I was inspired by a recent Kristina Werner YouTube video for my card today. Swiping some red and pink inks direct to paper, I die cut a Hero Arts Thinking of You Stamp & Cut word die from the inked cardstock. The sentiment was also layered on 3 additional white die cuts. The top red layer was pressed into versamark and heat set with clear embossing powder 4 times. The focal image was embossed using SimonSaysStamp Circle Rings embossing folder. I’ve been looking at this impression and definitely do not see rings that look like the packaging. Hmmmm….maybe the wrong folder in the package. Anyway after layering on a piece of gray cardstock put everything on a white card base. There is a nice amount of shine by versamark inking, embossing and heating that many times. 

My card today will be shared with:

Can You Handle The Pressure? Februrary 10th Anything Goes with An Embossing Folder and a twist of Red/Pink.  

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. After a few nice above average days, it could be another snow day on Tuesday! Oh well….it is still winter!

Two sheets of different patterned papers equals two card backgrounds. I stumbled across StampinUp Lisa Freeman’s YouTube channel as she presented what she entitled Fun Twist to Stack, Cut and Shuffle Technique (not sure if that link worked) and ended up with two granddaughter valentine cards for our 6 year old and our 11 year old. Pretty Pink Posh stamps set was used for the bird and the mailbox. Sentiment strips are Taylored Expressions, circle sentiment was from an ephemera pack found in my stash as was the patterned papers, postage stamp dies are also TE. The bottom is a shaker card and I’m not really sure why I opted for vellum instead of clear but I did so it’s done! LOL.

My cards today will be shared with:

Double D Challenges: Heartfelt – must include a heart. My hearts are tiny but they are there if you look closely.

Cardz 4 Galz #218 Sequins – which are in my shaker element as well as a few other bits other than sequins.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. It’s a beautiful day in our neighborhood. The sun has been shining most of this week. Temps have gone up to above normal. The snow has melted except for the big ugly piles in shopping centers. Maybe the groundhog got it right this year! Take care, be safe. 

An arched shaped card today for the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge – Februrary 2024. I always like to play along with the mood board provided on challenges and the theme for this month is skeletons and love. I still wanted to be able to mail this card for Halloween without being totally a Valentine theme so this is what I came up with today. Dancing skeletons that are possibly from a Recollections red rubber stamp set from Michael’s. Also used in my card project is: Inkadinkadoo bird branch, SimonSaysStamp Boo Day sentiment, Taylored Expressions, Spooky Night layering stencil and Arched Stacklets dies. Tiny hearts for the dancing skeletons, too.

My card will be share with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: February 2024 Anything Goes Halloween 

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and the sun may come out again tomorrow!!!

Gina K Designs Light, Medium and Dark Carnation pink inks were blended over a SimonSaysStamps A2 rectangle mask stencil to create my background for my Wild Garden Border silhouette image from Rubbernecker stamps. A small dragonfly from one of my favorite GKD sets Dreams Take Flight and sentiment also from GKD’s So Many Sentiments completed my pink themed card today. The Rubbernecker stamp Wild Garden Border is so old!!!! How old is it???? Well this is a red rubber stamp that I never removed the backing paper and it was stuck on so tightly, I was peeling little bits and pieces off at a time so I could at least use some tape runner to stick it to my misti door. This was only a section of this large 5-1/2″ stamp that hopefully I will use again and again. 

My card today will be shared with the following challenges:

Colorful Images: February 2024 – Color PINK Love Barbie!!!

Simply Clean & Simple: Februrary 2024 Challenge – Optional theme – PINK

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My card today was made using Taylored Expressions Dots of Diamonds embossing folder and TE’s Easy Strips 1/4″ Patterns Dies, a Sizzix embossing folder and lots of pink with a touch of orange. The dots on the embossing folder and the sentiment on the embossed circle die were all ‘very, very carefully’ inked with a pink marker. I believe that the sentiment must have been part of other embossing folders from Sizzix but it seems to have lost it’s companions.

I am planning on sharing my card with:

Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge We are challenged to use an embossing folder with a twist of birthdays.

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Nothing better than blue winter cards especially when the snowflakes are on the card and not on the ground.  So for my card, I used a SimonSaysStamp stampset from their Snowflake Season kit from a few years ago. The edges were masked off using Gina K Designs masking magic, stamped the snowflakes in versamark and white heat embossed then ink blended in navy ink. The additional die cut snowflakes from SSS Sensational Snowflakes die were cut in navy cardstock, white shimmer and blue foil cardstock. 

My card will be shared with the challenge at:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: January 2024 Winter “Blues” challenge

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and stay warm. Friday, February 2nd is Groundhog Day in Pennsylvania. Who knows what Punxsutawney Phil may predict this year???

Starting to make my Valentine cards and the first one will be for our 18 month old grandson with this fun card.  After seeing a sketch on Facebook from Rabbit Hole Designs, I decided to shop my stash and came up with this fun “Longing” giraffe from Penny Black stamps. My heart frame was cut using Spellbinders heart dies, the LOVE is emphemera and then at the last minute decided to lightly stencil hearts from Pretty Pink Posh with pink left on a brush. 

My card today will be shared with the challenge at:

Cardz 4 Galz: Reds and/or Pinks Galore

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. The rain today with the above freezing temperatures have washed away all of the snow. It will be another toss up if we will see more rain or snow but I sure could use a nice sunny day. Take care, be safe and stay warm. 

A card today for a grand”friend” who has been assigned to Minot AFB in North Dakota. I’m sure hoping he gets a little chuckle while dealing with the extreme cold weather in his home for the next 3 or so years. When I am searching for cute and funny, I always head for my Inkadinkadoo stamps and this one was from a set named Friendly Characters. To make some snow and snow banks, I used SimonSaysStamps Snowfall and Bank Stencil…maybe I should review the technique with this stencil but I kind of like the white between my “hills”. 

Today’s card will be shared with two different challenges:

Crazy is our fame – STENCILS are our game: January 2024 stencil fun with a theme of birds. Penguins are birds, aren’t they?

Simply Clean & Simple: January 2024 Challenge with a theme of winter

Lots of white space even with light stenciling in my opinion.

I must still be in my blue color mode! Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay warm and be safe. 

My card today has a bit of sparkle and a bit of shine and a bit of blue, too. After deciding on Recollections Ink Splatter paper pad in blue and silver, I stamped it with SimonSaysStamp Friendship Text Background and clear heat embossed it for a little more shine. Then added my focal die cut and SSS Script Hello die as well as Taylored Expressions Frame in Frame 3 cutting pad in white glitter cardstock to complete my card. 

My card will be shared with:

Double D Challenges: Sparkle and/or Shine challenge for January 17, 2024

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