*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 This week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite tree themed items.  I will admit that this is not my favourite tree themed item from my stash, but the ideas I had for my favourite tree stamp weren't working out for me.  Instead I pulled out this stencil to create a simple sympathy card.

Card Info
*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Grey

*Stamps:  MFT Something for Everything
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Catherine Pooler Twilight, Black Jack, Midnight

*Stencil:  Artplorations Slimline Trees

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 This week we are playing with our favourite embossing folder for the My Favourite Instagram Hop.  I'm not sure that this is my favourite embossing folder, but it's certainly my most versatile folder ! I use it a lot!

I used the debossed side this time and dragged a grey ink pad across it to create my grout lines.

Card Info

*Stamps:  Waffle Flower Sweet Birthday Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Tim Holtz Distress Hickory Smoke

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies

*Dies:  Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies; Waffle Flower Sweet Birthday Sentiments

*Embossing:  Stampin' Up! Brick & Mortar

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 We were challenged to do a masculine themed card this week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop...  I almost skipped it because I don't feel like I do masculine cards well.  I did some searching on Pinterest and found a card using this colour combination and thought "why not?".

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week, we are playing with our favourite Mother's Day or Feminine card items for the My Favorite Instagram Hop.  I was inspired by a card Sandi created a few weeks ago.

I started out by cutting a bunch of white flowers and then started layering them on to my card front.  I did some glued down flat on the panel and some with the petals curved upwards a bit.  I put that panel on to a card and then added a simple die cut sentiment to the front...

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Bubble Bath

*Dies:  Spellbinders Floral Spray; MFT All About Mom

*Challenges:  The Paper Players #784; Just Us Girls #882

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite Nursery Rhyme.  I'm not sure that the one I chose is a Nursery Rhyme as such, but it was a huge favourite to me as a child.  It's a poem called "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" by Eugene Field...  I will share the poem at the end of this post.

For my card, I started with a black cardstock panel and and wave stencil made from a piece of cardstock and a wave die.  I then did some ink blending with some Distress Oxide Ink.  I masked it off and created my night sky with some gold paint and some die cut stars.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Basic Black

*Stamps:  The Ton Easy Expressions Birthday
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Tim Holtz Salty Ocean Distress Oxide; Kuretake Watercolours

*Dies:  Unknown; The Ton Easy Expressions Birthday

And now for the poem...

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
   Sailed off in a wooden shoe,—
Sailed on a river of crystal light
   Into a sea of dew.
“Where are you going, and what do you wish?”
   The old moon asked the three.
“We have come to fish for the herring-fish
   That live in this beautiful sea;
   Nets of silver and gold have we,”
            Said Wynken,
            Blynken,
            And Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song,
   As they rocked in the wooden shoe;
And the wind that sped them all night long
   Ruffled the waves of dew;
The little stars were the herring-fish
   That lived in the beautiful sea.
“Now cast your nets wherever you wish,—
   Never afraid are we!”
   So cried the stars to the fishermen three,
            Wynken,
            Blynken,
            And Nod.

All night long their nets they threw
   To the stars in the twinkling foam,—
Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
   Bringing the fishermen home:
’Twas all so pretty a sail, it seemed
   As if it could not be;
And some folk thought ’twas a dream they’d dreamed
   Of sailing that beautiful sea;
   But I shall name you the fishermen three:
            Wynken,
            Blynken,
            And Nod.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
   And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
   Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
   Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
   As you rock in the misty sea
   Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:—
            Wynken,
            Blynken,
            And Nod.

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week, my crafty friends and I are playing with our favourite baby card for the My Favorite Instagram Hop.  I don't have a lot of baby themed stuff, but I do have this wonderful die of a cute little onesie...  I paired it with some pretty pattern paper and a big star to create a sweet card for a new baby.  

Card Info

*Paper:  MFT Bundles of Blossoms Pastel

*Stamps:  MFT Something for Everything
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  Art Impressions Baby Mini; Revolution Nesting Stars

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 This week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with the theme of "my favourite pet"...  I don't know how you expect me to choose!!  We've had cats or dogs or both for the last 36 years and while they all have their faults, I have loved (and do love) them all!

So I cheated and used a stamp with both a cat and a dog on it.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Stamps:  MFT Picture Perfect

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite spring flowers... and I totally missed the part that it's supposed to be an Easter card LOL!

I love a lot of spring flowers... but I chose to play with daisies for my card today.

Card Info

*Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Crushed Curry

*Stamps:  LDRS My Wish For You

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Embossing:  Lisa Horton Bold Daisy Background
*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 We are playing with a Lucky Shamrock theme with the My Favourite Instagram Hop this week... I have a a few sentiments with the word "luck" or "lucky" in them but I can't think of anything else in my stash.

So I improvised!  The only problem was that I couldn't find a stamp that I could easily partially stamp the words "wishing you" so I should have changed my front panel.

I used a pattern paper from a Christmas package, an alphabet die set and a heart die to create my card!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Granny Apple Green; unknown gold shimmer

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Modern Christmas

*Dies:  Hero Arts Infinity Hearts; Spellbinders Be Bold Alpha; MFT Stitched Circles; Waffle Flower Nesting Circles

*Challenges:  Inkspirational #363

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop we were challenged to pay with our favourite thing that we will miss about winter...  LET ME BE CLEAR.... I will miss NOTHING about winter!  I hate the lack of daylight hours and long hours of darkness.  I dislike the cold and the wind.  The snow looks pretty but it's a lot of work to shovel it.  I get so frustrated with slippery streets.  Here in Calgary, March is historically our snowiest month of the year so I'm not missing anything about winter yet!

