I am sharing my card for the Challenge Your Stash February card. This is a group I participate on Splitcoast Stampers. The challenge was to use red in honor of the hostess’s 40th Anniversary.
I used Gina K Designs Red Hot cardstock with a gingham paper from Echo Park. The jar and strawberries are from Lawn Fawn, How You Bean and the Strawberry Add-on.
I used a tutorial by Lynn Dunn. I watched her video and followed her directions.
Trying to get motivated by playing along with a few challenges. I think the AAA Cards Clean and Simple Challenge #234 to include circles is me right now! The Cardz 4 Galz #193 challenge is a color challenge to include red, white and pink. I blended these two challenges together and will be sharing my card with both blogs.
The stencil I used was something I picked in one of the big box stores some time ago,I think, I separated it into three different sections of circles. Using Gina K Designs Cherry Red ink and fading out to SimonSaysStamp’s Cotton Candy ink, adding a cotton candy dragonfly from GKD’s Dreams Take Flight and stamping a GKD Lovely Notes January card kit sentiment in black with a few touches of wink of stella completed my card.
Red, White, Pink and CAS with as much open space as I can manage completes my card today.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. The first of two storms may be heading our way. Maybe 1-3″ of snow, sleet freezing rain tonight followed with something for later in the week. We shall see!!!
Several weeks ago, I needed a masculine birthday card and just couldn’t get inspired. I had colored several eagles from the Fearless Flyer set from GKD and found one just sitting on my desk waiting to land on a card. I looked through my stash and found an oval cut from Ivory and it fit perfectly. Then I cut a lacy layer from Dark Chocolate. There were some scraps from the Good Ol’ Sport paper pack from Graphic 45 that worked perfectly with the oval. I added a Dark Chocolate Layer over a Kraft card base. That turned out so well, I decided to make several more for my stash as I had some other guys with birthdays coming up. None of them were quite the same because the pattern paper pieces were different sizes. But they all had the eagle over the oval. I decided to enter the Double D Challenge which requires a bird. I’m getting in just under the wire. Then I discovered that the current challenge at Can You Handle the Pressure had anything with wings as a twist. Since that challenge requires using an embossing folder, I remembered I had used a basketweave EF for one of the cards in my stash. Always fun when a card fits two challenges.
For March, MarchtotheBeat challenge, I was sent Riley and Company Balloons with SU Designer Series Paper. I created two cards.
For this image, I stuck to all blues. The white paper is Thick Basic White by SU, which the person stamped in Memento Black ink. My alcohol markers bled a bit but not much I could do about it, so I finished the card. I used SU In the Navy for my cardbase and accent color.
For this card, I went searching for a close match to the DSP. Again, I used the Navy CS and added a color called Purely Pomegranate to actually read the Happy. The Happy is a SU die that I have used very little. The inside reads Happy Birthday.
I enjoy this swap challenge as I get to use images provided by someone else along with my stash. Sometimes the swap hostess has been providing patterned paper and that has been a treat to use. I do my best to match the DSP with markers and CS from my stash.
Both of these cards went out in the mail today in a package heading for a nursing home. I am thrilled to be able to send completed card on to actually be used. This way the person gets to shop through a box and select the card that they wish to send to someone in their life.
Hello and welcome. If you’re in the path of the nasty snowstorm I hope you stay safe.
Today’s card is my first try at a double angle tri-fold. Since the measure part of my brain doesn’t work well, I wasted more than a few pieces of pp. Card base is my last piece of SU’s Old Olive cs and the pp had been in my stash for several years. Scalloped circle is Spellbinders Scalloped Circle die, sentiment circle was found online and punched with a 1 3/8″ circle punch. I think I’ll be sending this to our d-i-l.
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Hello and welcome. We just got the wonderful news that our youngest granddaughter is coming for a long weekend. So, of course, grandma just had to make a welcome card for her. After seeing so many double point cards on Pinterest, I decided to give it a try. I kind of made it my own by gluing the points down on the front. Die cuts are Spellbinders Labels 4, sentiment was printed on the computer. Labels are popped up, circle punches are a small hand punch and adhered with Glue Dots. Pp is a piece I found in my stash that I think is from Stampin Up.
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A fun new Christmas challenge and mood board filled with lots of red and white stripes for inspiration has been posted on the Peace on Earth Christmas blog. My candy cane card, well candy cane plaid card, will be shared with this challenge. To create my plaid background, I used the Spellbinders Kaleidoscope Plaid set of three dies times 4 to complete my panel. Originally I cut a square white panel for the center, added my Catherine Pooler Stamp of Approval Candy Cane Lane stamps & coordinating dies and cut my foilage using Tim Holtz Sizzix Large Funky Festive dies glued everything in place and then came to the conclusion that I didn’t like the finished product. I carefully deconstructed everything, tossed the white square, cut four more red kaleidoscope plaid panels, added a vellum oval and completed my card. Things happen! After adding a sentiment strip I decided that I liked this second attempt much better.
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I am along with the Double D Challenges blog and their BIRD theme with my card today. This SimonSaysStamp Party Like a Puffin was a freebie during STAMPtember for me and I finally got around to inking it for this challenge. Yana Smakula recently did a YouTube for Simon on this stamp set so I was inspired by her as well as the Bird challenge. Taylored Expressions Party Popper layering stencil was used for my partial background. I used some leftover ink on my brushes for this soft stenciled background.
Don’t you just love Tweety Bird! ” I twat I tawa puddy tat! ” LOL!! Poor Sylvester! It still cracks me up! Fun mood board.
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Today’s card is for the family of our neighbor. We were very good friends with them, but now, he passed, and she will be moving to CO to be near their son. I’ll miss them both.
Flower was a silhouette I found online, and I printed the sentiment in my Hallmark program. Die cut is by Elementals #12-Ovals and Filigree frame by Frantic Stamper Inc. I recently bought some double stick paper to use with intricate dies so it’s much easier to adhere them. Hopefully I won’t be in need of a sympathy card again soon.
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