I don’t do a lot of slim line card or a lot of shaker cards, but one of the classes in my Taylored Expressions Virtual Stamp Joy 2023 class was to make a card using both of these usually don’t dos. The mini slimline card panel was masked off to create an inside portion that was ink blended and then using a Party Popper TE stencil and a heavier hand stenciled the same colors over the ink blended background. The HB sentiment was stamped in TE’s Oreo ink and then the Mini Slim Infinity Shaker panel was added. I actually remembered to add the star shaker bits before sealing the 4th side of the acetate panel. Mounted it on some teal card stock from Michaels to complete my card.

Today I will be sharing my card with the challenge at:

Cardz 4 Galz #200 Slimline Birthday Callenge

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A nice tall glass of lemonade on a warm day sounds wonderful to me. Actually mostly anything lemony works too!! For my card today, I am using the Taylored Expressions Squeeze The Day Layering Stencil and clear stamp combo, Gina K Designs You’re the Sweetest stamp set for my slice and DMD Happy Hour stamp set probably from Michael’s that was in my stash. Stenciled, colored, added a little wink of stella and have an extra panel left over from by 6×6″ stencil for another card.

I will be sharing my card today with:

Double D Challenges: Lemon-Ade; The Color Yellow Challenge

What a fun and lemony yellow mood board for this challenge.

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My card today is for a young couple that are getting married this November. I’m usually not that far ahead with my occasion cards but the wedding theme challenge with Can You Handle the Pressure worked perfectly for me.

My card uses a SimonSaysStamp Circle Rings 3D embossing folder which is the main requirement with CYHTP blog challenge. I don’t have a lot of wedding stamps but the Gina K Designs Always and Forever stamp is a lovely silhouette stamp and simple sentiment in a beautiful script which are my go to wedding stamps. The white shimmer panel was embossed, the image stamped, heat embossed in clear embossing powder and cut using Spellbinder’s classic oval & scallop oval dies. To add a little color to my card, I found the Gina K Designs Watercolor Floral ephemera pack and patterned paper for inside the card with the sentiment stamped on a heart die cut.

My card will be shared with:

Can You Handle The Pressure – Embossing Folder and anything goes with a twist of wedding.

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It’s the As You Can See It challenge blog’s 300th challenge and their challenge is to share an Adventure: Travel, Extreme Sports, Exploration, Daring. Well nothing can be more daring than chaperoning Kindergartners to a circus inside a college field house! Of course, 6 year olds always need to use the bathroom too. We were in line for the bathroom when the elephants were coming into the building. We had to squeeze against the wall and the elephants were so big they had to crawl under the doors. I’m not a fan of the circus and only hope that the animals are treated humanely but it was an awesome site to see.

Back to my card which uses Hero Arts Leaves & Vines Fancy die, My Monthly Hero stamp & die set, and some lightly inke clouds for my background using Pretty Pink Posh Layered Clouds Stencil.

Congratulations on the 300th blog challenge and my card will be shared with

As You See It Challenge — See the 300th Challenge Adventure

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The skies are clear again in Pennsylvania. And by the way, my elephant adventure was 40 years ago!!! LOL!

Before we can officially begin summer, although the temps in Pennsylvania this past week have definitely been summer-like, we need to say good-bye to school and celebrate those graduations!

My card today is for a dear young man who is graduating from high school and before summer’s end will be in Air Force bootcamp. My card used Taylored Expressions products.

We are celebrating with a combination graduation/farewell party this Sunday so of course he needs an additional card. Blue and Silver are Air Force colors and my tag was cut from Simon Says Stamp die and the other decorations are ephemera from my local craft store. I’m hoping his mom and grandmother don’t start crying when then see this one.

And last but not least a Pre-K graduation card for our youngest granddaughter. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. The owl is from a Gina K stamp set that escapes my mind and the banner is a Hero Arts, and somewhere in my many piles is the name of the apple die! The 2023 was Taylored Expressions precut.

So now that school is out for summer, I am sharing my graduation card with:

The Four Seasons Challenge June Anything Goes Summer Challenge.

