Taking inspiration from Buddy Gerry’s recent rocker card, I decided to give it a go. My teeny rocker card uses the largest circle dies in my stash with a computer generated sentiment and Stamabilities Happy Hoppers House Mouse stamp “Relaxing Bubbles” After using some colored pencils to color in my bunny and tub and bubbles, I added Glossy Accents to the bubbles.

I’ll be sharing my rocker card today with:

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #222 – Cute Animals

This is going in the mail tomorrow for a friend who needs to be reminded that she deserves a break and hopefully will take one. I appreciate you and your time. After days of rain, there was a magnitude 4.8 earthquake about 40 miles aways from our home. Shook our house and make quite a noise and it was very strange for our area. Tomorrow we will have military helicopters practicing at our local airport so that should be very interesting to see. I may just stay in my “elf room” for the weekend. Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

We made it to April and Spring and the blooms are popping and no fooling that I am a guest designer for Triple B Birds, Butterflies and Blooms April challenge. Panic was my first reaction but Darlene and our Bonnie calmed me down and this is my card for the challenge. Not an April Fools joke!

I decided on Colorado Craft Company’s Pretty Little Lines Daffodil Mice stamp set and I opted for the tulip stem and this little mouse for my card. Lightly colored with markers from my stash and a little Wink of Stella for some shine was added.  The background was ink blended using Taylored Expressions Pretty Petals stencil and added a few Martha Stewart punch butterflies for good measure.

Hope you all can play along with this challenge.

Triple B Challenges – April 2024

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One Easter card for next year!!! I stamped this cute little image from SimonSaysStamp’s Sweet Tweets stamp set and didn’t use it for a card this Easter but when I saw a challenge of Bunnies and/or Chicks, I decided to make a card and save it for next year. A mini-slimline card with some light ink blending of green and pink left on my brushes for the focal panel. And can I just say, look at my sentiment!!!! OMG….Sending is one stamp and the so much love is a separate sentiment. Maybe they were meant to be nestled in each other like that but I can hardly believe that I didn’t mess it up. After fussy cutting the image I popped it up on dimensionals and it kind of gave a 3D effect. After struggling to make the glossy accents flow and adding to the eggs and a few other items, my card today is completed and will be sharing it with:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: March 27 Bunnies and/or Chicks Challenge.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Happy Easter, Happy Spring and Happy April Fool’s Day!

I saw this idea on the Fans of Taylored Expressions Facebook group and knew I needed to CASE it. The card was made using TE’s Fluttering Friends Embossing Folder and Stencil. This was part of the recent Virtual StampJoy 2024 that I participated in but instead of using the stencils I just swiped white pigment ink over the raised embossed areas. Sentiment is SSS’s Sweet Tweets which was still on my desk (lol) and TE’s Frame in Frame 3 cutting plates, butterfly is Tim Holtz. I made several of these in spring colors and still haven’t decided which color I liked the best. This was is going to my sister in FL because she likes pink.

My card will be shared with:

Triple B March 2024 Challenge: Anthing Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies

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My card today uses some Taylored Expressions products including The Thing with Feathers stamp set, Scenic Sentiments, and Diaganol Stitch Rectangle Stacklets as well as SSS Seafoam and Surf inks. This card of support will go to a dear girlfriend who is waiting for test results on GrandBaby to come.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Word Power: Word Power #3 where the challenge is to focus on the sentiment of the card.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. My “extended” birthday will be complete on Tuesday when Will and I go out for “linner” at The Cheesecake Factory. LOL…..before I know it I will be getting ready for the next one if I keep on celebrating!!! Have a great day and thanks for stopping in for a peek. It’s chilly but sunny today after a day of rain and more rain. Take care and be safe.

I collected all of my supplies, set the timer and began making my card. When I went to post it to a speed themed challenge, I realized that theme was not only speed but flowers, too! So moving on, I realized since I did use a stencil for those little tiny bunny tails it would fit in with the Stencil Fun Challenge. My card uses Taylored Expressions stamp and stencil combo “Be Hoppy” The stamp makes the background and the added stencil adds the tails which I inked in multiple color inks. Using TE’s Postage Stamp Stackletts to die cut the bunny background and die cut the Fancy Happy Easter word sentiment and shadow dies which is a SimonSaysStamp die will complete my card.

My card will be shared with:

Crazy is our fame – STENCILS are our Game: March 2024 – Stencil Fun with an optional Easter/Spring theme.

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P.S. I did make this card under 10 minutes, barely, but still under 10 not back to the drawing board to figure out how to do a card under 10 which includes flowers!!

Smoky, green cocktail with an eyeball olive, anyone? My card today will be shared with, yes, you may have guessed the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge. The mood board included lots of green and I decided on a witch’s green brew stirred not shaken!

The martini glass is an online coloring image to which I added color. A spider doily was used in certain areas as a stencil and added a little splotches of black for a smoky look. Die cut three spiders from a Tim Holtz die set, mounted my focal image on green glitter paper, cut a piece of my St. Patrick’s Day patterned paper and mounted on a piece of shimmer black.

Oh and yes, an eyeball in place of the olive was quite necessary.

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge – March 2024 Anything Goes Halloween

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. More crazy weather is heading our direction when the rain stops tonight, the March winds will begin and then maybe more springlike for the middle of next week. Take care and sending green hugs.

A few more St Patrick’s Day cards. I ordered a St. Patrick’s Day kit from Riley and Company which included the overlay die and some pieces of cardstock to create 3 cards with instructions. The patterned paper is really nice quality and the die cuts out so easily. And the snarky message cracks me up and made me think of our Buddy Gerry.

I’m not sure if this would be appropriate for our 13 year old grandson but the leprechauns may trick me into sending it to him anyway.

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I finally broke down and bought some St. Patrick’s Day patterned paper from Amazon and opted to make a fractured style card showcasing those patterned papers. Sentiment is Taylored Expressions, leprechaun is from my stash and he was a challenge to fussy cut because of his size, added a few stickers from my stash and used Taylored Expressions Simple Strips die. Of course, I was inspired by our Buddy, Gerry, to join in the fractured card phase.

I would like to share my card with:

Colordful Options: March 2024 — Celebrating the color Green

I have way to many projects started on my work space so I need to either finish or clean up! I’m hoping to finish 🙂 Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.