Jar of Peonies Shaped Card

  Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a shaped card featuring the Jar of Peonies Stamp Set and Coordinating Die set from Pink & Main for the Die Cut Divas Challenge. This Month is Shaped cards!

I stamped the image and die cut with the coordinating die. I then die cut the shape again to create the back of my card. I colored by image with OLO markers and adhered the blank die cut shape to the top of the colored image (i made an hinge).

Welcome to Pink and Main as sponsors of
Die Cut Divas' Challenge.

The Prize is a $25 gift card

Our theme for October is Shaped Cards!  

We have included box cards in the Shaped Cards category.

Recycle, Re-use, Re-purpose - Using an old tissue box

 Hey everyone - Dawn here with inspiration for our September Die Cut Diva Challenge asking for recycling, repurposing or reusing materials on your projects. 

We have the amazing Art Impressions as this month's sponsor; they've donated a $25 gift card for our randomly drawn winner.

For my recycled element, I used part of a tissue box for the background. The design was too pretty to throw away, so I die cut it with a Pinkfresh Studio Essential Mini Slimline die to make the most of the pattern. For the focal point, I used the Laughing Girlfriends stamp set from Art Impressions. I stamped the image, coloured it with alcohol markers, and fussy cut it before adding it to the card.

The sentiment is from another Art Impressions set, Loungers, and it paired perfectly with the image. I did a little die surgery so the die cut would fit neatly around the sentiment, and I’m so pleased with how it all came together. It turned out just as I had imagined!

 Do come and join us this month, - remember to let us know what you recycle/re-used or re-purposed and make sure you use your die machine to die cut or emboss on your project. 

Warmest Wishes For A Merry Christmas Card

  Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a fun Chritmas card using Art Impressions Christmas Slimline Stamp set and for my recycle item I used a piece of a thin cardboard. This month over on the Die Cut Divas Blog the challenge is THEME: Recycle, re-use & repurpose. If we can't determine what you've recycled, re-used or repurposed, (Which we probably can't) PLEASE tell us what you've done to meet the theme.

 

I used the thin cardboard that I peel the top layer off as my base then I repurpsed a foilded panel that didn't quit foild corretly as my background. I added a bit of Frosty Finish Texture snow to both panels.

Art Impressions is our Sponsor for September

The challenge prize: $25 from our wonderful sponsor.

THEME: Recycle, re-use & repurpose. If we can't determine what you've recycled, re-used or repurposed, (Which we probably can't) PLEASE tell us what you've done to meet the theme.

Floral Hello Card

 Hello Crafty Friends - Annie am here with a birthday card featuring Birch Press Designs Abundant Branch and Big Hello Vintage Sentiment for the Die Cut Divas Challenge for this month. The challenge theme is: White On White with a splash of one color.

Supplies:

Abundant Branch 

 Big Hello Vintage Sentiment 

Distress Oxide Inks: Victorian Velvet, Twisted Citron, 

Ripe Persimmon, Tumbled Glass, & Ground Expresso

White Cardstock

White Oval Doily

Embossing Folder

Tiny Crystals

Close up of the branch

 Birch Press Designs

is our Sponsor for August

Our Prize is a $20 gift card for a U.S. Address only

Theme: White On White with a splash of one color

Season's Greetings Card

   Hello Crafty Friends - I am here with a Christmas card featuring the Waffle Flower Sunflower Die and the Postage Collage Die for the Die Cut Divas challenge. This month's the challenge is Christmas in July.

I simple cut the postage collage die from white cardstock and I splattered it with Imagine Crafts Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray in Gold. adhered it onto dark green cardstock.Then I die cut the Sunflower from two shades of Red cardstock and glued the layers together. I cut the center from Shimmer Gold cardstock and adhered it to the centers of the flowers. I die cut a few pine branches(from my stash)  from two shades of green cardstock and adhered them behind the flowers. I finished off the card with some gold gems.

