After watching Amy R’s Faux Dip-Dye YouTube video, I decided to give it a try. Not a complete success but a bit of an ombre effect if you look close enough. After painting my background on watercolor cardstock, I stamped the trees and heat embossed in black embossing powder using a Tim Holtz SimonSaysStamp Stamptember 2021 stamp set. Added a little white spatter and stamped, heat embossed and fussy cut the Gina K Designs Christmas Joy sentiment.

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Double D Challenges: Get Ready for Winter

We had some flurries but mostly rain which is definitely needed. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.

A clean & simple card today using Gina K Designs Sentimental Sentiments and Peace, Love & Joy stamps sets, brown ink and gold embossing powder. Taylored Expressions Wavy Stitched stacklets was used to add a little more interest to the CAS card.

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Simply Clean & Simple: November 2024 Challenge with a theme of Christmas is coming!

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Adorable images are included in the HunkyDory It’s a cute, cute Christmas pocket pad and I decided on these little bears. After fussy cutting the images, I added them to a Taylored Expressions Tiny Twinkles embossing folder background. A few SimonSaysStamp Layered Hills, pretty Pink Posh’s Winter frame and Avery Elle’s love die will complete my card.

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Double D Challenges: Warm and Cozy Challenge

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I must confess that I haven’t started on my Christmas cards yet except for a few made for challenges. Oh my!!! I need to get motivated. Wish me luck.

Taking inspiration from Buddy Johanna’s recent mug cards, I decided to give it a try! An older Gina K Designs’ Mugs & Kisses stamps set was used for my focal image mug stamped on a circle die. To help fill in the large circle, I found some GKD ephemera and stamped the candy cane from the same stamp set. Embossing folder is SimonSaysStamps’ Holiday Greenery. Snowflake, patterned paper and word Joy were from my stash.

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Can You Handle The Pressure?: November 9th Anything Goes with a Twist of Coffee, Cocoa, warm drinks.

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My Halloween scene includes Taylored Expressions Gus & Gertie Halloween, Ghost Town border die, one of my cloud stencils with of course purple ink blended clouds and Memory Box’s Pasture Grass die cut.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: November 2024 Anything Halloween Goes

My Zombie boy Halloween card was randomly chosen as a prize winner in October’s Challenge. Thanks Darlene and Diane. Always fun to play along.

Taking some inspiration from Buddy Gerry’s recent black and white card, I decided to go that route too. So my background is a little “chilling”for Christmas. The patterned paper is from Whimsy Chilling Christmas patterned paper pack. Not really sure if I like this pack or not…..it is a little dark but I’ll keep working at it. The die cut letters are Taylored Expressions Folk Joy die. I did try adding a red “O” to the card but that definitely didn’t work for me so black and white it is.

My card today will be shared with: Word Power #11 Challenge

I was very surprised that my BOO card was the Top Winner in Word Power’s Challenge #10. I was thrilled and honored.

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My warning to my children and grandchildren is usually if I don’t receive a list it’s socks and underwear for them under the Christmas tree. This Unity Stamp Co’s Hold on Santa stamp and sentiment was a perfect set for me to use. The background was made using SimonSaysStamps Poinsettia background stamp in Gina K Designs Cherry Red ink. Each panel was layered with red cardstock.

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Colorful Options: November 2024 challenge and their color of the month is RED

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Three pieces of patterned paper, stacked together, cut apart and shuffled so a different pattern is on all three cards. Thanks to Lisa Freeman, SU and her recent YouTube video for this idea. After assembling the background, I stamped and colored the bird from Gina K Designs Vintage Summer card kit. Patterned paper is also a GKD product.

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Love those Pretty Papers November Challenge — Theme is Brown and Yellow this month

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The final friend 70th birthday is this upcoming week so I thought it would be appropriate to include leaves on her card. A leaf die cut was used as my stencil for my background layer and then used the same inks to ink blend another piece of cardstock to cut out the leaf die. Vellum is sandwiched inbetween the layers to soften the look. Some gold cord and a Taylored Expressions sentiment stamp and die as well as their postage stamp dies were used to complete my card.

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The Four Seasons Challenge: Fall Season November 2024

Leaves have peaked in my neighborhood and have started falling and I do believe that all of the neighborhood leaves have blown to our yard. Let the clean up begin! Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take card and stay safe.