I’m getting my heart on with some Valentine cards! My card today has a few layers and may need extra postage or probably my card for hubby! Top layer is Taylored Expressions Mosaic Heart die using pink glitter paper and black shimmer cardstock, the arrows were cut apart from another die in my stash. Next up is the stenciled layer and Simon Hurley’s Happy Hearts layering stencil, using pink ink on one stencil and “slippery when wet’ Lunar paste for the second stencil. This layer was popped up on a embossed lips panel then backed with black and finally on a hot pink note card.

My card will be shared with:

Crazy is our fame – STENCILS are our Game: February 2025 Stencil Fun Challenge with a theme of red and/or pink and the required stencil.

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What’s one more paper pad? Hard to resist especially a 6×6 variety of Valentine designs on sale and a voucher from my local Michael’s. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it!!! After choosing some patterns from the Sweet on You Recollections Valentine’s Day paper pad, I cut them into 1/4″ strips and staggered them diagonally on a sheet of copy paper. I added two gold TE decorative strips that were on my desk and layered onto some hot pink cardstock. The ephemera hearts were from my stash and the scripty love sentiment is Gina K Designs.

Today’s card will be shared with:

Colorful Options: February 2025 Taking inspiration from their pretty mood board.

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: February 2025 Challenge with a theme option of The Color Red

Thank you to the Colorful Options challenge team for choosing my January 2025 color challenge card as a Designer Spotlight card. I appreciate your kindness and support.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe and keep warm or cool depending on your location. In Pennsylvania, here we go again! Weekend snow and a couple of mid week storms next week too! Sigh!!!

A stencil challenge of using the word Hello and/or winter card theme was my inspiration for my card today. The stenciled background is Taylored Expressions Create in Quad Mistletoe stencils. This is one of four card fronts made with the quad stencil method. Gina K Designs Blue Raspberry ink and TE’s Poblano Pepper and Cherry Red ink for the stencil layers with Simon Hurley’s Bee Sting Lunar Paste for the final layer of my background. TE Framed Script Hello was die cut twice and cut out from the frame. The panels were die cut with Waffle Flowers A2 Lacy Layers dies.

Crazy is our fame – STENCILS are our game!! January 2025 Stencil Fun Challenge

Another fun challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe and keep warm. Yes, it’s still quite cold in Pennsylvania.

It’s snowing outside my house all day and this cute Taylored Expressions bear was sittting on my desk for some time. So when the Double D Challenges: White on White challenge caught my eye I figured it was the perfect time to use this image. I made a mess on my floor die cutting snowflakes with a variety of dies including SimonSaysStamp, Hero Arts Fancy die for my center circle and some unknown dies from my stash while watching football. Taylored Expressions Bear Hugs stamp set, stencils and dies were used for the polar bear. I didn’t want the bear to get lost in all of that white so added a bit of color to the scarf and sentiment.

Another fun challenge from Double D Challenges along with their inspiring mood board. Happy to play along with them.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Snow shovels, layers of clothing are gathered for tomorrow we will be clearing out from today’s snow. It looks pretty but I’d much rather have those dustings to an inch annoying storms. Take care, stay safe and keep warm.

I have discovered that not all 3D embossing folders are equal in size and depth. I’m always trying to figure out the sandwich for my BigShot and 3D eb folders holding my breath not to force anything. The Baroque Bouquet 3D embossing folder from Taylored Expressions gives a nice dimension and levels of embossing. This is TE stamp set, coordinating stencils, die and embossing folder. The TE Fineline Vine background stamp was inked with versamark ink for a tone on tone look and TE’s Wavy Stitched Stacklets for a bit of a design border. Sentiment strip was friended to me.

My card today will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes with a Twist of 3D embossing folder

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Splatter rule #1 — wait until the splats dry before taping to a card panel or you will end up with snow balls instead of splatter!!! LOL!!!! My pumpkin patch was made using Taylored Expressions Graveyard Shift dies, Memory Box Pasture Grass dies, TE’s Squiggle Stacklets, Copic Opaque White for splatter, sentiment strip from my stash probably SSS.

My card will be shared with, of course, one of my most fun monthly challenges:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: Anything Goes Halloween January 2025

The dynamic duo team of Diane and Darlene are at it again with another monthly challenge beginning in February Neglected Stuff Challenge Blog. Pretty sure I have a lot of those items and should be fun to ink up and use the “forgottens” in my stash.

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I’m adding to my supply of birthday cards with this Cuttlebug embossed background on black cardstock and swiped with white pigment ink. Then taking a section of a Taylored Expressions Time to Fly Combo Club stamp and stencil set and SimonSaysStamp Chunky Happy die, cut out twice, once in the stenciled carstock and once in black for the outline and then the shadow in vellum. Adding a scripty TE Big Happy Add-On sentiment and mounting to the card base my card is completed.

Today, I will be sharing with two challenges:

Double D Challenges: 9th Birthday/Anniversary Challenge at Double D Congratulations to Darlene and Diane and their fabulous design team.

And since my card is really made up of words, I’ll be adding the

Word Power: Word Power January 2025 Challenge

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Fun Fold card with lots of shine…..it’s like go bold or go home sometimes with me. This is a CASE of a Christmas card received from Johanna and a new stamp set gifted to me by a friend. With the images in the stamp set it could have gone nautical or space themed and I opted for more of a outer space 🙂 theme. Digging out my DCWV Natural paper pad from my stash, I decided on three different patterns, embossed the image on vellum and heat embossed with bronze embossing powder. After fussy cutting the arrow and gluing it in place I thought it looked liked a game board spinner. The note card also opens for a second sentiment and personal message. Thanks for the inspiration Johanna.

My card today will be shared with:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: ATG using pretty patterned papers January 2025 with a theme of a fun fold card.

We had a few inches of snow today and while Will shoveled I put most of Christmas away! My forever tree stays up year round and the snowmen have been warned that it’s to the basement in storage if they bring too many winter storms. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe and keep warm. Brrrr….it’s very cold in Pennsylvania.

A color challenge using Yellow – Green – Purple is Colorful Options January 2025 Challenge! I immediately went to Mardi Gras but decided it was too early for that so with a little bit of overlap and a teeny bit of colors not quite blending I decided on a silhouette stamp and turned it into a birthday card for maybe my son and/or sil. The added splatter was intended for a Facebook challenge with Taylored Expressions and I lightly splattered some gold and black on this card. My orginal card with the same design was pretty heavy handed with gold splatter. That one grew on me and I’ll be using that one too. My products are all TE including Simple Silhouette stamp set, Happy Occasions stamp & die set, A2 Postage Stamp Stacklets die, Granny Smith, Dried Fig & Pineapple inks.

I will be sharing my card with:

Colorful Options: January 2025 Yellow Purple Green challenge

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