The local farms’ strawberries are ready for picking which inspired me to make this card. Taylored Expressions Berry Sweet layering stencil and clear stamp combo was used for my focal panel. Distress Oxide inks was use for my stencling which worked very well on the light pink colored cardstock. The card base which is the same color as the focal panel was stamped using SimonSaysStamp’s Gingham background stamp and the three fussy cut berries and sentiment are Gina K Designs You’re the Sweetest stamp set (still on my desk from 2 cards ago…LOL). A little bit of wink of stella for sparkle, a few enamel dots and the Waffle Flowers Lacy Layers A2 dies complete my card today.

The optional June theme with Stencil Fun is layering stencils. I’ll be sharing my card with:

Crazy is our fame – STENCILS are our game: June STENCIL Fun.

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The June color of the month challenge is PEACH! YUMMY!! However instead of using the fruit I decided to just use the color peach. I decided on a Catherine Pooler/Gina K Designs collaboration Stamp of Approval Beautiful World stamp to create my focal in GKD’s Peach Bellini ink. My cardstock is also GKD’s Just Peachy but was too lightweight for a card base so die cut it after stamping it with Taylored Expressions Linen background stamp in the peach bellini ink I added it to a white cardbase. The TE sentiment was stamped and die cut and off set slightly with a little Just Peachy cardstock, too. Then I colored a little Color Me Crazy dragonfly that was a prize from a Double D Things that Fly challenge.

I will be sharing my card today with

Colorful Options: June 2023 – Peach Challenge

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. I think I spent more time in my “Elf Room” the past few days then I have in quite awhile. Take care, be safe, and stay cool. YAY for some rain!!

I don’t do a lot of slim line card or a lot of shaker cards, but one of the classes in my Taylored Expressions Virtual Stamp Joy 2023 class was to make a card using both of these usually don’t dos. The mini slimline card panel was masked off to create an inside portion that was ink blended and then using a Party Popper TE stencil and a heavier hand stenciled the same colors over the ink blended background. The HB sentiment was stamped in TE’s Oreo ink and then the Mini Slim Infinity Shaker panel was added. I actually remembered to add the star shaker bits before sealing the 4th side of the acetate panel. Mounted it on some teal card stock from Michaels to complete my card.

Today I will be sharing my card with the challenge at:

Cardz 4 Galz #200 Slimline Birthday Callenge

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A nice tall glass of lemonade on a warm day sounds wonderful to me. Actually mostly anything lemony works too!! For my card today, I am using the Taylored Expressions Squeeze The Day Layering Stencil and clear stamp combo, Gina K Designs You’re the Sweetest stamp set for my slice and DMD Happy Hour stamp set probably from Michael’s that was in my stash. Stenciled, colored, added a little wink of stella and have an extra panel left over from by 6×6″ stencil for another card.

I will be sharing my card today with:

Double D Challenges: Lemon-Ade; The Color Yellow Challenge

What a fun and lemony yellow mood board for this challenge.

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My card today is for a young couple that are getting married this November. I’m usually not that far ahead with my occasion cards but the wedding theme challenge with Can You Handle the Pressure worked perfectly for me.

My card uses a SimonSaysStamp Circle Rings 3D embossing folder which is the main requirement with CYHTP blog challenge. I don’t have a lot of wedding stamps but the Gina K Designs Always and Forever stamp is a lovely silhouette stamp and simple sentiment in a beautiful script which are my go to wedding stamps. The white shimmer panel was embossed, the image stamped, heat embossed in clear embossing powder and cut using Spellbinder’s classic oval & scallop oval dies. To add a little color to my card, I found the Gina K Designs Watercolor Floral ephemera pack and patterned paper for inside the card with the sentiment stamped on a heart die cut.

My card will be shared with:

Can You Handle The Pressure – Embossing Folder and anything goes with a twist of wedding.

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It’s the As You Can See It challenge blog’s 300th challenge and their challenge is to share an Adventure: Travel, Extreme Sports, Exploration, Daring. Well nothing can be more daring than chaperoning Kindergartners to a circus inside a college field house! Of course, 6 year olds always need to use the bathroom too. We were in line for the bathroom when the elephants were coming into the building. We had to squeeze against the wall and the elephants were so big they had to crawl under the doors. I’m not a fan of the circus and only hope that the animals are treated humanely but it was an awesome site to see.

Back to my card which uses Hero Arts Leaves & Vines Fancy die, My Monthly Hero stamp & die set, and some lightly inke clouds for my background using Pretty Pink Posh Layered Clouds Stencil.

Congratulations on the 300th blog challenge and my card will be shared with

As You See It Challenge — See the 300th Challenge Adventure

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The skies are clear again in Pennsylvania. And by the way, my elephant adventure was 40 years ago!!! LOL!