Pink & Main Pen Pals with Atlantic Hearts Challenge

Hello!  For this week's sketch I decided to create a batch of cards that were fun yet easy.  You may notice there is no stamping. I acquired this Pink & Main 6x6 paper pad called Pen Pals.  It really had the cutest images and great sentiments on the cut apart pages, so I used this sketch added in the gatefold twist.  I created 7 cards using this sketch and a few other cards that not using this sketch.  I've already shared several of these simple yet unique cards.

Here's this week's sketch.

While the dog was my favorite image, the snail is my second favorite.  Since this paper pad was second hand there were some sheets missing from the pad.  I used the background paper here up quickly while making this batch.

Ingredients:

Pink & Main Pen Pals 6x6 papers

misc card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/12/love-those-pretty-papers-december.html until 12.31x

Thanks for reading today.  Don't forget to play along with AHSC until Sunday evening.

Alicia

Karen Burniston Feathered Friends for Atlantic Hearts Challenge

Happy Fall Y'all!  I love this sentiment and those of you that follow me know I love to paper piece.  Creating this lil' turkey was so much fun!  I used lots of specialty papers and plenty of inking to shade my little guy.  I made this using the latest sketch from Atlantic Hearts Challenge Sketch #656.

Here is the sketch, it's so universal.

I absolutely love the plaid background paper I used.  I found coordinating papers especially the golden brown mat layer that brings out the same color in the plaid.

Here's a close up of my paper piecing.

Ingredients:

Karen Burniston Feathered Animals die set

Joy's Life stamps It's all Fall Puns stamps

A Muse French Roast ink

Kindred Stamps Dino Dust embossing powder

Spellbinders rectangle dies

paper unknown from my stash

My Favorite Things Die-namics Stitched Sentiment Strip die

misc card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/11/crafty-catz-704-anything-goes-thank-you.html until 11.20x

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/11/cut-it-up-challenge-343-favorite-color.html until 11.24 (copper is my favorite color especially in the fall-embossing powder is copper)x

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/11/fall-season-november-2025.html until 11.25x

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/11/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper.html until 11.29x

https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2025/11/november-challenge-2025.html until 11.30x

https://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.com/2025/11/cookie-challenge-210-november-fall.html until 11.30x

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2025/11/november-2025-anything-goes-w-optional.html until 12.5x

Play along with Atlantic Hearts Challenge Sketch #656 until Sunday evening.

Thanks for reading today.

Alicia

Dance your way through bad days...Wednesday card

Tis the season and another witchy card.  Actually, I did go down a rabbit hole about Wednesday and the conclusion is she is a witch with psychic abilities inherited through her maternal family.  I spent a lot of time piecing this little lady together.  

I tried several different adhesives to keep the layer of lace on the dress.  I ended up with glue dots in strategic places on the dress.

I fussy cut slivers of the same black paper as the hair to create the strands that hang down by her face.

Ingredients:

Hero Arts Fancy dies Lifestyle Forms

Hero Arts Fancy dies Lifestyle Picnic

Hero Arts Fancy dies Lifestyle Victorian Lady 

Hero Arts Hero Lifestyle Faces stamps

Hot of the Press Paper Artist 10 tiny things and shadow dies

My Favorite Things die-namics stitched sentiment strips

Kindred Stamps Gothic Vibes 6x6 paper pad

Kindred Stamps Unusual Ones Stamps sentiment stamp

Momenta Tuxedo Black ink

misc papers and card stock including Bazzill

lace

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/cut-it-up-challenge-341-add.html until 10.28x

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-130-autumnhalloween.html until 10.28x

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-766-halloween-anything-goes.html until 10.30x

https://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-100-en-afscheid-van.html until 10.31x

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/10/halloween-colors-challenge.html until 11.2x

https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-271-fill-in-blank-spooky.html until 11.11x

thanks for reading today and have a wonderful holiday

Alicia

Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble Halloween card

A little more October wickedness...another with lots of die cutting, my favorite technique. I used a Tim Holtz Sizzix Mixed Media #1 die to create the green bubble background.  I layered a Spellbinders label die on top with my Quickutz Cauldron die as the focal point. I stamped the sentiment in the corner.

I finished it off with some black sequins.

