Getting Peachy

 Me Again!  

These large florals from Altenew have always been one of my favorites.  I tend to go red with them, but this time I tried a pale peach- and with the brown leaves, I love them!  

I colored the poppies with Copics and then fussy cut them out.  

I added brown foliage using the same stamp set (Wallpaper Art).  

I darkened the centers of the flowers with a black micron pen.  The sentiment is from Creative Worship Stamps.  A few light brown sequins finish the card.  

I am linking up to the following-

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Fabulous Florals.  

Just Us Girls for their wonderful inspiration mood board this week with the peachy pinks and the vintage brown tones! 

Triple B Challenge where I used blooms, of course.  

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed weekend!

Lee Ann  

Gratitude

 Hello Friends,

I needed a few Thank You cards so pulled out some botanicals and this sweet bird image:

The background panel was made using tone on tone stamping and then adding friendship words with white ink.  The bird and floral branch are both from a set from Creative Worship Stamps called Birds and Blooms.  The images were colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  

The images were grounded with a white, circle die cut and a scalloped border panel.  The sentiment, an oldie but goodie from WPlus9, is stamped in Versafine Clair ink in black.  

I am linking up to the following challenges-

Festive Friday,

where I have used flowers, bird, pastel colors and tone on tone stamping.  

Cut It Up Challenge, Make your own background, 

Word Art Wednesday,   Anything Goes, 

The Four Seasons Summer Challenge,

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Lee Ann

CAS Whale

 Hello Friends!  

I hope everyone had a wonderful and patriotic 4th of July!  We had a bit of storm damage here with a huge tree limb going down, but once power was restored, it wasn't anything to lose sleep over.  

I was intrigued by the inspiration photo for this week's Inspired By Challenge.  I came up with this CAS card.  

Here is the inspiration photo~

The whale is a Lesia Zgharda design; sentiment is from Creative Worship Stamps.  I used some Altenew Brass Shimmer Relief Paste with a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs for the background.  A few white sequins finish the card.  

I am also linking up to the Alphabet Challenge- E is for Embossing, wet,

as well as Addicted to CAS, Pattern   

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Lee Ann  

Pink Trellis

 Hello All and Happy Fourth of July Week! 

With it still being furnace-like outside, I am once again inside crafting.  It has been quite some time since I participated in an Altenew Challenge, but since I just got some Altenew goodies, I wanted to play along.  

I was inspired by several parts of this picture.   Of course the pink flowers, but also the pale blue curtain and the Moroccan style white lattice.  I was also inspired by the brass items and embossed the 'thanks' in brass.  

I used the following products~

Altenew Cascading Flowers Stamp Set

Altenew Dainty Leaves Die Set

Altenew Sulfur Cosmos Stamp Set

Altenew Rustic Charm Propject Kit

Sizzix retired cover plate die

Copic Markers

Tim Holtz Speckled Egg Distress Spray

I am also linking up to the following 

-Just Us Girls Challenge- die week

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed July 4th!  

Lee Ann  

 

Fly Away

 Hello and Happy Summer!  

While I should be organizing my craft room, I am crafting in it instead.  It's good getting back into crafting and with the hot steamy weather, I 'd rather be inside.  

Today's card is a vintage birthday card for a boy.  I used this sweet old Penny Black image and colored it with Copics, then fussy cut him out.  

I used the sketch from Atlantic Hearts Challenge~

I embossed the background panel with an old Spellbinders embossing folder.  The decorative background panel was die cut out with my Penny Black Classy Frames Die.  A couple of flag die cuts ground the image.  

The sentiment was pieced together with two sentiments, the first one being from PTI.  Other brand is unknown. 

I am also linking up to the Krafty Chicks Challenge~

I am also linking up to Just Us Girls Challenge, as I used my 'must have' Classy Frames Dies from Penny Black.  I'm guessing they are from 2 or 3 years ago. 

Thanks for stopping by!  

Lee Ann 

Tiffany Blue and Blessed

 Hello Friends!  

After a few weeks of travel, I am trying to get back to card making.  Today's card uses the Freshly Made Sketches sketch.  

Here is the sketch I used.  

The sentiment is from Unity Stamps, Ginko foliage is a retired set from Impression Obsession and the bird is from Creative Worship Stamps.  Images were colored with Copics and fussy cut out. 

I am also linking up to -

Word Art Wednesday- Anything Goes

Triple B's June Challenge 

and Colorful Options Challenge, where I was inspired by the tiffany blue color.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed weekend!

Lee Ann  

Celebrations

 Hello Friends! 

It's been quite some time, but I am hoping to finally be back to some steady crafting.  June is celebration month- graduations, showers, weddings, and for me, retirement!  I am so excited to enter this period of my life.  First up, I needed a graduation card for my nephew, who just graduated with his master's degree in social work.  

Loving how this turned out- I dug through my stash and used an old Spellbinders stamp set.  Collage style cards have always been a challenge for me, but this set makes then pretty easy.  

