floating ghost

| Gerry Morse

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Hello and welcome. It’s been a while since I’ve entered the Two Old Bats challenge, so I decided it’s about time to get back to it.

Today’s card was quite simple. Pp was found online, and Mr. Creepy is from the Silhouette. I sort of softened him with a cotton ball and Basic Gray stamp pad. He’s double popped up. Using a single pop dot didn’t raise him quite enough so I doubled them. Jus before I took the picture, I thought the eyes needed a little something, so I added Black Diamond Stickles.

Thanks for stopping by. You and your visits are very important to me. Have a great day and stay healthy and safe.

Lucky to Have

| Gayle Chrvala

Double D Challenges

Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenge #15

Can You Handle The Pressure

I’m having fun pulling out the GREEN and making some St Patrick’s Day cards. Using inspiration from Stamp Buddy, Lisa K and her recent post of her Hinge Fun Fold card, I’ll be sharing my card today with the Double D Everything is Coming Up Green challenge and the Paper Dragonfly Creative All that Glitters is Green and Gold challenge and Can You Handle the Pressure Embossing Folder with a twist of anything with wings.

Using SimonSaysStamps Clover Wreath Stencil, Cuttlebug Argyl embossing folder on green glitter cardstock, a scrap of argyl patterned paper, SSS sentiment strip which was foiled in gold, stamping and gold heat embossing embossing and fussy cutting out 3 dragonflies from Gina K Designs’ Dreams Take Flight stamp set and an Inkadinadoo fussy cut Garden Gnome stamp holding a die cut glitter clover completes my card.

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

LUCKY ME

| Gayle Chrvala

Colorful Options: March 2023

Green is the color of this month’s Colorful Options challenge blog and I love it! Our grass is still green-ish thanks to hubby’s paint job, still not covered in snow and as a redhead a favorite color of mine.

For today’s card that will be shared with Colorful Options, I pulled out a piece of Gina K Designs patterned paper from my stash, a stamp and die from the GKD Luck & Love card kit from a year past, dotted swiss embossing folder and Taylored Expressions sentiment from Shake your Shamrock stamp and die set. The leprachauns sprinkled some gold splatter on my card on their way over the rainbow…..I think they may have made a mess though! LOL!

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe. 17 days until spring and we are still waiting for the first real snowstorm to hit us in Pennsylvania.

deepest sympathy

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. After a wonderful 4 days with our granddaughter I’m back in my craft room.

Today’s card is for our busser who takes very good card of us every week. Unfortunately, his dad recently passed away. He is such a nice young man I just had to let him know how sorry we are for his loss.

Pp is from SU, die used is Swirly Scribbles Thinlits from SU. Sentiment was printed on the computer and punched with SU’s Small Oval punch and popped up. This was a very quick and easy card.

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

Hinge Fun Fold Card

| Lisa K

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.

https://stamptasticdesigns.com/2022/09/07/hinge-fun-fold-card-ideas/

Thanks for spending time with me. I enjoy her tutorials and are easy to adapt to any stamps and papers.

Clean Circles

| Gayle Chrvala

AAA Cards Challenge #234

Cardz 4 Galz #193, Red, White and Pink Color Challenge

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!!!

The Eagle Flies

| Judy Inukai

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.

Riley Balloons

| Lisa K

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.

double angle tri-fold

| Gerry Morse

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.

Thanks for stopping by your visits are very important to me. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.