golden webs

| Gerry Morse

https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/may-anything-halloween.html

For this card I got my inspiration from the lower right section of the inspiration photo. For the gold webs I found a piece of gold vellum in my stash. Not knowing if embossing vellum would work, I thought why not give it a try. Looking at the embossed vellum it seemed a little too bright so I used a cotton ball and black stamp pad to soften it. Large spiders are an old Sizzix sisslet die, small spiders are from a Quick Cuts die. Looking at the cut spiders I had the brilliant idea to cover them with silver Wink of Stella then used stickles for creepy eyes on the large ones. All spiders are popped up with Dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by. Stay healthy and safe.

Gerry

Dinner Party!

| Gayle Chrvala

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge – May

My most anticipated monthly challenge is live! It’s May Anything Halloween with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge blog. This month’s inspiration mood board seemed to focus on black and gold with a hint of orange. I was drawn to the dinner table place settings and decided that no respectable Halloween party can take place without a spooky chandelier!!

My card used a gold heat embossed chandelier from maybe Outlines/Hampton Arts. I did not have the original packaging any more on this older red rubber stamp. I stamped the image in verafine black onyx ink and then heat embossed using gold embossing powder. To me, I get a much better and less splotchy emboss than using veramark. And it was interesting that the black ink worked well with colored embossing powder. I popped up my panel with some fun foam and then decided to frame it with Hero Arts Wood Frame Infinity dies cut from black and gold patterened paper from my stash. The side of the frame cuts out slightly so I mounted it on an orange card base so a little orange peeks through the frame. And since crows were invited to the dinner party on the mood board I found Mr. Crow from a Recollections stamp set, gold heat emboss the guest of honor and fussy cut him out to oversee the activities.

Another fun challenge and inspiration mood board from the Two Old Bats.

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Double Pink Trouble

| Gayle Chrvala

Colorful Options – May 2022

Double Trouble Challenge #109

Double Dare with Colorful Options this month!! Pink is the color of the month of a rainbow option but they are joining The Double Trouble Challenge #109 with their theme of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Thing One is requiring rainbow colors and Thing Two is requiring a fantasy element. Whew!!! Three in one and only one thinking cap!!!

Using my SimonSaysStamp Cosmo Flowers stencil, I ink blended Distress Oxide inks in Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry. Step one completed lots of pink. SSS also has Cosmo Flower Petals dies which I cut out in ROYGBIV and pink colors with an ivory center which is Thing One’s requirement. Next a fantasy element which is my little fairy silhouette die for Thing Two. Double Dare challenge met!!

This was fun and took more than a little thought….LOL!

This is my first time playing with Double Trouble Challenges.

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Mermaid Dragonfly

| Gayle Chrvala

Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges #5

The Paper Dragonfly Createve Challenge this month is Mermaids + the dragonfly twist. I created my water scene by first using Hero Arts Rays of Color stencil and a light blue ink. I wanted more of an undersea background so I die cut Hero Arts Beach Frame Fancy die from cardstock and blended this over the Rays of Color in a navy ink. The top portion which I surprisingly remembered to mask off at the start of my card became my sky by making my clouds with an Inky Antics cloud stencil and left over ink on a blending brush. The little mermaid is Sizzix’s Catch a Wave stamp and die set and dragonflies are Gina K Designs’ Take Flight stamp set.

It’s always fun to play with Paper Dragonfly challenges.

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Talking Birds

| Lisa K

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2022/05/birdsbird-nestsbird-cagesbirdhouses.html

I used a Paper Pumpkin kit for the patterned paper and flowers. I placed a stencil over the pp and added the vines. The stencil is from A Colorful Life. The bird dies and branch are from a Memento set. I used Peacock ink and cardstock which matches the color on the pp. The light green is Mint Macoron and the peach is from Hobby Lobby. It is a close match to the flowers. The greeting and “meep” are from a Paper Smooches set.

As I created this card, I listened to the birds singing outside. I love birds and this was a fun challenge.

Bee-Long Together

| Gayle Chrvala

The Paper Players Theme Challenge PP589

After 46 years of marriage and a total of 52 years together, I do bee-lieve that we still do Bee-Long Together. My anniversary card for my husband will also be entered into The Paper Players Theme challenge of Birds and/or Bees. My angled gatefold card and some bee patterned paper from my stash as well as the SimonSaysStamp’s multi-use Bee Yourself stamp set completes my card. Inside the card the two bees are holding hands floating above a honecomb on a beautiful sky.

Fun challenge from hosted by Jaydee.

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Rudolph and trees

| Gerry Morse

Today’s card will be entered in https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/05/peace-on-earth-challenge-15.html.

Background paper was found online, stamps and dies are from Stampin’ Up’s Santa’s Sleigh set. I used red Stickles on Rudolph’s nose and he’s popped up. Stamping is kind of hard for me because I don’t have much strength in my hands, but the Stamparatus makes it much easier. This was a very quick and easy card to make.

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

Gerry

Flowery Umbrella

| Lisa K

I created a card for the Retro Rubber Challenge as well as the Sisterhood of Crafters. I had an idea in my head for a couple of days and today it fell into place.

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-showers-bring-may-flowers.html https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2022/04/challenge-181-tics-tacs-toes.html

I used SU Umbrella to Stamp from 2020 for the stamping. The patterned paper is Carte Bella Flower Market with a date of 2019 on the back. The scallop square is a Sizzix die and the stitching is an Only Die from The Stamps of Life. I placed the items on the square, then decided something was missing, so off the items came. Then I ran the scallop square through the die cutting machine again to add the stitching. Sometimes it is nice to have so many dies to choose from and have the perfect one waiting to be used. I think this is the first time I have used this Only die. Without that die, I would have placed a rubber mat on the stitching die so it wouldn’t cut through. The gems are SU very retired, but the color worked. I think there is one pearl left in the pack of that yellow color.

The Retro Rubber Challenge is a tic tac toe and I used the far right column: patterned paper, bling, ribbon or twine.

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge is April Showers bring May Flowers. That is where the umbrella with the boots came to mind. I filled both with flowers. The umbrella was punched with the matching punch. Both were fun challenges and it was fun to combine them.

butterflies

| Gerry Morse

Today’s card will be entered in JUGS Make a Tri-fold card. https://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/just-us-girls-wild-card-week-630.html

Cardstock is from a box of cs I bought at a local paper company several years ago. Pp is DCWV that I’ve had forever. Butterfly that is popped up is Butterfly Thinlits from SU. It’s a good thing the pp was a 12×12 sheet because I don’t do well with measuring and cutting angles. Here’s a link to the video https://stampwithlorraine.com/angled-tri-fold-card/

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

Gerry