C4C595 - Mini Slimline Card

Just like Slimline Cards, Mini Slimline Cards are also becoming very popular.  For our challenge this week, the Crazies were to create a Mini Slimline Card.  Typically, Mini Slimline Cards are either 3 1/2" x 6" or 3" x 6".  More info on Mini Slimline Cards can be found in the Files section of the Slimline Card Addicts Facebook Group.

I used another one of the Whimsey Slimline background papers on my card, cutting it down to fit a Mini Slimline Card.  This set of papers is called Enchanted Forest.  Those cute little Lawn Fawn gnomes are just the right size to walk down that path.

Check out the Crazy4Challenges blog to see some more Mini Slimline Cards.

Karen Burniston Sneak Peek - Day 2

I'm using another one of Karen Burniston's new dies today -- actually I'm showing you two of them.  One is an "add-on" set.  The primary set is the Tiny House Pop-Up.  I realize Christmas has long-since passed, but I wanted to make a gingerbread house.

A fun element to this set is the roof die.  It is treated so that you can ink it up prior to cutting the roof piece.  This will show the shingles in more detail.  I used Versamark and white embossing powder so that it looks like icing.  The "gumdrops" along the edge of the roof line were made with a die of 4 small hearts, which is part of the set.

The "add-on" set contains elements to make a Mushroom House.  You get a different roof, door, and windows.  The front of the card is a Riley & Co. Mushroom Lane image, as are the little gnomes on the inside.

You can see that the door is rounded at the top and the windows are round.  And, oh, by the way, that tree is also new.  It's from a set called Tiny Trees Pop-Up.  I'll have another card using that die later this week, showing it in more detail.  I hope you'll check back.

CCEE2103 - Time for a Laugh

Lynn continues as hostess for the CCEE Stampers this week.  She said:  you may not have heard, but Sunday is National Belly Laugh Day! Lord knows we all need a good laugh these days so create a card that will have us all laughing out loud! Bonus points if you make me spew my coffee on the computer screen when I see your creation!

The best place to find sentiments that will make you laugh is at Riley & Co.  I used one of their stamps to hopefully give you a good one.  I added some Karen Burniston frames and a couple of gnomes.

The CCEE Stampers blog will have some more humor for you.  Please visit there.  

C4C537 - Gnomes

I want to thank Frances Byrne for asking me to guest design for the Crazy4Challenges blog during the month of May.  I thoroughly enjoyed joining in on the fun.  The challenge for my final week is gnomes.  Gnomes seem to have become very popular over the past 6 to 12 months, with so many fun stamps, dies, and papers being released.  We were to create a card today that features a gnome.

Paper Nest Dolls has a cute set of gnomes, and I used one of them on my card today.

Be sure to check out all the cards on the Crazy4Challenges blog for some more gnomes.

CCEE2022 - World Creativity Day

Kelly's final May challenge for the CCEE Stampers is to celebrate World Creativity Day (Saturday, May 30th), a day to embrace your own creativity and support each other in the crafting community.  She said:  "Let's make a card using YOUR favorite technique ~ the sky is the limit!  Just have fun and get creative!"  I don't know if you'd call interactive cards a "technique" or not, but it's my favorite kind of card to create.  So I'm saying it IS a technique.

I used the Karen Burniston Triple Flip die and some cute Paper Nest Dolls gnomes to make my card.

See what the favorite technique each of our team likes by popping over to the CCEE Stampers blog.