The truck is colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  The 'Bravo' die cut is a retired die from Stamplorations.  

I used the sketch from TGIF Challenges (I rotated the sketch)

I am also linking up to Cut It Up Challenge- masculine card 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog- Add a Sentiment

Tic Tac Toe Challenge- 

I used Graduation, Free and word die.

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog- Masculine

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Lee Ann  

New Year 2026

 Hello All and Happy New Year!  

It is hard to believe we are closing out 2025 (wasn't it just Y2K??).  I am trusting in God's faithfulness and looking forward to big changes in 2026.  

I am finishing up my month of guest designing with Creative Worship Stamps and the year 2025 with this card, which uses my most requested sentiment on it.  

As I so often do, I watercolored a single layer panel; I used the roses from the Sketched Roses Stamp Set and my Ken Oliver Colorbursts.  And, as I often do, I did not like the results so fussy cut around a portion of the rose to make a partially die cut panel.  I stamped a background with one of the leaf images from the set using a light grey ink.  The sentiment is from the Precious Poppies Stamp Set.  

Happy New Year, Everyone! 

Lee Ann  

Fluttering Cup

 Hello Again!  

I can't seem to get away from the I Like Big Cups Stamp Set.  I really enjoy filling the cups with unique things.  For today's card, I kept the card very CAS with just a bit of stenciling on the background panel.  

This time I filled the cup with butterflies!  I used the ones in the Vintage Nature Elements Stamp Set, colored them with Copics and fussy cut them out.  After stenciling a few dots from the Blotchy Dots and Hearts Stencil from Creative Worship Stamps, I adhered the cup and saucer and added the butterflies in various positions flying out of the cup.  

I added the sentiment (from the Timeless Hymns Stamp Set) and some sequins to finish off the card.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Lee Ann  

Bouquet for Valentines

 Hi Friends!

With Christmas over, I am moving on to Valentines cards.  I used the Creative Worship Stamps Sketched Roses stamp set for this card.  

The flowers were colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  For the vase, I repurposed the cup sleeve in the I Like Big Cups Stamp Set and turned it into a vase for my floral arrangement.  The simple sentiment is from the Love Wordfetti Stamp Set . 

I am linking up to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge,  Add a Sentiment.  

Sketch and Scrap~ Throwback sketch challenge

Color Dare- Pastel Color Challenge

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Lee Ann  

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! 

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, 

and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

 Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

Isaiah 9:6

Products used

• Creative Worship Stamps Poinsettia Greetings 
• Creative Worship Stamps Christmas Pine
• Penny Black Baroque embossing folder
• Watercoloring- Ken Oliver Colorbursts

I am linking my card up to the following challenges~

Word Art Wednesday

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (I turned the sketch)

Sparkle and Shine Challenge- Poinsettia

The Flower Challenge~  

Wishing you a blessed and peace filled Christmas!

Lee Ann  

Life in a Cup

 Hi All!  

I've played around with mixed media lately but today I had to get back to a good, clean card with a lot of white space!  I used several Creative Worship Stamp Sets and the Blotchy Hearts and Dots Stencil.  

I stamped the cup and saucer from the I Like Big Cups Stamp Set onto patterned paper and fussy cut it out.  I bit of grey Copic shading added depth to the cup.  

Next up, I stamped, colored and fussy cut out images from the stamp sets Colors of Fall and Vintage Nature Elements.  I tucked them into the cup along with some grass I die cut with the Tall Grass Die Cut.  

For the background panel, I used the Blotchy Dots and Hearts Stencil and some blue distress ink.  Once I inked the circles, I offset the stencil over them and then stamped the Typewriter Text Background Stamp through the stencil.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment from the Timeless Hymns Stamp Set onto the background.  

I just love how this turned out.  I am linking up to the following challenges~

Tic Tac Toe Challenge- I used the middle vertical row, free, blue, stencil.  

Inkspirational- Use Stencils

And, Art Nudge Challenge~I used the colors in the top right photo.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a Merry Christmas!

Lee Ann  

Grow in Him

 Hello Again!

Today's share uses more of the background from my last project, but this time I have used this gorgeous rose for my main image.  

The rose is from the Creative Worship Set, Sketched Roses.  The rose is colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  I also colored and cut out some leaves.  

The background was made with distress spray stain, distress oxide inks, the Creative Worship stamp set Vintage Nature Elements the CWS Grunge Dots Stencil and DecoArt Crackle paste.  I adhered the mixed media background to a light grey background.  The Vintage Ledger Page Stamp was stamped in a dark teal ink and then die cut with a circle die.  I adhered the florals to the circle and the circle to the card base.  

I tucked in the sentiment, Grow with Him, in the leaves, added a bit of twine across the card and added a few sequins for sparkle.  

I am linking up to Word Art Wednesday.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Lee Ann 

Mixed Media Mushroom

 Hello Friends!

Mixed.  Media.  Mushroom!  Aaand, we have to throw some butterflies in there as well.  I have another card to share using these beautiful Creative Worship Stamps.  

