welcome

| Gerry Morse

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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Candy Cane Plaid

| Gayle Chrvala

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge # 34

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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Puffin Party

| Gayle Chrvala

Double D Challenges: Birds

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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with sympathy

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome.

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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cross-fit

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Time again for dear-old-sister’s chuckle of the month.

As soon as I saw the sentiment…“I have taken up cross-fit… I cross my fingers and hope that my clothes fit.” I thought of d-o-s because one of her granddaughters & husband own a cross-fit gym. The lovely lady image was found online. Edges of the white layer were cut on an antique paper cutter, then I used a cotton ball with Rich Razzleberry stamp pad to create a border.

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stripes and circles

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card, actually I made 2, are just because cards for our 2 kids. We usually send them a Valentine with little cash so they can enjoy a nice ‘romantic’ dinner. Well, this year we didn’t so they will be getting a just because card so they can enjoy a just because dinner.

All pp is from my stash. I decided to run the background piece through a Sizzix ef. I never embossed pp before but I kind of like it. Circle dies used are Stitched Circles from Die-namics. Red strip was run the Tiny Bubbles ef by Cuttlebug.

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Kitty Love

| Gayle Chrvala

Crazy for Cats: Challenge #4

A new to me sister challenge blog to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges for those cat lovers and owners. A cute and different challenge. Several cats have been our owners over the years but unfortunately after PennyLane we are cat-less.

My stamp set is an adorable release from Taylored Expressions “Endless Valentine”. A little bit of layering and a few additonal hearts complete my card today. My card will be shared with the Love My Cat challenge at the Crazy for Cats challenge blog.

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Hearts Happy Mail

| Gayle Chrvala

Can You Handle The Pressure

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary Darlene and Diane on the fun embossing folder challenge blog. It’s always fun to play along with your girls.

A few more Valentine cards that probably may not get in the mail this year unfortunately. My embossing folder is from Darice and patterned paper was from my stash. I had some really cute ephemera that matched nicely with the Happy Mail theme. If I made one of these barn door fun fold cards, I think I made at least three or four of them. Am I stuck? LOL.

Outside and inside view of another barn door flap using Taylored Expressions rotating heart stencil and sentiment strips from a recent “kids” kit (that I kept). Die sentiments from Gina K’s newest kit and the same Darice embossing folder but the debossed side. I couldn’t decide which way the lips should go??? See what I mean!! Stuck!

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My Favorite Flower

| Lisa K

One of my favorite flowers are tulips. When it gets close to spring, I always look for tulips blooming. The As You See It Challenge is to share my favorite part of spring.

My Favorite Thing About Spring is flowers blooming. I chose tulips today. This is a Gina K Designs set called Spring Tulips Mini. The dies used to cut the image are from The Stamps of Life. The dies used to cut the greeting is a Stampin Up die set that goes with Harvest Apples. I like how it has a little flower on each side. I used alcohol markers to color the tulips.

Thanks for stopping by. What is your favorite thing about spring? It is 58 degrees today, so I am definitely thinking of spring.