The Paper Players Theme Challenge PP589

After 46 years of marriage and a total of 52 years together, I do bee-lieve that we still do Bee-Long Together. My anniversary card for my husband will also be entered into The Paper Players Theme challenge of Birds and/or Bees. My angled gatefold card and some bee patterned paper from my stash as well as the SimonSaysStamp’s multi-use Bee Yourself stamp set completes my card. Inside the card the two bees are holding hands floating above a honecomb on a beautiful sky.

Fun challenge from hosted by Jaydee.

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As You Can See It Challenge 273

“The call it the blues” is the challenge 273 over at the As You Can See It challenge blog. Gorgeous Stampin Up colors of Night of Navy, Pacific Point and Balmy Blue for this color challenge.

Using a Taylored Expressions A2 mask, I first ink blended my substitute Gina K Designs inks for the Stampin Up colors. First up in the smallest rectangle was Navy, then Blue Raspberry and finally Powder Blue. My silhouette image is also GKD’s Friendly Silhouettes which was stamped in versamark ink and white heat embossed. Sentiment was from the same stamp set and was gold heat embossed on vellum.

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AAA Cards Challenge # 213

Always an interesting Clean and Simple Card challenge with the AAA Cards challenge blog and #213 is Small and Few + Easter/Spring option. I always need to remind myself to keep this challenge CAS.

I pulled out the sweet little chicks from Stampin Up’s Heaven Blessed stamp set and stamped and colored the chicks with some markers. I made a circle mask for the image and lightly sponged some Gina K Designs lemon drop ink and mounted the panel on some very spring green cardstock.

Our farmer’s market would always have chicks that were dyed in spring colors. These chicks were so cute to see but thankfully we were never able to buy one. I know what happens to those cute little chicks!!

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Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #14

Using the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge mood board of silver and gold with wreaths and ornaments, I decided to pull out an older mounted red rubber stamp set from Great Impressions. After stamping it in versamark ink I took a pinch of silver and gold embossing powder and heat set my wreath then die cut it using Spellbinders Classic scalloped circle dies. The deer is a Martha Stewart flocked deer sticker, the bow is Poppy Grosgrain Bow die and the patterned paper was from my stash called Holiday Glitz.

My first wreath I die cut using a circle die and also cut the center portion out. You can probably imagine where that was going….yup…it looked just like a donut!!! Not that I don’t love a good donut however not when it’s supposed to be a Christmas wreath hanging on my gatefold card. LOL. The scalloped die worked much better.

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Just Add Ink #600

The challenge with the Just Add Ink blog is an inspiration photo depicting the southern hemisphere who are enjoying the cooler temperatures and the season of Autumn. So for my card I opted on the wonderful warm fall colors highlighting some Gina K Designs Sweet Mango cardstock. I embossed the top portion of Sweet Mango with SimonSaysStamp’s Kaleidoscope embossing folder. My bottom portion was stamped and inked using SSS’s wood planks background stamp and inking it in some brown ink. The card base is a navy blue and I alternated the SSS Chunky Happy die between the sweet mango and navy cardstock. Sentiment is GKD’s Stamp It Big stamp set and leaves are Sizzix’s Sizzlits Little Leaves die.

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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.

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