Blue Bouquet

| Lisa K

I had time to create a card for the As You See It Challenge. I will also apply this to the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Wednesday challenge.

http://www.asyouseeitchallenge.com/2022/04/273.html
https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-94/

I used a Simon Says Stamp image Beautiful Flowers, which I watercolored with Gina K Designs Blue Raspberry and Powder Blue. I stamped with Versamark and In the Navy Ink, embossing with clear powder. After the ink dried, I cut the paper down to fit on these pieces of cardstock. I began with slimline dies, but ended up cutting them down a bit, so the cardbase ended up being 8 1/4 inches long. The base is SU Night of Navy cardstock, with layers of Pacific Point and Balmy Blue. I am sure I have those exact colors in two of the inks and most in colored pencils, but my GKD inks were handy and they worked well. The slimline dies used were Picket Fence Studio.

thinking of you

| Gerry Morse

While perusing Pinterest I saw some quilt squares that I thought that might make a cool card. So, here’s my version of a quilt square

Card base 5×5. At first, I added the sentiment piece squared but then thought it would look much better cornered, kind of star shape. Embossing folder used for the corners is from SU, sentiment is from Gina K’s Dazzling Dahlias stamp set. Actually, I think it looks much better in real life.

This will be entered in Can You Handle The Pressure challenge https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2022/04/anything-goes-embossing-with-twist-of_0267032586.html

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

Gerry

Bubble Wrap Birthday Card

| Lisa K

I made a card using a video idea from Gina K Designs with bubble wrap.

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-94/

I used a Lawn Fawn set called Flutter By for the butterflies. The greeting came from a Unity set illustrated by Gracielle Designs. The background is bubble wrap stamped in Polished Pink.

This card was originally created for the Challenge Your Stash challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. We always upload our cards on the 28th of the month. The challenge was to make something for Earth Day thinking of things that make our Earth beautiful. I love butterflies and Gina K had the perfect video for inspiration. I redeemed my bubble wrap from heading to the trash and using it.

It will be going to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge as it is an Anything Goes challenge.

1st teenage birthday

| Gerry Morse

Today’s card is for our great-grandson. Hard to believe we now have 2 teenage great-grandsons.

Card is from the Silhouette. The file cuts the card in one piece, but the front has no backing, so I cut it at 4 1/4 so I could mount it on a card front. The cut-out front looked kind of blah, so I embossed it. Before running it through SU’s Dots ef, I ran it through my Xyron so I’d be sure it would adhere really well. Inside just says “Happy First Teenage Birthday, Ryan!”

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

Gerry

another birthday?

| Gerry Morse

Today’s card is for our b-i-l. When I found the sentiment “What, another birthday? Aren’t you old enough already?” I knew it would be perfect for him. I had a hard time coming up with a design till I thought of making a square card. The background papers and square brads were found in my stash. I would have liked a little larger brad but this is all I had.

Thanks for stopping by. Comments are greatly appreciated. Be healthy and save.

Gerry

Blues Silhouette

| Gayle Chrvala

As You Can See It Challenge 273

“The call it the blues” is the challenge 273 over at the As You Can See It challenge blog. Gorgeous Stampin Up colors of Night of Navy, Pacific Point and Balmy Blue for this color challenge.

Using a Taylored Expressions A2 mask, I first ink blended my substitute Gina K Designs inks for the Stampin Up colors. First up in the smallest rectangle was Navy, then Blue Raspberry and finally Powder Blue. My silhouette image is also GKD’s Friendly Silhouettes which was stamped in versamark ink and white heat embossed. Sentiment was from the same stamp set and was gold heat embossed on vellum.

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

Small & Few Chicks

| Gayle Chrvala

AAA Cards Challenge # 213

Always an interesting Clean and Simple Card challenge with the AAA Cards challenge blog and #213 is Small and Few + Easter/Spring option. I always need to remind myself to keep this challenge CAS.

I pulled out the sweet little chicks from Stampin Up’s Heaven Blessed stamp set and stamped and colored the chicks with some markers. I made a circle mask for the image and lightly sponged some Gina K Designs lemon drop ink and mounted the panel on some very spring green cardstock.

Our farmer’s market would always have chicks that were dyed in spring colors. These chicks were so cute to see but thankfully we were never able to buy one. I know what happens to those cute little chicks!!

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

Silver & Gold

| Gayle Chrvala

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #14

Using the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge mood board of silver and gold with wreaths and ornaments, I decided to pull out an older mounted red rubber stamp set from Great Impressions. After stamping it in versamark ink I took a pinch of silver and gold embossing powder and heat set my wreath then die cut it using Spellbinders Classic scalloped circle dies. The deer is a Martha Stewart flocked deer sticker, the bow is Poppy Grosgrain Bow die and the patterned paper was from my stash called Holiday Glitz.

My first wreath I die cut using a circle die and also cut the center portion out. You can probably imagine where that was going….yup…it looked just like a donut!!! Not that I don’t love a good donut however not when it’s supposed to be a Christmas wreath hanging on my gatefold card. LOL. The scalloped die worked much better.

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

Warm Wishes

| Gayle Chrvala

Just Add Ink #600

The challenge with the Just Add Ink blog is an inspiration photo depicting the southern hemisphere who are enjoying the cooler temperatures and the season of Autumn. So for my card I opted on the wonderful warm fall colors highlighting some Gina K Designs Sweet Mango cardstock. I embossed the top portion of Sweet Mango with SimonSaysStamp’s Kaleidoscope embossing folder. My bottom portion was stamped and inked using SSS’s wood planks background stamp and inking it in some brown ink. The card base is a navy blue and I alternated the SSS Chunky Happy die between the sweet mango and navy cardstock. Sentiment is GKD’s Stamp It Big stamp set and leaves are Sizzix’s Sizzlits Little Leaves die.

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