Independence Day 2024 with the US and red, white and blue. A split background stamp from Taylored Expressions named Americana allows you to position the entire stamp on your stamp positioner then remove the top or bottom and ink it and stamp then align the other portion back on the positioner and remove the first stamp and ink the second part of the stamp with a different color ink. Easy to realign and no masking required.
The Hey Lady Insiders sentiment seemed a great landing spot for my ladybug designed card. I inked up the Taylored Expressions Hey Lady kit which included stamp, stencils, die along with a coordinating Happy Trails stamp set and foiled sentiment for my card. The ladybug background can be used as a total background or die cut the ladies out for multiple cards. So if I was making one background I might as well make two! Cute new set and glad I added it to my collection. I have no will-power especially when it comes to cute.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. It’s been very hot and humid and a real humdinger today. Take care, be safe and stay cool.
All that softball running was piece of cake after our 6 year old granddaughter made a visit to the “elf room” and made her first card. I told her making cards is not so easy. She did a great job, followed all the instructions to create her card and envelope for her little brother who was a little under the weather.
I wanted to share her achievement with all of you. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time.
My card today was inspired by the book The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants which is a best friends story and a pair of jeans shared by these friends. So using the pocket die from a recent Gina K Designs die, I created “jeans” using blue cardstock, stamping gauze background stamp in navy ink and ink blended the edges. Stamped and die cut a number of flowers from the GKD All Occasion Flowers set and added a SimonSaysStamp hugs die to complete my card.
So happy that Brooke was able to come for a sleepover and she decided to play with my new stamp set from Unity Stamp Company’s Functioning Chi Chi. This stamp image cracked me up and had a lot of fun watching Brooke create her “more is best’ cards.
Not sure if my cards will be as creative as hers!
Thanks for stopping for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and stay cool.
A sympathy card for a dear friend who recently lost someone close to her and her husband. My background was embossed with Taylored Expressions Diamond embossing powder and the Star Fall Background stamp. A circle was die cut and I ink blended rainbow clouds using one of my stencils, added a die cut dragonfly and sentiment from a Gina K Designs stamp set that was on my desk and I will hopefully find and file away :).
My card will be shared in a sketch challenge with:
My card today is for our youngest granddaughter who just recently finished her first season of softball. She told her father at the end of her season that she’s not sure if she will play again because it’s a lot of running. The reasoning of a 6 year old!! Both patterned papers were from my stash and they just jumped out at me. I layered both on light blue cardstock and embossed with my much loved swiss dots embossing folder. The bunny batter is from The Cat’s Pajamas and a few added pieces of 3D sticker ephemera.
3 – 2 – 1 GO!!! I haven’t played in the As You See It Challenge in quite sometime but after our Buddy Johanna posted her card it inspired me to play along. This is one of my favorite challenges with this group…..SPEED challenge to make a card in 10 minutes of less.
For my card, I used two stamps from Gina K Designs’s All Occasion Flowers stamp set from the Pocketful of Sunshine card kit inking the stamps in first Sea Glass, the second stamp in Blue Lagoon and repeating the first stamp in Tranquil Teal. Stamped the sentiment in black onyx ink. Then to the Big Shot to die cut my whispy greenery, and the focal panel using AI’s Rectangle A2 Double Stitched die, layered on black cardstock and trimmed it down, then added it to a white card base. Final touch was Taylored Expressions Matte Enamel Dots.
Time: 9 minutes 5 seconds. I will admit that I made this design earlier this week for sympathy cards and liked the way it turned out. The sentiment also has a die but I didn’t think I would have time to stamp and die cut.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and stay cool. Temps are hitting mid 90’s next week so hopefully I can spend more time in my “elf room”.
Aquamarine is the birthstone for March my birth month and has always been a favorite color of mine. My goal is to ink up some sets that have been sitting in bins unused way to long and first up is: Taylored Expressions HedgeHugs Stamp and Layering stencil set. The background stamp was inked in black ink and then the layering stencils for the bodies in two shades of aqua with light handed TE’s Peaches n Cream for the belly and face. This was a cute gift with purchase set from TE in February. Using Waffle Flower A2 layering dies to cut and mat a few panels and a SimonSaysStamps word die for the sentiment will complete my card today.