Ingredients:

Stampin Up Cauldron Bubble Stamps 

Quickutz Cauldron 2x2

Spellbinders Labels Twenty die

Tim Holtz Sizzix Mixed Media #1

misc card stock

sequins

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/10/trick-or-treat-smell-my-feet-challenge.html until 10.12x

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/cut-it-up-challenge-340-use-more-than.html until 10.13x

https://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-828-halloween.html until 10.14x

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2025/10/sos558-hey-ghoulfriend.html until 10.20x

https://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-114-autumn-andor-halloween.html until 10.30x

https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-271-fill-in-blank-spooky.html until 11.11x

thanks for reading today.

Alicia

Open if you Dare Halloween card for Atlantic Hearts challenge

Hello, open if you dare is the sentiment of the day!  I am using this week's sketch from Atlantic Hearts Challenge.  I used my nesting coffin dies for the first time with this card. I stamped and embossed the sentiment on the black die cut coffin.  I also cut the ghosts and spiderwebs.

Here is this week's sketch.

Another view where you can see the ghost on pop dots.

A close up of the ghost. Both the paper and dies are from Scrapbook.com and coordinate.

Ingredients:

Scrapbook.com Willow Lane A2 paper pack

Scrapbook.com Pumpkin House dies (ghosts)

Scrapbook.com Nested Coffin die

Karen Burniston Halloween Scene dies (spiderweb)

Stampin Up Hallows Night Magic sentiment stamp

Colorbox Popcorn ink

white embossing powder

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2025/10/sos558-hey-ghoulfriend.html until 10.20x

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-130-autumnhalloween.html until 10.28x

https://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-114-autumn-andor-halloween.html until 10.30x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2025/10/october-welcomes-brass-and-bliss.html until 10.31x

https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2025/10/nbus-challenge-79.html until 10.31x

Thanks so much for stopping by

Alicia

With Heartfelt Sympathy card

I created a batch of sympathy cards recently. I noticed that my stash of that sentiment was depleted.  Unfortunately, I am glad I made them.  I have sent out two in the last month.  I sent this one to a crafty friend who lost her husband.  The background paper was from a second hand stash that I purchased which was already cut down to A2 size.  I suspect it is Stampin Up but have not confirmed such.  I found some coordinating scraps and die cut the foliage and word.  I stamped and die cut the "with heartfelt".

Ingredients:

Divinity Designs With Sympathy Stamp/Die Duo

Stampin Up Mango Melody ink

Scrapbook.com Market Blooms Sunshine Blooms dies (foliage)

Gina K Sentiment Strips Die Set

misc papers

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2025/09/sos557-with-sympathy.html until 10.5

https://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/10/just-us-girls-795-die-week.html until 10.8x

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/cut-it-up-challenge-340-use-more-than.html until 10.13x

Thank you for reading my blog today

Alicia

Gorjuss Witch card with Creative Memories papers

Today's October post is a cute blonde witch.  I sent this one to a blonde friend of mine for Halloween. I hope she thinks it's a sweet as I do.

I die cut several of the pieces in white and colored them with alcohol markers and distress inks. Other pieces I used printed papers like the dress.  I loved it with three black gems as buttons. 

Another view. The banner was a die cut embellishment from the Creative Memories Hocus Pocus paper pack.  I still have one lots of pieces left and one unopened pack!

Ingredients:

Gorjuss "The Hour" Witch dies

Creative Memories Hocus Pocus 6x6 paper pack with embellishments

Alcohol markers: 

Distress inks: Squeezed Lemonade and Fossilzed Amber

Divinity Designs pierced circle dies

various papers and card stock including Bazzill

gems

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/10/trick-or-treat-smell-my-feet-challenge.html until 10.12x

https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/2025/09/69-males-go-feminin.html until 10.15x

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-130-autumnhalloween.html until 10.27x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2025/10/october-welcomes-brass-and-bliss.html until 10.31x

https://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.com/2025/10/cookie-challenge-209-october-spooky-fun.html until 10.31x

Thanks for stopping by today

Alicia

Kindred Stamps Raven Mad Nevermore card

Good morning and welcome to October!  I have high hopes of posting lots of spooky witchy cards this month.  I will begin with this Poe card.  I stamped and colored my man then placed him on lots of layers of blacks, whites and silvers.

Here is a side view.

Ingredients:

Kindred Stamps Raven Mad stamps

Alcohol markers

Kindred Stamps Sentiment strip die

Frantic Stamper Stitched Corner-cut Tags die

Oval die set of 5 alternating dotted and stitched die

Nevermore rubber stamp

Green Pepper Press Crow About bird stamp

7 Gypsies 6x6 papers

misc papers and card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/oct-2025-challenge-81-anything-goes.html until 10.31x

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/10/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-october.html until 10.31x

Thanks for stopping by and Happy October!