I find that one of the best places for me to worship God is in nature, so combining this old hymn sentiment from the Timeless Hymns Stamp Set and these nature stamps from the Vintage Nature Elements Stamp Set was a no-brainer.  

The images were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  Prior to cutting out, I did put the main butterfly back in my MISTI and usedVersafine Claire black ink to intensify the black color.  

For the background, I played around with some new goodies, Distress Spray Stain in Evergreen Bough, Salvaged Patina and Tarnished Brass.  I started with a large sheet of paper and spritzed the stains randomly.  When the spray was dry, I used some DecoArt Media Crackle Paste with the Grunge Dots Stencil to add some texture.  Lastly, I stamped the small butterfly image on the panel using Distress Oxide Inks in Crushed Olive and Fossilized Amber.  

I selected a section of the mixed media sheet that I wanted to use for this card and stamped the Vintage Ledger Page Stamp in Versafine Claire Black Ink and then cut it out.  I stamped a couple of the small sentiments on the background as well.  

The images were grounded on a circle die cut and then adhered to the card.  The stamped sentiment strip was popped up and adhered as well.  A few sequins finish the card.  

I am linking up to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge using blue, free and stencil.

I am also linking up to Word Art Wednesday- Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by during this busy holiday season! 

Lee Ann  

Mixed Media Nativity

 Hello and Happy Holiday Season!  

I have the privilege of guest designing for Creative Worship Stamps this month of December.  With Christmas being 24 days away, I had to start out the month with a Christmas card.  

Today's card features my all time favorite Christmas Stamp- Born This Day from Creative Worship Stamps, formerly Sweet n Sassy Stamps.  

The main image was colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  Dies are available, but I am one of those odd ones who likes to cut!  

I had fun with my mixed media background; initially, I stamped one of the pine branches from the Christmas Pine Stamp Set in Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.  Next up, playing with the CWS Blotchy Dots and Hearts Stencil- I inked up the dots side of the stencil with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink and spritzed it with water, then smooshed it onto the paper.  By the time I was done, you really could not make out the dots, by I ended up with a nice blotchy background.  

Next up, I placed the dots stencil on the dried background and spritzed it with Salvaged Patina Distress Spray.  Once everything was dry, I stamped the sentiment from the Holly Christmas Stamp Set adhered the main image and added  some sequins for sparkle and called it done.  

I am linking up to the following challenges~

The Four Seasons Challenge

The Paper Players- I have used multiple rows-white/Christmas/die cuts, white/stenciling/sparkle, stenciling/trees/embossing

Just Us Girls- Anything Goes Stencil Week

Just Add Ink- Just add dies and/or stencils

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Lee Ann    

PB Polar Bear

 Hello and Happy Fall!

It's been a bit again since I have been here,  but I have been busy working on Christmas cards when I can.  I got the new PB Polar Bear (Penny Black, not peanut butter) and had to give him a go.  

I initially stamped the image in a light blue gray color and then colored with Copics.  After coloring, I stamped the packages and facial features in black ink.  I used the Freshly Made Sketches sketch for the card.  

I turned the sketch upside down and then used a strip of a gel plate print for the background.  The sentiment is from Creative Worship Stamps.  

I am also linking up to Simply Clean and Simple- anything goes and Sparkles Christmas Challenge, Nontraditional Christmas Colors. 

Thanks for stopping by!  

Lee Ann  

Fresh Flowers and a Celebration with Freshly Made Sketches!

 Hello Friends!  

If you have been around a while, you may remember that several years ago I had the pleasure of designing for one of my favorite challenges, Freshly Made Sketches.  This week, they are celebrating their 700th sketch!  Past designers have been invited to join in and of course, I was honored to say yes. 

Here is this week's sketch~

We are also sharing the very first card we made as a member of the FMS design team.  I still love this monochromatic baby card!

Back to today's card.  This floral image from Penny Black was a 'must have' and I colored it with Copics and fussy cut it out.  The background panel was embossed with a Penny Black embossing folder.  I then layered die cut squares and a die cut circle on top.  I finished off with the flowers, adding some dimension to the flowers.  The sentiment is an oldie but goodie from Creative Worship Stamps.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to join in the fun at Freshly Made Sketches!  

Lee Ann

Blue CHRISTmas

 Hello, Hello!

Well, summer is just about over when you go by the school year calendar (I know officially we have over 4 months to go before Christmas).  Christmas cardmaking has been in full swing here since July.  

I used the sketch at Jingle Belles for this card~

I played with all the things for this card- my very favorite Christmas image-from the Born This Day Stamp Set at Creative Worship Stamps, my new die set from PTI, stenciling with the Diamond Tile Stencil from CWS and Distress Ink.  Image colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  The sentiment is from another favorite CWS set, Holly Christmas.  

I am also linking up to Stencil Fun- anything goes for August as well as the Peace On Earth Challenge-anything goes. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a blessed week!

Lee Ann