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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The Sisterhood of Crafters

Sentiments, Only is the challenge with The Sisterhood of Crafters so I decided to make my card with multiple birthday rainbow hugs. My card was a CASE of Cathy Z.’s card that I admired on SSS. After die cutting SimonSaysStamps Painted Hugs die multiple times, I added a sentiment and hearts from Gina K Designs A Little Love stamp set.

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Can You Handle the Pressure

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #12

The little taste of spring seems to have reverted to February weather for today so it seemed like a perfect time to create some Chrismas/winter cards and play along with not one but two different challenges.

The Can You Handle the Pressure challenge is Anything Goes Embossing Folder challenge with a Twist of Green. For my card today, I pulled out a SimonSaysStamp Forest Border embossing folder which was layered on green cardstock. Using the Mood Board for inspiration on the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge #12, I focused on the image with the Christmas tree front and center. I die cut the Tim Holtz Sizzix Woodlands tree in two shades of green layering it the front of the embossed forest background. Undecided about a sentiment, I held my breath as I opted to add the tiny sentiment from Gina K Designs Simple Snowflake stamp set.

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Double D Challenges: Something with a Handle

I want to ride it now!! Actually not really sure if I remember how to ride a bicycle. I grew up with two wheels, handlebar and pedal brakes! Listening to some Queen music made me this of this GKD image from Your One Kind of Beautiful StampTV kit for the something with a handle challenge at Double D Challenges. I stenciled the striped bottom using a portion of Pretty Pink Posh’s wide stripes stencil, added a strip of green cardstock, then decided the card needed something else so very carefully masked and stenciled the sun rays from GKD’s Sunshine stencil. The inside of the card repeats the black stipes and green strip with a sentiment and sun image from the same set.

Funny thing is that when I was uploading this card to my computer this card from 2018 popped up.

LOL – I do believe I like the updated version much better but my 2018 pink glittery bicycle would fit the mood board better than my entry! It’s always fun to play along with Double D Challenges.

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The Paper Players: PP583

The challenge with Laurie at The Paper Players is a clean and simple challenge with a theme of Blooms. I’m thinking since blooms are small and not fully opened flowers I would use a spotlight technique to ink in a portion of my larger stamped flower. Mindy Eggen recently did a card featuring this technique on her blog.

I decided on Stampin Up’s From the Garden stamp which was stamped in versamark ink and white heat embossed. Using a masking circle stencil, I blended inks in orange, pink and purple-ish. I wasn’t sure of the color names since these inks were left over on the blending brushes. I was lucky to have come across a piece of Gina K Designs Wild Orchid cardstock which seemed to fit perfectly with my spotlighted colors and added a sentiment strip coloring it with the same blending brush. Amazing how much ink really stays on those brushes.

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