My project of valentine cards for the Making Cards for Troops group is completed. Normally I design, prep the cards and my girlfriends gather at my home to color, sponge and assemble but that didn’t happen. Coronavirus numbers are increasing in our county. We all have our bubble that we are comfortable in but some friends’ bubbles are a little bigger than others. Will is scheduled for knee replacement surgery the middle of this month and I didn’t feel comfortable having 6 friends although masked and six feet apart at tables in our home. Finished 92 cards and can I tell you that I really love every one of them. Five of each design with the exception of one group that has four and three individual designs. My Halloween cards suffered but am on track to start some Thanksgiving cards before beginning Christmas.

Thanks to our Stamp Buddy Gerry for making an awesome card using the Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix Thinlits die that I just had to have it. This is my monster boo group card that I created. The background was sponged using some Distress Oxide Inks and die cut the group and bats in various GKD cardstock.

This card will be entered into the Dies R Us Challenge: DRU Challenge #155 — Boo to create a Halloween card and a metal die’s company sold in the DRU Store. The Dies R Us store does carry Sizzix dies.

Thanks for looking. It’s been a Boo-tifully fall day in Pennsylvania today.

The challenge at AAA Cards is a CAS One Corner with an optional twist of cozy. Well I guess there’s a warm cozy feeling around marshmallows. Marshmallows in hot chocolate! Marshmallows roasted over a fire! Marshmallows in smores! I will readily admit that I love marshmallows!!

My marshmallow stamp is one that I have had forever and a day and probably never saw ink until today. This is a DRS. Designs stamp. The sentiment I made up and printed then die cut with a Momenta die set. I colored my marshmallow with some distress inks and a water brush. The focal image is mounted on kraft cardstock.

The last few days the weather has been warm but I do believe marshmallow weather is not far off.

A Halloween card created using Tim Holtz Sizzix Framelits w/Stamps & Texture Fades set, sentiment was heat set with black embossing powder is from Hampton Art’s Zombies & Stencil set. The background was sponged with a variety of Distress Oxide inks including the new Crackling Campfire. To highlight the drippy bloooood I used wink of stella glitter gold and then smoothed it out with my fingers. Zombie hand was colored with some Arteza real brush markers.

This card will be entered into Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge “Halloween Jump Start” anything goes challenge and into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Spooky! A first time for a Simon Says challenge.

Enjoy your day! It’s beautiful in Pennsylvania today and we are off to Chase’s socially distancing soccer game.

Rema is hosting the October Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs and the theme for the challenge is color blocking. I have color and I have blocks!! I will confess that I did use my new patterned paper pad on which I stamped the new incentive stamp set Thankful Greenery and heat set in clear embossing powder after stamping in black ink. Using first a white colored pencil then greens and pinks, I colored in the leaves and berries, cut apart my image into blocks and mounted on a layering purple cardstock adding the sentiment in white heat embossing powder.

Fun challenge — thanks for looking.

Happy Saturday! Today’s card is a wreath created with the GKD’s wreath builder template, sentiment from the same set, wreath fern is GKD’s Triple Play Frame stamp set and was stamped in Fresh Asparagus, Kraft and Faded Brick. Also used on this card was a Darice leaf embossing folder.
The Double D Challenge is to create a Wreath — check! The Sisterhood of Crafters is to include Lots of Layers — check!! The panels are all layered in black cardstock to give me a lot of layers but still ok for 1st class mail with no additional postage due (fingers crossed).

Two fun challenges! Thanks for stopping by. Hope you had a great day.