Independence Day 2024

| Gayle Chrvala

Independence Day 2024 with the US and red, white and blue. A split background stamp from Taylored Expressions named Americana allows you to position the entire stamp on your stamp positioner then remove the top or bottom and ink it and stamp then align the other portion back on the positioner and remove the first stamp and ink the second part of the stamp with a different color ink. Easy to realign and no masking required.

Today’s card will be shared with:

Colorful Options: Flags Challenge

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Birthday Bugs

| Gayle Chrvala

The Hey Lady Insiders sentiment seemed a great landing spot for my ladybug designed card. I inked up the Taylored Expressions Hey Lady kit which included stamp, stencils, die along with a coordinating Happy Trails stamp set and foiled sentiment for my card. The ladybug background can be used as a total background or die cut the ladies out for multiple cards. So if I was making one background I might as well make two! Cute new set and glad I added it to my collection. I have no will-power especially when it comes to cute.

My card today will be shared with:

Word Power: Word Power #7 challenge to showcase the “words”!!!

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. It’s been very hot and humid and a real humdinger today. Take care, be safe and stay cool.

Mr. Pumpkin Head

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome, hope you had a fun 4th of July.

Today’s card is 5×5″ square. Background paper was found online. Spiders and webs were on the paper, sentiment and bats were added in my Hallmark card program, image is from an online coloring page. Coloring was done using a Prismacolor pencil, Copic and a Stampin Up markers. After coloring I fussy cut the image. At first I thought about popping the image up but I liked it better flat. This will go to our 7 year old great-grandson.

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://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-2024-anything-goes-halloween.html

Miss Lady

| Gayle Chrvala

All that softball running was piece of cake after our 6 year old granddaughter made a visit to the “elf room” and made her first card. I told her making cards is not so easy. She did a great job, followed all the instructions to create her card and envelope for her little brother who was a little under the weather.

I wanted to share her achievement with all of you. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time.

Embossed Christmas

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. When I saw a card with layout on Pinterest, I knew I just had to try it. You can see it here https://sdbeansfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2017/08/christmas-card-using-sc657.html . Reading how she embossed the vellum I thought that was too interesting not to try it. To my surprise it worked the first time. Just put a piece of white cs in the folder and put the vellum on top.

From the mood board at Peace On Earth I decided to focus on the color green. All paper and embossing folder are from Stampin Up. Sentiment was printed in my Hallmark card program with holly clip art added.

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://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2024/06/peace-on-earth-challenge-66.html

Traveling Pants

| Gayle Chrvala

My card today was inspired by the book The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants which is a best friends story and a pair of jeans shared by these friends. So using the pocket die from a recent Gina K Designs die, I created “jeans” using blue cardstock, stamping gauze background stamp in navy ink and ink blended the edges. Stamped and die cut a number of flowers from the GKD All Occasion Flowers set and added a SimonSaysStamp hugs die to complete my card.

I will be sharing my card today with:

Cardz 4 Galz #228 Inspired by a Book.

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Chi Chi

| Gayle Chrvala

So happy that Brooke was able to come for a sleepover and she decided to play with my new stamp set from Unity Stamp Company’s Functioning Chi Chi. This stamp image cracked me up and had a lot of fun watching Brooke create her “more is best’ cards.

Not sure if my cards will be as creative as hers!

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Stars in the Sky

| Gayle Chrvala

A sympathy card for a dear friend who recently lost someone close to her and her husband. My background was embossed with Taylored Expressions Diamond embossing powder and the Star Fall Background stamp. A circle was die cut and I ink blended rainbow clouds using one of my stencils, added a die cut dragonfly and sentiment from a Gina K Designs stamp set that was on my desk and I will hopefully find and file away :).

My card will be shared in a sketch challenge with:

As You See It Challenge: Challenge #326 – Simple Sketch

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Dotted Batta

| Gayle Chrvala

My card today is for our youngest granddaughter who just recently finished her first season of softball. She told her father at the end of her season that she’s not sure if she will play again because it’s a lot of running. The reasoning of a 6 year old!! Both patterned papers were from my stash and they just jumped out at me. I layered both on light blue cardstock and embossed with my much loved swiss dots embossing folder. The bunny batter is from The Cat’s Pajamas and a few added pieces of 3D sticker ephemera.

My card will be shared with:

Can You Handle The Pressure?: Anything Goes Embossing with a twist of Sports.

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