Grateful

| Lisa K

I am using items I have had in my stash for quite a while that have never seen ink or been used.

The stencil used is called Modern Holly by Taylored Expressions. I purchased a grab bag full of stencils a year ago and this is one that I hadn’t used. I chose to use gray as the base color as it is a neutral. The greeting Grateful for all you do is from a set by Gina K Designs, Fluttering Fall. It was a birthday gift last year and these pieces have never seen ink or been cut before. The butterfly is new from Your Next Stamp, which is closing, and was a inexpensive addition to the order placed recently.

The colors used to ink are Lawn Fawn inks: Manatee, Fake Tan, and Juice Box. The cardstock is from Gina K Designs.

This will be entered in Color Hues #71: https://colorhuesthecolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/09/color-hues-71-tangerine-and-violet.html

It will also be entered in Crazy is our Fame – Stencils are our Game September Stencil challenge. These colors are Fall themed, so I am sticking to the theme of the challenge.

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-stencil-fun-challenge.html

I enjoyed using these colors to create a card. I also was thrilled to finally use items that I hadn’t gotten to use. I know of a challenge that the butterfly would fit, but I have another butterfly card in mind, so I will wait. Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my card.

Chickadee

| Gayle Chrvala

Finally getting around to making backgrounds with my newest Create-In-Quads stencils “Bird Party” from Taylored Expressions. This is sweet little chickadee is my favorite part of the quad stencil and was sent to my sister in Florida. And the second card will is for my daughter and son-in-law for their wedding anniversary.

My card today will be shared with:

Triple B: September Challenge for Birds, Blooms and Butterflies.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. Our heat wave has broken this evening with some crazy winds that had us scrambling to move furniture off the patio followed by rain, thunder and lightning. It may be an unsettled few days and will definitely make the grass grow.

Calling Autumn

| Gayle Chrvala

Someone forgot to inform Mother Nature that Labor Day is not the end of summer not even the unofficial end of summer! We are into another heat wave this week with 95 degrees temperatures. Since the leaves on the trees are still green, I decided to stencil my leaves in green on green cardstock. The stencil used was one I picked up awhile back at my local Michael’s. The stamped and die cut image is Autumn is Calling set from The Rabbit Hole Designs. I am anxious to ink the rest of these images in this set.

My card will be shared with:

Crazy is our Fame–Stencils are our Game! September Stencil Fun Challenge with the option of FALL theme. And of course I am playing with the option of fall and the required stencil.

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

Apricot and Aqua flowers

| Lisa K

I saw the challenge at Just Us Girls on Saturday when they unveiled the color challenge. I do not own anything that reads Apricot ink, but found it does exist, so I used what I had.

I used the SU Fresh Flowers stamp and matching dies. I colored the leaves with Copic markers BG15 and BG13. For the flowers, I used SU Pale Papaya Stampin Blends, which are their alcohol markers. My first coloring smeared the black ink over the flowers, so I saved it by stamping again and popping up the flowers. I guess my ink was not dry before coloring, but the aqua did not smear, so I didn’t notice. I used vellum embossing with a Darice folder. The diamond edge was cut with a die from the Fresh Flowers die set. My cardbase is Sea Glass from Gina K Designs. I think I managed to find close enough apricot and aqua colors.

http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/09/just-us-girls-695-color-week.html

Thanks for stopping by. I enjoyed these colors and had fun creating.

Lil Grim

| Gayle Chrvala

After being WOW’d by Whimsy Stamps Bookeh designer paper pad, I was hoping to make it the star of my card but for some reason I kept on adding other items and it may have gotten a little lost. LOL…any way it was really fun to make this card and even fussy cutting the Lil Grim Reaper image from a Recollections Halloween stamp set from a few years ago. The Drippy frame die is also from Whimsy stamps. Whimsy Stamps does Halloween really well. I opted to add a little white mound so my Lil Grim didn’t get lost in the background. The white card base was stenciled with SimonSaysStamp bat stencil which was pretty much covered up by the frame and just to grunge it a little more sponged on some black ink.

My card today will be shared with:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenges – September Anything Halloween

Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #7

I just realized that my cat card was a Top 3 with halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge 6. Very cool to be recognized.

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

sunflower skeletons

| Gerry Morse

Happy Labor Day.

For today’s I used black and calypso coral cs. Embossed layer was done with Sizzix 3-D Halloween ef. For the picture I Googled skeleton sunflower clip art. Sentiment was printed on the computer. I used my antique photo paper cutter for the picture and word strips, then used a cotton ball with black stamp pad to darken the word strips and popped them all up.

This will be entered at

https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-anything-halloween.html

https://halloweencraftsallyearround.blogspot.com/2023/08/aug-15-sept-14-challenge-7.html

https://mostmagicaltimeoftheyear.blogspot.com/2023/09/challenge-12-most-magical-anything.html

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

Sunflower Slimline

| Lisa K

I have been slowly coloring this image for a few weeks. I was slow due to birthdays happening in my family, so this had to take a back seat for a while. I finally finished a card with the image and will share it today.

For this card I use a Simon Says Stamp called Sunflower Garden. This is a huge stamp. I think it is a 6 X 8 inch stamp. I cut my image down and kept the best pieces, placing them on a slimline sized card. The cardstock layers and cardbase are using paper from My Favorite Things. I have no idea what the color names are; I purchased an assortment a few years ago. I used Spectrum Noir markers to color the image. I had around 5 markers out to color with, but didn’t write the names down.

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2023/08/sunflowers.html

August is winding down. Our weather has cooled down making it feel like fall. Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my card. I will be posting this to the challenge blog from Splitcoast Stampers. We have reach the maximum number of posts per our blog.

Poppy Fields

| Gayle Chrvala

I was a little stuck with how to incorporate an embossing folder and poppies until I saw a card design on the Fans of Taylored Expressions Facebook group. I wasn’t sure how I could give credit to the original card but I appreciate that design. A StampinUp/Sizzix embossing folder was used on shimmer white cardstock. My poppies are from Taylored Expressions Poppy Fields layering stencil which was free with a purchase. SimonSaysStamp’s word and shadow dies as well as a few little sparkly bling embellishments complete my card today.

I will be sharing my card with:

Can You Handle the Pressure: Anything Goes with an embossing folder with a twist of poppies.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe and yes I’m still hoping to stay cool!!

What’s Cooking

| Lisa K

Today was the day to post my card for the Challenge Your Stash group at Split Coast Stampers. The theme is What’s Cooking? I have the perfect stamp set with the same name from Hero Arts, dated 2009. This card will also work for the Make My Monday Challenge of Hobbies.

I enjoy cooking and it can be a hobby. I read cookbooks and spend time thinking of how to create the dish and will it get eaten if I go to the work to create it. I used patterned paper from Gina K Designs with the pumpkins to paper piece the apron and add a mat to the greeting. The utensils were all fussy cut, colored with alcohol markers first. The background has images that were stamped with embossing ink. The cardstock used is Red Velvet from Gina K Designs.

Make My Monday Challenge: http://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/08/208-hobbies.html

Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my hobby card.