Can You Handle The Pressure

Make the Cards Challenge #53

Today’s card will be entered into the Can You Handle The Pressure challenge of Anything Goes Embossing with a pastel twist (must use an embossing folder) and the Make the Cards Challenge #53 technique challenge of an ink blended backround.

I first ink blended my background using SimonSaysStamp’s Cotton Candy and Gina K Designs Peach Bellini, Lemon Drop and Applement inks to create a pastel background. I then used SSS Circle Rings 3D embossing folder and ran it through my BigShot after which I used some sand paper to lightly sand off the raised areas to add interest to the background. My image is from C C Designs Grouchy Pets stamp set and sentiment was from SSS preprinted Birthday sentiments. Using Spellbinders Deckled rectangles dies completed my look today.

OMG! I am loving these grouchy pets!

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The Sisterhood of Crafters

The challenge with the Sisterhood of Crafters is a slimline card. In my case I opted for the mini-slimline card which I like much better than the largerer ones. I always feel like I should put some cash in the larger style slimline. LOL.

For today’s card I decided on Taylored Expressions stamps and Wonky Dots stencil. Cute summertime card that I’ll save for one of my sweet grandkids.

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Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge

An Easter card for my candy loving, much to his mother’s dismay, grandson Chase includes a chocolate bunny and a jelly bean egg!

The challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure is Anything Goes Embossing + Easter twist. Love to play along with the twists and found my Darice decorated egg embossing folder. I inked it first and ran it through by Big Shot but didn’t like the outcome so after cleaning the ink off the embossing folder just opted for plain white. My egg was made using SimonSaysStamp’s Nested Eggs dies and cutting a piece of patterned paper from my stash with the larger die. This patterned paper reminded me of jelly beans which Chase & I both enjoy. The Chocolate Bunny is an older Gina K Designs stamp set which was illustrated by Asela Hopkins. I stamped it on brown cardstock, fussy cut it and colored in the bow with colored pencils.

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As You See It Challenge #272

The challenge with the As You See It Challenge: Challenge #272 is Horizontal Array sketch challenge. After watching this week’s SimonSaysStamp’s Yipee for Yanna YouTube video using SSS’s Waves Builder stamp, I felt it would fit perfectly for this challenge. This background waves stamp comes in separate pieces so you can stamp each layer in different colors. Today, my colors are OYG of the rainbow order and I used inks from Gina K Designs, SimonSaysStamp and Taylored Expressions. After my background was completed, I decided on an old red rubber wood mounted palm tree from my stash which was marked All Night Media stamp. Sentiment is GKD’s Lovely Lilies.

Fun challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Have a great day and be safe.

Peace On Earth Challenge #3 – Anything Christmas

My mini-slimline card features Stampendous’ Fluffles Garland. If my PennyLane had had enough energy, I can just imagine him doing the same thing as Fluffles. Cats! After seeing this month’s Anything Christmas, I knew I had to use this oldie but goodie stamp set. After stamping and coloring in Fluffles and the garland, I layered this image on some red cardstock, then pulled out some patterned papers layering on red and trimming to fit my mini slimline card was all it took to pull this card together. A Poppy Stamps grosgrain bow die and SimonSaysStamp Sensational Snowflakes completed the look.

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Colorful Options – Yellow April 2022

Love this month’s mood board for the Colorful Options. This Taylored Expressions Aflutter stamp was on my desk and never been inked so I decided it was time. After stamping my butterflies in black and clear heat embossing them, I colored my background with yellow marker. I then wanted to add some “clouds” and pulled out my Bonnie cloud stencil and blended on some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide mustard seed ink. That step did give a little bit of dimension but not really much on the clouds. Sentiment is from the same Taylored Expressions stamp set.

Love this bright yellow mood board, unfortunately, yellow is just not my color to wear.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge – April Anything Halloween

My card for this month’s Two Old Bats Halloween challenge uses very traditional Halloween colors and not scary! LOL!! Keeping my design pretty classic, I used some patterned paper from my stash, stamped and fussy cut the Stampin Up Bootiful Occasions’ witch boots and layered them on some die cut circles. The scary part was my sentiment. I lined it up, looked good but didn’t realize that the a for “and” shake your Booty was on the black layer. Ugh! Thank goodness for those little pearl embellisments that were still on my desk.

Awesome mood board. I would love that umbrella!!

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Four Seasons Challenge – April Spring Challenge

April Showers for this sweet little chick are in store today as well as playing along with the Four Season Challenges: April Anything Goes Spring challenge. Inspiration was taken from their mood board with the frog and umbrella made me remember this Simon Says Stamp Hello Easter stamp set. Sentiment is a Stampin Up Heaven Blessed stamp. After stamping my image and creating a mask for both the image and the border, I blended some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Prize Ribbon ink on the background. The chick & umbrella were colored with Ohuhu markers. I had to redo the umbrella bow because I didn’t like the original color. Lots of blue today!

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Paper Dragonfly Challenge #4

Sunday Stamps SSC280 In the Middle

Today’s inspiration came from two challenge blogs. The Paper Dragonfly challenge was Birds with a origami dragonfly….oh my! And a very classic sketch with the Sunday Stamps group using any shape in the middle.

I wasn’t quite sure how to incorporate the birds and dragonfly together but when I saw the sketch challenge decided on patterned paper. Gina K Designs patterned paper was the focus of my birds…birds with umbrellas, my center shape is an Altenew Linear Crossroads die and my origami dragonfly finished off this card. I guess there is origami paper but alas none in my stash so I used patterned paper. These fingers of mine kept on getting in the way of my folds but after the 4th try decided this was the best of the bunch. LOL. Always fun to play along with these challenges.

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