Panda Birthday card

August 9, 2021 | Lisa K

It is challenge time at Splitcoast Stampers for those that are Fan Club Members. This means you pay a small fee so you can post anytime with no moderation and it allows the site to remain operational. I am a Fan Club Member and am participating in a few challenges.

I am proud of this card and spent a lot of today creating it, so I thought I would share. The front is fairly straight forward in how it is made. The inside pop-up feature is the part that took a lot of work. I used a Sizzix die that I have owned for a few years, but can’t remember using it. I know I have cut it out before, but mounting it on the card was a learning process. I realized the panda needed something else with it as there were two other places to pop-up something. I chose balloons and found they needed stability. I used acetate to hold those balloons up, then placed a small piece of white cardstock over the acetate to hide the adhesive (glue dots) and give plenty of stability. Now I have to send this to a special person. I have young nieces and birthdays are approaching, so it will go to one of them.

Yellow and Pink Flowers

August 8, 2021August 8, 2021 | Judy Inukai

I struggled to come up with a card using the current combination at Color Hues. Yellow and Pink are not colors I normally use together. I tried several ideas and finally broke out the Sketched Flowers set from the Time to Coast Stamp TV kit. I stamped the sentiment in Passionate Pink. The flowers were stamped with Wild Dandelion and Bubblegum Pink, using the opposite color for the center. I was surprised and delighted with how this turned out.

Baby Boy Gingham

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 | Judy Inukai

I love the series of Basket stamps sets from 2011 by Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs. All images were stamped and fussy cut. The Holiday Basket was stamped in Dark Chocolate on Kraft. The toys and ruffle are from Basket Blessings (2011). The ruffle was stamped on pattern paper from my stash and attached to the edge of the basket with foam squares for dimension. The toys were colored with Copics and trimmed to allow the toys to be tucked into the basket. The sentiment was stamped and cut with a tiny tag die. The gingham pattern paper is from my stash. The card base is Powder Blue. I made this for a special couple to celebrate the birth of their sweet baby boy. I’m entering this in the following challenges:

Retro Rubber Challenge #164 Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin’ – Gingham, Tartan & Plaid

Spider Jar

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 | Gayle Chrvala

Double D Challenges: Mason Jar Challenge

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

Hello again! The challenge with Double D Challenge is a Mason Jar Challenge and I decided to fill my mason jar with spiders so I can play along with the August Anything Goes Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge. Not a lot of stamping with this shaped mason jar card. The shape was found on line and fussy cut multiple times, I added some Halloween ribbon and sparkly spider web sticker and gemmed spiders.

The inside of my mason jar includes a spider web stencil lightly sponged in purple and spider from Hampton Arts Outline stamp set and cannot remember or find at this moment the sentiment stamp. LOL I used a Zig Painty metallic pen for my mason jar lid.

I may make one more August Anything Goes card for the Two Old Bats and actually use the Inspiration Board.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

Wonderful Friend

August 4, 2021 | Lisa K

Day 5 of Camp Create is all about die cutting. I chose to use the MFT stamp set, Sending Sunshine with matching dies for my card.

https://www.mftstamps.com/blogs/news/camp-create-august-4-2021

I searched Pinterest for ideas with this stamp set. I saw so many ideas and after a while they jumbled together in my mind, so I can’t give credit to any one designer for using her work. I paper pieced the girl’s clothing. I used a Carta Bella paper pad from a prior year. The background paper came from the same pack. I enjoyed coloring today. All images were colored with Spectrum Noir markers.

Following is the final badge for participating in each challenge.

Thank you for spending time with me this week. Now I will take a few days off and figure out what I will choose for my Faith based card which I really should have ready to post on the 7th. Following I need to get into birthday mode as birthdays are quickly coming in my household and I have done nothing to prepare much less make gift suggestions.

Baby Miles

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 | Gayle Chrvala

Another baby card for my new grand-friend’s parents. So another attempt at a CAS along the edge card using Beth Silaika for GKD’s Bella Elephant stamp set, some patterned paper for paper piecing and although you cannot see it I scored three lines next to my image to complete the optional twist of dry embossing for this week’s challenge.

Hope everyone enjoys their day. We are heading back to hotter and more humid temperatures beginning tomorrow. Stay cool, stay safe and thanks for stopping in for a peek.

Nonna’s Miles

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 | Gayle Chrvala

A card for a new grand-friend born yesterday. Mom, Baby Miles, Dad, Big Sister and Nonna are all doing well!

The Sunday Stamps challenge this week is a sketch challenge by Melissa.

I feel like a rebel instead of the rule person that I normally am. I turned my version of the sketch into a gatefold card. With those two strips behind the circle, the sketch just seem to scream gatefold to me. And I jumped in that direction. I have all of the elements and move the sentiment to the top right. It was a fun card to create using stamps from Stamp Oasis’s Little Cowboy and Gina K Designs Oh Baby! and patterned paper from my stash.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek.

Where’s the mint?

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 | Gayle Chrvala

I have been waiting to turn that calendar page to play along with the August Halloween challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge group. My project today includes patterned paper from a SSS Halloween kit and SSS sentiment strips. My spider was created using SU punches. OMG….years ago I made so many of these with my girlfriends for their grandkids to take to school as treats. Unfortunately, the packaging was changed on the York Peppermint Patties so I think this candy treat is a thing of the past.

Just how much fun is this that I can also play along with the Just Us Girls Challenge by turning my project into a gift card holder. Wild Card Week challenge is anything but a card. I continued the inside gift card holder section with the same patterned paper and used SU’s Googly Ghosts.

So much fun to make this card and brings back good girlfriend memories. They may be receiving this card—-minus the gift card part…LOL. Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

CASE-ing Lisa

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 | Gayle Chrvala

The challenge at The Paper Players is a theme challenge by Joanne: Beside the Seaside. We finally had our first visit to a beach at the Jersey shore on Friday so I remembered our Buddy Lisa K’s recent card and used our visit, her card and the inspiration photo to create my card.

The stamps used for this card were: Hero Arts Color Layering Waves, GKD’s Nurturing Blooms for the sentiment, Melanie Muenchinger for GKD’s Gifts from the Sea for my birds and my Bonnie cloud stencil.

Lisa’s sympathy card can be seen here.