July Sponsor: Waffle Flower

Too Hot?  Make it Feel Like Christmas!  Our challenge theme is: Christmas In July.

The Prize: $15 gift card

Mixed Media for Anything Goes

Hello crafty friends! Today I’m sharing my sample card for Die Cut Divas, where our June challenge theme is Anything Goes. Although we don’t have an official sponsor this month, we do still have a prize: one of our Divas won a $25 gift card to Whimsy Stamps and has generously chosen to pass it on. The gift card will be awarded by random draw from eligible June entries.

For my card, I created a mixed media background and paired it with layered butterfly die cuts. The butterflies were cut using Montie’s Craft Supplies Layered Butterflies from a piece of bubble watercolour card that had not quite worked out. Happily, it turned out to be perfect for these little cuties. I added Silver Lining Lunar Paste over the smaller layered pieces to give them a lovely shimmer and extra dimension.

To create the main panel, I first primed the surface with clear gesso, which gave the card a beautiful “tooth” and made it ideal for adding layers. I then “watercoloured” some Altenew Leaves by colouring directly over the stamp with watercolour brushes, spritzing it with water, and stamping the image onto the panel.

Once the leaves had dried, I used a Dina Wakley mini stencil to add brick details with Catherine Pooler brown ink. I also stamped randomly with a Hero Arts scripty stamp to build up more texture and interest in the background. After everything was completely dry, I added the butterflies and the sentiment strips, which I printed on my computer.

To finish the card, I added splatters of white Dina Wakley acrylic paint. I love how the soft watercolour, stenciled texture, script stamping, and shimmery butterflies all came together for a layered mixed media look.

I hope you’ll come and join us for our June Challenge - Anything Goes. Just remember to include a die cut and/or embossing folder on your project, of course! 

Halloween Card with Whimsy Stamps

  Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a Halloween card featuring a digital stamp from Whimsy Stamps called Halloween Witchy Girl

I used torn paper dies for my layers and a dotted rectangle dies for my card panels. I used a Slanted Sentiment Banner die as well.

 Welcome to our June challenge, Anything Goes.  

This month we do not have an official sponsor, but we are still offering a challenge prize.  One of our Divas won a $25 gift card to Whimsy Stamps and wishes to pass it on.

Remember to use die cuts and/or dry embossing in your creation process.

Thanksgiving - An autumnal bouquet of leaves.

Dawn here,  with another inspiration piece for this month’s challenge over at Die Cut Divas. Our May sponsor is Poppy Stamps, and the theme is Celebrate—a wonderfully open prompt with so many directions to explore. Birthdays, weddings, milestones, holidays… you name it.

For my project today, I decided to lean into a warm, seasonal vibe and create a Thanksgiving card.

I pulled out a few of my older Poppy Stamps dies—always fun to revisit—and paired them with a leftover piece from a recent gesso resist panel I created. That little scrap was just waiting to become something, so I used it with the Orchard Leaves die to cut a handful of textured leaves. I also cut additional leaves from a rich mahogany patterned paper to bring in more depth and contrast.

For the background, I spritzed a panel with Distress Spray Stains and Distress Oxide Spray in Tarnished Brass and Picked Raspberry. Once it dried, I trimmed it down to fit one an “Ardyth-style” 4.25" square card base.

To build the focal point, I die cut an orange ribbon and bow using the Poppy Stamps Grosgrain Ribbon and Grosgrain Bow dies. I adhered the ribbon across the background panel, then tucked the leaves on either side to create a full, autumnal cluster.

A Spellbinders hot-foiled sentiment, die cut and added over the ribbon, finished the card beautifully.

Another celebration card complete—and a lovely way to use up those special little scraps we all hang onto.

Come and join us at Die Cut Divas with you Celebration card - just remember to use your die cut machine.

Let's SHELL-EBRATE Card

Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a beach themed birthday card featuring variety of Poppystamps products for the Die Cut Divas Challenge. 

