The Taylored Expressions Daisy Dreams stamp, stencil and die set I believe will stay within my arms reach for awhile yet. I’m loving this set. After watching Gina K Designs Stamp & Chat Live YouTube video on Silhouette Stenciling, I decided to give it a try. After masking off the left side and bottom of my card, I ink blended oranges and yellow inks. I did stamp the Daisy Dreams image for the stems to show then used the layering stencils and inked all layers in black ink. My bottom edge got a little wonky so I had to cover with the die cut sentiment otherwise I would have placed that sentiment in a different location. It was a fun new to me technique.

I’ll be sharing my card today with Double D Challenges: FLOWERS.

The mood board has beautiful, colorful flowers but I decided on a different take on this challenge with the silhouette.

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After reminiscing earlier this week when we celebrated our 47th wedding anniversary, I wanted to use the new Taylored Expressions Daisy Dreams stamp, stencil and die set. To continue on the daisy theme, I embossed my Lemon Drop GKD cardstock with the SimonSaysStamp Floral Field 3D embossing folder. This TE set may be my new favorite thing.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Challenge with an Anything Goes Embossing Folder Challenge With a Twist of Floral.

Did I mention that I carried Daisies in my wedding bouquet?

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I was looking in my stash for a bird stamp set and my mind went on the hunt for one that’s a little wonky and fun. These three birds reminded me of the birds on a beach. So after coloring in my very colorful Inkadinkadoo birds stamps, I added a sand line and some clouds in the sky. The sentiment is from Hero Arts Colorful Layering Waves as is the Beach Fancy Frame. I did a little surgery on the die by cutting out the bottom portion and then adding the larger pieces to the card front.

I will be sharing my card with the

Triple B: May Birds, Blooms, and Butterflies Challenge

I was inspired by the lovely mood board to make a card for this challenge.

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The May mood board for the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge inspired me to find my Gina K Designs Wreath Builder stencil and make some happy rainbow pumpkins. The stamps are from SimonSaysStamp’s “Boo Day” stamp set. Colored in my pumpkins and suckers with marker, added a layered circle for the sentiment and some patterened paper from my stash. This card style allows a square image without being a square card….so it works well for me and the US post office.

Today, I’ll be sharing my card with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: May Anything Halloween

and

Halloween Crafts All Year Round — Anything Halloween

and

Most Magical Time of the Year — Anything Halloween or Christmas challenge.

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What’s new to me is a Taylored Expressions Ever in Bloom Create-In-Quads layering stencils and dies! With this new create in quads stencil, I achieved four card flower backgrounds which were inked in two different blue inks and added a sentiment that will be sent to my daughter and daughter-in-law for Mother’s Day this year.

Wow! One stencil, four cards and now I can share with 4 different challenges and they are:

As You See It Challenge: Challenge # 298 New Stuff

Colorful Options – May Challenge featuring the color BLUE.

Stencil Fun Challenge Stencils are our Game: May Challenge option FLOWERS

Cardz4Galz – Challenge #198 Mother’s Day or Flowers for a friend.

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There is absolutely nothing better than raiding your grandmother’s berry patch and eating those fresh picked strawberries. Wonderful childhood memories and I’m sure my “Memmy” wasn’t too happy that we raided her patch everytime we visited. It was probably a few less jars of jelly that were made during those years!

My card today which will be shared with Double D Challenges and their theme of “Fresh Picked” but no flowers. Who needs flowers when you have strawberries. I pulled out an older Gina K Designs stamp set Enjoy the Sunshine StampTV kit for my strawberries and then another GKD set for the sentiment of the same name as the stamped sentiment. Patterned paper was also GKD. A little bling, some glossy accents completes my card for today.

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Well, I have Christmas flowers and coffee cups so I think I will share my card today with the:

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge

The May challenge is to use flowers and coffee on a Christmas card. Using Gina K Designs Christmas ephemera flowers and Taylored Expressions stamp, stencil, die coffee cup set Hugs in a Mug, Gina K’s Simple Snowflakes stamp set for the sentiment, patterned acetate paper pad from my Michael’s and Taylored Expressions A2 Thin Frame Cutting Plate completes my card. My die cutting was off a bit for the coffee cups so will need to work on that. It’s a coffee set with fun sentiments from TE which I can appreciate even though I’m not a coffee but rather a tea drinker.

This is a definite challenge because I’m still not really sure how cohesive this design works together. Oh well! It made me put my thinking cap on for a while.

May 2nd and it’s still really chilly and below normal temperatures in Pennsylvania. For the moment it is not raining and the sun did come out from behind the clouds for a bit today. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.

Today’s card will be for a sweet little one. Since the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero stamp kit was still on my desk from a previous card, I incorporated the die cut airplane and stamped the banner as it flies overhead of my little bear in a boat. This is a fussy cut ephemera image that I saved from a baby card I received after my grandson was born almost 9 months ago. For my embossed part of the card, I used a Sizzix embossing folder. After embossing on shimmer cardstock, I swiped a teal ink pad over the raised portions for a little more color. This embossing folder reminded me of ocean waves and bubbles and thought it would work well with the little boat. When we go to the Jersey shore there are always airplanes with advertising flying over the Atlantic Ocean and this was my inspiration.

My card today will be shared with:

Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge

which requires an embossing folder and a optional theme of BABY. Not sure if I’ll be needing any baby cards soon but I always like to play along with the theme. This will probably be sent to my youngest grandson.

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I get together each month with two girlfriends for dinner and a cocktail. Dare I say we spend as much time looking at the cocktail list as we do the menu!!! If I tried to drink all three of these drinks from Fiskar’s stamp set I would definitely find myself stuck in the Brutus Monroe Whirpool stencil. LOL! After stenciling my background and stamping, coloring and fussy cutting my martini glasses and sentiment, I first die cut a shimmery circle, then decided it was too dark so I die cut the circle from vellum twice and it was way too light so I glued the vellum layers on the shimmery cardstock and I think the soft shade is a much better background for the glasses. I tried a SimonSaysStamp glue stick that was part of a kit purchase on the entire backside of the vellum and the vellum didn’t have any glue marks showing which is a plus.

Today’s card will be given to one of my dinner date friends for an upcoming birthday and will be shared with:

Cardz 4 Galz #197 – Cocktails challenge

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Still raining in Pennsylvania.