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Last month’s Halloween card project was a rainbow of pumpkins but this month it’s back to a more traditional Halloween fright night card. I started with some Brutus Monroe Color Burst powders sprayed with some water, added more powders, sprayed with water until I told myself to walk away. Today, I cut a circle mask and blended with a combination of Distress Oxide Inks, removed the outer mask and put the circle mask in place to add inks to the outer edges as well as some black soot. The tree and the border are the same stamp set from Gina K Designs’ The Giving Tree. Sentiment is from an old dollar bin stamp set from my stash. I added a little green layer behind the focal panel that was sprayed with some Distress Mica Stain.

Today’s card will be shared with multiple Halloween challenges:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge — June Challenge Anything Halloween Goes and their amazing mood board.

Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge May 15-June 14 Challenge #4

Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges Challenge #9 Anything Goes Halloween or Christmas sponsored by LeighSBDesigns

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I started thinking about the Can You Handle The Pressure challenge to use an embossing folder with a twist of birds/birdhouses. I thought I had the perfect stamps and embossing folder in mind and when I found my stamp, it was a mailbox not a birdhouse. LOL….So I opted for an Inkadinkadoo bird stamp and a Sizzix embossing folder. I found a oval mask that fit perfectly over the embossed oval and blended some Distress Oxide Inks. Sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.

I did make a second card, well actually, this one was made first and put aside. Embossed my tree with the Darice embossing folder, then colored the leaves and tree with markers, sponged some blue ink for a sky background, stamped my “condo” birdhouses from a Gina K Designs stamp set “Sweet Friends”, and cut a frame from Taylored Expressions’ Frame in Frame 3 cutting plate, adding a sentiment also from Taylored Expressions. It seemed a little bare so decided to add some splatter which in Pennsylvania is also called pollen. Pollen is on everything and giving me a seasonal allergy attack.

Today’s silhouette card will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure: Birds/Birdhouse twist

Just Us Girls #681 Silhouette and CAS Week. I think the silhouette has lots of white space so I’m considering it CAS even though I just realized it should be a CAS challenge week. It must be the pollen.

For the second year in a row, Mama Robin built her nest above our porch light. So I was very carefully going in and out the back door until Mama didn’t seem to be around anymore. No mama, no eggs, so hubby took the nest down. A little disappointing but really didn’t need bird poop on my patio.

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I enjoy scouring the internet looking for new recipes. During the pandemic shut down my girlfriends and I shared recipes constantly. If there was a popular one, like Swedish Apple Pie it was shared over and over because someone wanted to prepare it but couldn’t find the recipe. That’s when we started our girlfriend recipe book. I now have 4 recipe books. I must admit that I didn’t make all of these recipes but it sure was fun finding, collecting and sharing.

The As You See It Challenge is a recipe which includes: Flowers, Die cut, Bow, Frame and Shades of Blue. My card has multiple shades of blue, a blue floral background with the occasional yellow, a frame, a bow and multiple die cuts. My card recipe usesTaylored Expressions’ Blooming Botanical stamp & stencil set for the background, Frame in Frame 3 cutting plate for my outer frame, Versatile Vases for one of my many dies, Flower Market stamp & die set and Bows die as well as the sentiment. I did add a oval die cut vellum under my vase so it didn’t get lost on the background. I debated on the sentiment and finally decided to add it.

My card will be shared with
As You See It Challenge #299 – Recipe for Framed Flowers in Blue

Hopefully I didn’t miss any of the recipe and my card will be a successful entry. 🙂

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If it’s the month of May and the middle of Spring it is also Softball and Baseball season for our grandchildren. We divide our time between going to baseball and softball games for them. It’s been very a very chilly baseball/softball season and soon there games will be over so I needed to get this softball card made for our granddaughter. I decided on paper strips in a few different sizes and colors to represent the baseline of a ball field. The black and white stripes to represent the umpire were inked using Sugar Peas Designs skinny striped stencil. The Impression Obsession sentiment was stamped and heat set on vellum represents having fun during the games!

My card today will be shared with:

The Four Seasons Challenge: Spring Season May 2023 challenge.

Another fun and inspiring mood board but I opted to go in a different direction with my card.

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