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.
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.
Just when I thought it was safe to put away Halloween stamps, our Stamp Buddy, Johanna, finds a new challenge blog from Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge. Halloween year round!! YES!!! The Halloween Jump Start challenge is Anything Goes!
My card to be entered into this challenge is for our granddaughter Brooke. We sing the word llama to each other and both giggle about it so of course when I found this Recollections stamp set it was a no brainer for me. My “spooky” night background was to my eyes a hot mess but when I covered it up with the spooky tree, some tall grasses (Memory Box Pasture Grass), some little ghost and shiny pumpkins I thought it was perfect for Brooke. Lots of elements that she will get a kick out of.
I’ve been making an anniversary card for my son and daughter in law for the last two weeks and it’s finally finished but a week late. We were hoping to hand deliver to them and out of concern for us warned that his area is spiking again in Covid positive cases made the urgency less of a factor. So this will be going in a priority mail box as well as some costumes and Halloween goodies for our granddaughter.
My motivation returned when I saw the speed challenge at the As You See It challenge with a butterfly theme and under 10 minute speed challenge.
My card was completed in 7 minutes and 5 seconds and only took me five days to decide what to make. Butterflies are normally easy for me since they are a reminder of my late mother. I must admit that I did not make the background but did find this gorgeous Recollections Gilded Ink paper pad today at my Michael’s. The die cut to show case the patterned paper background is a Simon Says Stamp Confetti Circle die, the butterfly is also from a Recollections Valentine’s Day stamp & dies set and the sentiment is from Gina K Design’s The Northwoods. I stamped the butterfly on the background paper with VersaFine Clair black ink which was not the greatest choice of inks. Since I had to spend some of my time using my mono eraser to get some smears off my card. Using clear embossing powder could have solved that issue I believe. I added some shine with the Nuvo Glitter Gloss pen.
Thanks for looking. Hope you are having a great week!!
Our grandson who will be 10 years old a few days before Halloween so I’m pretty sure he will enjoy the zombies featured on this card which will be entered into the Dies R Us Anything Goes Challenge #154 to use a die company that is sold in the DRU store. The stamp set and coordinating dies are a Sizzix Tim Holtz Framelits w/stamps & Texture fades set. The frames were cut using Spellbinder’s Labels 17 set. The embossing folder is from another Sizzix Tim Holtz set.
Another batch of Cards for Troops completed and mailed today. I prepped 16 different cards styles and yesterday my girlfriends gathered at our home to assemble. This time they not only colored some images but actually ink blended some backgrounds. We had a wonderful socially distanced mask wearing day all for a good cause. I also included cards I made for various challenges and were not mailed making our total 102 all occasion cards. I’m going to begin prepping Valentine cards for a November card party.
Will my Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards get completed?? Hmmm!!!!
Love when challenges can motivate me to create my holiday cards and try out my new stamps. In this case, I’m in Halloween mode and wanted to use my Newton’s Nook Batty Newton stamp set which seemed perfect (to me) to use in The Paper Players Clean and Simple Challenge and to include pets. My ink blended circle was supposed to me a “spooky” moon however I think it turned more into a far mysterious planet for Batty Kitty to be flying around. After erasing a inky smudge off my focal panel, I found one more and decided to cover that one up with a bat stamps. Then I adhered the same panel to the card base the wrong direction!! Thankfully it pulled off without creasing or tearing. Besides this card being entered into the challenge it’s also in memory of my PennyLane. Boy we still do miss him and our morning wake up call with his paws in my face.
Next week Fall begins and the weather today in Pennsylvania again today was glorious. It was a little chilly for our grandson’s 9 am baseball game. I love beginning my Halloween cards with my favorite monster Frankenstein!! My stamps are all from Prickley Pear and the cloudy skies background are using a Simon Says Stamp stencil and some Distress Ink. I will find my favorite Bonnie cloud stencil but was anxious to begin my card. LOL…yes my desk is a mess again 🙂
This card will be entered into the Double D Challenges: Don’t Fence Me In in which we were required to include a fence. One Prickley Pear fence stamped behind Frankie. The cardstock is GKD’s Wild Lilac but the auto adjust deepened the color.
Hello! Stamp Buddy Johanna shared a video of a Radio Flyer car recently and it made me think of my latest find from Spellbinders Sunday Drive die set. There are add ons to this original set which I have yet to find but it was fun to build my own car. This card will be entered into the Dies R Us Challenge #153 – One For the Boys. With a little bit of background ink sponging, patterned paper and a little splatter of Nuvo Shimmer Powder, the hardest part was assembling the car. The trunk “birthday” section lifts up and that’s where I placed a package. Happy with the turnout of this card.
Stamp Buddies 