As You See It Challenge: Challenge #353 – A Recipe for a Gala is the challenge I decided to play in today. I have included Black shimmer cardstock on a white notecard, Taylored Expressions Beautiful Blizzard Foil Its which was foiled with Gina K Designs Fancy Foil using my Fuse Foiling System machine from GKD, a gold shimmer die cut snowflake (maybe SimonSaysStamp), TE sentiment stamped in VersaFine Clair and clear heat embossed and die cut and finally a five black gems scattered on my card.

Hopefully I fullfilled the recipe for this challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay cool and safe.

The theme is flower pots and I die cut a Taylored Expressions Boho Pot die in grey added a bit of color around the edges and some splatter. The pot needed a flower so another TE stamp that was masked off and colored in this big bloom. The pot needed a landing spot on the Spellbinder’s oval nestabilities which is landing on TE strips which is landing on a larger Spellbinder’s oval embossed on the layering panel and added more splatter. TE sentiment from my stash added and at last some greens trailing out of my boho pot. This card was CASE’d from an email received from Mary Fish’s Stampin Pretty blog which I could no longer locate. Sorry. I liked her card so gave it a go for the:

Double D Challenges: Flower Pots

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I think I have had one or two of these cats that loved to create havoc. Today’s card uses a Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix stamp, die and embossing folder set names Cat Chat. Perfect for the Can You Handle the Pressure with a theme of cats and/or dogs. Perfect if I would have posted before the deadline???? LOL!!

I finally used the ink blended background which was originally embossed, sanded and then embossed with the Cat Chat yarn embossing folder. Glad to get it off my desk.

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I was anxious to use my new Divinity Designs Fractured Quilt Landscape die and ended up making a few cards with Divinity Designs Beautiful Bouquets A2 card fronts patterned papers. Card one uses a Hero Arts die and sentiment strip from my stash, card 2 sentiment was a die with shadow set gifted to me and card 3 uses Taylored Expressions dies from my stash.

My top card will be shared in the:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: July ATG Using Pretty Papers and a theme of Birthday.

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Using Taylored Expressions Buds & Blossoms stamp and stencil combo and add on die today for a Triple B challenge today. I decided on pinks and orange for my buds, TEs Frame in Frame 3 die which creates a border edge and cuts the middle out which I then popped up with foam strips. Sentiment is TEs All Together Occassions 2 stamp/die set and an old Prickley Pear die for the shape behind my sentiment. Martha Stewart triple butterfly punch in case buds are not considered blossoms :)!

My card will be shared with Triple B: July 2025 Challenge

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I had a plan for a monthly color challenge using color blocking after viewing a recent Yana YouTube video……hmmmmm…..so it went to choosing my light weight 65 pound cardstock from Michael’s to not really sure of the colors combinations of Red, Orange, Yellow and Green…..the red and orange looked too close in color to me and not sure about that green. After plugging on, I die cut Taylored Expressions coneflower dies…..first I was leaving them all white then decided to add some color, added a few of the detached leaves/stems and Taylored Expressions All Together All Occasions stamp/die set…..the leafy stems were not doing it for me so added a few more coneflowers and finally stepped away before adding anything else…..but maybe I will add a bit of splatter to the background?!?! Decisions! Decisions! Decisions!! Oh well, I think it may grow on me!

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Colorful Options: July 2025 Challenge

They do have a fun color mood board for their summer challenge.

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Today’s card uses Taylored Expressions Fan Favorite layering stencils and coordinating 3D embossing folder in Watermelon and Bleu Cheese. Four layering stencils and two ink colors varying the pressure of application of the inks hopefully achieved some light and dark shades of colors.

My Red, White and Blue card represents the flag colors of my country which is the challenge for:

Stencil Fun: July 2025 Stencil Fun Challenge with a theme of using the colors of your country’s flag.

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I know that I like to play around with Christmas in July but who knew that there is now Summerween for Halloween??? The Two Old Bats monthly challenge has that beat with their Halloween themed challenges year round. So for my Summerween Halloween card today, I was inspired by the many pumpkins on the mood board and cannot resist adding a silly fun cat or two so I pulled out an old red rubber mounted stamp from Hampton Arts Outlines, stamped in versafine black and clear heat embossed then started on coloring in my pumpkins. After deciding on Taylored Expressions woodgrain draft cardstock and the Arched stack set dies, I die cut the opening in the woodgrain cardstock and then added a black frame. The clouds were made using a much loved cloud stencil by our Buddy Bonnie. A SimonSaysStamp Spook Up Some Fun sentiment completes my card today.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: July 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

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Generally when I purchase new product, I keep in a specific bin until I use it but seriously my Radial Circles Cover die from Altenew has been neglected since November 2023. I better go through that bin a little more often. After die cutting the coverplate, I ink blended a combination of teal inks on another piece of cardstock. That reminded my of the ocean so I found another semi neglected Hero Arts Seashells Fancy dies set and added a Gina K Designs sentiment and a circle cut from vellum.

My neglected card project will be shared with:

The Neglected Stuff (6/25) Challenge

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