Using inspiration from the Two Old Bats mood board, I knew I wanted books, a witch hat and a moon. I went on my search for The Rabbit Hole’s Autumn is Calling stamp and die set for my stack of books, The branch with black birds is my much loved Inkadinkadoo’s Halloween Trails and after first stamping and die cutting a witch hat from TH Sizzix set, I pulled it off and added a felt ephemera from my stash. My background was ink blended in Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks using my circle stencil cut from cardstock. My card will be shared with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: August 2026 Anything Goes Halloween

I know I have Halloween sentiment strips somewhere in my stash but they didn’t seem to want to be located so i opeted to leave a sentiment off of the front of my card. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay COOL and make it a great day.

Searching through my stash of patterned papers, I found this background from a Recollections paper pad named Sky & Sea. Cutting down a section of sky paper, I then stamped images from a My Hero Arts August 2017 kit. Using white pigment ink and white embossing powder and then a bit of gold embossing powder for the swirl of stars, die cut clouds and the larger star “balloon” to complete my card. The card was completed but the clean up was only beginning. While stamping on a messy desk, I accidentally spilled the gold embossing powder onto the stamps. Yikes, off to the sink for a stamp bath. Hopefully the clean stamps will help with their stickiness, too!

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Love Those Pretty Papers August 2026 Challenge This month’s optional theme is Look to the skies ( Galaxy, Lightning, Sunshine, Clouds, Stars) Themes keep me motivated so I played along with a galaxy and star theme.

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Today’s card uses Taylored Expressions Balloon Party layering stencils and C’mon and Celebrate word die. After making the background, I die cut the word die and layered it with several die cuts from white cardstock to make it pop off the card front. However it was not popping enough for me so I carefully deconstructed the word die and using the shadow die cut a piece of vellum and reassembled the card. I like it better. My card today will be shared with:

Word Power July 2026 Challenge

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It was fun attending Taylored Expressions Summer School virtual classes this year with our theme of Fruits of Summer! Yum! All of the fruit stamps were fun to color with our alcohol marker instructors. I was happy that raspberries were part of the stamp set because they are still my all time favorite summer fruit. Growing up we had a raspberry bush and my neighbor had a row of raspberry bushes. Nothing better than picking them straight off the bush amd eating them….no water needed….anyway not “back in my day”. My card today will be shared with:

Double D Challenges: (DD 7/26 Your Favorite Fruit Challenge

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I have been having a lot of fun making “summerween” cards this past week. My card today was influenced by our Buddy Judy who shared the Scrapbook.com’s summerween release. Love Buddies helping Buddies! My card uses the stamp and dies floating skeleton image as well as the sentiments. The patterned paper was from an older paper pad from Paper House World Beaches.

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ATG Love Those Pretty Papers July Challenge with an optional theme of Coastal

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Hard to believe that our youngest grandchild is turning 4 next month. His presents are wrapped and now his card is finished and we are getting exciting to celebrate with him in a few more weeks. For my card, I embossed a Cuttlebug star embossing folder on blue striped patterned paper, swiped it with white pigment ink and then a bronze and then white again. Gina K Designs recent live had lots of samples using embossing folders on patterned papers so I thought I would give it a try. Tim Holtz Celebration Script words dies, Spellbinder’s Star dies and Taylored Expressions Frame in Frame 3 cutting plater were all used for my card. The red stripes is an unbranded die from Amazon.

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Can You Handle the Pressure?: Anything Goes with a Twist of Stars and/or Stripes and of course the required embossing folder.

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Whimsy Stamps released a limited time “Summerween” Halloween stamps and even though I told myself that I did NOT need anymore Halloween stamps to add to my stash….here is Summerween Scream. My instant photo frames are Tay,lored Expressions dies. I was a bit upset that I waited too long for the patterned paper pack that was included in the release though. I think I will have to admit that I was encouraged by my granddaughter to make this purchase. I’m glad I did because they images are super cute.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: July 2026 Anything Goes Halloween

I was inspired by the red in the mood board for my card project. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. The rain has stopped, the excessive heat has dropped so it was a pleasant day today. Take care and make it a great day.

Two versions of my Red White and Blue card and not totally patriotic. My cards use Taylored Expressions Cottage Charm layering stencil and die, Twinkle Twinkle background stamp, Star Spangled Sentiments, Arched Stacklets Die and Petite Scallop Arched stacklets dies for the red frame card and Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles for the blue frame.

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Colorful Options: July 2026 R W B Challenge

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Winter blues with pops of red from my cardinals. My card today was made using Simon Says Stamps Forest Border embossing folder which was embossed on a piece of SSS patterned paper that was in my stash. After swiping a bit of Taylored Expressions Tiki Mule ink over the raised embossed areas for a bit more dimension, I die cut a cardinal from TE’s winter birds dies as well as TE Little Bits Birds and Birdhouses dies. Layered a SSS sentiment strip. I haven’t played in awhile with Peace on Earth challenge blog but with the temps in PA hitting 100 degrees this week in my hometown maybe I can stay cool by working on Christmas cards. As you can see by their mood board, I was inspired by adding a “red” bird!!

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Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #114

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