Hummingbird Hugs with Papertrey Ink | DancesWithHooves Paper Design

I don’t know about you, but 68 or so with some sun and a slight breeze is about perfect outdoor weather. Unless of course I’m just sitting still outdoors; then 76 will do. 🙂

Today was neither. As I sit here, at 7:40 pm at night, it is still 93.

Yes. You read that right.

Not exactly outdoor weather, which is why I spent much of my afternoon indoors, working on this pair of cards!

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Barn Door Birthday and Anniversary card duo | DancesWithHooves Paper Design

Hi all! Popping in realllll quick to share some cards I have made in the past few weeks, these in particular for a “Tic Tac Toe” challenge a local SU demonstrator had for her customers in late May.

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A Smile for Neil | DancesWithHooves Paper Design

This week’s Teapot Party is being held in honor of the uncle of one of our very own as he enters the final chapter of his bright life. Neil needs a little cheer, and I was excited for the chance to send some his way.

Lisa told us he was a longtime fireman, with a particular fondness for softball and buffalo. But I had nothing in my collection of stamps or paper that fit that, so I decided to go with a simple fall theme and instead feature a tag for this take-themed Teapot Party.

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MOJO103, CC235, CAS231 Elegant Prayers

• Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Linen
• Paper: white, Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive
• Ink: Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive
• Accessories: black brads, black ribbon; foam mounting tape, SU markers
• Technique: 3D/dimensionals

Triple challenge time!  WAHOO!!! :0)  This card combines this Monday’s MOJO #103 sketch and SplitCoast’s Clean and Simple (CAS31 – “Pop It Up”), as qell as Tuesday’s Color Challenge (CC235 – “Elegant Basic Olives”).  I didn’t really expect to do a sympathy card last night but the Thoughts & Prayers set was looking like a great one to use with this sketch and color combination, and it’s always a good idea to keep a few sympathy cards on hand anyhow!  I had to modify the sketch a little bit in order to make it work with the tree stamp, which is quite a bit larger than the space reserved for the main image in the Mojo sketch.

This card came together fairly quickly (for once!), so I hope that allows it to qualify as a “clean and simple” card, despite the additions of ribbons and brads.  It just didn’t look finished without them! :0)

Thanks for stopping by and please take a moment to let me know what you think!  If you leave a link back to your online gallery or blog, I’ll be more than happy to do the same for you!

Blessings,

SC243 WT 234 A Merry Season

• Stamps: A Beautiful Season, Linen, Woodcut Holly wheel
• Paper: Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, cream
• Ink: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red
• Accessories: brown check ribbon, gold Sharpie, dots embossing template, Big Shot, Sizzlits letters
• Technique: sanding, embossing

Today I am bringing you another “double challenge” card. The first challenge was from last week’s Sketch Challenge at SplitCoast (SC243). It was a nifty sketch and I printed it out on time last week but never got a chance to work with it. I had it in my stack of such sketches and pulled it out this afternoon and decided to have a go of it! The second challenge was for this week’s Ways To Use It challenge: WT234 “Sand It.” Stampin’ Up cardstock isn’t really the best cardstock to use this technique with because they dye their paper all the way through, where some of the lesser-quality papers don’t and when you sand it you’ll actually reveal some of the white underneath the dyed portion. However, I like the effect on the Old Olive panel here where it just roughs up the perfect circles that I had embossed with our Big Shot and helps them blend into the design of the rest of the card a little better.

I decided to test out our previously-untouched alphabet Sizzlits templates for this card and I had fun doing it! I originally cut them out in the same cream-colored cardstock as I stamped the snowman image on but it just wasn’t quite right. I determined that with the help of a gold marker I could make it work and I think it did! Not quite the “fancy” sort of font that would fit the theme of this card the best, but close enough!

THANK YOU for stopping by and I truly hope that you will take a minute to let me know what you think of this card!

Blessings to you and yours,