Starting to make my Valentine cards and the first one will be for our 18 month old grandson with this fun card.  After seeing a sketch on Facebook from Rabbit Hole Designs, I decided to shop my stash and came up with this fun “Longing” giraffe from Penny Black stamps. My heart frame was cut using Spellbinders heart dies, the LOVE is emphemera and then at the last minute decided to lightly stencil hearts from Pretty Pink Posh with pink left on a brush. 

My card today will be shared with the challenge at:

Cardz 4 Galz: Reds and/or Pinks Galore

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. The rain today with the above freezing temperatures have washed away all of the snow. It will be another toss up if we will see more rain or snow but I sure could use a nice sunny day. Take care, be safe and stay warm. 

A card today for a grand”friend” who has been assigned to Minot AFB in North Dakota. I’m sure hoping he gets a little chuckle while dealing with the extreme cold weather in his home for the next 3 or so years. When I am searching for cute and funny, I always head for my Inkadinkadoo stamps and this one was from a set named Friendly Characters. To make some snow and snow banks, I used SimonSaysStamps Snowfall and Bank Stencil…maybe I should review the technique with this stencil but I kind of like the white between my “hills”. 

Today’s card will be shared with two different challenges:

Crazy is our fame – STENCILS are our game: January 2024 stencil fun with a theme of birds. Penguins are birds, aren’t they?

Simply Clean & Simple: January 2024 Challenge with a theme of winter

Lots of white space even with light stenciling in my opinion.

I must still be in my blue color mode! Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay warm and be safe. 

My card today has a bit of sparkle and a bit of shine and a bit of blue, too. After deciding on Recollections Ink Splatter paper pad in blue and silver, I stamped it with SimonSaysStamp Friendship Text Background and clear heat embossed it for a little more shine. Then added my focal die cut and SSS Script Hello die as well as Taylored Expressions Frame in Frame 3 cutting pad in white glitter cardstock to complete my card. 

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Double D Challenges: Sparkle and/or Shine challenge for January 17, 2024

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It’s cold, it’s snowing, it’s cold and it’s going to snow again which will make the third round. We seem to be a repeat mode but not nearly as brutal as some parts of the states which inspired me to include some snow buddies on my card. The background was embossed with a Cutlebug snowflake embossing folder on blue cardstock with white pigment ink swiped over the embossed areas. The Cottage Cutz Peeker Snowmen were die cut and colored but alas they needed something to peek over and I pulled out my much loved Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch which kind of sort of looks like icicles  Then added a sentiment from Hero Arts Color Layering Waves stamp set. I thought that if that font works for sand it should be ok for snow, too! 

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Can You Handle The Pressure? January 13th 2024 Anything Goes with a Twist of Snow People and of course the required embossing folder. 

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Brrrr….this Halloween kitty looks quite cold out in the forest, doesn’t she? I am playing along with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge and have definitely been inspired by their mood board with today’s card. After inking my card base with some Distress Oxide inks, die cutting Taylored Expressions Birch Tree Border trees and swiping some white pigment ink over them, die cut my kitty from Tim Holtz/Sizzix Toil and Trouble die set adding a little splash of water here and there my card is completed.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge – January 2024 Anything Halloween

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and stay warm. It was another snow shoveling day today and temps are dropping once again and it may be another round of snow for Friday. My collection of snowmen have had their fun in my front window but it is now time to send them back to the basement and hopefully get out of this cycle.