This month is all about Celebrations! 

 

Supplies Used:

Whittle Flamingo Die

Whittle Palm Tree Die

 Whittle Everyday Stamp

 Mushrooms and Toadstools Dies

 Sloping Hillside Die

Floral Cluster Die

My Stash:

Cardstock: Light, Blue, Medium Green, 

Kraft, Light Yellow, Pink, Light Tan, White and Black

Cloud Stencil & Water Stencil

Various dies from my stash: Hillside, Shells,  oval sentiment & Stitched Rectangle

Tiny Pink Rhinestones

Distress Inks: Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Picked Raspberry,

 Dusty Concord, Brushed Corduroy, & Mowed Lawn

VersaFine Clair Ink: Nocturne

Bearly Art Glue & Foam Tabs

 May Sponsor: Poppy Stamps

It's all about Celebrations this month

Birthdays, Christmas, Retirement. Weddings, Anniversaries, Graduations, House warmings, Hanukkah, Diwali, Eid al-Fitr, Ramadan, Holi, Day of the Dead, Passover, Lunar New Year, Mardi Gras, Oktoberfest, Independence days, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, Labor Day, Parties, and Parades.

Please state the celebration so we don't have to guess what it is.

If we can't tell what the celebration is, please let us know in your post or we'll have to leave you out of the draw.

The Drawing of a $20 gift card will be made from those with US addresses only. 

Fabulous Florets to celebrate Altenew

 It’s time to celebrate with Altenew over at Die Cut Divas! Altenew is our wonderful sponsor this month, and they’re also marking a big milestone—their 12^th anniversary. To join the festivities, our challenge theme is simple: make an anniversary or birthday card.

I’ve been a fan of Altenew for a long time—since around 2015 at least. Their floral stamps are some of my all-time favourites, and it’s been fun to see their range grow over the years into stencils, dies, embossing folders, and more. I’ll just say… I own a lot of Altenew goodies!

For today’s card I reached for an older favourite: the Fabulous Florets layering stamps and coordinating dies.

To start, I stamped the smaller of the two flowers onto my card panel using Altenew yellow and orange inks. Next, I stamped the larger flower, die cut it, and layered it on for extra dimension. For the greeting, I used a sentiment from Altenew Sentiment Strips 2 and white heat-embossed it onto a black strip. I trimmed the panel with Gina K Master Layouts 2, then matted everything onto black cardstock. To finish, I added a few gold glitter dots for a little sparkle.

I hope you’ll join our challenge! Just be sure to include die-cuts and/or a dry-embossed item in your submission.

Thinking Of You Card

  Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a floral card for the Die Cut Divas Challenge. This month's challenge is: Spring is Coming -Make something that will tell us that Spring is Coming. and make sure it was either Dry Embossed or cut with your Die-cut machine.

Here's my card

Supplies Used:

Gina K: Peaceful Roses

Gina K: Master Layouts 4 Dies

Faber Castell Watercolor Pencils

Shimmer Cardstock - Yellow 

Strathmore Coldpress Watercolor Cardstock

White A2 Cardbase

Imagine Crafts Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray-Gold

VersaFine Clair Ink: Nocturne

Tiny Gold Gems

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tabs

 This month's sponsor,

Gina K Designs is a craft supply company located in Milwaukee, WI, specializing in high-quality stamps, dies and other paper-crafting and card making supplies. Gina also has a very active YouTube channel she uses to share exciting and inspirational crafting videos.  

Gina K Designs is offering a $25 gift card to their store as the March 2026 challenge prize.

And our challenge theme this month   

Pink and Red Love You

 Hi Dawn here to share my Pink and Red card for this month's Challenge asking for predominant colors of red &/or pink (neutrals & a bit of a non-neutral are ok). 

Remember to use a die cut &/or embossing folder in your red/pink creation.