Alicia

Scrapbook.com Charming Friend card for Atlantic Hearts challenge

Today's card uses the latest sketch from Atlantic Hearts Challenge. It's a super sketch for showing off some pretty papers.  I used a paper pad from Scrapbook.com so all the papers coordinated.

Here is the sketch.

Ingredients:

Scrapbook.com Charming 6x8 paper

Stampin Up Midnight Muse ink

Scrapbook.com Howdy and Yeehaw stamp and die set

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/09/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper.html until 9.30x

https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/323-september-flowers.html until 10.15x

Play along with AHSC until Sunday evening.

Thanks for stopping by!

Alicia

Stampin Up Everything is Rosey card for Atlantic Hearts Challenge

Welcome to my inspiration for this week's Atlantic Hearts Challenge sketch #644.  It is so versatile as to lend itself to a wide variety of images.  I used a die cut pair of boots I created from scraps, beautiful scraps...

Here is the sketch.

I used a Scrapbook.com boot die set, I have you several other times, it is so versatile.  The sentiment is also from Scrapbook.com but stamped on a piece from the Stampin up Everything is Rosy card kit.

Ingredients:

Stampin Up Everything is Rosey card kit

Scrapbook.com Howdy sentiment stamps

Scrapbook.com Disco dies

Me & My Big Idea Icon gems

Stampin Up Night of Navy ink

misc card stock and papers

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-challenge-time.html until 8.28x

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-anything-goes-woptional.html until 8.31x

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/08/love-those-pretty-papers-august.html until 8.31x

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/Challenge-198.html until 9.1x

https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/322-anything-goes-optional-use.html until 9.12x

We would love you to play along until Sunday at Atlantic Hearts Challenge.

Thanks for reading today.

Alicia
 

Leave a little Sparkle card for Atlantic Hearts Challenge

Hello and welcome to my blog today.  I am playing around with my bargain paper score from a recent trip to the thrift store.  I got this 6x6 paper pad for only $1!  I embellished with a discounted sticker from Hobby Lobby making this card a real bargain!

I thought the papers very much lent themselves to this week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

A close up of this puffy sticker from Hobby Lobby.

I also dug deep to find this lovely metallic ribbon. In person this is quite a sparkly, shiny card.  The sentiment is heat embossing in sparkly embossing powder as well!

Ingredients:

KCB Designs Chasing Rainbows 6x6 paper pad

Scrapbook.com Pastel Glossy 6x8 cardstock

The Paper Company Artic Snow card base

Stampin Up Leave a Little Sparkle stamp sentiment

Stampin Up Lovely Lilac craft ink

Taylored Expressions Jelly Donut Sparkle embossing powder

Spellbinders Label die

The Paper Studio La Petites dimensional sticker

Stampin Up Opal rounds assortment gems

The Paper Studio metal ribbon

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/inspiration-station-challenge-august.html until 8.29x

I was inspired by the unicorn itself and the color palette.

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-anything-goes-woptional.html until 8.31x

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/08/love-those-pretty-papers-august.html until 8.31x

Don't forget to play along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge until Sunday evening.

Thanks for stopping to read my blog today.

Alicia

Cricut You're a Peach card and necklace

Hello and welcome today.  I have used a Cricut cut today.  It's been a while, I used to use it regularly when I had the Bitten by the Bug blog. I think I had to cease that blog in 2021ish. I also used an embossing folder and manual die cutting to create this peachy card!

A close up of my Cricut cut. I distressed the basket weave with ink to highlight the texture.

I sent this to my friend with an Allman Brothers necklace I made using Craft Fantastic products and an image I absconded from the net.

Ingredients:

Cricut Access peach image with sentiment

Our Daily Bread Designs pierced circle die

Lifestyle Crafts Basket weave embossing folder

misc paper including Creative Memories 

glass 

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2025/07/sos553-eat-five-day.html until 8.10.25x

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/08/cut-it-up-challenge-336-add-sentiment.html until 8.18.25x

https://farmquestgrocerygamechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/07/fqggcb-20-anything-food-goes-theme.html until 8.28.25x

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-anything-goes-woptional.html until 8.31.25x

https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/08/neglected-stuff-825-challenge.html until 8.31.25x

Thanks so much for stopping by

Alicia