August Birthdays

| Lisa K

For the buddies who remember, August is birthday month in my world. This means I generally try to create cards specific for the person receiving it and that it looks different than last years cards. Here are the ones for this year.

Birdy card front
Bird card inside

This particular daughter is not really a bird lover, but these birds are colorful and fun. I hope she likes the color and enjoys the quirkiness of the birds.

Sparkly Unicorn

This daughter loved her card. She is all into sparkly, pink, and unicorns. I saw the idea on Pinterest then found there was video. It took a while to make as there are clouds, blended with Bonnie cloud die, and lot of sparkle on those clouds that had to dry. It was fun to create.

Thanks for sharing the birthday congratulations and allowing me to share my cards.

Inlaid Floral Hello

| Lisa K

This card will be in two places. It uses only dies, so it will be used for the August Challenge Your Stash card with Split Coast Stampers. I used the idea from Online Card Classes Crushing on Cardstock.

Inlaid Floral Hello

I have used inlaid die cutting on cards before, but not to this extent. I used the Fun Flower Slimline Panel Die from The Stamps of Life along with cardstock from TSOL. I think the blue is Sky, yellow is Banana, and the red is Strawberry, all from the Cardstock Set 2. The white came from a stash of scraps, but I am sure it is Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth White. The hello is a die from Gina K Designs. In the class in each lesson, it seems they are stacking the die for dimension, so mine is stacked with 2 layers of Strawberry CS and one layer of white. The last time I used inlaid die cutting, it was for a small butterfly, so this was a first for me. I have never used this floral die and gave the inlaid a try. Well, I lost one of the red pieces as it never cut, so I ended up with a white piece. I forgot to look for a matching marker to color the piece, so it is white. I like the card as it is colorful. I am sure the person who will receive this will not notice the bloom I lost.

Turquoise and Coral Flowers

| Judy Inukai

The  Color Hues challenge always makes me leave my comfort zone a bit and use colors that I normally might not use together.  I was surprised how much I liked Turquoise and Coral together. I used the Harvest Flourish stencil by Gina K Designs brushed with Sea Glass. The flowers were created with stencil from the Little Hello Bundle, brushed lightly in Coral Reef, then used the coordinating stamp also in Coral Reef. The center was stamped with Sea Glass. The flowers were cut with the matching die. For the center flower I cut two additional flowers from scrap cardstock for dimension. The stenciled panel was matted with Coral Reef on a Sea Glass card base.

Cruisin’

| Judy Inukai

Cruisin’ is the theme at Retro Rubber. What better way to go cruisin’ than in a 1957 Chevy from the Classic Dad set by Dare 2B Artzy from 2018. The Chevy was colored with Copics and a silver Sharpie for the trim. The mat is the Plaid Stencil from Taylored Expressions in Blue Denim and Kraft. This is for a friend that is truly a class

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Pink Roses

| Judy Inukai

It’s Color Week at Just Us Girls. The colors we are challenged to use are Yellow, Green and Pink. The rosebuds are cut with a die from the Hero Arts January 2020 kit, cut with Bubblegum Pink and Grass Green for the stems. The pitcher is from Impression Obsession, cut twice for dimension. The PP is from Delicate Essentials, sponged with Sweet Corn to enhance the yellow. The oval background PP is from Made with Love. The scalloped Oval is Lemon Drop, the card base is Bubblegum Pink. After it was all assembled I thought it would have been cute to stamp a small greeting on the pitcher, but I did leave enough room at the bottom for a sentiment strip that I can add depending on the occasion.

Fall Recipe

| Judy Inukai

This week’s challenge at As You See It is A Recipe for a Fall Farm. The recipe is in the graphic below. Kraft card stock is the closest I have to Crumb Cake. I embossed a panel with a brick EF and matted it with Sweet Mango on a Kraft card base. I got the idea of using the wheat with a pumpkin from Stamp Buddy Diana. The wheat was cut from Honey Mustard; the pumpkin from Sweet Mango, sponged with a bit of Tangerine Twist. To ground the pumpkin, I created a “tablecloth” from orange gingham PP. The finishing touch was the tiny twine bow. The sentiment is from Beyond Baskets, cut with a flag die.  

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CASEing Bonnie!

| Gayle Chrvala
Just Us Girls Challenge #597 – Trend Week

And the trend is: Black and White. My card for the Just Us Girls Challenge is a CASE of one of our Bonnie’s cards

Taking inspiration from Bonnie’s card but keeping to the black and white theme, I layered a piece of patterned paper from Gina K Designs’ Petite Patterns onto black cardstock. Stamped my image which is an older red rubber stamp and maybe from DRS Designs in black ink and heat embossed in clear embossing powder. Using a Spellbinders square nestabilities die which was positioned to leave room for my sentiments, it was die cut and layered once again on black cardstock. I really wanted to add the diagonal stripe layer however it just didn’t seem to work for me.

Bonnie’s Card

Thanks for the inspiration Bonnie!

Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

Driving!!!

| Gayle Chrvala
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A girlfriend’s grandson just passed his driving test and is hitting the road so i decided to send this card to him as well as play along with The Paper Players masculine clean and simple week challenge. I think I got the masculine correct with this sports card however if you take away the layers to create the car it would be clean and simple 🙂

I pulled out my Spellbinders’ Sunday drive die set to create my car, then stenciled Tim Holtz Hocus Pocus layering stencil onto the background adding a little more ink blending to it. The stamp in the trunk is GKD’s Party On and the message bubble is also a GKD stamp set “Let’s Talk”.

Hopefully the young driver will pay attention to the road and concentrate on his driving as much as I needed to concentrate making his car.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a great day.