It’s Hallo-tine!!!

| Gayle Chrvala

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

It’s the February Anything Goes Halloween Challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge blog. Their mood board was made up of lots of hearts. So…….how could I incorporate Halloween and Valentines, you may ask? Well you squish them together and come up with a new holiday called Hallo-tine.

Keeping with the HALLO-ween theme, I used SimonSaysStamps’s Layered Spooky Icons layering stencils and inked each panel in soft colors. My little monster is Tim Holtz Sizzix Costume Party colorize die set. After using Spellbinders’ pierced hearts dies for my valen-TINE portion of my card and a stamped the Recollections sentiment on the medium size heart. I took another die into the LABoratory. to perform surgery and stamped the baby on the smallest pink heart. Punched the EK Success funky heart in red shimmer cardstock for my little monster bursting out of the heart to complete my card.

So I’m thinking that this may be the perfect card for Will for Valentine’s Day. LOL…not sure if he will appreciate it or not. Maybe I’ll put a removeable panel inside for the sentiment I can give it to him again on Halloween and wonder if he will remember that it’s the same card. LOL…..My excuse is that I’ve developed some crazy, itchy rash on my body that makes me want to rip my skin off. So this may just be the little monster in me because of my condition. Lotions, aloe, powders, nothing helped to relieve this except scratching which then made it worse. A visit to the walk-in was YUP it’s a rash but here’s a script for prednisone. First dose today and it resulted in a little relief and a knocked me out for a short, deep afternoon nap.

Sorry for the long story tonight but my brain kind of went into overdrive on this challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.

Red, White, Red, White!

| Gayle Chrvala

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #33

Most Magical Time of the Year Challenge #5

I always seem to run out of time for tags by the time I finish all of my Christmas cards so thought I would make a start with a tag to day for the Peace on Earth challenge. Their mood board seemed to be perfect for that idea. Using Spellbinders Classic Hearts and Classic Scalloped Heart dies, I started my process using shimmer cardstock from my Michaels. I layered red, white scallop and red for a backer, added Tim Holtz Sizzix large Funky Festive poinsettia dies and the word Joy from Stamp of Approval Merry Labels set. Then I thought that this was a pretty large tag and why not turn it into a card!! White, again, cut the heart die off the fold to create card back. After adding a few gems in green, I’m think it was more appropriate for a card. What do you think?

I am also sharing my card with the Most Magical Time of the Year blog where challenges are Anything Goes Christmas or Halloween. This is a sister challenge of the Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges blog.

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Pocket Full Of Hearts

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is the last one for grand/great-grand kids this year. This one will go to our 13 year old great-grandson.

For the pocket I Googled jeans pocket clip art. Pocket was printed then fussy cut. So I could kind of tuck the hearts inside the pocket I just popped up the top corners. Pocket hearts are from Sweet and Sassy Thinlits by SU cut from scrap pieces of pp. Borders are a SU borders punch. Background is embossed with Cuttlebug’s heart ef.

I’m entering this in https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2023/02/hearts-challenge.html

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March to the Beat Jan and Feb

| Lisa K

I am participating in a swap on Splitcoast Stampers called March to the Beat. Each month, I receive a stamped image to create a card with. I add my own papers, coloring tools, dies, or anything else needed to complete a card with the image provided.

The above images are from January. I was provided this elephant from Unity Stamp Company, the greeting and the DSP. (This is SU patterned paper which they call Designer Series Paper.) The greeting was stamped in Island Indigo ink. She did provide the name of the DSP, but I do not have it handy. To complete my card, I colored the elephant in colors that matched the DSP. I placed the greeting on the inside.

The French Fry image was provided along with the greeting. I colored the French fry image and fussy cut it out, popping it up on an action wobbler and added googly eyes. The dotted background is made with a stencil. The Happy Valentine’s Day and I heart You are from a Lawn Fawn set. I used Spellbinders dies for most of the circles and the dotted circle inside is a retired Stampin Up die. I may give this to my husband. He does enjoy puns.

Since this card uses a stencil, I am entering it in February Stencil Fun: https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-stencil-fun.html

Vector illustration

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Forever Tree

| Gayle Chrvala

Double D Challenges: Hearts Challenge

Just Us Girls: Color Week

I’m working on my Valentine cards and decided to use some of my patterened papers from my stash for this card. The focal image tree was a design saved to my files from ????. I added the Gina K Designs die cut and once again performed stamp surgery for the “friend” sentiment. I don’t always use kraft but thought with the plaid patterned paper it would be the time for a kraft card base. Then, I pulled out pink and mounted my card front on it! I couldn’t pull off the front panels so trimmed the pink down and finally added to my kraft card base. I was plesantly surprised that my card would fit the color week#665 challenge of Kraft, White and Pink with Just Us Girls and there are lots of hearts on my tree for the Double D Challenge, too.

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Slimline Valentine

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome.

Today’s card is for our grandson and I’m making a second one for our 17-year-old great-grandson. When I cut the red layer, I realized I had cut the card base 3 1/4″ instead of 3 1/2″ by 11″ so it’s a 1/4″ narrower than it should be. Heart dies used are Sweet and Sassy Thinlits by SU. Red panel and hearts were run through a wood grain ef by Cuttlebug and large heart is popped up. Small black hearts are from a small hand punch. Sentiment was printed on the computer.

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Pink Love

| Gayle Chrvala

Colorful Options: February 2023

Today’s card was made with the Colorful Options February color: PINK. After watching Kelly Latevola Taylor’s 4 Cards with a Simple Stripe Stencil YouTube video, I decided to give one of her techniques a try. Using Pretty Pink Posh wide stripes stencil and the trio of Gina K’s carnation inks, my background was completed. The technique is to ink the stenciled background then move the stencil covering the inked lines and keep on going until the entire background is covered. It creates these pretty cool gradient lines for your background. The Love sentiment was die cut and stacked with multiple layers, a little stamp surgery was required after finding the “with’ word from a stamp set and added two pink hearts from a ephemera pack to complete my card today.

A fun, timely color and inspiring mood board with the Colorful Options challenge.

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Scribble Heart

| Gerry Morse

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2023/02/hearts-challenge.html

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for one of our granddaughter’s and her boyfriend. Pp is from online, sentiment was printed in my Hallmark program, hearts banner is a Martha Stewart border punch, small hearts are from a hand punch then run through a bubbles ef, squiggly heart is Scribbles and Splatz die set from Tim Holtz. Hubby liked it so I guess it’s an ok card. This will be entered in Double D’s Heart challenge.

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Sonic Valentine

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our 5 year old great-grandson. When my granddaughter told me he was really into Sonic I had to Google it. There were lots of images to choose from. Image and name label are popped up. Name labels are SU modern label and word punch. Ef used is Cuttlebug Hearts, small hearts are from a small hand punch. When I flipped the embossed panel over to add the adhesive, I thought the debossed side looked better so I used that side.

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