HBD!

| Gayle Chrvala

I’m adding to my supply of birthday cards with this Cuttlebug embossed background on black cardstock and swiped with white pigment ink. Then taking a section of a Taylored Expressions Time to Fly Combo Club stamp and stencil set and SimonSaysStamp Chunky Happy die, cut out twice, once in the stenciled carstock and once in black for the outline and then the shadow in vellum. Adding a scripty TE Big Happy Add-On sentiment and mounting to the card base my card is completed.

Today, I will be sharing with two challenges:

Double D Challenges: 9th Birthday/Anniversary Challenge at Double D Congratulations to Darlene and Diane and their fabulous design team.

And since my card is really made up of words, I’ll be adding the

Word Power: Word Power January 2025 Challenge

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe, keep warm and prayers for California.

Pocket Valentine

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. This is my first attempt at making a pocket card. I followed the video by Jackie Bolhuis here https://klompenstampers.com/bee-my-valentine-fun-pocket-card-designs/

Since it’s just a single piece of 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 cs I added an easel back so it could stand up. Pattern papers are Stampin Up, image is computer clip art fussy cut. There’s a heart border on the inside that is also clip art. This was really quite easy to make and I’m very pleased with it. This one will go to our 6-year-old great-granddaughter.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Better Years

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is DOS’s first chuckle card for 2025. I found the sentiment, “I’m not making any resolutions. I think it’s time for the years to be better, not me!”, somewhere on the internet. For the image I Googled snarky women clip art. All the printing was done in my Hallmark card program. Embossing folder used is Seascape by Stampin Up.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Natural Shine

| Gayle Chrvala

Fun Fold card with lots of shine…..it’s like go bold or go home sometimes with me. This is a CASE of a Christmas card received from Johanna and a new stamp set gifted to me by a friend. With the images in the stamp set it could have gone nautical or space themed and I opted for more of a outer space 🙂 theme. Digging out my DCWV Natural paper pad from my stash, I decided on three different patterns, embossed the image on vellum and heat embossed with bronze embossing powder. After fussy cutting the arrow and gluing it in place I thought it looked liked a game board spinner. The note card also opens for a second sentiment and personal message. Thanks for the inspiration Johanna.

My card today will be shared with:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: ATG using pretty patterned papers January 2025 with a theme of a fun fold card.

We had a few inches of snow today and while Will shoveled I put most of Christmas away! My forever tree stays up year round and the snowmen have been warned that it’s to the basement in storage if they bring too many winter storms. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe and keep warm. Brrrr….it’s very cold in Pennsylvania.

Pinwheel Birthday

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Don’t know about you but I’m glad the holidays are over.

Today’s card is for my b-i-l. Hubby thought gray was appropriate for a gray old man’s card. Inside sentiment is “Enjoy the last year of your 80’s”. Background paper was embossed with Cuttlebug’s Happy Birthday ef. Patterned papers were in my stash and I have no idea where they came from. Pinwheel squares were cut with my paper trimmer. Center ‘button’ is hand punched with Glossy Accents added. Photo corners are punched squares cut in half diagonally.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

This will be entered at https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/01/9th-birthdayanniversary-challenge-at.html

YGP w/Splatter

| Gayle Chrvala

A color challenge using Yellow – Green – Purple is Colorful Options January 2025 Challenge! I immediately went to Mardi Gras but decided it was too early for that so with a little bit of overlap and a teeny bit of colors not quite blending I decided on a silhouette stamp and turned it into a birthday card for maybe my son and/or sil. The added splatter was intended for a Facebook challenge with Taylored Expressions and I lightly splattered some gold and black on this card. My orginal card with the same design was pretty heavy handed with gold splatter. That one grew on me and I’ll be using that one too. My products are all TE including Simple Silhouette stamp set, Happy Occasions stamp & die set, A2 Postage Stamp Stacklets die, Granny Smith, Dried Fig & Pineapple inks.

I will be sharing my card with:

Colorful Options: January 2025 Yellow Purple Green challenge

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe and keep warm and cozy.

Butterfly Note Card

| Lisa K

I have a goal for the year to try to use what I own. I am not sure how long that will last as there is always something new catching my eye. This card is using many retired products, most that have never been used before.

The stamp set used is called Butterfly Gala with the matching punch, very retired. The colors used are Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sorbet, and gold. I used a stencil on the background that I heat embossed with clear glitter embossing powder. The gold is a Posca Pen. The color challenge is from SplitcoastStampers CC1033.

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-stencil-fun-challenge.html

I am entering this in the December Stencil challenge, even though it is January. Thanks for coming by and seeing my creation. I enjoyed creating with something new to me.

Embossed Foil

| Gerry Morse

Happy New Year!!

Today’s card is for our soon to be grandson-in-law. I have become very fond of embossed foil for masculine cards. Since I learned to put the foil on a piece of cs before embossing it turns out so much better. Embossing folder used is Happy Birthday by Cuttlebug. Center image is clip art from my Hallmark card program and popped up. This was so quick and easy.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Little Buddy Birthday

| Gayle Chrvala

A January birthday card for a friend’s little boy. This is my attempt to make “bubbles” on my background. After finding lids in different sizes and some Distress Oxide inks, I began inking the edges of the lids and stamped, added some water to try to move the ink around. Not exactly the effect I was looking to achieve…..maybe I need to wet the paper first so the ink moves a bit more. After drying the ink with my heat tool, I embossed this panel using a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder with the layering panel in one pass and was pretty surprised how the two layers fit into each other after gluing together. The image is Unity Stamps and a Gina K Designs Winter Blocks sentiment.

My card will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes Embossing with a Twist of Winter

I was thrilled that my embossed poinsettia card in December’s challenge was chosen as a Top 3. WhooHoo!!!

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe and keep warm.