We have the wonderful Hero Arts as our sponsor this month! 

Hero Arts has generously donated a $25 gift card for our 

February random winner - thanks Hero Arts!!

I started by white embossing Hero Arts Cling Heart Pattern Background stamp (circa 2016 - retired) and then using some Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry to blend all over the embossed hearts.  I used a Gina K Master Layout 2 to die cut the panel and a white matting layer.  I took the DO ink and did a ink pad to paper to colour my card base.  The love you heart is another retired Hero Arts set - Stamp & Cut Yes. (circa 2014) stamped and clear embossed with the DO Picked Raspberry ink and cut with the co-ordinating die.  The ribbon is a Poppy Stamps die called Grosgrain Ribbon.  Added some white and Rose cold foliage from Altenew's Branches and Berries.

We hope to see you in the February gallery by 9pm Pacific Time on Feb 28th.

Thanks for visiting & happy crafting!!

To A Wonderful Friend Card

   Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a friendship card featuring Hero Arts products. I created this card for the Die Cut Divas Challenge this month. The challenge is use Red and/or Pink.

Supplies Used:

Hero Arts: Coloring Layering Dragonfly CM326

Asuka Studio Watercolor Splash 6x6 Paper Pack

Recollections Brand 65lb Cardstock: Red and Pink

Recollections Brand 110lb Cardstock: White

Accent Ultra Smooth 80lb Cardstock: Opague White

VersaMagic Ink: Pixi Dust, & Pink Grapfruit

VersaColor Ink: Cardinal

Various Dies

 Red Tiny Gems

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tabs

The Challenge for this month is

Red and/or Pink Colors

Hero Arts has generously offered a $25 gift card.

You can make a card, an ATC, a Tag, a journal, whatever you can imagine, just make it primarily red and/or pink colors.

As long as red and/or pink is the predominant color(s) on the project, it is good.

Thank you for stopping by the blog today. I hope you found some inspiration!

Blue Magnolia

 Hi Dawn here to share my card for our challenge. We have a new sponsor for January 2026 - Welcome to Sunbird Spark

Sunbird Spark is a Vancouver (Canada) based paper craft supply company and the creator of the patented Stencils 360°™ stenciling tool. Formerly known as Penguin Palace, the brand is known for its innovative tools, high-quality photopolymer stamps, and its specially curated ink collection inspired by color psychology. Sunbird Spark is dedicated to inspiring creativity through bold color, versatile designs, and a passion for exceptional customer care, helping makers of all levels craft with confidence and joy.

My team buddy - Cindy sent me some stamped and die cut flowers and some die cut frames.  A big thanks Cindy. 

Today I am sharing a die cut stamped image from the Magnolia Beauty set.   

Isn't this an amazing large image.   I used some Jasart pencils to add the colour.   My background was embossed with a WRMK 3D texture folder.  To ground my floral image, I die cut the Catherine Pooler Lattice frame, background from textured gold card and the lattice panel from white card.  Added a stamped and die cut from the Magnolia Beauty set.

Do come and join us Here with your "New" projects.  Just remember to use at least one die cut or embossing folder.  You can use any die cut machines, including Silhouette and Circut machines.

Dawn & The Divas

Favorite Chapter Card

  Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a reading theme card featuring the My Favorite Chapter digi from Sunbird Spark for the Die Cut Divas challenge.  This momnth's challenge is use a NEW Crafty Item.

My new crafty items are the Sunbird Spark Digi and Stellar Inks

This year we're welcoming a new sponsor Sunbird Spark.

Sunbird Spark is a Vancouver (Canada) based paper craft supply company and the creator of the patented Stencils 360°™ stenciling tool. Formerly known as Penguin Palace, the brand is known for its innovative tools, high-quality photopolymer stamps, and its specially curated ink collection inspired by color psychology. Sunbird Spark is dedicated to inspiring creativity through bold color, versatile designs, and a passion for exceptional customer care, helping makers of all levels craft with confidence and joy.

