Cat On Witch

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. I thought it was about time to get back to doing a challenge card.

The card base is smokey slate and I used a cotton ball and black stamp pad to ‘dirty’ it up a bit. Moon is from an unbranded die set. Before cutting the moon, I sponged white cs with Dafodil Delight and lightly swiped with smokey slate stamp pad. Grass was punched with Martha Stewart grass punch and again I ‘dirtied’ it up with gray stamp pad. Die sets used are Tim Holtz.

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This will now be entered at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: August 2026 Anything Goes Halloween

Stars and Sky

| Gayle Chrvala

Searching through my stash of patterned papers, I found this background from a Recollections paper pad named Sky & Sea. Cutting down a section of sky paper, I then stamped images from a My Hero Arts August 2017 kit. Using white pigment ink and white embossing powder and then a bit of gold embossing powder for the swirl of stars, die cut clouds and the larger star “balloon” to complete my card. The card was completed but the clean up was only beginning. While stamping on a messy desk, I accidentally spilled the gold embossing powder onto the stamps. Yikes, off to the sink for a stamp bath. Hopefully the clean stamps will help with their stickiness, too!

My card will be shared with:

Love Those Pretty Papers August 2026 Challenge This month’s optional theme is Look to the skies ( Galaxy, Lightning, Sunshine, Clouds, Stars) Themes keep me motivated so I played along with a galaxy and star theme.

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Celebrate Big

| Gayle Chrvala

Today’s card uses Taylored Expressions Balloon Party layering stencils and C’mon and Celebrate word die. After making the background, I die cut the word die and layered it with several die cuts from white cardstock to make it pop off the card front. However it was not popping enough for me so I carefully deconstructed the word die and using the shadow die cut a piece of vellum and reassembled the card. I like it better. My card today will be shared with:

Word Power July 2026 Challenge

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Raspberry Love

| Gayle Chrvala

It was fun attending Taylored Expressions Summer School virtual classes this year with our theme of Fruits of Summer! Yum! All of the fruit stamps were fun to color with our alcohol marker instructors. I was happy that raspberries were part of the stamp set because they are still my all time favorite summer fruit. Growing up we had a raspberry bush and my neighbor had a row of raspberry bushes. Nothing better than picking them straight off the bush amd eating them….no water needed….anyway not “back in my day”. My card today will be shared with:

Double D Challenges: (DD 7/26 Your Favorite Fruit Challenge

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Coastal Time

| Gayle Chrvala

I have been having a lot of fun making “summerween” cards this past week. My card today was influenced by our Buddy Judy who shared the Scrapbook.com’s summerween release. Love Buddies helping Buddies! My card uses the stamp and dies floating skeleton image as well as the sentiments. The patterned paper was from an older paper pad from Paper House World Beaches.

My card will be shared with:

ATG Love Those Pretty Papers July Challenge with an optional theme of Coastal

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First Anniversary

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for one of our granddaughters & hubby.

I Googled what the first anniversary traditional gift was and found that it’s paper, (and that’s what cards are made from). lol I also saw that yellow or gold is the color and gold is the gem. Sentiment was printed on the computer, gold glitter paper hearts are from a small hand punch. I couldn’t decide what color cs to use till I found that yellow is the color for first anniversary. I think it’s fun to lookup each anniversary and somehow incorporate the traditional gift on the card.

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Foiled Birthday

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for one of our grandson-in-laws. I think cards using foil make a great masculine card. Embossing folder used is Spots and Dots by Cuttlebug, sentiment is from an old Gina K stamp set, circles were cut with the Silhouette. I wanted to add a little accent to it and found the black dots at the bottom on my gem box. I wasn’t too sure if I really liked it, but hubby liked it and thought that Josh would too.

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Dancing Figgy Pudding

| Lisa K

I started these several weeks ago and finished them today.

This figgy pudding, with moving legs, is on a star background. The background is embossed with Spellbinders Monoline Stars.

Other supplies: All glitter paper is from Altenew. I used Neenah Desert Storm cardstock for figgy’s body, arms, and legs. The red cardstock is Ellen Hutson. I used markers to color white scraps for the eyes, cheeks, and holly. The blue background paper is SU; I can’t remember the exact color name.

https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2026/07/anything-goes-with-twist-of-stars-andor.html

Thanks for looking at my card. I made a trio in different backgrounds, but this was the only one with stars. My daughter thought this looked like a tile floor. Another thought to store in the back of my head.

9 th Birthday

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our youngest great-grandson. Since he was playing baseball this summer, I thought a baseball theme card would be perfect. White side panel was embossed with a Stampin Up embossing folder, sentiment die is unbranded from Amazon, baseballs are computer clit art. I added the number 9 to one ball. Balls were punched with Stampin Up’s 1 3/8 circle punch, and I went around the outside edges with a black marker. I hope he’ll like it.

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