Forest Kitty

| Gayle Chrvala

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.

My card will be shared in the:

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. 

valentine teddy

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Finally, I got started on Valentine cards. This one is for our 5 year old great-granddaughter. My first thought was to use a digital image and color it, but my fingers were not cooperating so I used computer clip art. Die cut hearts are Sweet & Sassy Framelits by Stampin Up, corner hearts are a small hand punch. All hearts are popped up.

Thanks for stopping by your visits mean a lot to me. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Birthday Safari

| Gayle Chrvala

Sending a tribe of monkeys with some birthday wishes to my cousin. My card today uses my most used jungle/safari theme stamp set from a My Monthly Hero release from a number of years ago, Taylored Expressions Fineline Vine background stamp, SimonSaysStamp Large Happy Birthday die set. 

My card today will be shared with Cardz 4 Galz #215 Safari challenge

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

Dino Birthday

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our youngest great-granddaughter who loves dinosaurs. The pp was found online, dinosaur is computer clip art fussy cut and popped up, word bubbles are from and online coloring page, also fussy cut and popped up. Inside sentiment is paraphrased from a couple different ones. Since her dad and maternal grandpa always call her Bernadette, but everyone else calls her Bernie, I added her name both ways.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate your visits. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Emerald Coast Seahorses

| Lisa K

I have been participating is an alphabet challenge this year. I get to select my destination and this week’s letter is E. With my husband’s help, I chose the Emerald Coast of Florida. Seahorses live in the Panhandle area of Florida, which is in the Emerald Coast.

The stencil used is from LDRS Creative, called Under the Sea. I used an assortment of Lawn Fawn inks on the stencil, placing the stencil on Bristol Smooth paper. The seahorses, greeting, and water droplets are all from Lawn Fawn Seahorsin’ Around set. I had these seahorses colored and cut out sitting in my stamp pocket waiting to be used.

This will be entered in: https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/01/january-2024-stencil-fun.html

I chose the optional challenge without birds. I may have to come back when I have time and create a card with birds and a stencil for this challenge.

I am also adding this to Word Art Wednesday as the sponsor is Lawn Fawn.

https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2024/01/anything-goes-weeks-629-630.html

The challenge is Anything Goes this time. I like how I managed to use a Lawn Fawn set.

I have been busy recently taking care of household things, as well as creating this month’s cards for the Splitcoaststampers.com Dirty Dozen monthly reveal. I participated in January’s challenge which will be live on January 15. You can view the cards there, if you join the fan club. 

Thanks for sharing in my card. I am enjoying this challenge as it is stretching my creativity finding a destination that I can create something for.

vintage 1949

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for a very good longtime friend. As much as I try, I just can’t get away from the fractured design. Again, pp and sentiment were found online. Center diamond die cut is Stitched Squares by Die-namics. After making so many this is the easiest card design for me to make. My motto is to always take the easy way out. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by your visits are greatly appreciated. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Cool Blues

| Gayle Chrvala

A color challenge with a dreamy mood board of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. Beautiful! I had to restrain myself from adding warm tone colors on my card but finally decided on a variety of blue shades, a touch of green and some light lavender for a touch of purple/pink. My focal image is Spellbinders Circle Sketch clear stamp that was white heat embossed. Gina K Designs sentiment stamped on glitter cardstock, Taylored Expressions frame in frame 2 cutting plate and layered on a dark blue card base. If I can make one I should make two. Here’s the second card with a few tweaks.

My card today will be shared with Colorful Options: Janaury 2024 – Blue Lagon- Iceland

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. 6 inches of snow over the weekend and tomorrow we are expecting 2-3 inches of rain and high winds. Oh my Oh my!!

Bronze Birthday Bow

| Gayle Chrvala

Double D Challenges is celebrating their 8th birthday/anniversary with a mood board representing the traditional gift of bronze. DCWV’s The Natural stack provided my background patterned paper, the Taylored Expressions frame and bow were made by copper embossing a piece of cardstock. Since my card will be given to our granddaughter who is turning 6 in a week, I needed a cute factor so found the SimonSaysStamp Party Like a Puffin stamp and die set. 

My card will be shared with:

Doubld D Challenges: Double D’s Eighth Birthday/Anniversary Celebration

Congratulations Diane and Darlene and design team for all the inspiration and fabulous mood boards. 

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

hello

| Judy Inukai

This is for the new Word Power Challenge to use a word as the focal point of the card. My card uses the Hello Pop Up Die by Altenew. The word is cut into a piece of pattern paper from Parisian Garden by Gina K Designs. The card base is Lovely Lavender with Wild Wisteria behind the letters. This is a fun die and perfect for a number of occasions.