Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge

Pink Flower Birthday Card

| Lisa K

Each month I receive a stamped image and sometimes patterned paper to create a card with. The month of May was Sue’s month. I received images from Stampin Up Friendly Hello set and patterned paper. I own this set so I added a few leaves and a die cut to add a bit to balance my design.

The white frame to hold the images is from Stampin Up and is very retired. I cut out the bird and flower image provided, but added the large flowers in the front. I had those in my stamp case already colored, so I matched the marker colors to the small flowers. I found some pink paper in my stash that worked well with the provided patterned paper and placed everything on a white card base. I added gems to the center of each flower; once again very retired SU.

https://cardz4galz.blogspot.com/2025/05/flowers.html

I see the Card 4 Gals challenge has ended.

https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-2025-challenge.html

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2025/05/51425-flowers.html

https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2025/05/anything-goes-weeks-698-699.html

https://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2025/05/seize-birthday-305-flowers.html

I am adding this card to each of these challenges linked.

For the May Triple B challenge, I have a bird and flowers.

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge is about flowers.

The Word Art Wednesday is Anything Goes.

Seize the Birthday is to add flowers to the birthday card.

It is nice to create a card that fits so many challenges. Thank you for stopping by and seeing my card. Last month was Virtual Stamp Night at Splitcoast Stampers. I hosted a challenge and made several samples for the other challenges. It is nice to be able to make a card that I want to make that is not dependent on a time frame and specific challenge. This card happened to fit all of these challenges.

Several Cards for Spring

| Lisa K

I have been creating for several days and finally took photos. I just posted these to splitcoaststampers and two are linked to other challenges.

This is for this week’s alphabet challenge for the letter N. The word from the list is Nature and my words are Navy and Narcissus. Also the images are from Newton’s Nook, another N word. This was linked to the Double D Easter challenge. There are two other entries from the buddies blog, so I linked from splitcoast in case another buddy wants to create an Easter card and link from here.

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/04/double-d-easter-challenge.html

I am entering this card in Word Art Wednesday, anything goes: https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2025/04/anything-goes-weeks-694-695.html

This is my March to the Beat April card. I am the April hostess and I sent each person this image and a piece of patterned paper from the same pack. The images is Newton’s Nook Spring Haul. I used Neenah Classic Crest paper for the stamping, Echo Park Spring Fling or Easter Wishes paper packs, Hobby Lobby vellum, SU gems, and Accent White card base. I like this truck with the beautiful blooms.

I added this to two challenges: The Sisterhood of Crafters: https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2025/04/4925-springtime-designer-paper.html

The other challenge is the Four Season’s challenge: https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/04/spring-season-april-2025.html

One again, I chose to go ahead and link from splitcoast in case there were others who wanted to link from here.

This card was created for the technique swap, I am involved in. They chose stencils for the month of April. I used my Gina K Designs kit called A Happy Hello. This was the first layering stencil kit I ever used, so it was fun to pull it out and create with it. I used a color challenge in the colors Flirty Flamingo (bright pink), Lost Lagoon (the blue color), Lemon Lolly (which I substituted with lawn fawn Butter, light yellow), and gray for a neutral (I used lawn fawn manatee and narwhal).

I posted this to Triple B for the blooms: https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2025/04/april-2025-challenge.html

I posted a lot of cards this week, catching up. Since I was posting each of these to splitcoast, I just went ahead and posted to the challenges from there.

Today, I will be taking a break from creating and cleaning up my space. I have stuff all over and I would like less stuff in my way. Thanks for reading this long post. Have a wonderful day!

Birthday Flip-it with Envelope

| Lisa K

I was challenges to use ignored DSP to make a card or more than one card. I chose to begin with an envelope and then used the remaining paper to make a flip-it card.

The cardstock used is Fresh Freesia by Stampin Up. The DSP is also SU, but I do not know the name. One side is the floral print while the other is the print on the envelope. The greeting die is from The Stamps of Life as well as the Circle Flip-it die set. I used the envelope punch board for the envelope.

I will enter this in Seize the Birthday anything goes: https://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2024/04/seize-birthday-282-off-edge.html

I will also enter this in The Sisterhood of Crafters: https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-24-springtime-designer-paper.html

I enjoy using these dies. The flip-it card is always fun to create and the recipient enjoys playing with it.

Cooking with MImi

| Lisa K

The Sisterhood of Crafters is all about dots or stripes. I made a card today that has stripes.

This is my destination card for this week, a kitchen for K. I chose to use Yummy Mimi from Penny Black for my focal image. The greeting is from a Hero Arts set. I presented my daughter with a few pieces of paper and she suggested the stripes as they matched the colors in my image. The stripes are perfect for the Sisterhood of Crafters challenge.

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-28-dots-andor-stripes.html

I appreciate you coming by today. Enjoy your day!

