A little holly & berries and patterned paper, embossing folder and die cuts for my card today.

An oldie but goodie Sizzix embossing folder on white shimmer cardstock, Taylored Expressions easy strips pattern die, Tim Holtz Sizzix large Funky Festive dies, and a patterned paper pack sentiment were used on my card today. Although the sentiment had holly & berries, I cut and colored the Tim Holtz Funky Festive die and popped on top. To add a little more color decided to on the easy strips from TE.

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Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes with a Twist of Holly

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Penny Black’s Mimi is one of my favorite images, easy to color and always sweet! I think I use this one every year so I may have to shop for another Christmas Mimi! Also included on my card is Taylored Expressions Birch Tree Border die, Twinkle Twinkle background stamp stamped in versamark ink, sentiment, Poppy Stamps Stitched Hills dies and some Dr PH Martin’s white for splatter/spatter. After lightly inking the background in blues that remained on my blending brushes, I added the birch tree die cuts and some snow hills. I covered up the hills overlap with my sentiment.

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Double D Challenges: Christmas Animals Challenge

They really had a fun and funky mood board for this Christmas animal challenge, didn’t they?

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Closed and opened card. Not sure why this Gina K Designs stamp set ( an oldie) was named Poster Board Christmas but I decided to keep the name. I originally stamped the two part wreath and used a square die and scalloped square for the image but it was quite large so found a circle die that fit pretty perfectly and decided to go with it. My patterned paper was from a Simon Says Stamp kit and although I have tons of patterned paper, I copied the original and used the copy. Since the sentiment is on the outside and the patterned paper is light enough to write the inside message, it was just calling out for something else so I added Santa and his reindeer and feel there is still room for an inside message. 

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The Four Seasons – December 2023 – Anything Goes Winter

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #214 – A Christmas Card

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It would be nice to have some silver and gold snowflakes as long as they don’t have to be shoveled, wouldn’t it!

For my card today, I am playing along in a color challenge of silver and gold. After foiling some Gina K Designs foil on toner paper, I die cut some snow flakes and a sentiment from Honey Bee as well as using a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder on black shimmer cardstock. If that wasn’t enough shine an additional spray of perfect pearls completed today’s card.

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Colorful Options: December 2023 Challenge with the colors Silver and Gold and any neutral.

Fun challenge and maybe I should have been more inspired by their mood board????

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Using My Favorite Things Cable Knit stencil and Gina K Designs Christmas Pine ink, I inked my focal panel and inked the layering panel in the same color ink. Adding a silver embossed sentiment from Gina K’s Holly Jolly stamp set, a ribbon from my stash and Spellbinder’s oval nestabilities die completes this card today.

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The Sisterhood of Crafters: Sweater Challenge

and

Cardz 4 Galz #212 Embossing wet or dry challenge

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Layer on layer of Taylored Expressions Cherry Pop cardstock with a gold embossed Great Impressions wreath and sentiment from Gina K Designs Precious Poinsettia, faded brick ink on focal panel and a little bit of white splatter completes today’s card.

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Make My Monday Challenge Blog #214 Wreath

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This may be my beginning of my Christmas cards. Yikes, I’m so far behind but it will be ok. I think I work better under pressure, anyway. So for my card today, the Double D challenge is stripes and/or dots. My striped background was made using Taylored Expressions Easy Strips Maps, green and shimmer white cardstock cut into 1/2 inch strips, Catherine Pooler’s Stamp of Approval Candy Cane Lane stamp and die set, and Spellbinder’s Christmas Blooms dies.

Double D Challenges: Stripes and/or Dots Challenge

Fun mood board but opted to go with Christmas for the above stated reasons. LOL!! Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.

No we didn’t fall back to Halloween I’m just playing along with the November 2023 Two Old Bats Halloween challenge with my card today. Keeping it simple and trying to use some of the patterned paper in my growing stash, I just added a stamped and die cut spider from a Tim Holtz set and some white lines sentiment.

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: November Anything Goes Halloween

I was inspired by the black and white on this month’s mood board.

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I had a lot of fun with the The Rabbit Hole Design Fall Foxes stamp set and colored so many of these little critters that I lost count on them. Using a leaf stencil in yellows, adding a piece of vellum for Foxy to nestle on top of and a sentiment from Gina K Designs with a few gems, I eas pretty happy with this one.

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The Four Seasons: Fall Season Challenge November 2023

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Fall Harvest

Congratulations to the new design team members at The Sisterhood of Crafters especially our Buddy Bonnie. Looking forward to always being inspired and playing along.

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