Hello on a very cold night in Pennsylvania. I was taking a break from challenges while I worked on Easter Cards for the Making Cards for Troops organization. I prepared and sent off 80 Easter cards. My small way to say thank you for your service. Normally my group of girlfriends would assemble the cards but we are still social distancing due to Covid concerns. My card today is for the Dies R Us Challenge #161 Challenge which is Anything Goes and including a metal die from a company sold in their store.

I used the Art Impressions Double Stitched die, Hero Arts Stamp & Cut Ribbon message set, Spellbinders Rectangle Nestabilities to create the template for my colored blocks.

The challenge for Double D Challenges is Flowers in Containers so my flowers are a silhouette image from Gina K Designs Stenciled Spring stamp set. GKD inks in Applemint, Wild Dandelion, Sea Glass and SSS Orange Peel inks as well as Versafine Black Onxy to stamp the silhouette image.

Here are my Easter cards for Making Cards for Troops organization:

Thanks for looking.

The challenge at Double D Challenges is celebrating their 5th anniversary/birthday party with of course CUPCAKES. Definitely cannot have a birthday party with out cupcakes, can you? This card, for my son-in-law’s birthday the end of January, I was anxious to use the Spellbinders Kaleidoscope Plaid die set that I received before Christmas. This is a set of three dies to create my plaid and each had to be cut 4 times to create the card front. My cupcakes because you cannot eat just one is an old red rubber Hampton Art Studio G stamp and the sentiment with candles is The Stamping Village’s Concord & 9th Happy Birthday set.

Happy Birthday/Anniversary to Double D and thanks for the fun challenges.

Chuck’s cupcake will need a lot more candles than 5 but a little less than 50!! Oh My!

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It turns out I had more birthday’s in January than I remembered. This card is for a cousin who has discovered that her breast cancer has metastasized to her spine and has started treatments and is recovering from gall bladder and pancreatitis over the holidays but good news is that she has decided to finally retire and hang up that nurse’s cap. Hoping that this “Put your Red Dress On” challenge hosted by Cat at Gina K Designs will let her know how special she is to me.

For my card and January 2021 Monthly Mix challenge the primary color is to be red as well as a celebratory card. My card base is Gina’s Red Velvet cardstock, the image was stamped from the Birthday Blessings stamp set in black ink but the little heart flowers were colored in using a Sakura Red Star gelly roll pen. The sentiment from the same stamp set was stamped in Cherry Red ink. It was layered on black cardstock and I added a vine die cut that I picked up at my local big box store.

Have a great day and stay safe.

The Paper Players: PP522

Today’s card is for our youngest granddaughter celebrating her third birthday. Not a lot of stamping on today’s card but some die cutting, some stenciling and layering on my 5×7 card. My background was created using Simple Stories Fireworks Stencil inked with some GKD powder blue ink. I used my Waffle Flower A2 Layers die to cut out my focal piece and layering cardstocks. Deciding to keep the snowy theme of Anna and Elsa going, I added a Cheery Lynn snowflake cut in cardstock and then again in sparkly paper, adding Concord & 9th double cut numbers dies and my New Simon Says Stamp Chunky Happy die with shadow and outline. My stamped feature is an older rubber mounted Kolette Hall stamp that was probably purchased in the dollar bin at AC Moore many years ago.

DRU Challenge #160 is an Anything Goes and I used Waffle Flowers A2 layers die as well as Cheery Lynn snowflake die and two others.

Anna & Elsa is wrapping paper that was too small for the present but perfect for this card. Thanks to Gina K’s recent Stamp & Chat on using wrapping paper for cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy Twenty Twenty-one!!

I was debating about playing along with the December Monthly Mix Challenge hosted by Karen at Gina K Designs. The challenge is a Tic Tac Toe one and I wasn’t sure I liked any of these combinations

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I’m finding a reason not to pack away my Christmas collection of stamps by entering this card into the Sunday Stamps sketch challenge by Melissa.

I found a Michael’s Recollections cling stamp set with this scripty tree and decided to use it with some non traditional holiday colors. The image was heat embossed with white embossing powder on Denami Designs vellum cardstock, then layered over a panel of Gina K Designs patterned paper and added a sentiment from Verve Stamps O Christmas Tree in Gina K’s turquoise sea ink and all mounted on a turquoise sea cardstock.

Thanks for stopping. Stay safe!

Let it Snow… Let it Snow….Let it Snow….only on grassy surfaces, please. My skating bear however would probably prefer some ice for skating. Growing up our local fire company would spray water on a section of our playground for ice skating…what fun we had! Not sure if I would attempt that now since the bones are telling me to think again.

Getting back to my card, I found this fun bear and unfortunately I do not know the stamp set manufacturer but I’m thinking I picked it up at my local Michael’s on clearance. I colored him with Arteza colored pencils and lightly added some color to the image panel too. The sentiment is a red rubber Inkadinkadoo stamp which was heat embossed in bronze embossing powder and the panel layered on bronze cardstock. Snowflakes were cut from SSS Sensational Snowflakes die, patterned paper is GKD and a little bit of sequins that were hanging out on my desk.

My card will be entered into the ModSquad Challenge hosted by Nancy and must include BEARS!

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Make it a great day and stay safe.

by the chimney with care! My card today features Hero Arts Winter Hearth stamp & cut set and will be entered into The Sisterhood of Crafters: Anything Goes Christmas/Winter challenge. My sentiment was from SimonSaysStamp Christmas Cheer stamp set. Spectrum Noir AquaTint was painted on my background and it was layered on Gina K Designs red cardstock.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night!

The final challenge of 2020 at The Card Concept is to share a photo of your Christmas Tree, favorite decorations or favorite card. Choosing my favorite Christmas card would be very difficult because if I can admit I really liked all of the cards this season. My Christmas tree is a tiny 3′ tree that was my mom’s and displays a lot of my kids and grandkids homemade ornaments. Special to me but nothing spectacular. Since I’m in snow mode, I decided to share my little display of Snow People. The years that we get too much snow these guys are put away early. We will see about this winter. This was today!

Thanks for the fun challenges at The Card Concept. Merry Christmas!