Orange and plaid are definitely signs of the changing seasons and fall should be right around the corner….well maybe not yet but soon.

For my card today, I made my plaid using Taylored Expressions Plaid layering stencil in Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spiced Marmalade and Ripe Persimmon inks and added a black line with a marker. Simon Says Stamp Large Stitched Maple leaf die is my focal image and the sentiment is from a Gina K Designs Autumn Silhouettes stamp set. Sweet Mango cardstock from GKD was used to complete my Outrageous Orange card. And why make one when you can make two cards.

My card today will be shared with:

Colorful Options: September 2023 Challenge – Outrageous Orange Color

Double D Challenges: Fall Plaids Challenge

Inspiring, fun mood boards for both challenges. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.

Finally getting around to making backgrounds with my newest Create-In-Quads stencils “Bird Party” from Taylored Expressions. This is sweet little chickadee is my favorite part of the quad stencil and was sent to my sister in Florida. And the second card will is for my daughter and son-in-law for their wedding anniversary.

My card today will be shared with:

Triple B: September Challenge for Birds, Blooms and Butterflies.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. Our heat wave has broken this evening with some crazy winds that had us scrambling to move furniture off the patio followed by rain, thunder and lightning. It may be an unsettled few days and will definitely make the grass grow.

Someone forgot to inform Mother Nature that Labor Day is not the end of summer not even the unofficial end of summer! We are into another heat wave this week with 95 degrees temperatures. Since the leaves on the trees are still green, I decided to stencil my leaves in green on green cardstock. The stencil used was one I picked up awhile back at my local Michael’s. The stamped and die cut image is Autumn is Calling set from The Rabbit Hole Designs. I am anxious to ink the rest of these images in this set.

My card will be shared with:

Crazy is our Fame–Stencils are our Game! September Stencil Fun Challenge with the option of FALL theme. And of course I am playing with the option of fall and the required stencil.

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After being WOW’d by Whimsy Stamps Bookeh designer paper pad, I was hoping to make it the star of my card but for some reason I kept on adding other items and it may have gotten a little lost. LOL…any way it was really fun to make this card and even fussy cutting the Lil Grim Reaper image from a Recollections Halloween stamp set from a few years ago. The Drippy frame die is also from Whimsy stamps. Whimsy Stamps does Halloween really well. I opted to add a little white mound so my Lil Grim didn’t get lost in the background. The white card base was stenciled with SimonSaysStamp bat stencil which was pretty much covered up by the frame and just to grunge it a little more sponged on some black ink.

My card today will be shared with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenges – September Anything Halloween

Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #7

I just realized that my cat card was a Top 3 with halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge 6. Very cool to be recognized.

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I was a little stuck with how to incorporate an embossing folder and poppies until I saw a card design on the Fans of Taylored Expressions Facebook group. I wasn’t sure how I could give credit to the original card but I appreciate that design. A StampinUp/Sizzix embossing folder was used on shimmer white cardstock. My poppies are from Taylored Expressions Poppy Fields layering stencil which was free with a purchase. SimonSaysStamp’s word and shadow dies as well as a few little sparkly bling embellishments complete my card today.

I will be sharing my card with:

Can You Handle the Pressure: Anything Goes with an embossing folder with a twist of poppies.

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From Unicorns to llamas to foxes, I can only wonder what will be my granddaughter’s next next favorite critter. I must admit that I fell down the Rabbit Hole Designs when I saw their Fall Foxes release and somehow it jumped right into my cart and went directly to check-out!! My larger leaves are Gina K Designs Thankful Leaves that are a combination stamps, dies and foil Foil-Mates. After adding a little bit of splatter to my circle background, arranging the leaves for the fox to play in and stamping, ink smooshing and die cutting the smaller leaves included in the Fall Foxes stamp set this card is complete.

I will be sharing my cute fox with:

Cardz 4 Galz #206 Cute Animals or Insects challenge

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Re-do and reworked my card busy sunflower tag card from yesterday. I think I had nightmares about that one but I deconstructed my original card. I was able to take off my tag with no issue then mounted it to a white cardbase, added a little gold bling and a aqua blue butterfly and a second green sprig! The background sunflowers which was my base for the original was a do over on the other side of the cardstock. I didn’t like the splatter or is it spatter on the card and stamped it this time in kraft ink, popped up a separate colored sunflower, a vellum strip and bolder sentiment with a tiny sentiment strip.

I think I do like the sunflower field better than the tag….I may just not be a tag on card girl.

You were all very kind and supportive on your comments on the previous “flop” and I appreciate all of you. All constructive critiques are always welcome. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate all of you and your time. Take care, be safe and stay cool.

Sunflowers are plentiful and have been a big business the past few years with several closeby farms planting fields of these beautiful flowers. With that theme in mind, my card is my attempted CASE of Amy R’s recent card but I think my card is a whole lot busier. WOW…it’s really busy for me!! I started with a trio of sunflowers from a Simon Says Stamp Sunflower Field stamp and die set that I snagged on clearance awhile ago. I flicked some yellows and greens on my image, die cut a Sizzix Tags #3 die, added some Taylored Expressions Flower Market stamp set and dies for follage, sentiment from the SSS Sunflower Field stamp set and some ribbons from my stash. There is a huge sunflower stamp in that SSS set so I inked it in Gina K’s honey mustard ink and stamped on my card base. I even added some black splatter to my card base as well as punching out three Martha Stewart butterflies. Whew….this is one busy card!!

I will be sharing my card today with:

Double D Challenges: Sunflowers

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The last Gina K Designs card kit from July 2023 included a stamp and die set featuring vintage summer stamps. After inking a stenciled background with kraft and using Taylored Expressions Pretty Petals stencil and TE Oval stencil mask, the butterfly was stamped directly onto my background in brown ink. The sentiment from the same card kit was stamped and die cut.

My card today will be shared with:

The Sisterhood of Crafters — Keep it Simple theme

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