I'm Bats for You!

Hello, Friends.  
I am here to inspire you to join us 

at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. 
Join us here:  https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com
for an Always Cards monthly challenge. 

I used Gerda Steiner images 

for a fun halloween card. 

Join us!  

Thinking of You

Hello, Friends.  
I am here to inspire you to join us 

at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. 
Join us here:  https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com
for an Always Cards challenge.
How about a swing with fall colors?
Join us!  

Just Chillin'

Hello, Friends.  I am here to inspire you to join us 

at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. Join us here:  https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com 

This week our theme is the photo inspiration below.  
Think beach, palms, sunshine, island colors.

Here is my card using die cuts and original background papers.  
Just chillin'!

Your inspiration photo:

You're the Best!

Hello, Friends.  I am here to inspire you 

to join us at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. 
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https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com 

This week our theme is "stitched dies."

Here is my card using a favorite retired image

and layer after layer of wonky stitched dies.

Happy Birthday, Cowboy!

Hello, Friends.  I am here to inspire you to join us 

at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. 

Join us here:  https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com 

This week our theme is a photo inspiration. 

I had a ton of ideas for this one, but the postal person brought me a new die
and you know how it is.  I just had to use it my new 
Karen Burniston Charm Accordion die.

I will share my project with:

a2z scrapbooking

World Art Wednesday

Always Happy Birthday 

Celebrate!

Hello, Friends.  It's PDE Linky Challenge time and our theme is scallops.  Now, I love to eat scallops and have some stamps that are scalloped or are scallop shells, but I saw this die and that was the end of the discussion.  I grabbed paint chips and die cut away with a special friend in mind who just loves pink in all shades.    Hope you like it and hope you will join us with scallops this week!

His Photo + My Card Making

Hello, Friends.  My husband loves to take nature photos and I love to make cards so it was inevitable that one day we would combine the two elements for a shop in Dillsboro, NC. When I saw the inspiration photo for the PDE Linky Challenge, I knew exactly which card I would make.  We see the finches on our bird feeders in summer and we just love to watch them!  Hope you will join us and be inspired by either Janis's provided photo or my card to get you creating for the challenge!  

Circles and Circles

Hello, Friends.  It's time for a PDE Linky Challenge and our theme is circles.  Looking through my dies and stamps, I stumbled on this die.  I've always thought it was too small but when you repeat it over and over, you get an interesting effect.  Pop them onto homemade designer paper and it just gets done in no time.  I was thankful, thus the sentiment.  Won't you join us this week?  We'd love to see your projects!

Smile

Hello, Friends.  It's time for the PDE Linky Challenge.  It's "anything goes" time and I have a layered die cut card.  Hope you will join us this week!

Anything But a Card--PDE Linky Challenge #17

Hello, Friends.  It's time for a different kind of project for the PDE Linky Challenge.  Knowing that cards and tags are my "go to" projects, it was time to think out of the box.  

So I made a gift box!  My friend just loves basil and with higher temperatures coming, it will soon be time to plant these seeds.  I did some cross-hatch dry brush painting with acrylic paints to make the background paper and then die cut the potted plants.  I love the sentiment, Bloom where you are planted, so there you have it.

Join us this week for the PDE Linky Challenge #17 with anything but a card.

Tool Box Card--PDE Linky Challenge #15

Hello, Friends.  It's time to make more masculine cards for my stash.  For the PDE Linky Challenge this week, it's "anything goes."  So here is my take on a tool box card with bright, primary colors for someone special I know. I think the embossing folders and die cuts just make this card!  Join us this week! 

Fun Folds--PDE Linky Challenge #13

Hello, Friends. It's PDE Linky Challenge time and I have a fun fold card to share with you.  It's always great to have some masculine cards on hand so this one is a good one to make with designer paper scraps.    Join us this week for some fancy folding fun!

PDE #5 Thank You

Hello, Friends.  We're doing thank you cards at the PDE Linky Challenge this week.  My Christmas cactus is blooming up a storm right now and so I was inspired to make a card with a Flourishes lc stamp of a Christmas cactus.  Coloring an embossed image with Twinkling H2O's is a snap and so much fun.  Love the shimmer!  Join us this week!

PDE Welcome, Cardinals!

Hello, Friends.  It's time for a PDE Linky Challenge.  We have an inspiration photo this week.  It's time to turn our focus from Christmas to winter.  We don't have a winter in Florida so I love to make winter cards to send to my friends and family up north.  Join us at the Pause Dream Enjoy Linky Challenge this week, won't you?

Here's the inspiration photo:

There is a saying that a cardinal is a spirit that has come to visit earth so I always think of loved ones that are gone when I see cardinals in our yard.  Here's my card inspired by the photo and that saying.  

New Years Means Birthdays

Hello, Friends.  Die Cuts is the theme for the Pause Dream Enjoy Linky Challenge this week.  Hope you will join us this week at https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com.    As we begin the new year, I see that I need to make more birthday cards.  Today's card doesn't have a speck of stamping;  it's all die cuts to match the theme.  I chose my favorite color so it was fun to work on.  Now I am wondering why I didn't make several of these.  My habit of making one-of-a-kind cards is fun but means my stash is always small.  Let me know what color I should make next!  And don't forget to join us at the PDE Linky Challenge!

Challenge:
alwayshappybirthday.blogspot.com

PDE #204 A Small Gift

Hello, friends.  For the PDE Linky Challenge this week, I am sharing a small gift that I will be including with a gift card for the holidays.  It's an easel calendar card and I have combined Don's beautiful photography with my card making skills.  It will grace someone's kitchen counter or desk and be a reminder of the beauty of nature all year long.  Make a small gift for someone you want to thank or recognize!

PDE #196 Enjoy the Day's Blessings

Hello, Friends.  I am here to inspire you to join us at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. Join us here;  https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com 

This week our theme is anything goes and I am choosing Blessings as my theme.

Here is my card using Tim Holtz's Wildflower dies and a sentiment from Mark's Finest Papers.  The background paper I created with Distress Oxide inks reminds me of looking up through the fall leaves.  Hope you will join us this week and choose your own theme!

PDE #194 Halloween Cat with a Hat

Hello, Friends.  I am here to inspire you to join us at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. Join us here:  https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com 

This week our theme is Halloween and we hope you will join in on the fun!

Here is my card using Tim Holtz's Crazy Cats and sentiments from SU and Stampers Anonymous.

Pumpkins!

Hello to all!  PDE Linky Challenges has a theme this week of pumpkin projects.  I recently made cards for Inspired by Stamping and thought I would share them with you.  The digital image is free with the IBS newsletter and can be purchased later on the shop site.  Be sure to join the PDE Linky Challenge this week and share those pumpkins!