Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for the special server that’s been serving us once a week for years. When I started this card all I knew was that I wanted to use the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits from Stampin Up and I thought the vertical sentiment would work well with it. I double cut the Happy Birthday to give it a little more body. The sentiment dies are unbranded. The colors were decided when I found this pp in my stash.

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Hello and welcome. Background paper was found online, arched dies used are unbranded, sentiment was printed on the computer. I just made up the sentiment and inside I put RETIREMENT Happy 65th Birthday. This is for my niece who is really looking forward to retiring a month after her birthday. This is a very quick and simple card but I’m happy how it turned out and hubby likes it and I think my niece will too.

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Hello and welcome. Here is dear-old-sister’s chuckle of the month. As usual image and sentiment were found online. “As you get older you have to stay positive. The other day I fell down the stairs. Instead of getting upset, I just thought: Wowww… that’s the fastest I’ve moved in years.” She loved it. I probably should have added some score lines for a little texture but I kind of like it CAS.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for one of our grandson-in-law’s. It seems I use the red and black combo a lot for masculine cards. Patterned paper is from my stash, fractured die is one I bought on Amazon. At first, I printed the sentiment on white cs but thought it looked too stark, so I printed on Very Vanilla to tone it down a bit. I wasn’t sure I liked it at first, but now I think it’s ok.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our newest great-grandbaby. Embossing folder used is by Sizzex, rectangle dies are Spellbinders, sentiment was printed on the computer and cut with my paper trimmer and corners rounded with a punch. Ribbon was found in my stash.

Photo used is one my daughter ‘Grandma Lisa’ sent to let me know how happy Georgia was that my Pacemaker replacement surgery went well.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our middle granddaughter. Being that copper and wool are the traditional gifts for the 7th anniversary I decided to go with copper. Instead of going online and finding penny clip art, I actually scanned a penny. I found I had a circle punch the size of a penny, so the paper pennies are actual size. Sentiment was printed in my Hallmark card program. I added a little note inside explaining the reason for the pennies. This is really pretty simple, but I do like it.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our oldest great-grandson…. yikes!! Embossing folder used is from Cuttlebug, circle die is Spellbinders classic circles, numbers were cut on the Silhouette. To make the numbers look a little better I added Wink of Stella. I like using foil for masculine cards. It’s pretty simple but I like it, so does hubby.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is dear-old-sister’s August chuckle. Again, image and sentiment were found online. “When I look in the mirror and see gray hair, fine lines, and dimming eyes, I think… they sure don’t make mirrors like they used to.” d-o-s agrees. To add a little texture, I scored double lines on all 4 sides.

After a fun, very busy week’s visit in MN with family and old friends it feels good to be back home and in my craft room. It took me a few days to rest up.

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Hello and welcome. I thought it was about time to get back to doing a challenge card.

The card base is smokey slate and I used a cotton ball and black stamp pad to ‘dirty’ it up a bit. Moon is from an unbranded die set. Before cutting the moon, I sponged white cs with Dafodil Delight and lightly swiped with smokey slate stamp pad. Grass was punched with Martha Stewart grass punch and again I ‘dirtied’ it up with gray stamp pad. Die sets used are Tim Holtz.

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This will now be entered at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: August 2026 Anything Goes Halloween