Our challenge theme this month is: Use New Crafty Item

Sunbird Spark is giving a $20 CAD gift card as the prize.

Christmas Mug with Lawn Fawn Critters

 Hi Dawn here to share my little project for this month's challenge. 

Our November challenge is CRITTERS

Our sponsor this month is Lawn Fawn. They will be giving our winner a $25 gift card to their online store. Thank you to Lawn Fawn for their generous support.

Here is what I made -

I made this little paper mug.  And then used Lawn Fawn - Cozy Cat Christmas Add on stamp and die set together with a Spellbinders Tag.  Aren't they the cutest.    I found the design for this at Christy Gets Crafty and it's so easy to make and just so sweet. 

We'd love to see your CRITTER creations in our gallery this month. Click here to add your card to our gallery.  Just remember to use at least one die cut or embossing folder. 

Forest Feast - Thanksgiving Card

  Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a fun fall card featuring Lawn Fawn's Forest Feast Stamp set along with Stiched Tress Borders dies for the Die Cut Divas Challenge. This month is Critters! Our wonderful sponsor is Lawn Fawn.

Supplies Used:
Lawn Fawn Forest Feast Stamp Set
Lawn Fawn Knit Picky 6x6 Paper Pad
Lawn Fawn Stitched Tree Borders Die
OLO Markers
Brutus Monroe Chroma Mist - Copper Shimmer
Bearly Art Glue & Polar Cubes
Memento Ink: Tuxedo Black
VersaFine Ink: Onyx Black
Sequins

November: Sponsor: Lawn Fawn, $25 gift card to their store.

We know we had critters earlier this year, but everyone loves critters, so it's all about critters again. Lawn Fawn has so many cute critters, we couldn't resist!

Thank you for stopping by the blog today.

I hope you found some inspiration!

Where is Santa?

 Hi there.  Dawn here to share my card for the  October Challenge - Anything Goes! 

We have the wonderful Brass & Bliss (formerly Rubbernecker) as our sponsor.

 

They've donated a fabulous $50 gift card

for our random winner.

Please note that challenge winner must have an US address.

Where's Santa.... oh dear - he's got himself stuck in the chimney! I've used the very cute Brass & Bliss "Stuck Santa"   For more details on how I made this one... hop over to my blog post. 

Thanks for visiting and we hope to see you in the October gallery!
As a reminder - be sure to use a die cut &/or an embossing folder.

Dawn and the Divas

Floral Bouquet - Anything Goes with Birch Press Designs

 We have a great challenge this month at Die Cut Divas - Anything Goes.   

Our lovely sponsor this month is Birch Press. 

Our sponsor will be giving away a $20 gift card to the winner of our challenge.  *Note: Challenge winner must have US address.

I've used Birch Press Prima Peony Duo Contour Layers die set to cut from white card and used inks to blend on the colours.  

Do come and join us this month.   Don't forget to use your die machine to die cut or emboss on your card.    

Thank you Altenew in 2025

A Big 2025 Thank you to Altenew.

 

 Let's give a big Thank You to Altenew. 
Their products are so much fun to work and create with.  

August Challenge - Make a Z fold card.  

There are many types of Z Fold cards that you can make,
so have fun making your Z Fold card. 

Be sure to enter your project by 9:00 p.m. Pacific time tonight. 

Just remember to include a die cut &/or use an embossing folder!

Arlene sends her hugs, wishes and kisses in an unusual way. This really is a Z fold card if you'd like to take a look on her blog.

Dawn has made a Double Z-fold card (see her blog for more details )

Linda made a jumbo A9 Z-fold using Altenew's Rock Trumpet.

More details and a bonus HERE.

Sue N joined in on the Z-Fold fun. She used Altenew's Bold Bouquet bundle to create her card. For specifics on how she put her card together, check out her foleysfriend blog.