Just Add Ink #619 – Masculine

Beautiful Brown is the color for the September challenge with Colorful Options blog. This card will also fit the Just Add Ink #619 Masculine challenge. My card for this challenge includes SimonSaysStamps’ Wood Planks background stamp, word and circle dies, vellum, a strip of woodgrain that I made using my scoreboard and a rocky background that was found on line and of course brown ink and cardstock. The stamped You Rock is Gina K Designs’ DinoMite and the wishes was a misplaced stamp that was on my desk 🙂

Love the inspiration mood board and of course there is always the rainbow option but I kind of like the browns.

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The September Anything Halloween challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge and the mood board for inspiration was a stumper for me this month. I did a cat on last month’s challenge and I didn’t care to repeat the llamas so my focus turned to the bat favors. After spending some time surfing and looking for ideas on YouTube and Pinterest, I found a video from Creative Chelsey who made treat bags from A2 envelopes. A cute idea and it worked out pretty well. The bottom of the envelope was sponged using Hero Arts inks and some TH Black Soot, the bats are from a SimonSaysStamp mini stencil and my stamped image is Stampendous Fluffles Vamp, patterned paper and ribbon from my stash.

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Thanks to Angie for recommending a new challenge: All things Caffeinated, Christmas and Challenge theme. The theme for challenge #9 is Candy or Cookie. Those two items I understand! I went searching for any coffee/tea stamps in my stash and remembered Melanie Muechinger’s stamp set she illustrated for Gina K Designs in 2010. My cookie feature is the gingerbread man from SimonSaysStamp Christmas Squad which I believe was a free item or a clearance item. After stamping the gingerbread man on the coffee mug and coloring them both, I die cut the images using circle dies. The sweet patterned paper is from my stash and the sentiment is from the same SSS Christmas Squad set.

It was a fun, different challenge to join in. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and it’s ok if the west coast doesn’t share their extremely high, record breaking weather with me in Pennsylvania.

I haven’t played along with the challenges at Sunday Stamps in awhile but I liked the sketch challenge and am getting this card in just under the deadline.

Although the temperatures outside are still staying hot, I am definitely getting into Fall mode and starting my October birthday cards. My background was created using Taylored Expressions Four Seasons stamp and stencil set however I decided to just gold heat emboss the stamped image onto some kraft cardstock and not use the stencils for added color. In keeping with the sketch and not wanted to cover the background, I used a piece of vellum, some ribbon , circle dies with a TE On Occasion stamp and die sentiment which was topped with leaves from Gina K Designs Thankful Leaves stamp, foil and die set.

This was a great sketch to use and will probably duplicate it again.

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Frame It! is this challenge to use a frame on your card project with The Sisterhood of Crafters. So for today’s card I was having fun creating backgrounds using Taylored Expressions G-G-G-Ghost background stamp and stencil set. My frames that I used to create my “mirror” are Taylored Expressions A2 Thin Frame Cutting plate die. After adding some vellum to the back of the frames to create my ghostly mirror I die cut TE’s Ghost Gang set and stamped a sentiment. Scalloped layered is Waffle Flower A2 Lacy Layers die.

Fun challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and stay cool. It was another HOT day in Pennsylvania.

Baby Business is the challenge with the AYSI Challenge #282 to create a baby themed card. Twin boy grand-friends are on the way this is my card for the Twinkle Sprinkle. Their Nanny is a dear friend and the girlfriends are almost as excited as she is for their arrival. The twins’ nursery is a baseball theme so I decided to use Carta Bella Paper Company’s Champion Player stamp set as well as Denami Designs Onsies that were stamped then stamped again on patterned paper and fussy cut. One has a white colar and one has a blue color. The twins are identical so not sure if that will be enough to tell them apart. The gingham background was stamped in grey and is a SimonSaysStamp background stamp. I pulled out my well loved Gina K Designs Oh Baby stamp set for the sentiments. Not sure what happened to the “oh, baby” stamp so I had to handwrite the “oh” and of course there was a smudge on the top sentiment which the red hearts covered up nicely. LOL! Waffle Flowers A2 Lacy layers and GKD and Spellbinders circle dies completed my card.

Happy that I had a reason to play along with this challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and still saying to STAY COOL!

Anything goes with an embossing folder and a twist of using the sentiment as the focus of the card. Fo my card, I decided on Darice cupcake embossing folder. After embossing and dotting each embosed dot in ROY G BIV order or as close as I could get to rainbow with markers, I added color to the cupcake. For some reason the original cupcake with pink icing just didn’t seem appetizing to me so I embossed the cupcake portion onto white shimmer paper, fussy cut, popped it up and added some sequins for sprinkles or as some would call jimmies. I little splatter of ink and then die cut the SimonSaysStamp Large Happy Birthday die in two different colors slightly offsettng so both colors show.

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