Trick Or Treat

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. What’s better than making a Halloween card. Patterned papers were all found in my stash. Sentiment is computer clip art, die cuts are Spellbinders Labels 1. The hardest part for me was figuring out the right size to cut the square pieces. Here is a photo of the card from Pinterest that I CASE’d

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This will now be entered at https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/07/july-2025-anything-goes-halloween.html

Look, People

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Oh yeah, time again for dear old sisters’ chuckle card. Quote, “Oh look, there are people outside… Bless their hearts… Well, that’s enough social interaction for me today.” was found online. Image is online clip art that I fussy cut, background paper was found in my stash. Printing was done in my Hallmark card program. D-O-S loved it.

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Boho Pots

| Gayle Chrvala

The theme is flower pots and I die cut a Taylored Expressions Boho Pot die in grey added a bit of color around the edges and some splatter. The pot needed a flower so another TE stamp that was masked off and colored in this big bloom. The pot needed a landing spot on the Spellbinder’s oval nestabilities which is landing on TE strips which is landing on a larger Spellbinder’s oval embossed on the layering panel and added more splatter. TE sentiment from my stash added and at last some greens trailing out of my boho pot. This card was CASE’d from an email received from Mary Fish’s Stampin Pretty blog which I could no longer locate. Sorry. I liked her card so gave it a go for the:

Double D Challenges: Flower Pots

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Meow!!!

| Gayle Chrvala

I think I have had one or two of these cats that loved to create havoc. Today’s card uses a Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix stamp, die and embossing folder set names Cat Chat. Perfect for the Can You Handle the Pressure with a theme of cats and/or dogs. Perfect if I would have posted before the deadline???? LOL!!

I finally used the ink blended background which was originally embossed, sanded and then embossed with the Cat Chat yarn embossing folder. Glad to get it off my desk.

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Happy Eighth

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our great-grandson. The idea for this card came from Pinterest. To add a little texture to the white layer I scored diagonally every 1/2″ in both directions. Balloons are from the Silhouette. Since my handwriting is so bad I had hubby write the letters on the balloons. Circle dies are Spellbinders Scalloped and Classic circles. Sentiment and number were done on the computer. Balloon strings are from my stash. Card is 5 x 5. I was a little worried about how it might turn out but I’m very pleased with it.

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Fractured Wishes

| Gayle Chrvala

I was anxious to use my new Divinity Designs Fractured Quilt Landscape die and ended up making a few cards with Divinity Designs Beautiful Bouquets A2 card fronts patterned papers. Card one uses a Hero Arts die and sentiment strip from my stash, card 2 sentiment was a die with shadow set gifted to me and card 3 uses Taylored Expressions dies from my stash.

My top card will be shared in the:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: July ATG Using Pretty Papers and a theme of Birthday.

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Buds and Butterflies

| Gayle Chrvala

Using Taylored Expressions Buds & Blossoms stamp and stencil combo and add on die today for a Triple B challenge today. I decided on pinks and orange for my buds, TEs Frame in Frame 3 die which creates a border edge and cuts the middle out which I then popped up with foam strips. Sentiment is TEs All Together Occassions 2 stamp/die set and an old Prickley Pear die for the shape behind my sentiment. Martha Stewart triple butterfly punch in case buds are not considered blossoms :)!

My card will be shared with Triple B: July 2025 Challenge

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Happy Anniversary

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our friends. For some reason I really wanted to make a corner fold card. Patterned paper was found online, label dies are Rectangle Stitched Framelits by Stampin Up. Sentiment was printed in my Hallmark card program, gems are from my stash. I’m proud of myself, I didn’t add even a little snark to this one. lol

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Color Block

| Gayle Chrvala

I had a plan for a monthly color challenge using color blocking after viewing a recent Yana YouTube video……hmmmmm…..so it went to choosing my light weight 65 pound cardstock from Michael’s to not really sure of the colors combinations of Red, Orange, Yellow and Green…..the red and orange looked too close in color to me and not sure about that green. After plugging on, I die cut Taylored Expressions coneflower dies…..first I was leaving them all white then decided to add some color, added a few of the detached leaves/stems and Taylored Expressions All Together All Occasions stamp/die set…..the leafy stems were not doing it for me so added a few more coneflowers and finally stepped away before adding anything else…..but maybe I will add a bit of splatter to the background?!?! Decisions! Decisions! Decisions!! Oh well, I think it may grow on me!

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Colorful Options: July 2025 Challenge

They do have a fun color mood board for their summer challenge.

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