Double D Challenges

Birds – Nests – Birdhouses/Cages is our challenge with Double D Challenges blog. There is a lot of spring activity with birds and their nests. Nests in trees, nests in wreaths on doors, nests being built almost everywhere; however, my card focuses on the birds next home The Bird House!!

I did find this idea on Pinterest and tried to make it my own. Using a Gina K Designs stamp set named Sweet Friend which may have been a mini or part of a kit, I stamped, colored and fussy cut my bird houses. Sentiment is from the same GKD set but I did some stamp surgery on the complete sentiment. To continue with the bird theme, my Cuttlebug embossing folder is called Birds & Swirls. Some strips of saved cardstock from my stash and Garden Greens die cuts from Tim Holtz Sizzix completes my card today.

I watched a video on Facebook on a Blue Jay building it’s nest. It was really cool but I would be totally exhausted what that little bird need to do for those little eggs.

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Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #15

After seeing the inspiration mood board for the Challenge #15 with the Peace On Earth Christmas blog, I focused on the arrangement of pinecones and greens. I remembered and watched the YouTube video again from Amy R (Prairer Paper & Ink) using the SimonSaysStamp pinecone background stamp. Amy R made multiple cards but I only made two using this design. After stamping the background stamp and heat embossing using Taylored Expressions Copper embossing powder, I inked up Distress Ink in Iced Spruce to soften the white space in the panel.

The sentiment is Taylored Expressions Joyful Season sentiment with die layered on a piece of vellum. I thought it needed a little more so after stamping and die cuttting a pinecone and branches in Tim Holtz iced spruce and walnut stain Distress Ink to finish off my card. Not sure if I like the added pinecone…it may need to go the other direction but I didn’t want to take the chance of repositioning so it’s a keeper for me today.

Congratulations to our Johanna and her awesome card in her role as Guest Designer for this challenge.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge – May

My most anticipated monthly challenge is live! It’s May Anything Halloween with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge blog. This month’s inspiration mood board seemed to focus on black and gold with a hint of orange. I was drawn to the dinner table place settings and decided that no respectable Halloween party can take place without a spooky chandelier!!

My card used a gold heat embossed chandelier from maybe Outlines/Hampton Arts. I did not have the original packaging any more on this older red rubber stamp. I stamped the image in verafine black onyx ink and then heat embossed using gold embossing powder. To me, I get a much better and less splotchy emboss than using veramark. And it was interesting that the black ink worked well with colored embossing powder. I popped up my panel with some fun foam and then decided to frame it with Hero Arts Wood Frame Infinity dies cut from black and gold patterened paper from my stash. The side of the frame cuts out slightly so I mounted it on an orange card base so a little orange peeks through the frame. And since crows were invited to the dinner party on the mood board I found Mr. Crow from a Recollections stamp set, gold heat emboss the guest of honor and fussy cut him out to oversee the activities.

Another fun challenge and inspiration mood board from the Two Old Bats.

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Colorful Options – May 2022

Double Trouble Challenge #109

Double Dare with Colorful Options this month!! Pink is the color of the month of a rainbow option but they are joining The Double Trouble Challenge #109 with their theme of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Thing One is requiring rainbow colors and Thing Two is requiring a fantasy element. Whew!!! Three in one and only one thinking cap!!!

Using my SimonSaysStamp Cosmo Flowers stencil, I ink blended Distress Oxide inks in Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry. Step one completed lots of pink. SSS also has Cosmo Flower Petals dies which I cut out in ROYGBIV and pink colors with an ivory center which is Thing One’s requirement. Next a fantasy element which is my little fairy silhouette die for Thing Two. Double Dare challenge met!!

This was fun and took more than a little thought….LOL!

This is my first time playing with Double Trouble Challenges.

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Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges #5

The Paper Dragonfly Createve Challenge this month is Mermaids + the dragonfly twist. I created my water scene by first using Hero Arts Rays of Color stencil and a light blue ink. I wanted more of an undersea background so I die cut Hero Arts Beach Frame Fancy die from cardstock and blended this over the Rays of Color in a navy ink. The top portion which I surprisingly remembered to mask off at the start of my card became my sky by making my clouds with an Inky Antics cloud stencil and left over ink on a blending brush. The little mermaid is Sizzix’s Catch a Wave stamp and die set and dragonflies are Gina K Designs’ Take Flight stamp set.

It’s always fun to play with Paper Dragonfly challenges.

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The Paper Players Theme Challenge PP589

After 46 years of marriage and a total of 52 years together, I do bee-lieve that we still do Bee-Long Together. My anniversary card for my husband will also be entered into The Paper Players Theme challenge of Birds and/or Bees. My angled gatefold card and some bee patterned paper from my stash as well as the SimonSaysStamp’s multi-use Bee Yourself stamp set completes my card. Inside the card the two bees are holding hands floating above a honecomb on a beautiful sky.

Fun challenge from hosted by Jaydee.

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As You Can See It Challenge 273

“The call it the blues” is the challenge 273 over at the As You Can See It challenge blog. Gorgeous Stampin Up colors of Night of Navy, Pacific Point and Balmy Blue for this color challenge.

Using a Taylored Expressions A2 mask, I first ink blended my substitute Gina K Designs inks for the Stampin Up colors. First up in the smallest rectangle was Navy, then Blue Raspberry and finally Powder Blue. My silhouette image is also GKD’s Friendly Silhouettes which was stamped in versamark ink and white heat embossed. Sentiment was from the same stamp set and was gold heat embossed on vellum.

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AAA Cards Challenge # 213

Always an interesting Clean and Simple Card challenge with the AAA Cards challenge blog and #213 is Small and Few + Easter/Spring option. I always need to remind myself to keep this challenge CAS.

I pulled out the sweet little chicks from Stampin Up’s Heaven Blessed stamp set and stamped and colored the chicks with some markers. I made a circle mask for the image and lightly sponged some Gina K Designs lemon drop ink and mounted the panel on some very spring green cardstock.

Our farmer’s market would always have chicks that were dyed in spring colors. These chicks were so cute to see but thankfully we were never able to buy one. I know what happens to those cute little chicks!!

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Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #14

Using the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge mood board of silver and gold with wreaths and ornaments, I decided to pull out an older mounted red rubber stamp set from Great Impressions. After stamping it in versamark ink I took a pinch of silver and gold embossing powder and heat set my wreath then die cut it using Spellbinders Classic scalloped circle dies. The deer is a Martha Stewart flocked deer sticker, the bow is Poppy Grosgrain Bow die and the patterned paper was from my stash called Holiday Glitz.

My first wreath I die cut using a circle die and also cut the center portion out. You can probably imagine where that was going….yup…it looked just like a donut!!! Not that I don’t love a good donut however not when it’s supposed to be a Christmas wreath hanging on my gatefold card. LOL. The scalloped die worked much better.

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