A simple little card for Brooke using square shapes and octogon stamp, embossing and a reminder to Bee Awesome.

For my card today, I die cut 3 Spellbinder Classic Squares, then embossed them using Cuttlebug stitched squares embossing folder and Cuttlebug’s Stylized Flowers embossing folder for the yellow layering cardstock mounted on black card base. Yellow, black, flowers, honeycomb and bee for an awesome granddaughter.

My card today will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder with a Twist of Bees/Beehive

The Sisterhood of Crafters: SHAPES theme.

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Using one balloon from Taylored Expressions Balloon Party layering stencils, I rainbow stenciled a balloon background. After masking areas around the chosen balloon, I started in the middle of the card background with a light red then filled in around that balloon trying to keep in rainbow order and not create any muddy balloons. After adding a TE frame and word sentiment popped up on a vellum circle, this card is finished. No extra gems or bling as this one may be included in my package for cards for troops.

Today’s card will be shared with two challenges:

Double D Challenges: Birthday Balloons

Make My Monday Challenge Blog Challenge #210 Create Your Own Background.

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Just how much fun is it to have a sleepover due to a school holiday on Monday. I will let you know that it’s a blast letting Brooke, my 11 year old granddaughter, take charge of my “elf” room and start designing Halloween cards. What a maker she is!!! This card was a combination of a fabulous patterned paper pack, Grumpy Pets and a Tim Holtz set. And if one card was not enough how about the rest of these amazing cards.

Brooke used some patterned papers, dies, pouncers, stickers, googly eyes, embossing folders and a whole lot of fun.

Just for fun I’m sharing Brooke’s cards with one of my favorite challenges:

Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #8

Chase, Brooke’s brother, did his part, too. He ate all of the candy corn candy! And best of all chose his favorite card which was the top one.

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Trying to come up with a clean and simple card that uses a stencil and I can send for a dear friend’s birthday wasn’t as difficult as I thought. My clean and simple card uses Taylored Expressiongs Abstract Accents layering stencils and clear stamp set, TE Simple Silhouettes and GKD Stipples Flowers sentiment. The difficult part was trying to hide a tiny black smudge on my focal layer.

My card will be shared with

Simply Clean and Simple CAS card design challenge: Simple Clean and Simple September Challenge with a stencil option.

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Orange and plaid are definitely signs of the changing seasons and fall should be right around the corner….well maybe not yet but soon.

For my card today, I made my plaid using Taylored Expressions Plaid layering stencil in Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spiced Marmalade and Ripe Persimmon inks and added a black line with a marker. Simon Says Stamp Large Stitched Maple leaf die is my focal image and the sentiment is from a Gina K Designs Autumn Silhouettes stamp set. Sweet Mango cardstock from GKD was used to complete my Outrageous Orange card. And why make one when you can make two cards.

My card today will be shared with:

Colorful Options: September 2023 Challenge – Outrageous Orange Color

Double D Challenges: Fall Plaids Challenge

Inspiring, fun mood boards for both challenges. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.

Finally getting around to making backgrounds with my newest Create-In-Quads stencils “Bird Party” from Taylored Expressions. This is sweet little chickadee is my favorite part of the quad stencil and was sent to my sister in Florida. And the second card will is for my daughter and son-in-law for their wedding anniversary.

My card today will be shared with:

Triple B: September Challenge for Birds, Blooms and Butterflies.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. Our heat wave has broken this evening with some crazy winds that had us scrambling to move furniture off the patio followed by rain, thunder and lightning. It may be an unsettled few days and will definitely make the grass grow.

Someone forgot to inform Mother Nature that Labor Day is not the end of summer not even the unofficial end of summer! We are into another heat wave this week with 95 degrees temperatures. Since the leaves on the trees are still green, I decided to stencil my leaves in green on green cardstock. The stencil used was one I picked up awhile back at my local Michael’s. The stamped and die cut image is Autumn is Calling set from The Rabbit Hole Designs. I am anxious to ink the rest of these images in this set.

My card will be shared with:

Crazy is our Fame–Stencils are our Game! September Stencil Fun Challenge with the option of FALL theme. And of course I am playing with the option of fall and the required stencil.

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After being WOW’d by Whimsy Stamps Bookeh designer paper pad, I was hoping to make it the star of my card but for some reason I kept on adding other items and it may have gotten a little lost. LOL…any way it was really fun to make this card and even fussy cutting the Lil Grim Reaper image from a Recollections Halloween stamp set from a few years ago. The Drippy frame die is also from Whimsy stamps. Whimsy Stamps does Halloween really well. I opted to add a little white mound so my Lil Grim didn’t get lost in the background. The white card base was stenciled with SimonSaysStamp bat stencil which was pretty much covered up by the frame and just to grunge it a little more sponged on some black ink.

My card today will be shared with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenges – September Anything Halloween

Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #7

I just realized that my cat card was a Top 3 with halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge 6. Very cool to be recognized.

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I was a little stuck with how to incorporate an embossing folder and poppies until I saw a card design on the Fans of Taylored Expressions Facebook group. I wasn’t sure how I could give credit to the original card but I appreciate that design. A StampinUp/Sizzix embossing folder was used on shimmer white cardstock. My poppies are from Taylored Expressions Poppy Fields layering stencil which was free with a purchase. SimonSaysStamp’s word and shadow dies as well as a few little sparkly bling embellishments complete my card today.

I will be sharing my card with:

Can You Handle the Pressure: Anything Goes with an embossing folder with a twist of poppies.

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