CCEE2035 - Peach Month

For Liz's final challenge this month she told the CCEE Stampers that August is Peach month.  This is one of her favorite colors (mine, too, by the way); and, of course, who doesn't love a great peach to eat.  So she asked us to make use of either the fruit or the color on our cards today.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, we had several peach trees on our property.  One of them was a white peach, and people are surprised to hear that there are white peaches.  They are actually sweeter than their yellow cousins.  Enough of the nature lesson, on to my card.  It's another card using a Paper Nest Dolls image.  Oh, BTW, the color of my cardstock is Florida Peach!

Be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more peach delights!

C4C549 - Oriental Card

This week's Crazy4Challenges challenge is to make an oriental style card.  Tracy said, "Let's use some of our stash that are 'Oriental Style' and make a card.  You could use a kimono, cherry blossom, pagoda, lanterns, fans, birds ,koi, etc."

When given an "oriental" challenge, I love to make screen cards.  I've got some cherry blossoms, a parasol, and some Chinese symbols on my card.

Check out the Crazy4Challenges blog for some more "oriental style" cards.

CCEE2034 - National Senior Citizens Day

Here it is the day after Liz's BIG birthday, the Big 7-0!  So in honor of Liz's birthday and National Senior Citizens Day (Aug. 21st), the CCEE Stampers are using some adorable old women still having fun and enjoying life on our cards.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many annual stamp shows were canceled this year.  Hopefully, next year we'll all be able to get back to normal.  My card depicts all of us racing off to the convention centers looking for new toys.  I just love these happy Art Impressions gals, don't you!

Check out more fun-loving old women on the CCEE Stampers blog.

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!

I have been having so much fun with the new Karen Burniston Bitty Ball Pop-Up, in conjunction with last year's Surprise Ball Pop-Up.   I have made a whole menagerie of animals using these two ingenious die sets.   The Bitty Ball is 20% smaller than the Surprise Ball, allowing the body of the animal to be slightly larger than the head.

Today's card is a tiger, wrapped up in a gatefold card.  I bought a pad of safari papers several years ago, and it was perfect for my wild jungle card.

These animals are so much fun to make!

C4C548 Sketch Challenge

The Crazy4Challenges challenge this week is a sketch challenge.

I decided I didn't want to make a card with flowers this week, so I substituted gears for the flowers in the sketch.  I now have a guy card in my stash!

Check out the Crazy4Challenges blog to see how the rest of the team handled this challenge.

CCEE2033 - Roses

Liz continues as hostess for the CCEE Stampers and tells us that tomorrow (August 14) is International Rose Day.  Roses are one of Liz's favorite flowers, so she asked us to put some on our cards today.

I just got this cute little Paper Nest Dolls girl, and this is the first time I've used her on a card.  I haven't put a sentiment on it; I'll do that when I use the card.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more roses.

Never Too Early for Christmas Cards

I tend to make Christmas cards all year long, usually winding up with more than I need -- but nothing wrong with that!  Today I have a Christmas card made with the new Karen Burniston Pop 'n Swap die.

The idea for my card popped into my head at 4:00 in the morning.  I've not been sleeping well during my Covid quarantine, and my brain keeps working overtime.

After watching one of Karen Burniston's videos, I wanted to try the "cut down the front" type of card she made.  As you can see, the front of the card is cut down by about 2" so that you can see the angel from the inside of the card.

When you open the card, the angel moves down behind the inside panel and the Nativity scene pops out from behind the panel at the bottom.  The tip of the angel wing does not go completely behind the panel, but I don't sweat the small stuff.

This is such a fun die to work with -- and really pretty easy to construct.   Karen Burniston has videos for each one of her die sets.  Check it out here.