Tropical Beach

| Lisa K

I created a tropical paradise for my card. I needed a bit of sunshine and tropical was my answer.

Tropical Beach
https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2023/08/challenge-212-anything-goes.html https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2023/07/tropical.html

The background cardstock is Gina K Designs, possibly. I used Catherine Pooler Designs Tropically Yours, 2018, to emboss the leaves and swirls. The focal image uses Stampin Up Beach Happy, 2019. I fussy cut the palm leaves and hat. I saw this idea on Pinterest but the maker used a die to cut her background. The rest of the card is very similar using what I had.

This will be entered in Retro Rubber Challenge:

This will also be entered in Sisterhood of Crafters Tropical challenge. I linked it above.

We have had rain and storms for the last 3 or 4 days, so I am craving sunshine. I was able to walk this morning and that felt good. Thanks for stopping by today.

BIRDS

| Lisa K

I am seeing bird challenges all over, so I colored birds.

I have had this embossing folder, Friendly Birds by Simon Says Stamp, for several months and this is the first time I have really used it. I embossed it to make sure it embossed well, cut the birds, and never did anything with them. I was inspired by Diane at Can You Handle the Pressure as she used this folder. Her design is not a Christmas one, which is what I kept trying to turn it into.

I began with using Gina K Designs Powder Blue blending it over the entire background. Then I colored each leaf, berry, and branch with several markers. I die cut the birds and embossed them separately. I colored each bird with bright colors. I used Black Nuvo drops for the eyes. They are glued to the embossed panel. I trimmed the panel down and attached it to a white card base.

Can You Handle the Pressure https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2023/05/anything-goes-embossing-with-twist-of.html

Triple B May Challenge: https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2023/05/may-challenge.html

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Birds https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2023/05/birds.html

I listen to birds singing every morning. I often hear them around 5:30 AM. I do enjoy listening to birds and watching them when I can. If I can’t watch them, I can always color a few birds.

Butterfly Hello

| Lisa K

This month’s Gina K Designs challenge is to have minimal color on your card. I chose to stamp butterflies today. The Sisterhood of Crafters has butterflies in their challenge.

https://ginakdesigns.com/2022/07/02/july-2022-monthly-mix-challenge/?v=7516fd43adaa https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2022/07/butterflies-dragonflies-bees.html

I used two sets for this card: Tropical Blooms and matching dies and the other is Sending Love. I fussy cut the large butterfly then added color with alcohol markers. I found a stash of sequins earlier in the week, so I used a few on this card. I added sparkle to the butterfly, but the photo doesn’t show it.

Flowery Umbrella

| Lisa K

I created a card for the Retro Rubber Challenge as well as the Sisterhood of Crafters. I had an idea in my head for a couple of days and today it fell into place.

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-showers-bring-may-flowers.html https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2022/04/challenge-181-tics-tacs-toes.html

I used SU Umbrella to Stamp from 2020 for the stamping. The patterned paper is Carte Bella Flower Market with a date of 2019 on the back. The scallop square is a Sizzix die and the stitching is an Only Die from The Stamps of Life. I placed the items on the square, then decided something was missing, so off the items came. Then I ran the scallop square through the die cutting machine again to add the stitching. Sometimes it is nice to have so many dies to choose from and have the perfect one waiting to be used. I think this is the first time I have used this Only die. Without that die, I would have placed a rubber mat on the stitching die so it wouldn’t cut through. The gems are SU very retired, but the color worked. I think there is one pearl left in the pack of that yellow color.

The Retro Rubber Challenge is a tic tac toe and I used the far right column: patterned paper, bling, ribbon or twine.

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge is April Showers bring May Flowers. That is where the umbrella with the boots came to mind. I filled both with flowers. The umbrella was punched with the matching punch. Both were fun challenges and it was fun to combine them.

Sunflower

| Lisa K

Sometimes I sit down and create a card with one idea in mind and a specific place for posting, then all sorts of challenges fit the same idea. That happened with this card.

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2021/09/stencils.html
https://aaacards.blogspot.com/2021/09/game-199-no-layers-optional-twist-hugs.html
https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-with-hero-challenge-27

Originally I started creating a card for the Use Your Stash challenge at Splitcoast Stampers that I participate in each month. This month’s theme is to create something that begins with S for September. I decided to use sunflowers. Then I added sunshine with the greeting and the stencil. It is one layer and is CAS, so it worked well with the AAA challenge. The stencil is perfect for the Sisterhood of Crafters challenge as well as the Hero Arts Stay Crafty challenge.

The stamp set used is Newtons Nook’s Sunflower Days. The stencil is from Fun Stampers Journey called Sunrays. I used Lawn Fawn Sunflower ink to blend over the stencil. I colored the sunflowers alcohol ink markers and masked before stenciling. I masked the greeting also.

It has been a long time since I have made a one-layer card and especially one that is Clean and Simple. It was fun to create.