New Year Calendar

| Judy Inukai

I made small easels to display these little tear off calendars from Taylored Expressions for friends. After preparing the easel I used patterned paper from Gina K Designs to create a mat for the calendar. I planned to make New Year’s cards to mail with the calendars. I used the Happy New Year sentiment from the Season’s Greetings set by Sunny Studios embossed in gold on black, cut with the matching die. I discovered that the scraps that were left from the mats behind the calendar were just the perfect size for the sentiment. I matted the patterned paper with black. I used the fireworks stamps from Let’s Party, an incentive from Gina K designs stamped tone on tone on the card base. The calendars tucked nicely into the card and went through the mail without additional postage. This is just one of several colors of cards and patterned paper. I’m hoping this project is CAS enough for the Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #190 CAS

Birthday Greetings human

| Gayle Chrvala

Double D Challenges: Happy Birthday Challenge

Congratulations Diane and Darlene on the 7th birthday of Double D Challenges. I so enjoy playing along with your challenges. The themes, mood boards and design team cards are always inspiring.

Today’s card is for a little one turning 3 this month. Although he’s already a car guy especially jeeps, I opted to take him to outer space. My background was created using Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks and the moon mask stencil. The images and sentiment is an old stamp set by Love Nicole which must have been made for AC Moore. A really cute stamp and die set that stamps nice clean images. I framed my sentiment (which I should have heat embossed with embossing powder) to help it stand out from the background.

This is the inside of the little guy’s card. The birthday cake is from Stampendous named Candles. I lost the 3 so added a little green man to continue with the outer space theme. I should have looked a little longer because that 3 was in my misplaced stamps bin on my desk. 🙂 I think I will put a little note in the card that the rocket ship is “Hemi Powered”. If anyone knows of any good jeep stamps or car stamps, I’d appreciate the share.

Love this mood board and was inspired to use the colors from it for my card.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.

Second Birthday

| Gerry Morse

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2023/01/happy-birthday-challenge.html

Hello and welcome.

Today’s card is for our youngest great-granddaughter. I found the pp online. Number, balloons and candles are all from the Silhouette. Balloons and flames have Wink Of Stella on them, number was run through the Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles ef. For a little added texture to the candles I scored diagonal lines on them. I’m entering this in Double D challenge, anything birthday related.

Thanks for stopping by your visits mean a lot to me. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Birthday Rocks

| Gerry Morse

https://colorfuloptions.blogspot.com/2023/01/january-2023.html

Hello and welcome.

Today’s card is for my b-i-l. Pp and sentiment were found online. Sentiment circles are Stitched Circles from Die-namics, center strips were cut on my paper trimmer. Small half circles were punched from embossed cs with small hand punches. When hubby saw it he thought that was pretty cool to spell out his name. When I first finished it I didn’t realize that’s what it looks like. I just thought it was his initials on each side of the circle. I’m entering this the Colorful Options challenge.

Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate your visits. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Bold Birthday

| Lisa K

I created a card this week for someone turning a large number. She likes large cards with bright colors. This card has been mailed and it meets the Double D Challenge for birthday cards.

I used Hobby Lobby papers for this card, except for the white, which is SU. The greeting came from a Paper Pumpkin kit, several years ago. The dies used are Sizzix 5 X 7 Flip-It Framelits designed by Stephanie Bernard.

I enjoy using the Flip-it dies as each card is different. I used twine from my stash.

Thanks for sharing in my card. Our weather has turned back to January cold. I will continue to be creating in my craft room and staying inside.

Candy Cane Snowflakes

| Gayle Chrvala

Pease on Earth Christmas Challenge #31

And my final Create in Quads Snowflakes stencil quad creates a diagonal group of snowflakes. I added a white shimmery die cut snowflake to my card as well as Catherine Pooler Stamp of Approval Candy Cane Lane stamp and die set to my card. The sentiment was a freebie from Taylored Expressions and was white heat embossed on red shimmer cardstock.

It’s a lot of fun to use these Create in Quads layering stencils. With all of the red and white stripes on this mood board of course I needed add a candy cane. There is one candy cane left in the house and I have claimed it as mine!!

Thanks so much for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.

Winter Snowflake Fun

| Gayle Chrvala

Crazy is our fame – Stencils are our game!

January Stencil Fun challenge is to use a stencil with an optional Winter theme. Continuing with my Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Snowflake stencils, I decided on the quad that stencils the top and bottom sections of the cardstock and added this Penny Black Wintertime Wishes word die.

And of course while I was making and you get four sections from the Create in Quads layering stencils, I chose this large image snowflake to add this cute deer image from Gina K Designs Christmas Wishes stamp and die set. Sentiment is from the same set.

It’s always fun to play along with the Stencil Fun challenges. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.

Snowy Mittens

| Gayle Chrvala

The Four Seasons Challenge – Januay 2023

The January Anything Goes Winter Challenge with The Four Seasons has a really fun mood board for inspiration. I focused on the red mittens. My background was made with Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Snowflake stencils. These are four full size layering stencils that create four backgrounds. This part of the quad gives you an overall snowflake backround to which I punched a scallop and circle shape then stamped with Gina K Designs sentiment from Snow Much Fun and the mittens are also GKD’s Christmas Wishes stamp and die set.

Thanks so much for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time.

Snowy Halloween

| Gayle Chrvala

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge — January Anything Halloween

It was a fun mood board to use as inspiration from the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge for January and appropriate for winter. It does at times snow on Halloween in Pennsylvania. So for my card I wanted to create a snowy background. I started with a teal piece of patterened paper with stars on it, then using the Tim Holts Moon Mask stencil I attempted to stencil the moon in first white pigment ink and then finally versamark ink and clear heat embossed. I then inked Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink in chipped sapphire, a swipe of seedless preserves and finally black onyx over the patterned paper and while covering the moon with the solid moon mask. Next came SimonSaysStamp Snowflake banks stencil which includes snow banks and snow flakes. These were inked with Gina K Designs ivory pigment ink. Batty Newton from Newton’s Nook was stamped, die cut and popped up flying to the snowy moon to finish my card.

Thanks so much for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.