Summertime, Summertime, Sum Sum Summertime! Summer arrived on Saturday and this year we may have to experience alternative summertime activities. Well maybe not that different since we are not roller coaster fans. For today’s card which will be entered into the Dies R Us Challenge with a Summer Time Fun theme, I inked up the Hero Arts May My Hero kit which finally arrived at my door. The kit includes a stamp set and matching dies as well as few other dies. The dies used from this kit were the airplane, sun, cloud, hot air balloon and the banner. My clouds were created using a Pretty Pink Posh cloud stencil set and the patterned paper is Echo Park’s Summer Days.

Happy Summer!

Father’s Day cards for my son (bottom) and son-in-law (top) for this year. Getting my inspiration from Johanna and her lovely nautical themed cards.

Happy Father’s Day to all our Dads.

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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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.