Wish it was me sitting on one of those adirondack chairs but this card will be saved for a girlfriend’s 70th birthday who loves the ocean and going on island vacations. This will be perfect for her to enjoy, I believe.

Using patterned paper from my stash, I die cut Gina K Designs At the Beach dies for the chairs, stamped the trees and grasses from the Ocean Silhouettes stamp set that was part of GKD’s Vintage Summer card kit as well as the sentiment. Added the soaring gulls and will call this card done. I may have gone a little overboard with the grasses and maybe my trees should have been a little taller but all in all I was happy with the outcome with plans to make another one like this.

Today’s card will be shared with:

The Four Seasons Challenge – June 2024 – Anthing Goes Summer Challenge.

Fun mood board for this challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay cool and be safe.

A view from the beach, looking out at the ocean, watching the birds flying around and the gorgeous sun is the card for my son this year for Father’s Day. In addition to that and the added Cuttlebug D’vine embossing folder, I will be adding this to the Can You Handle The Pressure challenge. My embossed panel was inked with SimonSaysStamp trio inks by pressing my ink pads in different directions on the panel, then embossed with the D’vine folder. My scene was made with Hero Arts Color Layering Waves, a punched circle for my sun and Spellbinders oval and scalloped nestabilities dies. Sentiment from Gina K Designs Masculine Messages and a bit of twine to complete my card.

Can You Handle the Pressure: Anthing Goes With a Twist of Beach challenge.

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I’m making some summer cards in conjuction with a few challenges and today’s card started off with Gina K Designs Sunshine Stencil which was masked off and partially stenciled for a landing spot for my tropical sunglasses. The sunglasses are a Taylored Expressions Shades of Summer stamp set with dies for the glasses.

I’ll be sharing my Clean & Simple card today with:

Simply Clean & Simple: June 2024 Challenge a clean & simple card is required with an optional theme of tropical. My palm trees are the tropical portion of my card.

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June’s Halloween card may have a bit more of a Day of the Dead vibe but it was fun to make. I saw the idea on Pinterest and decided to give it a try. I made a copy of the ephemera skull because I didn’t want it in color, added wink of stella for shine, embossed my web and matted it on black cardstock, stamped some foilage around the larger panel and punched flowers and butterflies in shades of grey. The 3d flowers sticker added just the right amount of color to complete my square card.

My card today will be shared with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: June 2024 Anything Goes Halloween

Always a fun and inspiring mood board to work from with the Two Old Bats Challenge.

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Two fun challenges for my card today uses a NEW Taylored Expressions Doodle Birds stamps and dies, Doodle Bird Digs and Mini Strips – Sending; OLD is a SimonSaysStamp Cloud Stencil from an April kit of an unknown year and BLUE is my inked cloud background.

My card today will be shared with these two challenges:

Triple B: June 2024 Challenge Triple B Challenges are to include Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms. This month it will be Birds.

Double D Challenges: Pick Three of Something Old – New – Borrowed – Blue

Fun inspiration boards and challenges. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.

Yes, he sure is a classic! Hard to find car images for my husband and his treasured ’64 Pontiac GTO classic car. This Altenew stamp & die set was kind of sort of close to his model car. After stamping and die cutting, layered it with some frames and kept with a blue and brown “masculine” color scheme. I may need a little more practice and it was fun to make but unfortunately I cannot repeat it for awhile.

My card today will be shared with:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Men

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A challenge of shoe and or purses. Love both but after digging through my stash, I finally found an on line image of a purse that I liked. Colored the image, mounted it on circle die cuts, patterned paper from Hopscotch paper pad by BasicGrey and sentiment from an purse/shoe stamp set I’ve had for years. I was digging deep for this challenge. I liked the patterened paper because of the cute flowers that resembled the one on my bag. Added some embellisments and I probably should say some very bright embellishments. LOL! My background was cut from a gift with purchase from Taylored Expressions All Planned Out 1 die set.

My card today will be shared with:

Cardz 4 Galz #226 Heels and Handbags

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It is strawberry time! After stamping and coloring in my strawberries using a very old Gina K Designs Enjoy The Sunshine StampTV kit, I stamped the sentiment from a more recent GKD You’re the Sweetest stamp set. Patterned paper is also from GKD. After adhering the patterned paper to cardstock layer it was embossed with a diamond Sizzix embossing folder and the green circle layer behind my focal image was embossed with swiss dots embossing folder.

Today’s card will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes Embossing with a Twist of Fruit/Veggies

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After deciding on a variety of polka dotted patterned papers, I die cut them using Taylored Expressions Hexagon Stacklets and second die using black cardstock as a partial backer. My stamped images are Sweet & Sassy Stamps’ Bee Happy Rhubarb that I have had almost forever and needed to be inked. Rhubarb was colored using Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. The black grounding strip was die cut using TE’s 1/4′ patterns easy strips die.

My card today will be shared with the following challenges:

Double D Challenges: Polka Dots

Cardz 4 Galz#225 World Bee Day – May 20th

Two fun challenges. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and if you want to send some some and warmer weather to the east coast, feel free to do so.