YG Leaves

The Yellow-Green color challenge with Colorful Options made me think immediately of leaves. Using Gina K Designs Skeleton Leaves stamp and die set inking in Key Lime and Wild Dandelion. I then used the same color inks for my large TCW Skeletal Leaf stencil for my backgrond. Anchored the die cuts with a vellum oval and sentiment from a different GKD stamp set that has been misplaced on my desk for the moment or maybe I put it back in it’s place! LOL!! To give a bit of color, I added a partial panel of brown card stock behind the focal image. I wasn’t totally happy with this card but I think it’s growing on me.

My card will be shared with:

Colorful Options: August 2024 Challenge — Yellow Green

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Debby brought us some much needed rain to my yard the past couple of days. You could still cut the air with a knife but the tornado watch thankfully did not develop.

Summer Birthday

Celebrating summer with our youngest grandchild’s second birthday with my card design using Gina K Designs Birthday Hoot pure luxury paper and stamp set. Sentiment computer generated and fussy cut owl is on a wobbler. Letters cut from Concord & 9th’s double cut alphabet die without using the border for the letters.

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Love Those Pretty Paper Challenge: August Challenge with a summertime theme.

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With Sympathy

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for one of our daughter’s best friends whose mom just passed away. Card base is Balmy Blue, pink panel is a scrap piece, pp paper was found online. Die cut is Flourish Thinlits by Stampin Up, sentiment was printed on the computer, gems are from my stash. I’m hoping it will bring some comfort.

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Baseball Birthday

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our grandson-in-law. You guessed it, he’s a big MN Twins fan. Background paper was found online, sentiment & clip art were done in my Hallmark card program. Before cutting the strips, I ran the paper through a dots embossing folder for a little texture. This is weird, when I look at the photo the center looks a little off kilter, but it doesn’t in real life. hmmm.

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Basket of Flowers

Monchromatic stamping on my card today. I was inspired by a recent Gina K Designs YouTube video where she used silhouette stamps however I was looking for a set with a basket and flowers for a challenge when I remembered this GKD set Vintage Summer. This was a card kit from last year. The images and the sentiment font is a fav of mine. I masked off two edges of the focal panel and ink blended ocean mist ink and stamped the bicycle in blue lagoon. A touch of color for the subtle blooms and some wink of stella for shine as well as a few clay embellishments to finish my card. The frame is a Taylored Expressions die set.

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Double D Challenges: Basket full of Posies — I have baskets on my bike and I let’s call them posies to complete the challenge 🙂

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Under the Boardwalk

After a day at the beach at the shore, our family would clean up and head the the boardwalk for some shopping for t-shirts and hermit crabs, noise, arcade games and maybe a ride or two describes what USED to be a favorite beach activity. Now, when hubby and I go to the shore the quieter it is the happier we are just watching the ocean and the people…….LOL….

My card today uses an Inkadinkadoo stamp set for my amusement pier and sentiment from a Hero Arts set. I definitely wanted to use this stamp and the idea that formed in my brain and then brain freeze!! So I die cut pieces and layered them to try to make it work.

I will be sharing my card with and just under the deadline:

As You See It Challenge: Challenge #328 — Fill in the Blank challenge of “My Favorite Beach Activity is: __________________

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Pinwheel Birthday

Hello and welcome. The pinwheel design has become one of my favorites for masculine cards. Embossing folder used for the background is from Sizzix but unfortunately, I don’t know what it’s called. Patterned paper is Stampin Up. Center circle is hand punched and covered with Glossy Accents. Banners for computer printed sentiment were cut on my paper trimmer.

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Embossed Foil Christmas

Hello and welcome. Yay!! I’ve got good jump on Christmas cards this year (that is really unusual).

Embossed background folder is a no name one I bought on Amazon, ornament is Holiday Ornaments Thinlits from SU. After foiling the ornament with the Mini Mink I embossed it with a snowflake ef by The Paper Studio. For the ornament top I fussy cut a piece of gold glitter paper, cord is from my stash. At first I wasn’t too sure about it, but I like it.

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I’m entering this at https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2024/07/peace-on-earth-challenge-68.html

Baby Girl R

A new grandbaby is one the way for a dear friend so I made this card for the little one. Sage green is a favorite color of mom-to-be and found these two patterns in a The Paper Studio Sweet Pea paper pad that was in my stash, Denami Stamps onesie and rattle as well as a sentiment from a Inkadinkadoo stamp that needed some stamp surgery. The split background was made with Taylored Expressions All Planned Out 1 dies and circle punches from my stash.

I did make a card for the “sprinkle” I and my girlfriends had for mom and baby but forgot to take a photo of it. UGH!

My card today will be shared with:

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #230 Baby

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