The challenge at the ModSquad Challenge this week is to include fruit on your card. Hands down strawberries are my favorite fruit. My grandmother had a strawberry patch that I raided on every visit to her. Yum! For today’s card, I used my GKD Enjoy The Sunshine stamp set as well as the Berries & Vines patterned paper pack. The background die is a Spellbinder’s Majestic Circles set and GKD Single Stitch large circle die for the image. Sentiment was also Spellbinders.
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This card was created for the Mod Squad Challenge using fruit and the Paper Smooches challenge of Anything Goes.
For the fruit I used You’re the Sweetest by Gina K Designs. I remember this set coming from a kit released in 2014. It was a favorite and I still pull it out and enjoy stamping with it. The leaf stamp is from Cute Fruit by Paper Smooches. I needed a leaf and this set has a couple of choices which worked perfectly. The sentiment is from Positive Vibes by MayMay Made It.
New dies arrived in today’s mail and I used them on this card. Gina Marie Designs, Stitched Scalloped Rectangles were a joy to use. I die cut the center, then cut a white piece to stamp the sentiment on and popped it up in the center. I die cut the background with the largest die from the set and didn’t like it on the white card base, so I die cut the entire base to match. I really like the completed scalloped card as it is different that what I normally do and will be a joy to send.
I used Key Lime in both cardstock and ink and Sweet Mango all from Gina K Designs. The yellow is Lawn Fawn Lemonade ink and the solid green leaves are stamped with Stampin Up Granny Apple Green. The card base is Hobby Lobby 110 pound white.
The following card is created using the CAS Colors of So Saffron, Night of Navy and Real Red. I made this last weekend, got busy, didn’t get a photo taken till today, so I will try to remember what colors I substituted.
The yellow ink is Lawn Fawn Sunflower and the red is Gina K Designs Red Velvet. The blue is Lawn Fawn Deep Sea. I stamped the blue off several times to get lighter shades. I used stamps from three companies in completing the front of this card: MayMay Made It — Beacon for most of the images, Snowbuddies for the globe, Stampin Up High Tide for the water, and The Stamps of Life sailboat2stamp for the sentiment. The inside has a Hero Arts stamp for Father’s Day. I added an action wobbler to the front making the sailboat sail on the water.
The As You See It Challenge #228 is a recipe challenge by Amy.
So for my slimline card, my repeat image is the flower stamp from SU’s Touch of Nature, paper scraps are the punched butterflies (not the time to clean up my desk), the layered cardstock for the focal image is GKD’s Bubblegum pink, my bow was made with ribbon from Denami Stamps and my one word sentiment is also a SU sentiment from the Peace, Love & Cupcakes stamp set. That’s 5 ingredients for this recipe card.
The recipe is as follows:
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This card was created for the Double D Challenges theme of Wedding. I created my gate fold card using the Crafter’s Companion Die’sire edge’able Victorian metal die. My next step was to use a piece of DCVW Wedding patterned paper pack with a vintage print which was cut 4-1/4 x 11 and scored at 5-1/2. This center panel lifts up for the inside message. I really wanted more of a silver look but settled for some sparkle by using Brutus Monroe Alabaster Glitter Glaze over a SSS Peony Bouquet stencil. The sentiment is GKD’s Always and Forever stamp set. The silver ribbon was from my stash.
The Paper Players current challenge is a Color Challenge from Laurie using Real Red,Tranquil Tide and Basic Grey. Pretty color combination — I decided to get my my close to those colors in my GKD cardstock and cut 1/4″ strips of paper, glued them onto a base and die cut a square using Spellbinders large classic square for center point of this card. I also included a dry embossed grey using a Tim Holtz Alterations embossing folder by Sizzix and stamped the GKD image and sentiment from the Dino-Mite red rubber stamp set. Originally intended this card for our grandson but when I saw the sentiment decided on a friend’s “Medicare” birthday in July. I now need one of Stamp Buddy Gerry’s snarky verses for inside the card.
I finally received my curbside order from Joann’s after a four week wait and I was anxious to play with the Hero Arts Color Layering Waves stamp set and Beach Frame Fancy Die. The three ocean stamps are pretty easy to line up and stamp in my Misti. I did think that the stamps would have been a little longer in size. So I inked up in Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass for the base wave, then GKD’s Powder Blue for the next wave and finally my darkest blue of Navy for the final wave. My sand was created by painting on some white Gesso, then used a gold metallic rub on and finally kraft ink to fill in the spots. The sky was GKD’s coral reef, tumbled glass and salty ocean. I added some sea birds from GKD’s By The Sea, flip flops from Hello Sunshine and lightly sponged coral reef onto Sunshine stencil and mounted on Coral Sea cardbase.
This card will be entered into Sunday Stamps color challenge to use a minimum of 3 colors from their graphic below and any neutral.
Pretty colors for this challenge and hoping for a day visit to the Jersey shore soon.
I can’t tell you how long it’s been since I’ve been to a movie, so I’m not familiar with too many of the ones that have been made within the last 20 years. But I do have some favorites from long ago. One of my favorite movies is “Yankee Doodle Dandy” about the life of George M. Cohan, starring James Cagney. As I was creating a lot of patriotic cards yesterday on Flag Day, it occurred to me that one would be perfect to enter in the As You See It Reel Challenge. This card was really fun to create. I used the Fireworks Stamp and Stencil set from Taylored Expressions. I stamped the starry background in Blue Denim. Then lining up the first stencil, I brushed on Blue Denim to create the first part of the fireworks burst, then brushed on Red Velvet using the second stencil to complete the burst. The focal image is the flag map from the Old Glory set from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. The sentiment from the Patriotic Mini Strips set from Taylored Expressions was perfect over the flag map. As George M. said throughout the movie and at the end “My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you”.
The challenge with The Sisterhood of Crafters is “Here Comes the Bride” wedding card. I have no weddings in the near future but believe if I did this card would be acceptable. I was hoping to keep the card simple so using a GKD stencil I dry embossed it on ivory cardstock. The flourish is a Momenta die that I cut three times on kraft cardstock added a little Wink of Stella for shine. My sentiment is from GKD’s Scripty Sayings 2. The card base is also kraft. Inside I lightly sponged the same stencil in kraft ink on ivory cardstock.
I do believe I can use this “wedding card” for a variety of occasions.
