I was inspired by our Buddy Gerry to add some Christmas cards to my stash and then needed to take a page out of her book and search for an online nutcracker image. I searched quickly through my Christmas stamps and supplies and was quite surprised that I did not locate a nutcracker so off to the free on line coloring pages. After resizing this nutcracker, coloring, die cutting with a Gina K double stitched rectangle die, I adhered it to a piece of Recollection Christmas Plaids paper pack and mounted on a piece of kraft cardstock. Sentiment is a red rubber wood mounted Studio G stamp that was more than likely purchased from a ACMoore many, many years ago.

My card today will be shared with:

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #88 and their fabulous nutcracker mood board.

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It’s a jungle out there!!!! Well this giraffe from an old red rubber mounted stamp from Great Impressions seems to be taking a break amongst the jungle plants. My jungle was die cut using Hero Arts Jungle Fancy Frame die to which I cut the middle out of the die leaving a border. Since it was a nice day with no rain (finally) I ink blended some yellow inks on Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix sun rays embossing folder. It’s a pretty busy scene so I added a simple Spellbinder’s sentimen in gold shimmer cardstock. I thought the Hi would work because giraffe’s are really tall and can reach the highest branches……lol. The leaves were swiped with wink of stella for some shine that could mimic dew.

My card will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes with a twist of a zoo/ jungle animals (5/25) and of course the required embossing folder.

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Today’s card was made using Taylored Expressions Create In Quads Pattern Playground layering stencil, Peace Within dies, Dragon Tales dies and Sending sentiment stamp/die set. Using more masculine ink colors and background image but opted to add the framed leafy branch cut twice, once in the white and offset in a light soft gray cardstock while adding the tiny dragonfly in the frame corner makes this card more gender neutral now and I believe I can use for the guy or the girl. My card will be shared with a new to me challenge and thanks to Buddy Johanna for recommending it to me:

Seize The Birthday #306 – Use a Frame

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Today’s card was made using Taylored Expressions Party Pop stencil/3D embossing folder combo. This is part of TE’s Combo Club program for which I signed up. The stenciled/embossed side panel was left over from a card that uses the larger panel for an A2 card. Since the panel was not as wide as needed for the traditional gatefold fun car, I adjusted my folds. The larger panel was embossed. Sentiment is TE’s Ring Around the Words die but cut the circle away from the word die.

My card with the prominent sentiment will be share in:

Word Power May 2025 Challenge

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After running a panel of Gina K Designs Cone Flower Garden poly-glaze foiling sheets through my Fuse laminating machine, I ink blended the panel with GKD orchid ink trios. Taylored Expressions May Lily of the Valley from A Year in Bloom was stamped, lightly colored, die cut and adhered to the focal panel. The TE Feature frame cut and layered 3 times was added to my card. Sentiment is GKD’s Lovely Notes card kit from January 2023. Each month TE adds a free gift with each order and this year the theme is A Year in Bloom. It seemed like the perfect time to use this with the theme for

Double D Challenges: May’s Birth Flower or Birthstone challenge

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It was too difficult for me to decide on one color from Colorful Options May 2025 Challenge this month so decided to use the soft rainbow colors on my silhouette scene. The tree line and butterfly are part of Gina K Designs Friendly Silhouettes and a combination of SimonSaysStamp and Taylored Expressions inks. A TE oval masking stencil was used from my ink blending and to stamp my trees however that left side just wouldn’t completely stamp over the stencil so I found a sentiment strip from my stash to try to cover that section.

It was a bit different from the usual color challenge at Colorful Options but fun to play along with them.

This was a collaboration challenge with Park Hopping: My Happy Place but since I did not use a Star Wars or galaxy theme I will only play with Colorful Options.

Our lawn is begging to be mowed after a week of rain, rain and more rain and it will just have to be high for another two days so we can get back on schedule with grass collection service. It is amazing how quickly everything turned green and the plants look like they are on steroids, too. More rain expected mid week but we should be under control by then. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe.