Playing along with the masculine challenge with the As You Can See It Challenge today. I had a lot of fun creating this group of cards most of which were included in the mailing to the “Making Cards for Troops” group. The image was found online and colored in with colored pencils. The sentiment is computer generated and the map was copied from road and street map that my husband used during his driving career before GPS was available to him. He still would rather look at a map!! Two other samples include one in black and white on kraft and the other is for those “Y”s who prefer trains.

Fun challenge! Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

AAA Cards Clean & Simple Challenge #192 is a one corner + childhood memories optional twist. Challenge accepted and if I must admit I still like a good lollipop. I have been attempting to reorganize my stamps and came across a red rubber wood mounted lollipop stamp with no name on the block but probably from the dollar section at a local big box store. After stamping my lollipops, I decided on rainbow flavors and colors, then sponged some GKD Bubblegum pink. The sentiment “yum” was stamped in Hero Arts Ombre red ink and is from me & my BIG ideas The Happy Planner stamp set.

A fun CAS challenge from AAA Cards. Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

Father’s Day cards for our son and son in law this year. The patterned papers for these cards were gifted to me by my sister called World Beaches from Paper House. It’s a lovely paper pack and I was happy to add it to my stash and my goal to keep on using those patterned papers. Who knows patterned papers may become popular again.

The second photo is the inside of the previous card and was stamped using GKD’s By The Sea by Theresa Momber. The fourth photo is the inside of the previous card and will be sent to our son in law. Their annual Hawaii trip may now be in jeopardy. This may little comfort to him if the trip falls through but it sure looks like paradise on the beach. Sentiments also were included in the By The Sea stamp set.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Hope everyone had a wonderful day. I believe our first heat wave of the season is coming to an end by Thursday. We did have some much needed rain. Hugs!!

June Anything Halloween

My card today is for the Halloween monthly challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge of Anything Halloween . There were so many choices and directions to have gone with this month’s mood board but I decided on the bottom right tile. Dark spooky skies, Halloween moon, trees and fenceline with a pop of color.

My card uses Penny Black’s “Dark Spirits” slapstick/cling stamp. Ooohh!! Such a great name for this stamp. I finally picked up some gray stamp pads and used them to create my background after masking a circle for the moon and using SSS’s cloud stencil from their April kit. The fence is a Martha Stewart punch. I needed a pop of color to balance my hanging pumpkins and lightly colored in my spooky moon.

So much fun to play Halloween on a monthly basis.

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Spring Soccer

Lacrosse

Spring sports are coming to a close so I decided to make some cards for the grandkids celebrating the end of their seasons. I’m beginning with Chase and soccer. First he was the substitute goalie but now he’s the starting goalie. This is definitely a nail biting position. Brooke has decided to give lacrosse a go. Oh my an 8 year old with a stick in the air. She did really well and since this is more of a learning age they are required to pass three times before trying for a goal. Sports stamps are hard to come by so I bought some scrapbook layout embellishments.

Next up will be Softball for Brooke and Lacrosse for Chase….yes he decided he wanted to try lacrosse too much to his mother’s dismay because boys lacrosse can be pretty rough. The final group of cards will be baseball for Chase and soccer for Brooke. I think mom and dad are exhausted from all of the games and practices but I believe the kids are all having fun and contribute a lot to the teams.

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Playing along with the May Anything Halloween challenge with Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge blog today. For my card, I chose a cat with pumpkin from a Recollections stamp set as well as a spider stencil which was inked with GKD’s soft stone ink. My center portion of the card layer was sponged using Hero Arts butter bar to orange soda ombre ink pad. The patterned paper as well as the sentiment and spiders are Simon Says Stamp (Spook Up Some Fun stamp set).

Always fun challenge and this month’s mood board inspired the pumpkins out of me.

Thanks for stopping by for a peek. Hard to believe one more week of the month of May.

The month of May brings two major celebrations for our family. The first is my hubby’s birthday. Pops got to celebrate with our youngest granddaughter this year for his birthday and we had so much fun with this little three year old. On a previous post I thought I would give me the card in the warm brown tones but at the last minute decided on something a little more fun.

After we celebrate hubby’s birthday, it’s time for our 45th wedding anniversary on Saturday. We are supposed to be having a long awaited sleep over with our two older grandchildren (8 and 10). It’s been at least 15 months since we had them for a sleepover and we can’t wait. So staying on the light side of our anniversary, I decided on this card:

Both cards’ sentiments are computer generated and the empty toilet paper roll was found on line as a free clip art item. I stamped my hearts using a Sizzix framelits w/stamps set in GKD cherry red ink and mounted it on a Bonnie patterned paper. The birthday card’s candles are a Hero Arts red rubber mounted stamp. I visited Pinterest to find these ideas.

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Using a new to me SU Blossoms In Bloom stamp set and dies as a thank you for my SU demonstrator, it fit in with the challenge at Make The Cards. The recipe for the 3 – 2 – 1 challenge is: 3 embellishments, 2 die cuts and 1 stamped image. My stamped image is the main floral image from the Blossoms In Bloom stamp set which has a watercolor vibe to it. My two dies are the coordinating dies for this stamp set which I cut in GKD Wild Lilac and Lovely Lavender cardstock. The three embellishments are tiny pearls.

There are a lot of options with this stamp and die set which could be complex or simple. Not part of the challenge but I decided to go simple with the next two cards which will be for my daughter and daughter in law for Mother’s Day.

The Happy die cut is a Momenta Little Yellow Bicycle word die set and the stamped sentiment is from GKD’s A Beautiful Life.

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Last day of April so let’s bring on the May flowers. Such a windy day today it feels like the unpredictable March winds but with little sprinkles of rain off and on all day. We could have used a nice soaking rain to wash away some of the pollen.

My card today will be entered into the Double D Challenges: April Showers challenge to include anything water related. My little bear is stuck out in the rain with a little buddy and thankfully an umbrella. My image is Penny Black’s “Sunshine in the Rain” which was colored in with some markers, my stencil is by Bonnie and I used some Nuvo Crackle Mousse in Celestial Blue mounted on a black layer and GKD’s Lemon Drop cardstock. The sentiment is SSS’s Follow the Rainbows stampset.

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