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Hello and welcome. Today’s card, Beautiful Beach Babe, will be entered in Double D’s beach time challenge. Background paper was found online, beach babe is from an online coloring page colored with Copic’s and fussy cut. Umbrella is from the Silhouette. I added dimensionals to the umbrella and used gold stickles for her earrings and bracelets.
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Gerry
Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our youngest granddaughter, the one who really likes cards with different folds. Sorry about the difference in photos. The first one was taken with a camera, the second was scanned. The first one is truer to color which is SU’s Pumpkin Pie. Labels are Spellbinders Labels 16, side flowers are Rose Garden Thinlits by SU with small green gems in the center. Small flowers in the corners are a small hand punch. Numbers are Sizzix, Alphabet Sizzlets, Rat-A-Tat. I think the Sizzlets are about 20 years old. You can see the video for the vertical easel card here https://janbcards.com/2022/04/vertical-easel-birthday-card-video.html.
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Gerry
Challenge #18 with the Peace on Earth – Anything Christmas features a black and white mood board. I decided to use Gina K Designs’ Soft Stone and Slate inks to create my card instead of the more stark black. After creating my oval stencil with Spellbinder’s Classic Ovals and a cloud stencil in the lighter soft stone ink, I pulled out GKD’s Christmas Wishes stamp set and stamped everyting in Slate ink. Layered on white card base so I guess it’s greys and white on white.
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We just had wonderful, very special fun week with our daughter. I got a little tired out but it’s a good tired.
While she was here, she asked if I would help her make a couple graduation cards (she is not a card maker). We found a box fold card on Pinterest you can see here http://paperfantasies.blogspot.com/2013/04/graduation-box-card-gift-idea.html?m=1#.UWzCNMrqqTI
We went to Hobby Lobby for the pp and came home and got to work. She did a lot of it herself. The graduation caps, on the belly bands, were fussy cut from a different piece of pp and we added Glossy Accents to them.
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Gerry
I have been working on Summer Virtual Stamp Night with Splitcoast Stampers. One of the cards is to be a spinner. I found a Frankenstein in my stash all colored and cut out, so I began creating with him in mind. First snag was my circle was too large for my pennies as I didn’t pay enough attention to the details of the tutorial. So off I went for more change and the quarters worked. Next snag was Frankie was too large for the small circle as he kept stopping the spinning motion. Sad to say, he didn’t make it to my card.
This card is all Halloween. It will be entered in the Two Old Bats Halloween challenge. I remembered this challenge thanks to Buddies Gayle and Gerry.
My card background was created using a Paper Pumpkin Sept 2019 set. I added the candies from a Paper Smooches set.
The card is quite heavy, so it will not be mailed. It does spin! It was fun to create.
I almost forgot about the June Halloween Anything Goes Challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge blog but finally finished my card. Our Buddy Gerry chose Frankenstein for her awesome card and I must admit that Frankenstein is my favorite monster, too. Since I couldn’t decide on which little Frank I wanted to use on my card, I made a balancing act of three Franks that were about the same size. The bottom Frank is a Michael’s red rubber mounted dollar stamp, on top of him is Frank from Recollections stamps (Michael’s) and then trying to catch his balance is Stampin Up’s Googly Ghouls Frank. After stamping, inking and fussy cutting the Franks, I positioned them on a piece of patterned paper from my stash and die cut some black grass from The Cat’s Pajamas grass die. After gluing everyone to the card layers, I was wondering if I could have put wobblers on each of them????? I decided to let well enough alone.
Always a fun mood board and fun challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.
Today I created with a Gina K Designs technique. I had so much learning a new technique and made 8 backgrounds before stopping and cleaning up.
The technique is called Polished Stone. Here is her video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRZNI_Xeio&t=50s
I used Ranger cardstock with a glossy finish, ink refills, gold shimmer, and 70% rubbing alcohol. I used cotton balls to apply it all over the cardstock. It is addictive, which is why I kept going. I kept trying different colors to see what they looked like. This one has green, Kraft, and the gold all swirled together. I am not sure what kind of black ink really works on this kind of finish. I started with Versafine and after stamping four times, it still wasn’t dark enough for me. I came back with Archival Ink and stamped it another three or four times. I decided to let it go and let it dry. I added it to a gold layer and then on an Ivory card base. I like this technique and really like the finished card. I chose to let the background be with no embellishments.
I stamped the greeting with Gina K Designs Merry and Bright set.
The challenge with Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges #6 is “In the Garden sponsored by All Dressed Up” For my garden, I decided to create a white on black silhouette with Stampin Up’s Upsy Daisy stamp set heat embossed in white embossing powder. The 3 dragonflies were part of Gina K Designs’s Follow Your Dreams stamps set illustrated by Theresa Momber and the patterned paper is also GKD’s Spring Parade pure luxury paper. After layering the patterned paper on black, I needed something for the silhouette image and thankfully the lightbulb went on and I remembered this striped piece that our Bonnie gifted to me. I think I tend to be a hoarder with some of these gifts. The stamp sets were two oldies but goodies.
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This month’s challenge with the Can You Handle the Pressure is Anything Goes with a Twist of Birds.
For my bird, I decided on a flamingo from Taylored Expressions’s Tickled Pink stamp, stencil and die set. My embossing folder is a larger Cuttlebug folder with some swirls, flowers, hearts, birds and a sun. I lightly sponged ink over the raised embossed areas, mounted my flamingo on an action wobbler, layered with black cardstock and adhered to a 5×7 card. Hmmmmm…..so the sun ended up on the bottom of the card so I very carefully lifted the layer off the card base and turned it around. Hmmmmm….now my flamingo was upside down. Sigh!!! popped that pink bird off very carefully and decided to add the “You’re Flamazing!” sentiment under the flamingo’s legs. Adhered everything down once more and completed my card for the day.
Lots of thunderstorms early this morning but thankfully no severe weather like other areas in the US are experiencing. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.
Stamp Buddies 