I haven’t played along with The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge in awhile so their challenge to include either heat or dry embossing interested me. It interested me enough to pull out the SSS Floral Field 3D embossing folder and emboss it on a piece of foil cardstock, lightly sand the raised image, cut it apart for my Bonnie sentiment strip which was popped up and added a few blue sequins to finish off this card. I thought that my sentiment strip needed some shine so I added glossy accents but now I’m wondering if I should have used versamark and clear embossing powder to add the shine. Any suggestions??

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. It was a lovely day of sunshine and lower humidity so it was a two walk day!

The challenge with the Just Add Ink Challenge blog is an inspiration photo:

and is definitely a Christmas in July theme for me. Working off of the ornaments in the inspiration photo, I wanted to play around with my Taylored Expressions Baubles layering stencil and Beautiful Baubles stamp set. The stencil is very easy to line up and fun to create these retro looking ornaments.

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Judy has thrown down a vellum flower challenge that must be the focal point of your card at the ModSquad Challenge blog. The sponsor for this challenge is Gina K Designs so I decided to stamp one of the larger flowers from the Forever Flowers stamp set which was part of a card kit. Not being the best at coloring, I decided to stamp my focal flower on vellum and heat set with which embossing powder and then repeat the image in the same position on a piece of white cardstock. The flower on the card stock was the image I colored with colored pencils. The sentiment was from Gina K Designs’ Dazzling Dahlia stamp set which was part of Sentimental Summer StampTV kit. The sentiment was heat embossed in gold embossing powder. I added some splatter on the white card layer in bubblegum pink and some gold then tiny dots of glue around the back outline of the vellum layer to adhere to the white panel. All mounted on a pink card base.

Whew….that’s a lot for me!!

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Our challenge for the Double D Challenges is to use Summer Gingham on your project. After thumbing through my supply of Gina K Designs patterned paper packs, I chose this light aqua-ish piece of gingham and cut it into strips. The strips along with a few solid pieces of cardstock were glued to a clear transparencies sheet and then die cut it with a GKD circle die. After die cutting, I popped the “floating” image with foam strips, dry embossed the card base with a Momenta embossing folder, added a Tim Holtz Sizzix layering butterfly die and stamping the sentiment from Stampendous’ Daisy Thanks stamp set in gold embossing powder. The Floating strips tutorial was from Splitcoaststampers and can be found here.

The pink card was the first card I created using the floating strips idea, cut out a dandelion die and smeared some glossy accents on it, stamping the background with Simon Says Stamps’ halftone square background stamp and adding a Bonnie sentiment. This one is not for the Double D Challenge but thought I’d share it anyway.

This is the Mood board for the gingham challenge to be used as inspiration.

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Anne Marie is hosting A Theme Challenge one The Paper Players Challenge blog and it’s Stars and/or Stripes.

And although I love the red, white and blue on the inspiration photo, I decided to do stripes in ivory and black on a white cardstock base. I finally decided to get inky with Gina K Designs’ A Little Hello Layering stencil bundle. It’s a set of three layering stencils, dies and a stamp set. The sentiment is from the A Little Hello stamp set which was part of the bundle.

Thanks to the reminder email from the group about there still being time to play as this was created earlier and sat on my desk. I believe this card will be going to my SIL for her birthday at the end of July.

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Today’s card is my second edge to edge shaker card. These are so much easier to create without adding all of that foam tape and no leaks!!! I ink sponged my winter night sky, added a moon, stamped my images using Gina K Designs’ Poster Board Christmas and Merry & Bright Stamp TV Kit stamp sets. Added some of GKD’s Vanilla Ice Sequins and then silver glitter….panic set in because the glitter stuck to the background. Using a brush moved it to the trees so they are glistening in the cold winter night. Added a glitter frame to complete this card.

I think Santa my need headlights on his sleigh as the card is a little dark. LOL!

I’ll be entering this card into Gina K Designs July 2021 Monthly Mix Challenge’s Christmas in July hosted by Sheri.

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Just Add Ink Challenge 561 — Just Add a Shaker

Back again for some more challenges! I haven’t played in quite some time but felt it was time to jump back into the challenge game. Today’s card is a edge to edge flat full shaker card to meet the Just Add Ink Challenge and my flip flops are definitely a sign of summer for the Double D Challenges.

Using a piece of World Beaches patterned paper gifted to me by my sister, I adhered this to a piece of cardstock to make it sturdier then added some red line tape as well as a sheet protector cut larger than the card base. After adhering all three sides of the sheet protector, I added my shaker bits and gems and sealed the top section. More tape added and I really mean more tape and adhered to the card base. I stamped the flip flops from Gina K Designs Hello Sunshine stamp set first of my last treasured sheet of SU vellum and heat set it then stamped again on patterned paper, fussy cut the flops and adhered to my vellum, adding this and a stamped sentiment from the same stamp set to my card front.

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Even though CAS cards are always such a challenge for me, I enjoy playing along with the AAA Cards Clean and Simple Challenges. The current challenge is a sketch with an optional twist of including critters. Since it’s 4th of July weekend and I’m sure we will be having a hot dog sometime this weekend, I decided on GKD’s Cute as A Bug stamp set illustrated by Rupa Shevde an older red rubber set for my any critters. I also used Gina K Designs’ Perfect Plaids by Tami Mayberry to stamp my “picnic blanket” in red ink. After coloring in my image and thinking I needed to add some light blue around the critters, YIKES!!!, mistake the blue looked off so took some pixie powder and a little water on my block and lightly dabbed with a piece of plastic. Maybe I’ll call that rain because for a picnic, you need hot dogs, ants and rain!!! Quirky as I can be, I decided to add the circle sentiment “Take Out” from The Happy Planner stamp set.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Happy Birthday America! Happy Independence Day to all my American Stamp Buddies!!!

It’s a timed challenge at the As You See It Challenge blog and I almost got stuck for time in my foilage card. So the challenge was to create a card under 10 minutes with a foilage theme after collecting all supplies. I CASE’d a Hero Arts card I saw today on their YouTube channel and decided to give it a go. After cutting out the Hero Arts Jungle Fancy Frame die twice in two different shades of cardstock, used my roller brush thingy to get out the pieces of the die….well at least most of the pieces….then used a spray adhesive to adhere in offset layering to my card base. I decided to add the Simon Says Stamp Painted Friend word die also cut twice and added Bonnie’s sentiment strip to complete my card. Good thing I precut the sentiment strips and although a little crooked, I kind of like the idea of this card. Time to wash my sticky fingers and clean up the die pieces which will take another 10 minutes or so.

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