Thanksgiving Smiles

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome.

After seeing a couple of cards like this on Pinterest I decided to give it a try. Again, the pp is from online. The cute little acorn faces are made using SU’s Ornament punch and hats were made with the small oval punch and I just hand cut the small top pieces. For the hair I unraveled a piece of cording, bow is small piece of the cording. Smiles are punched from a small circle punch, noses are small gems, cheeks were made using an eye shadow applicator and pink stamp pad. And of course I couldn’t resist googly eyes. Sentiment was printed on the computer.

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

Gerry

Ghost Party

| Gayle Chrvala

My ghostly card today will be entered into a new to me challenge Most Magical Time of the Year which is a sister challenge to the Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges blog. The Most Magical Time of the Year is 365 days of Halloween, Day of the Dead, Christmas or Winter theme. I cannot move onto Christmas before I finish Halloween and Thanksgiving cards so I decided to use Taylored Expressions Boo Bundle which includes G-G-G-Ghost Stamp & Stencil set, Ghost Gang and Boo die set as well as Ghost Town Border dies for my village. After blending my background I distressed the background with a little DO ink. I think the Ghosts may have been eating chocolate and actually made chocolate smudges.

This month another sister challenge will go live Crazy for Cats. That should be fun too.

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

Three Turkeys

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. I hope you’ve had a good weekend.

Today’s card was very, very easy, thanks to Silhouette. All I did was size the image and let the machine cut away. Then all I did was apply some glue and stick it together. I’m pretty pleased with this one.

Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Happy Thanksgiving

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome.

Today’s card is my first Thanksgiving card for this year. This is a CASE of one I saw on Pinterest here https://www.pinterest.com/pin/342555115419557712/. The pp was found online. Leaf is a new (no name) die set I bought on Amazon, wheat is from the Silhouette, sentiment was printed on the computer. I was kind of stumped as to how to adhere the very narrow wheat stems, so I dropped some liquid glue on a piece of paper and lightly dipped the lower stems and put them together. Gold cord is from my stash and the leaf is popped up.

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

Gerry

Shepherds in the Field

| Lisa K

I am getting into Christmas card making mode and used the colors from the As You See It Challenge for the inspiration.

http://www.asyouseeitchallenge.com/2022/10/285.html
https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/10/peace-on-earth-christmas-challenge-25.html https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2022/10/challenge-193-anything-goes.html

I used the stamp set Every Blessing from Stampin Up, issued in 2015. I have used it each year since I purchased it. The colors used are Starry Sky in ink and cardstock, Mango Melody, which I used Sweet Mango from Gina K Designs for the substitute, and Parakeet Party. I laid the card on Parakeet Party for the photo. The black cardstock is My Favorite Things with Gina K Designs Black Onyx ink.

I really enjoyed blending these colors together. I was inspired by the DT Heather Cooper on the As You See It Challenge. I liked how her blended background looked so I gave it a try. Mine looks quite different from hers.

Thanks for sharing in my card. I enjoyed stopping my busy life and creating.

Orange You Glad

| Gayle Chrvala

Colorful Options: October 2022

Outrageous Orange is the color challenge for October with the Colorful Options challenge blog and for some reason the old knock knock joke came to mind when I was thinking of a title for my card. Maybe I have covid brain fog??

For my card today that will be entered into the Colorful Options challenge, I enjoyed making my Distress Oxide background using Spiced Marmalade, Ripe Persimmon and Abandonded Coral inks. My stencil is DL Stencils’ Creative Expressions Wild Oat Grass which I attempted to ink in white pigment ink and then wanted to offset with black but that wasn’t working so I just inked black ink for my wild oat grasses. Maybe my white pigment ink needs to be reinked? I did notice that the stencil seemed to be cut from a heavier material and I should possibly try a different medium. My sentiment and the leaves are Gina K Designs Thankful Leaves Stamp n Foil Mates set.

It’s a yummy looking mood board for inspiration although being a redhead I don’t wear orange but it is a fun color!

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

P.S. Banana — the punchline for the knock knock joke! LOL!!

Witchy Legs

| Gayle Chrvala

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

If it’s October it must mean that the October challenge with the Two Old Bats is a very timely anything Halloween….finally! For my card today, I stamped and colored the lovely legs from Colorado Craft Company’s Sitting Witch stamp set. After adding some doily spiderwebs and a splatter of purple ink my card was complete. I won a blog hop last year from Colorado Craft Company and chose this stamp set and have been “dying” to ink it up.

My house is decorated for Halloween thanks to the help from my granddaughter and their day off from school on Monday. Our community has a designated Trick or Treat night the Friday before Halloween instead of trick or treat on Halloween and I’m hoping that we can keep the number of kids under 100. Although last year was a bust and there was a lot of candy that I had to eat!!!

Happy 2nd Anniversary to the Two Old Bats and their always interesting and inspiring mood boards.

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

Ghost Teacher

| Gerry Morse

https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-65/

Hello and welcome. Hope you’re having a good day.

When I found this quote “What did the teacher ghost say to her class? … “Watch the board and I’ll go through it again.” I immediately thought of my daughter who teaches fifth grade. Since my Silhouette wasn’t working when I made this card, I used a clip art ghost and fussy cut it. I think my daughter will get a kick out it. I’m entering this in Make the Cards Challenge

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Please Hold

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Wow, this is the first day we have not had the AC on, what a wonderful feeling.

Today’s card is dear-old-sister’s chuckle of the month. Sentiment “…Please continue to hold. Your call is important to us.” Inside “But your time is not.” This is from a Frank & Ernest cartoon strip. Image was found online, circle frame is Stitched Circles by Die-namics. EF used is from Michael’s. D-o-s could relate to one of those calls.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry