Sunflower Party

Taylored Expressions Quad of the Month Club was fun to be part of and only ran for 6 months. The final create in quad stencils included two sunflower panels and two butterfly panels. After adding a thin frame, sentiment backed with a vellum circle and a few bits of embellishments, my card is complete.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

The Four Seasons Challenge: October 2023 — Anything Goes Fall Challenge.

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

happy thanksgiving

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our son & d-i-l. I know I said I should get away from the fractured design, but here it is again. As usual pp was found online and leaves are clip art. There is so much free stuff out there in cyber space. Die used is Stitched Squares by Die-namics. That seems to be my go-to die.

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

Fright Night Gnome

So many goodies for this fright night gnome that I needed to make a flat shaker card to contain all of them. Using Taylored Expressions Gnome dies and the add on Fright Night dress up dies, a little coloring and assembly completed my gnome. The web patterned paper is from my stash as are the shaker goodies. I appreciate that TE has added dress up add on’s to the original gnome die set. Makes it fun to keep on using this set and investment.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: October Anything Halloween Goes

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Walking with a “Joy-ful” Heart

Saturday in the pouring down rain I joined my girlfriend who is now a 2 year breast cancer survivor along with her daughter and maybe another thousand women for the 5K Women’s Breast Cancer Awareness Walk. During her journey with radiation treatments, I sent her weekly cards of support and believe she will get a good chuckle when she receives this card.

My card was made using a combination of the Taylored Expressions Gnome die sets, some clipart I found online, pink ribbon is from GKD’s Fight Like a Girl stamp set, dragonfly which have a special meaning to my dearest gf are also GKD’s Dreams Take Flight stamp set and TE’s Linen Background stamp. It was a challenge finding pinks that didn’t clash with each other.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Double D Challenges: Pink October

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Making Cards for Troops

A labor of love! 270 cards for troops group that I mostly made throughout this past year and the card classes I took. Normally I have a group of 6 girlfriends that I make packets for assembly and finishing touches but only two were able to “play” this time around. They did great and learned how to stencil and were amazed at the Taylored Expressions Create in Quads stencils.

Not too much of a mess to clean up after our session. I could have shocked everyone by taking a photo of my “elf” room! YIKES!!

No more posts for me today. Have a great one everyone. Fall has arrived and it’s beginning to feel like soup weather too.

Green Leaves

Working on some Fall cards and after visiting Pinterest decided on this card which uses Gina K Designs Skelton Leaves stamped in key lime ink and fussy cut them out. Sentiment is also GKD Autumn Wishes stamped in Fresh Asparagus. Layered Altenew’s Linear Crossroads die after die cutting twice, adding a little bling and layering on a green cardstock.

My card today will be shared with:

Cardz for Galz #209 Green and Cream Challenge

My cardstock, die and focal image all use Michael’s White Dove cardstock which is their cream/ivory color.

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Brown Fall

Masculine fall card today in brown and ivory using Pretty Pink Posh’s Autumn Wreath stamp and die set as well as Tim Holtz Sizzix Mixed Media die which is about as much mixed media that I normally do!! LOL.

My card today will be shared with

Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge #332 – Autumn/Fall colors – Shades of Brown.

My card base is Gina K Designs Dark Chocolate cardstock but looks black in this photo.

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homemade goodness

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is just a single layer post card. Our neighbor, who shares her grandson with us, is the best bread baker ever. She bakes bread very often and graciously shares it with us. Along with the bread these past two weeks she also brought over homemade vegetable & split pea soups. So, I thought it would be nice to add a thank you with the return of her dishes. The pictures are online clip art, and I scored 1/4″ on all 4 sides.

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Silhouette Thinking of You

So many choices available for challenges and consuming my time on World Cardmaking Day. I chose a color challenge that I enjoy.

This is being entered in the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge: https://cascoloursandsketches.blogspot.com/2023/10/design-team-call-and-challenge-522.html

The colors are Blueberry Bushel, Fresh Freesia, and Daffodil Delight. My fingers have a blue tint, once again. Every time I use Blueberry Bushel, I tend to wear it for quite a while.

I ink blended Fresh Freesia and Daffodil Delight together. Then came back with an Inkadinkadoo stamp. I have no idea of the name of the set, but it has many botanical silhouette images and this one fit my rectangle perfectly. The greeting came from Gina K Designs. I added the twine to give it more balance.

I enjoyed the challenge. Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my card.