Paw Prints Forever

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is the first sympathy card for a pet that I’ve made. The other day a good friend was telling me that she had to put her pug, Buttercup, down. When she was telling me she was so sad and crying I just had to make her a card.

The background paper has been in my stash for a long time. Pug image is computer clip art fussy cut and adhered to cardstock. Sentiment was printed on the computer. The focal cardstock piece looked kind of plain so added 1/4″ background paper strips to each side.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you and your time. Have a great day and stay healthy, safe & cool. Our daily high temps are still hanging around 108-111. We’re getting pretty tired of it.

Hot Hello!

| Gayle Chrvala

Taking inspiration from our Buddy Bonnie’s design team card for a balloon card challenge, I pulled out an older die from Serendipity Stamps. This Hot Air Balloon Reverse die has 5 balloons and 3 clouds on the background die plate. So after a little googling I found a card by Lori Craig who used the die as a stencil. Let’s say I pretty much CASE’d her card however using inks instead of copics in the balloon die cuts. Many pieces of sticky notes later to mask off each section of the balloon, my rainbow hot air balloon was finished. Using a cloud stencil, lightly inked clouds on the focal image layer, embossed clouds on the pink layer and swiped white pigment ink over them…..which I know you cannot really make out…..a piece of rainbow blots designer paper from my desk, a TE easy strip die, and sentiment from GKD’s Up & Away stamp set to complete today’s card.

I will be sharing my card with:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: July 24 – Balloons challenge

It was fun to use an older set from my stash. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. Still hot in Pennsylvania and quite frankly I am a little tired about being sweating all the time. Is that too much information? LOL!!! Stay cool.

Headless Dancer

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. I just couldn’t resist using this online coloring page image again. Background paper was found online. Sentiment was printed in my Hallmark card program, bats are Hallmark clip art. I kind of messed up the bat’s eyes by using a toothpick to add a little red Stickles. Image was colored with Copic’s and popped up. I actually think this is kind of cool.

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

Lemon Birthday

| Lisa K

I enjoyed creating a card for the Retro Rubber Challenge. It allows me to use what I have and enjoy it once again.

I used the Shine On stamp set from Simon Says Stamp which was released in July 2022. It as part of a kit that used the Simple Stories Vintage Lemon Twist paper pad. I purchased each piece, so I have a lot of this paper left to use.

I colored the lemons with Daffodil Delight and Lemon Lolly inks to watercolor each lemon. I used Lemon Lime Twist to color the leaves. The flowers began with yellows then decided to add more blues, so out came Azure Afternoon; that is why there is a tinge of green in a few of the places. I chose the background paper as it has a mixture of blues to fit the color scheme.

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2024/07/challenge-235-when-life-hands-you-lemons.html

I think I managed four of the colors. I always enjoy this challenge and love color challenges. Thanks for coming by and seeing my creation.

Fluffin Checks

| Gayle Chrvala

A new stamp set from Unity “Flock Talk” that tickled my fancy, Cutlebug Pop Culture embossing folder “checked” border which was embossed and then white pigment ink swiped over the top of the embossing and Taylored Expressions Easy Strips 1/4″ Patterns die is what was needed to complete my card today.

My card today will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure? Challenge: Anything Goes with a Twist of Stripes and/or Checks.

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

Bernadette’s Ghost

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Now I have Halloween cards done for all 5 great-grandkids.

As usual, background paper was found online, ghost is from an online coloring page colored with Copic’s, and fussy cut. Ghost is on a wobbler. I did add some Wink of Stella to the yellow pumpkin light and ghost’s eyes. Sentiment was printed on the computer, cut on my paper trimmer. For the edges of the label, I used Tim Holtz edge rougher (sorry, I forgot what it’s actually called).

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

CAS Christmas

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome.

Recently I bought this no name embossing folder on Amazon and thought I better use it. I’ve had this ornament punch from Stampin Up forever. After printing the sentiment and punching it out I punched just the top from glitter paper to add. String is just scrapbook thread. It doesn’t show much in the photo but I added Wink of Stella to the ball to get e little shine. Bottom border is computer clip art that also has Wink of Stella on it. I can’t decide if I like it or not.

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

Triangle DSP

| Gayle Chrvala

Diane and Darlene are at it again with a new challenge “Love Those Pretty Papers” challenge. This month’s challenge has an option of Triangle patterned paper designs and easy fun fold triangle cards. I like to play along with the options so I decided on the Triangle designer papers. I think my designer papers were a freebie from somewhere. It is two sided so it worked perfectly for this design by switching two of the triangles around. Taylored Expressions Breezy Boughs Stamp, Stencil and die was used for my focal image, die cut an oval vellum circle to help separate the Simon Says Stamp sentiment from the background.

My card today will be shared with:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge

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

Wobble Ghost

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. We just had a short but fun 2 day visit from our daughter & s-i-l celebrating our anniversaries. They had 28, we had 61. Now back to the craft room.

Being so pleased with the wobbler snowman card I recently made, I thought it would be fun to do a Halloween ghost one. Background, bats, pumpkins and ghost were all found online. I pulled all elements into my Hallmark card program and printed it off. I see now that I should have put the ghost a little higher. It’s been fun making the ghost dance.

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

This will be entered into https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-2024-anything-goes-halloween.html