Snowy Kiss

| Gayle Chrvala
Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge

I enjoy making cute cards and this month’s inspiration mood board with the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #22 Anything Christmas was full of cuteness. I was drawn to the snowy forest scene and finally decide that the Penny Black Snow Kiss stamp was as cute as I could find in my stash of stamps. After stamping, coloring and fussy cutting, I was ready for my background. My trees are white heat embossed from Gina K Designs Winter Cheer stamp set which was stamped three times on a night sky patterened paper, it was then dry embossed using Tim Holtz Alterations/Sizzix embossing folder. After swiping a little white pigment ink over the raised areas and flicking some white paint I was ready for some snowy hills. These came from SimonSaysStamps’ Layered Hills dies. Sentiment was stamped after everything was assembled is from GKD’s Holiday Tags stamp set and I held my breath as I stamped it. I wanted to add a small cardinal in the trees and had the perfect stamp which needed to be taped off, however, I took another deep breath but decided not to press my luck especially with the dry embossing. Whew!!

Diane and Darlene are starting a new challenge in October. Stencil Fun! So glad these gals are giving us a reason to use all of our different supplies and techniques. Always so much fun to play along with their challenges.

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

Middle School

| Gayle Chrvala
Make The Cards Challenge #62

The theme for with the Make the Cards Challenge #62 group is School or Teacher. OMG our grandson is heading to 6th grade and middle school on Monday. OMG!!! How quickly time as flown by for this to happen. So proud of Chase and all his accomplishments. It is getting more difficult to make cards for pre-teens so I opted to go with his school mascot and his school initials. Stinger the Hornet was printed from the school’s website on both copy paper and vellum and glued together for more depth of color. I then die cut Stinger using Spellbinders circle nestabilities die and die cut a green circle using GKD’s circle dies. These two sets work nicely together. The speech bubble and sentiment is als Gina K Designs Let’s Talk stamp set. The school colors are green and gold and the letters were die cut from Concord & 9th’s Double Cut Alphabet dies. The background was embossed with Tim Holtz “The Journey” embossing folder which is a combination embossing folder, stamps and dies.

Very timely challenge and a fun card to make. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and YES, I’m still staying STAY COOL.

P.S. I think my letters even look straight!!! LOL

Sunflower Fun

| Lisa K

September is quickly approaching and I always think of sunflowers in September. The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge is all about Sunflowers.

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2022/08/sunflowers.html

I used the August 2021 set from Hero Arts for the sunflowers. This was colored with the stencils and the ink that came in the kit. The background is a Stampin Up set. I used Gina K Designs Fresh Asparagus cardstock and matching ink on the background.

Fall Barrow

| Gayle Chrvala
Double D Challenges

Wheels! Is the interesting challenge with the Double D Challenges group. Since I’m hoping that the hot weather will begin to lessen, I’ll try to help it along by creating a Fall themed card. My wheels are on my wheelbarrow and pumpkin load. I stamped, colored and fussy cut the Prickley Pear image and popped it up on my ink blended focal panel after stamping some wheat from Gina K Designs Autumn Splendor Showtime StampTV kit. Sentiment is Taylored Expressions Wheatfield Dreams.

Another great mood board for inspiration from Double D.

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

Cassettes

| Lisa K

I remember the 80’s. I graduated HS in the 80’s, graduated from two colleges in the 80’s, and started my first job away from home in the 80’s. The Retro Rubber Challenge is all about the 80’s. I remember a lot of music from those years. Music was on the radio and at home, usually on a cassette player. I will also include Can You Handle the Pressure as I embossed the background with stars.

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2022/08/challenge-189-its-the-80s.html https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2022/08/anything-goes-with-twist-of-petsdogscats.html

I went with the cassette theme using the Beboppin set from Paper Smooches, 2013. It has the 80’s vibe with the colors and the cassette tapes. The challenge says to use 3 of these colors: Mauve, Pink, Blue, Grey, or Tan. I used all of the colors. The palette in the early 80’s had more pastel shades of these color and in the late 80’s it turned to neon colors. My colors are bright but not neon.

I enjoyed my trip down memory lane. I do not remember the using the word gnarly, though. Thanks for spending time with me.

Really!

| Gayle Chrvala
Can You Handle the Pressure

Embossing folder anything goes with a twist of Pets/Dogs/Cats is the challenge with Can You Handle the Pressure group. After ink blending some colors on my heavy weight cardstock, sprayed lightly with water and using the SimonSaysStamp Circle Rings embossing folder through my Big Shot. I cannot get enough of C.C. Designs Grouchy Pets stamp and die set. For this card, I decided on the regal and a littly snooty poodle who just came from the beauty salon.

It’s always a fun challenge with this group. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and stay cool.

Owen James

| Gayle Chrvala

It was an exciting and very long Friday waiting for the arrival of our newest grandson. As well as being emotional about his arrival and after knowing everyone is well, this was a struggle to find just the right card design to celebrate this little one’s arrival. Patterned paper is from my stash and sentiment is GKD’s It’s The Little Things and the main image is an older Inkadkinadoo mounted red rubber stamp.

And of course Big Sister Alexandra who is all of 4 years old needed a special card too. Two giraffes, some butterflies, star layering stencil, Spellbinder’s star dies and Concord & 9th Double Cut Alphabet dies completed this card.

We are in love and are anxiously waiting for the ok to visit from Mommy & Daddy (our son).

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

Blue & White Christmas

| Gerry Morse

https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/08/peace-on-earth-challenge-21.html

Hello and welcome.

Today’s card is for the Peace On Earth Christmas challenge. Snowflake embossing folder is from The Paper Studio. Christmas balls and ovals are both SU punches. Pp’s for balls were found online. Balls were punched from both cs and pp. Tops were punched from a silver textured paper. Sentiment was printed on the computer and ovals are edged with a marker and popped up.

Thanks for stopping by I look forward to your visits. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Boiling Bones

| Gerry Morse

https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-anything-halloween.html

Hello and welcome.

Finally, I was able to get a card done for the Two Old Bats Aug. challenge. The skeletons in the mood board are what I picked up on. For the background I masked the circle for the moon, then used a cotton ball and Not Quite Navy stamp pad to make a somewhat spooky background then tore the edges. Pot and skeleton are from the Silhouette, ghost, bat and small skeleton head are from an old Provo Craft die. Bat, ghost and large skeleton head are popped up. Bats eyes are yellow Stickles. Of course, I couldn’t pass up the googly eyes. Grass is a MS punch. For the bubbly water I printed off a black & white pot of boiling water, cut out just the water and used a cotton ball and green stamp pad to color it.

Thanks for stopping by, it means a lot to me. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry