103 Birthday Wishes

| Judy Inukai

This is for my husband’s aunt’s birthday. I used Beautiful Balloons by Gina K Designs, masked and colored with Copics. The numbers are from Lots of Letters. Layers are Red Velvet, pattern paper is from Hello Sunshine. On the Tangerine Twist layer I used Tangerine Twist ink with the Rounded Swirl stencil. Card base is Wild Dandelion. This is a lot of layers for me. The birthday cake had red, blue, yellow and orange balloons with numeral candles – it was like I knew what the cake was going to look like. It was a good day and great to see so many of the family on a happy occasion.







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Orange you glad…

| Gayle Chrvala

….I didn’t say boo!  Orange and white is the challenge that Double D Challenges has issued for this week.  I didn’t think I could do Halloween without black but my card features a ghostly white haunted house from SimonSaysStamps “creepy cute” stamp set and a ghostly border of Gina K’s Wicked stamp set illustrated by Beth Silaika.  I added a layered “boo” die cut from SSS as well as a glittery trick or treater die cut.

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The Double D Challenges:  Orange and White…that’s it can be seen http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/

And since I was on an orange an white theme, the inside of my card continued with the theme.

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Card stock was GKD’s coral reef; inside was patterned paper that I then sponged coral reef onto it since the color was off a bit, added another “boo” and trick or treater.  The haunted house was inked with versamark ink and heat embossed with fine detail white embossing powder and colored in with a Stampin Up white colored pencil.  The ghosts were all stamped in versamark and heat embossed with fine detail embossing powder.

Thanks for looking!

BOO!!

Rose Petal Butterflies

| Gayle Chrvala

Today’s card will be entered into the ModSquadChallenge to use something from nature on your card.  My nature items are rose petal butterflies.  I glued some rose petals to a piece of cardstock, punched them out using two different Martha Stewart punches.  The stamp set used on the card is Gina K Designs’ Rose Bouquet which was stamped in versamark ink and emboss set with gold embossing powder.  I added a layer of gold embossing and a swiss dot embossing folder layer before finally mounting on to a card base.  I wanted to focus the color on my rose petal butterflies.

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I did have to redo my butterflies since they shrunk a little in the places that no glue was adhered.  Somewhere in my stash I should have some of that Stick It paper…I’ll have to search.

Here’s the link to the ModSquadChallenge.http://modsquadchallenge.com/

Thanks for looking!

More Stamptember cards

| Lisa K

I have been adding to the Simon Says Stamp Blog for their Stamptemer releases for a few vendors. First is the Gina K Designs card I created. It was made with the Split Coast Stampers MISTI challenge in mind, as that challenge is all about a silhouette image. Wetlands 2 is the perfect set for silhouette images. The background was created with Tiny Textures.

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The next card was created for the Hero Arts link. I recently acquired the Joy Burst woodblock stamp and decided to do a bit of watercolor.

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These were both enjoyable to create. I used the SU Top Note die for the main cut of the Joy, and the wanted to pop the center up, so I used the Spellbinders Labels 8 dies. I like this stamp set. Hopefully I will put my thinking cap on and find other ideas for it.

Thanks for spending time looking at my cards.

You are the Sweetest

| Lisa K

Simon Says Stamp has a Stamptember set for Avery Elle. I own a few of their stamps, a lot of patterned paper, and storage envelopes. I had to participate in their Stamptember card Avery Elle link-up. It will also be placed in the Wednesday, Anything Goes challenge: https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-66/

This card will also be placed in the Mod Squad Challenge for this week to create a thoughtful card for somebody. http://modsquadchallenge.com/a-time-for-giving/

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This stamp set is called Sweetest. I love the ice cream and Popsicle especially with a face. Each treat was colored with Copic markers. I added sparkle with a clear sparkle pen, then coated the cream and colored popsicle part with Glossy Accents. The stage they are standing on is a Sizzix/Stephanie Bernard embossing folder called Dots.

Paper Piecing Hello Pumpkin

| Lisa K

Having fun with a new Gerda Steiner Designs stamp.

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I used a Darice embossing folder for the tree. It is cut from SU Chocolate Chip cardstock, with the leaves colored with several markers laying close. I used Celebrate Autumn from Echo Park for the paper piecing. The bear is colored with various alcohol markers. This was fun to create. It has been quite a while since I paper pieced. I will post this to Gerda Steiner Designs challenge for September.

Halloween 2019

| Gayle Chrvala

So yesterday I eagerly awaited my delivery from SimonSaysStamps with the Halloween STAMPtember kit purchase plus another goodie.  Imagine my surprise when my order came in a box.  Immediately my brain went into overdrive thinking that this included a Golden Bone from SSS for their STAMPtember release giveaway promotion.  Wow….a year’s worth of some free SSS release goodies….so I carefully opened the box and to my surprise….NO Golden Bone.  Oh well, it could have been me and one day we’ll win the lottery too.

Not to be discouraged I created this card which is kind of super cute and will probably be for my granddaughter Brooke.  Adding a little bit of sparkle mesh over the witchy skirt and a sentiment on top to me completed the legs only image 🙂  I’ve been using the Wild Orchid cardstock from GKD which was an in-color a few years ago for most of this year’s cards.  Since I’m down to my last two pieces of cardstock, I’m happy that I am almost finished with my Halloween 2019 cards.

Thanks for looking.

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Framed Sentiment

| Gayle Chrvala

My card today is for the Double D Challenge to Focus on the Sentiment.  Still creating Halloween and pulled out the Inkadinkadoo Trick or Treat stamp set again which had the largest sentiment in my collection.  I stamped it in GKD’s white pigment ink which is not really a stark white but hopefully has a more spooky affect to it.  Our buddy, Johanna, gifted me some die cut frames and have finally been able to put them to good use.  I was hoping for a little abstract affect to go along with my spooky sentiment :).

I didn’t want to cut off any of the frames so I mounted this on a 5×7 card, covering another layer of card stock with my sparkle mesh Dollar Store find.

Here’s the link for the Double D Challenge

and here’s my card.  Thanks for looking.

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Stenciled Waves

| Lisa K
Stenciled Waves
Stenciled Background [Tag or Card]
Stenciled Background [Tag or Card]

This is for the Mod Squad challenge: http://modsquadchallenge.com/stenciled-background-tag-or-card/

Details: Stencil is called Waves from A Colorful Life: https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/waves/

I used Lawn Fawn inks: Moonstone, Forget Me Not, and Fish Tank in blending the color onto the stencil.

The Frame was created with a Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain woodblock stamp. I have had it for well over 10 years and it worked perfect for the frame. The brads on the frame are Gina K Designs from my stash, and the ink is Warm Cocoa also GKD.

The fish and sea creatures are from The Stamps of Life, Under the Sea. It is from an online class, so it is not available to purchase.

I had fun making this card. It is a 6 X 6 inch card to accommodate the stencil size. I didn’t want to cut it down once I finished stenciling it. This is the first time using A Colorful Life stencils. I like them and they are good quality.

Update from Mod Squad…This card was selected as a Top 3 winner.

Selected September 2019