But... all that being said... I LOVE snowflakes.  I think they are beautiful.  So beautiful that I have a tattoo of snowflakes.  If we could get snowflakes (and snowmen) without everything else, I'd be OK with that.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black; vellum

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Dies:  Memory Box Jolly Snowflake Trio; Stampin' Up! Peace & Joy

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite floral patterned paper.  Asking me my favourite is like trying to choose my favourite child or favourite type of chocolate.  What a terrible thing to ask me!!!

I don't honestly know that I have a favourite...  I have a few that I love, but I don't know how you choose just one to be a favourite.  I chose one of the patterns from my group of favourites to create this mini slimline card today.   I've always loved how this paper pops on black...

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Flower & Field

*Stamps:  The Ton Easy Expressions

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  A Jillian Vance Designs Daisy; The Ton Easy Expressions

*Embellishments:  Studio Katia Arctic Breeze Pearls

My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite Valentine's or Love Themed products.

Let me tell you, I am so sick of red, pink and hearts right now!  I don't send Valentine's to people and now I have a huge stash thanks to all of the design team work I've done in the last few weeks.  I am close to being done with the love themed cards.

I'm not against love... I'm just tired of making these cards LOL!

Anyway... I grabbed a background I foiled at Christmas and didn't use to create my card today.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Lovely Lipstick

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Pattern Party

*Dies:  Hero Arts Infinity Hearts; Stampin' Up! Playful Alphabet

*Hot Foil Plate:  Spellbinders Plaid Tidings

*Foil:  Spellbinders Gold

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with my favourite woodland scene. I don't do much with scene stamping, but I wanted to play along.  I sure hope that this works for the theme!

Card Info

*Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Basic Grey

*Stamps:  MFT Something for Everything

*Ink:  Catherine Pooler Twilight; Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Stencils:  Artplorations Trees

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 Good morning... this morning I am sharing a card that highlights my favourite silhouette stamp for the My Favorite Instagram Hop.  I had a few things to choose from, but I decided to go with this super old wood mounted stamp from my stash!  I stamped it on a white panel and added a little ink blending with a splatter stencil.  

Card Info

*Stamps:  Penny Black Fantasy; MFT Something for Everything

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Peeled Paint Stormy Sky

*Stencil:  Lawn Fawn Paint Splatter

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite thing to do in the snow.  To be honest, there's not much I enjoy doing in the snow (other than looking at it from inside) but I do love snowmen...  These little guys are technically snowballs, but I think they pass as snowmen!  

Card Info
*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Tidings of Christmas

*Stamps:  unknown red rubber (unknown and I don't remember!)

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite hair or clothing fad. I wasn't going to play with this one because nothing popped in to my head.  Then, this past weekend, I had an idea and I ran with it!

I LOVE that ugly Christmas sweaters have made a comeback.  I love that people host parties, that people make their own, that my office has us wear them on the Friday before Christmas.  They are just so much fun!

I bought a few sheets of this 12X12 paper from Photoplay a few years ago and used my Brother Scan 'n Cut to cut out all of the sweaters... sadly, I'm down to my last handful.  I'll be sad when they're gone!

I decided to showcase three of them on a fun embossed background on a mini slimline card.

Card Info

*Paper:  Photoplay Tulla & Norbert's Christmas Party

*Stamps:  Penguin Palace Magical Christmas Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Embossing:  Lisa Horten Layered Bubbles
*Tools:  Brother Scan 'n Cut

*Challenges:  Inkspirational #355

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite card sketch.  I have used this sketch many many times and I just love it!  I love how the front panel isn't a full panel and that the sentiment goes over the edge of the front panel.  

The sketch I am playing with is the April 2022 Sheetload of Cards.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Bazzill gold foil; Stampin' Up! Cherry Red

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Tidings of Christmas

*Stamps:  MFT Christmas Wishes

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  unknown tree

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 Happy Sunday, creative friends.  This week on my My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite colour combination.  I decided to go with a colour combo I enjoy playing with at Christmas... it's not my favourite in that I don't do a lot of cards with these colours, but I do love how they look together!  I feel like they are a little unexpected at Christmas.

I paired the colours with a simple JOY stamp and die set as well as a beautiful new embossing folder I bought.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Granny Apple Green, Soft Sky, Pretty in Pink

*Stamps:  MFT Filled with Joy

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  MFT Filled with Joy

*Embossing:  Tonic Studios Bountiful Baubles

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite fall flower.  Honestly, I don't have a favourite fall flower... I am just SO happy to see any flowers still blooming in the fall!  I coloured a flower from a piece of patterned paper in some fall colours and FUSSY CUT it out to share this card for you!  I FUSSY CUT!  My Mom would be so proud.  It's 15 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! True Love

*Stamps:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines and Roses

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Copics

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite vehicle.  Let's be honest, I don't have a favourite vehicle... so I just decided to play with a favourite paper that has hot air balloons all over it.  

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Azure Afternoon

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Lighter Than Air

*Stamps:  Stampin' Up! Hot Air Balloon

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Stampin' Up! Tasteful Labels

*Tools:  Perfect Layers