My favorite fall treat is celebrating our grandson’s birthday….it’s a treat to see him and enjoy birthday cake! For my card, I used Taylored Expressions Easy Strip Maps in green and gold which are his high school’s colors. The gold and white strips were die cut using 1/8″ stitched die and the green strips were cut at 1/2″. Our grandson played soccer for his school this year so the TE soccer die was perfect, number dies were a combination of different dies from my collection and the words were also a TE product. My card today will be shared with:

Seize the Birthday #315 Favorite Fall Treat

A fun challenge that I was inspired to play along with since our Buddy Johanna is a Surprise Party Guest Designer. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.

Making a city Christmas delivery with my card today. Most holiday cards seem to use forest and snowbanks as their background but I thought I would try to create a city background using Hero Arts City Heroscape stamp/die. Distress Oxide inks for my night sky and a Gina K Designs stencil with white pigment ink. I took inspiration from the mood board by featuring the Stampendous pick up truck and presents. Sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.

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Peace on Earth Christmas: Challenge #98

Of course after I loaded the presents into the pick up truck, I realized I should have used the tree included in the set and it would have represented the tree being delivered to Rockefeller Center in NYC. Oh well!!! I was thrilled that my card on the last challenge was a Top 3! Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care; stay safe.

One of my favorite get well stamps that has been neglected for quite some time but it is a good thing that I didn’t have a reason to dig up Art Impressions Doggy Kisses stamp set out of my stash and make a speedy recovery card. I’ve been trying to organize all of my supplies and came across another very neglected item which is Spellbinders Labels 8. After die cutting the image, I left the paper in the die and remembered the old trick to blend around the edges with ink. And finally more neglected patterned paper from my stash. My card today will be shared with the fun:

The Neglected Stuff (10/25) Challenge

This is a great challenge to find goodies that have been neglected but still are fun to use.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. My card will be going to a dear girlfriend who had shoulder surgery. She’s a dog lover so I’m sure she will get a chuckle out of this bandaged up dachshund.

A fall leaf embossed card that really became a challenge for me to complete! I used a piece of Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Grateful Heart patterned paper and embossed it with SimonSaysStamp’s Fall Foliage embossing folder. Well since the patterned paper was on the darker side, I took some white pigment ink and swipe over the raised areas to bring out the leaves…..that really didn’t work so I added some dark brown ink….better but not enough so the final swipe of ink was TE’s tropical punch. It kind of gave a patina vibe to the panel. Still not satisfied, I cut a piece of ivory carstock which is the same as the note card and embossed it, then die cut it with Taylored Expressions All Planned Out 1 die set, ran the bottom section back through the embossing folder once again. Better! Added a strip of cardstock over the seam of the two panels, tucked in some leaves left over from TE’s Awesome Autumn stencil/die from a previous project and TE sentiments from by stash.

My “phew finally finished” card will be shared with:

Can You Handle the Pressure: Anything Goes with a Twist of Fall Harvest (anthing Fall) and the required embossing folder (SSS Fall Foliage)

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Fall is definitely in the air in Pennsylvania. It has been crisp, windy and invigorating weather. And for my card, I dug deep into patterned papers and found Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Grateful Heart paper which was die cut using Taylored Expressions All Planned Out 3 die set. After adding the word die from the All Planned Out 3 set, I grouped a bunch of leaves and acorns which are also a TE stencil/die set Awesome Autumn.

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The Four Seasons: Fall Season October 2025 Anything goes Fall and I was inspired by the pumpkins and leaves in this month’s mood board.

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There was time for one more Halloween card and I decided to go to a Whimsy Stamps patterned paper pack for this fun design, die cut the Tim Holtz word die several times after deciding that I liked the black layer the best and added three skeletons from Taylored Expressions Stayin Alive stamp/die set. My card will be shared with

Double D Challenge: Halloween Colors Challenge

Such a fun creepy mood board this month!!

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