Saturday in the pouring down rain I joined my girlfriend who is now a 2 year breast cancer survivor along with her daughter and maybe another thousand women for the 5K Women’s Breast Cancer Awareness Walk. During her journey with radiation treatments, I sent her weekly cards of support and believe she will get a good chuckle when she receives this card.

My card was made using a combination of the Taylored Expressions Gnome die sets, some clipart I found online, pink ribbon is from GKD’s Fight Like a Girl stamp set, dragonfly which have a special meaning to my dearest gf are also GKD’s Dreams Take Flight stamp set and TE’s Linen Background stamp. It was a challenge finding pinks that didn’t clash with each other.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Double D Challenges: Pink October

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A labor of love! 270 cards for troops group that I mostly made throughout this past year and the card classes I took. Normally I have a group of 6 girlfriends that I make packets for assembly and finishing touches but only two were able to “play” this time around. They did great and learned how to stencil and were amazed at the Taylored Expressions Create in Quads stencils.

Not too much of a mess to clean up after our session. I could have shocked everyone by taking a photo of my “elf” room! YIKES!!

No more posts for me today. Have a great one everyone. Fall has arrived and it’s beginning to feel like soup weather too.

Working on some Fall cards and after visiting Pinterest decided on this card which uses Gina K Designs Skelton Leaves stamped in key lime ink and fussy cut them out. Sentiment is also GKD Autumn Wishes stamped in Fresh Asparagus. Layered Altenew’s Linear Crossroads die after die cutting twice, adding a little bling and layering on a green cardstock.

My card today will be shared with:

Cardz for Galz #209 Green and Cream Challenge

My cardstock, die and focal image all use Michael’s White Dove cardstock which is their cream/ivory color.

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Masculine fall card today in brown and ivory using Pretty Pink Posh’s Autumn Wreath stamp and die set as well as Tim Holtz Sizzix Mixed Media die which is about as much mixed media that I normally do!! LOL.

My card today will be shared with

Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge #332 – Autumn/Fall colors – Shades of Brown.

My card base is Gina K Designs Dark Chocolate cardstock but looks black in this photo.

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A simple little card for Brooke using square shapes and octogon stamp, embossing and a reminder to Bee Awesome.

For my card today, I die cut 3 Spellbinder Classic Squares, then embossed them using Cuttlebug stitched squares embossing folder and Cuttlebug’s Stylized Flowers embossing folder for the yellow layering cardstock mounted on black card base. Yellow, black, flowers, honeycomb and bee for an awesome granddaughter.

My card today will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder with a Twist of Bees/Beehive

The Sisterhood of Crafters: SHAPES theme.

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Using one balloon from Taylored Expressions Balloon Party layering stencils, I rainbow stenciled a balloon background. After masking areas around the chosen balloon, I started in the middle of the card background with a light red then filled in around that balloon trying to keep in rainbow order and not create any muddy balloons. After adding a TE frame and word sentiment popped up on a vellum circle, this card is finished. No extra gems or bling as this one may be included in my package for cards for troops.

Today’s card will be shared with two challenges:

Double D Challenges: Birthday Balloons

Make My Monday Challenge Blog Challenge #210 Create Your Own Background.

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Just how much fun is it to have a sleepover due to a school holiday on Monday. I will let you know that it’s a blast letting Brooke, my 11 year old granddaughter, take charge of my “elf” room and start designing Halloween cards. What a maker she is!!! This card was a combination of a fabulous patterned paper pack, Grumpy Pets and a Tim Holtz set. And if one card was not enough how about the rest of these amazing cards.

Brooke used some patterned papers, dies, pouncers, stickers, googly eyes, embossing folders and a whole lot of fun.

Just for fun I’m sharing Brooke’s cards with one of my favorite challenges:

Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #8

Chase, Brooke’s brother, did his part, too. He ate all of the candy corn candy! And best of all chose his favorite card which was the top one.

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Trying to come up with a clean and simple card that uses a stencil and I can send for a dear friend’s birthday wasn’t as difficult as I thought. My clean and simple card uses Taylored Expressiongs Abstract Accents layering stencils and clear stamp set, TE Simple Silhouettes and GKD Stipples Flowers sentiment. The difficult part was trying to hide a tiny black smudge on my focal layer.

My card will be shared with

Simply Clean and Simple CAS card design challenge: Simple Clean and Simple September Challenge with a stencil option.

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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.