Forever Young

Welcome friends, family and followers and welcome to a new month and a new challenge. For the next 13 days we are promoting "Forever Young" and want to see your projects made for the young ones. This is a welcome distraction from the holiday cards I should be making, but what I made was a fairly simple mini slimline card using lots of older items even a NBUS (never been used stuff)

I haven't used Penguin Party (SU) for a long time and thought it perfect for a little one.  I stamped and fussy cut the panda and he/she is popped up. I used a cloud stencil from Essentials that I had to have in 2022 but never got it out to try until now and it wasn't as scary to use as I thought it might be. The large birthday die was cut twice and layered for a bit of elevation. 

Side view on how it is elevated, the balloon was coated with s nuvo glitter brush.

Finished the inside with a very old birthday sentiment woodblock set from Stampin'up 

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Snow Day!!!

Hello and welcome to a new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash ~~ Winter......not a holiday. What a fabulous theme, especially for me since I'm sending "Winter" cards after the Canada Post strike is settled, If it is too long I will be sending Valentines. My stash busting was at it's best this challenge as I used a stamp/die set I got from the 25 days of Christmas Tags in 2023 and have never used it as well as the front sentiment and the Echo Park patterned paper I have been hoarding for a couple of years as well.

I made my second back fold card and I love how fast it can be made and it's different. The stamp/die set I used is from Neat and Tangled, The sky background was a scrap of smooshed watercolour paper, patterned paper is from Echo Park

Close up of the winter bunny who is elevated on the slope.

Finished the inside with a winter sentiment. 

I'm adding this to 

NBUS challenge ~~ #69

The 12 Months of Christmas ~~ #116 Anything Goes Christmas

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Summer!!

 It's officially Summer and it's HOT in SWO and for me Summer means relaxing at the lake and at Shopping Our Stash it means challenge #526 ~~ Summer so create a project with a summer theme, travelling, the beach, gardening, BBQ ...... I chose beach and lemonade.

I have ventured a little further with my crafting, I decided to colour and do a partial fussy cut and off the frame die cutting. The hard part was getting the caps off the markers because of the left hand refusing to work properly.  Love my House Mouse stamps and use them any chance I get, it's one that is several years old and the paper an even the cardstock is ancient.

Closer look at the die cut, it's a nbus a couple of years in my stash and finally it got to work. 

Finished the inside with a generic sentiment so I can use it for a just because or Birthday card. 

I would like to add this to.

NBUS challenge ~~ Challenge #64

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

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Fractured Mini Slimline Cards.....

 Hello again, yes these Fractured cards are really addictive and I tried the technique on a mini slimline card. I love the mini slimline cards for putting a bit of "folding money" in it fits perfect with no folding an end over. While searching for something in my stash of "stuff" a long diamond die set popped up, never even been taken apart, so you know it's a NBUS. When I saw it I immediately thought I could make a fractured mini slimline card using it instead of a square, it did take some extra time to cut the 1/4 inch strip ends so the next one fit perfect. I did use just a single piece of patterned paper as it was my first try, next I will try one with different pieces of paper. 

Of course I needed to use my house mouse Easter stamps, I coloured and fussy cut (what a nightmare) and popped them up of the diamond shape. Both patterned paper was from 2 different paper pads from Bo Bunny.

This one has Maxwell Mouse holding his supply of Easter Eggs. Beside the card is the set of Diamond dies now detached from each other but I need to get them in a CD case with a magnetic pad. 

I think this is Monica Mouse having a nap after eating all the  filling from the Easter Creme Egg.

I am entering this in these challenges:

NBUS ~~ Challenge 61

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Use some Designer Paper

Critter Crazy Challenge ~~ Challenge #85 anything goes with a critter.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great week.

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