Can You Handle The Pressure

My card will be entered into the Can You Handle The Pressure challenge which requires the use of an embossing folder and the twist of plaid.

My embossing folder is from Cuttlebug with lots of circle some flowers which may have been a spring bundle. After locating some plaid patterned paper from my stash I added it to a side panel of the embossing folder. Die cut a Spellbinders in’spire Flower Power II die from a SU Banners die and added to my card front. I then die cut the flower from white card stock once again and also from the plaid patterned paper and inlaid the plaid into my petals.

Another fun challenge and a way to keep on bringing out those embossing folders.

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AAA Cards Challenge Game 210

A clean and simple sketch challenge + silhouette image is the challenge for the AAA Cards Challenge. I really do like silhouette images but trying to find one small enough for my CAS card was a little challenging. I figure I couldn’t go wrong with this butterfly stamp.

I first die cut my circle to mask off my panel, then using SimonSaysStamp’s In the Round stencil blending Gina K Designs inks in Key Lime and Turquoise Sea. After removing the stencil, blended more ink on the circle. The butterfly is another Inkadinkadoo oldie “Utopiary” and sentiment from GKD’s Let’s Talk another oldie. All of this white and clean space on my card I was nervous about putting an inky fingerprint or two on it. Phew!!!

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This adorable image is a free digi from La-La Land Crafts. La-La Land Crafts is joining the effort of crafting community to bring awareness to a current situation in Ukraine. We created this image of a french bulldog holding a sunflower – a sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine. All proceeds from sales will be donated to the Global Empowerment Mission. It’s really special how the stamp companies are coming together in support of the people in Ukraine.

My patterned paper is a most treasured piece created by Bonnie. I keep on making copies from the master sheet. Thanks Bonnie. I’m not really sure if my pooch is the correct colors but I guess he can be any color I desire. LOL

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Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges #3

The challenge with Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges #3 theme is Mardi Gras with the added dragonfly. I chose Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold. So thought my Spellbinders Fleur DeLis die would be appropriate and die cut the smallest die in green and purple and a glitter gold.

My dragonfly for this card is an unbranded die and was cut in a green/gold designer paper and layered on top of a purple die cut dragonfly. The sentiment is Gina K Designs Enjoyable Greetings Stamp & Die set. I think this card is growing on me!!! Not 100% yet especially since that top green layer is a little crooked 🙂 I can live with it and it’s better than horrible!!

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Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #11

For today’s card, I decided to play along with the Peace on Earth Anything Christmas Challenge and focused on the pile of candy canes on their mood board.

Using SimonSaysStamps’ Candy Cane Heart die, I embellished it with some stamps and dies from Catherine Pooler’s Stamp of Approval Candy Cane Lane set. My stripes are also Catherine Pooler’s Peppermint Stick background stamp with some Gina K Designs Cherry Red ink. GKD’s Christmas Pine ink was used for the holly leaves. Keeping my card very Christmas traditional I added layers of green to the die cut panels.

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The ModSquad Challenge hosted by Judy is to create a card with blue and yellow to indicate support for Ukraine. For my card, I die cut a panel using Taylored Expressions Rays Pierce & Cut Plate, inked it with Distress Oxide inks in Squeezed Lemonade and Tumbled Glass. My sunflower was stamped, colored and die cut using Hero Arts Hero Florals stamp & cut set as is the bumblebee.

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Four Seasons: March Spring Challenge

The Four Seasons challenges have changed to spring and it definitely felt like spring today however Wednesday we are expecting a wintry mix. The mixed up month of March can never make up her mind. I know technically it’s still winter and St. Patrick’s Day is technically in winter but I lightened up my card to makea shamrock spring card.

After die cutting a shamrock to use as a stencil, using Taylored Expressions Shamrocks stamp & stencil combo, I stamped and blended my image. The sentiment is from Gina K Designs Luck & Love card kit. After adding a few TE green pearls and a little green and gold splatter and two strips of gold, my card is complete.

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Gorgeous Green! is the color challenge for the Colorful Options blog this month and what a lovely color it is. After watching Nichol Spohr’s post today of her alcohol ink background for the new Hero Arts add on stamps, I decided to use that technique for my gorgeous green card.

Using alcohol inks in envy, laguna and snow cap mixative on glossy photo paper, my background came together pretty nicely in my opinion. These techniques are usually a stretch for me but I did make a few backgrounds with my alcohol inks. Hardest part is waiting for the inks to dry. I carefully stamped my sentiments, one at a time, in versafine black onxy and then heat set with clear embossing powder. Hello is from a Gina K Designs set and the other is a miscellaneous dollar stamp. The jig is being performed by Tutti Designs “Playful Leprechauns” die which was cut three times, layered and off set. A shiny little shamrock embellishment completes my card today.

A fun mood board for inspiration but I opted to be inspired by the colors only.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge – March

The Fly movie came to mind for me with the March Anything Halloween Goes Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge this month. The original movie’s story line is the story of a scientist who is transformed into a grotesque creature after a common house fly enters unseen into a molecular transporter with which he is experimenting, resulting in his atoms being combined with those of the insect, which produces a human–fly hybrid. At the end the little fly with the scientist head cries: “help me”. OMG….my brother whispered those words at me for days after we watched that movie with our dad. Boys!!!

Back to my card, I created a frame using a Martha Stewart spider web punch and then die cut the middle section which includes a very cool piece of patterned paper from my stash to which I added some eyeballs and wink of stella. My stamp set is Inkadinkadoo’s Test Tubes. The specimen beaker was stamped in black and heat embossed in clear embossing powder on vellum paper. After adding some color to the back of the beaker I stamped and fussy cut my flies who seem to have escaped from the beaker.

Always fun to play along with the Two Old Bats challenge and their awesome mood board.

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