple Winter Scene: Full Watercolor Tutorial - YouTube
    

   I can't use the same link twice for posting more than one card.  I'm not sure how this all works.  So, I'll just add the picture of my Pink Snowflake card here and hopefully it will create another link, since it is a different blog post.  

 I have such a hard time getting through all of my emails lately.  I didn't see the Wednesday Challenge until a day or two ago.  Trying to get all of my Christmas cards out, but I keep getting sidetracked making more cards.  So for this challenge we are to use Dies - DieCember - you get it.  

I used the Simon Says Stamp set called Gift of Christmas to get my little snowman. I colored him with Copic Markers and I used some dies purchased from Simon Says Stamp, but they are Poppy Stamp dies.  These are Wintertide Border Set and Nordic Rings.  I just love all the patterns in these.