Adding a masculine birthday card to my stash, I decided to focus on the word sentiment with the SimonSaysStamp Chunky Happy word die. I cut some strips of “scrap” 65 lb cardstock and glued it to a piece of copy paper then die cut the sentiment from the stripes, die cut the outline again from the pale blue cardstock and die cut the shadow from a sand colored cardstock. The layering panel was splattered with gold and brown inks/paints and for good measure a perfect pearls spray too. Of course all of that warped my card pretty badly and the ivory cardstock base was not of the heaviest weight but I think adding an inner panel of some better weight will help balance the weight. After adhering the word die, cut apart a sentiment strip and added a few enamel dots to complete my card.

I will be sharing my card today with:

Word Power Challenge #4

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I had a previously made panel from powders on my desk and it was time to turn it into a card. Using Taylored Expressions Peace Within dies and add on dies for my focal panel over the pastel green and a tiny layered purple butterfly completes my card today.

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Colorful Options: April 2024 with a color theme of pastels.

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and Pumpkins Gleam it’s time to get ready for Halloween……

Taking inspiration from the mood board I decided on some patterned paper from my stash that included the tree branch, spider web and spiders, then place Tim Holtz Stapers Anonymous layering moon mask stencil on the background and blended some Distress Oxide ink in Iced Spruce and Black Soot to darken the panel, removed the mask and added the moon feature stencil and lightly ink blended on top of that too. The cat die is an unbranded die from my stash and sentiment is SimonSaysStamp preprinted sentiment strips.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Two Old Bats April 2024 Anything Halloween Challenge

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A CAS card with just an extra bit of overlapping layer for my card today. After finding this red rubber mounted Penny Black stamp (4169K) Get Well Soon stamp in my stash, I inked it in Taylored Expressions Cookie Monster ink, cut some My Favorite Things Cloud Die-namics dies from cardstock and one from glitter paper and then inked, added a small side panel to my card base and this card is completed. I did find this idea from Penny Black for this design.

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Simply Clean & Simple: April 2024 Challenge with a theme of WEATHER.

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April Showers!! are happening almost every other day lately so I found this “cute to me” old red rubber mounted stamp from Designs Unlimited named Penguin Gardener. I remember finding this stamp at a local stamp show and I got it on a discount because of a small defect with the flower stem. No problem I just die cut that part off! LOL. After stamping and coloring the image, I used a raindrop stencil from our Buddy Bonnie to add those big rain drops and located a piece of cardstock that seemed to mimic the colors and rain spatters and mounted to a piece of black cardstock. Sentiment is from an older Gina K Designs stamp set by Theresa Momber Up and Away.

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Double D Challenges: Cute Little Animals Theme Challenge

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Taking inspiration from Buddy Gerry’s recent rocker card, I decided to give it a go. My teeny rocker card uses the largest circle dies in my stash with a computer generated sentiment and Stamabilities Happy Hoppers House Mouse stamp “Relaxing Bubbles” After using some colored pencils to color in my bunny and tub and bubbles, I added Glossy Accents to the bubbles.

I’ll be sharing my rocker card today with:

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #222 – Cute Animals

This is going in the mail tomorrow for a friend who needs to be reminded that she deserves a break and hopefully will take one. I appreciate you and your time. After days of rain, there was a magnitude 4.8 earthquake about 40 miles aways from our home. Shook our house and make quite a noise and it was very strange for our area. Tomorrow we will have military helicopters practicing at our local airport so that should be very interesting to see. I may just stay in my “elf room” for the weekend. Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

We made it to April and Spring and the blooms are popping and no fooling that I am a guest designer for Triple B Birds, Butterflies and Blooms April challenge. Panic was my first reaction but Darlene and our Bonnie calmed me down and this is my card for the challenge. Not an April Fools joke!

I decided on Colorado Craft Company’s Pretty Little Lines Daffodil Mice stamp set and I opted for the tulip stem and this little mouse for my card. Lightly colored with markers from my stash and a little Wink of Stella for some shine was added.  The background was ink blended using Taylored Expressions Pretty Petals stencil and added a few Martha Stewart punch butterflies for good measure.

Hope you all can play along with this challenge.

Triple B Challenges – April 2024

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One Easter card for next year!!! I stamped this cute little image from SimonSaysStamp’s Sweet Tweets stamp set and didn’t use it for a card this Easter but when I saw a challenge of Bunnies and/or Chicks, I decided to make a card and save it for next year. A mini-slimline card with some light ink blending of green and pink left on my brushes for the focal panel. And can I just say, look at my sentiment!!!! OMG….Sending is one stamp and the so much love is a separate sentiment. Maybe they were meant to be nestled in each other like that but I can hardly believe that I didn’t mess it up. After fussy cutting the image I popped it up on dimensionals and it kind of gave a 3D effect. After struggling to make the glossy accents flow and adding to the eggs and a few other items, my card today is completed and will be sharing it with:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: March 27 Bunnies and/or Chicks Challenge.

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I saw this idea on the Fans of Taylored Expressions Facebook group and knew I needed to CASE it. The card was made using TE’s Fluttering Friends Embossing Folder and Stencil. This was part of the recent Virtual StampJoy 2024 that I participated in but instead of using the stencils I just swiped white pigment ink over the raised embossed areas. Sentiment is SSS’s Sweet Tweets which was still on my desk (lol) and TE’s Frame in Frame 3 cutting plates, butterfly is Tim Holtz. I made several of these in spring colors and still haven’t decided which color I liked the best. This was is going to my sister in FL because she likes pink.

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Triple B March 2024 Challenge: Anthing Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies

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