Auntie Awesome

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome.

Today’s card is for my niece. The saying, “9 out of 10 children get their awesomeness from their aunt” was found on Pinterest. Adding 9 children seemed like a good idea so I Googled ‘Children Playing’ clip art. There was a little editing to do but it was kind of fun. Soft sky background was made using a cotton ball and Bashful Blue stamp pad. Since I don’t have a cloud stencil, I just tore the edge of a piece of paper. For just a little texture I doubled scored all 4 edges. I usually put a sticker on the back of my cards with my name but for this one I’m putting Awesome Auntie.

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

Gerry

Frankie

| Gerry Morse

https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-anything-halloween.html

Glad you stopped by to meet Frankie. He’s being entered in the Two Old Bats challenge. This was not a lot of work. Frankie is from the Silhouette. His face seemed a little blah, so I tried to mark it up a bit with a stylus but that didn’t work out so well, so I used a cotton ball and black stamp pad to sort of mess up his face. Since I cut him a little too big, I wasn’t able to keep a border around the pp. Pp was found online.

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

Gerry

Husband

| Gerry Morse

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2022/06/white-with-one-other-color-only.html

Today’s card is DOS’s chuckle of the month. Sentiment, “My husband always takes the garbage out.. …but never me” is from a Mother Goose And Grimm comic strip. Background papers and image were found online. DOS liked the card and said her husband had never even taken the garbage out. Hope this qualifies for the White with one other color challenge at DoubleD

Thanks for stopping by. Comments are greatly appreciated. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

BUTTERFLY SLIMLINE

| Gerry Morse

https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2022/05/anything-goes-embossing-with-twist-of_01162837008.html

I thought a slimline card would work pretty well for this Can You Handle The Pressure? challenge. Embossing folder used came with my Gemini. Butterfly die is Vivienne & Darla Butterfly by Memory Box. At first, I had the blue layer directly on the yellow base but it didn’t look quite right and since the butterfly overlay is black I thought a black layer would really add a lot. Was I right?

Thanks for stopping by. Comments are greatly appreciated. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Bonus Day Homework

| Gayle Chrvala
Hero Arts Flower Garden Fancy Die, Taylored Expressions, On Occasion stamp & die set, Distress Oxide Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Salvaged Patina, Broken China, Seedless Preserve inks.

Saturday was a Bonus Day at the Spring CardCamp with Kelly Taylor instructing Ghosting and Faux Letterpress which will give your a 2-for-1 card technique. And guess what? It finally worked!! I struggled with the letterpress but following Kelly’s directions gave me a much better result. Ink blend a panel with water reactive inks. Die cut image from 80 lb cardstock and then again from watercolor cardstock. Glue the two die cut laters together and keeping the watercolor layer on the top, spray with water, place on the inked panel and run through as embossed panel in your machine. The tip was to dry the smooshed together cardstocks with your heat tool then carefully peel off and it really worked. I did have one little section that pulled off a little color from my blended sheet but covered that up with the star embellishments.

Fun challenge and a fun two weeks at CardCamp. I guess school is officially out for summer!!

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

Take care and be safe.

hAPPINESS iS tHE jOURNEY

| Gerry Morse

https://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/just-us-girls-photo-challenge-634.html

Today’s card is for the Photo Week challenge at Just Us Girls. Background paper was found online, bike and sentiment are from Gina K’s Your Own Kind Of Beautiful stamp set. Grass is a MS punch, birds are from an online coloring page. Coloring of bike and birds was done with Copic’s, bike is popped up. For the bike trail I used a cotton ball and black stamp pad.

Thanks for stopping by. Comments are greatly appreciated. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Day 10 Mini-Slimline

| Lisa K
Rainbow Leaf Mini-Slimline with Gina K
.https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2022/05/sos471-make-mine-tall-one.html

When I cut my other leaves for my wreath, I cut longer leaves for this card. The paper is the same. The leaf is from a set that someone gave to me. It makes a 5 X 7 gift box and card and it contains many other dies like this leaf. The leaf had no texture, so I embossed the leaves with the Swiss Dots folder. Many of the leaves hung off the edge so I trimmed them.

I am adding this card to the Shopping Our Stash challenge to Make a Tall Card. Since this is a mini-slimline, it fits. The paper is mostly Gina K Designs, My Favorite Things, and Hobby Lobby.

Try To Be Good

| Gerry Morse

When I saw this image I immediately thought of my second granddaughter, who is the most like me. My son & d-i-l say, “why did she have to take after Grandma Gerry”. She has my humor and snarkiness. The only difference from the photo is that my granddaughter has always been very blonde.

The background in the photo inspired me to emboss the gray background piece with Tim Holtz Brick ef lightly sponged with Basic Gray stamp pad. Frame is Spellbinders Classic Rectangles Small. I loved making this and can’t wait till she gets it.

Thanks for stopping by. Comments are greatly appreciated. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Day 10 Homework

| Gayle Chrvala
Gina K Designs Sketched Flowers Stamp and Enjoyable Greetings stamps and die sets, SimonSaysStamp Square Dance Stencil, GKD and SSS inks., Glossy Accents, silver Liquid Pearls.

Today’s Spring CardCamp class lesson was presented by GinaK to create a card using rainbow colors and die cuts. I opted for two die cuts from Sketched Flowers and using my various rainbow ink pads inked the leafy vines then stamped with versamark and clear heat embossed. The background continues with a rainbox of colors using the inked brushes over the square dance stencil, layered on a piece of black cardstock then mounted on my vibrant green card base. I was inspired by and CASE’d Cathy Zielske’s YouTube card from yesterday.

Fun challenge today. the second instructor was Zsoka Marko who created die cut background cards.

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