Interactive Cards

 

I am back with a few more cards from kits from The Paper Cut.  These 3 cards are from a kit called Black & White Sliding, Folding & Flipping!  This was a kit that was in Fun Time Thursday Craftalong class from a few months ago. 

The kit included all of the items to make all 3 cards. They are very fun, interactive cards with various ways to open.  The butterfly card on the left is called a Pocket Slider.  The middle card is a Slider card.  The birthday card on the right is called a Gatefold Accordian card. 

The first picture below shows all three of the cards closed, as they would be when taken out of an envelope.  The second picture shows each of them opened up!

I hope you enjoyed my cards!

Image/Sentiment:  Brass & Bliss sentiments and dies--all included in the kit

Cardstock:  All included in the kit

Ink:  None

Accessories:   None

Pinkfresh Studio Christmas

 

Today is the 22nd and it is Double Duty Day! This is the 66th month, so we are in the middle our 6th year!  More Doubling Up!

Each month, we get to pick a stamp set from a predetermined company. Then, we will use that one stamp set and make two cards from the set.  Different images and sentiments from the same set can be used, or use the same image two different ways—Double Duty either way!  But, as an added challenge, one item must be used on both cards—same color cardstock, same ribbon, same stencil, same something.  Double Duty Again!  We will post both cards on our blog on the the 22nd of each month.  See-Double Duty again!  We will be sure to have fun getting doubly inky each month with a different stamp company.  Let’s have fun!

For July we are going with a Christmas in July theme  Pick any company and make 2 Christmas cards.  I picked Pinkfresh Studio set to use this month!

The set is called Happy Holidays Circle Frame.  There is a stamp set, matching dies and stencils.  I stamped the holly images and then ink blending with Taylored Expression inks.  I die cut the image and the two sentiments with the coordinating dies.  I layered both the frame and sentiment three times.  I added some green enamel dots on both cards.

For the Happy Holidays card, I used Cilantro, Cherry Pop and Brussels Sprout for the ink blending with the 3-piece stencil set.  The colors of the cardstock backgrounds are Cherry Pop and Cilantro, on a white cardstock base.

For the Merriest Moments card, the background is Mulled Wine, cut with a Picket Fence Studio A2 Vintage Rectangle Die.  The image is ink blended with Mulled Wine, Key Lime and Granny Smith.  

Please be sure to check out the other Double Duty cards. Here is a link to Jeanette's,  Darlene’s,  and Terry's blogs. I am sure you will not be disappointed and will see a couple of sets of great cards. 

Next month we are going to use Altenew as our featured company.  So be sure to check out our cards on August 22nd!    

Image/Sentiment: Pinkfresh Studio Happy Holidays Circle Frame Stamp Set, 3-Piece Stencil Set and Coordinating Dies

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White; Taylored Expressions Mulled Wine, Cherry Pop, Cilantro 

Ink:  Hero Arts Intense Black; Taylored Expressions Mulled Wine, Key Lime, Granny Smith, Cherry Pop, Cilantro, Brussels Sprout

Accessories: Picket Fence Studio A2 Vintage Rectangle; Green Enamel Dots

Masculine Cards

  

I am catching up on some card kits from various events. I have many kits from The Paper Cut that need to be completed. These 4 cards are from a kit called Textured Masculine.  This was a kit that was in Fun Time Thursday class from a few months ago. 

The kit included all of the items to make 4 cards.  All the background panels were already embossed and we swiped ink over the top for the highlighted texture. They sure are fun cards and I always need masculine cards!

I hope you enjoyed my cards!

Image/Sentiment:  Brass & Bliss sentiments and die--all included in the kit

Cardstock:  All included in the kit

Ink:  Various Taylored Expressions Inks

Accessories:  All included in the kit

Gnome Fishing

 

Today is the 19th, so here is my July At Home With Gnomes.  I am doing a monthly challenge for myself to use one of the many gnomes stamp or die sets that I have.  Each month I will create a card using one of my many gnome images and I plan to post on the 19th.

For my card this month, I picked a fun Woodware stamp set called Fishing Gnome.  I colored the image with my Copic Sketch Markers and die cut the large image with a Penny Black Antique Frame.  The sentiment is from the same set and I used a sentiment die to cut it.  I added some black matte dots around the image.   I think this is a fun card.

I know I have enough gnomes to use a different one each month.  I will be back on August 19th and will show you another gnome, so stay tuned!

Image/Sentiment:  Woodware Fishing Gnome Stamp Set

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White; Black

Ink:  Hero Arts Intense Black

Accessories:   Copic Sketch Markers; Taylored Expressions Sentiment Strip; Black Matte Dots; Penny Black Antique Frame Die

You Silly Goose

 

Today is the 15th and this is my card this month for our The Creative Crew!  We are a group of 6--Jeanette, Darlene, Lorraine, Terry, Tracie and me. Each month will be a new challenge posed by one of the members sending out a kit. For July, Terry was the hostess and sent out this sweet goose image from Taylored Expressions called Silly Goose.  She also included this cute sentiment and some fun patterned paper.  Yes Terry, we never can have enough birthday cards!

I colored the cute goose girl with my Copic Sketch Markers.  I then cut the image and sentiment with the matching die set that I too own.  I picked the polka dotted patterned paper Terry sent for the background.  I then die cut an arch with a Taylored Expressions Arched Stacklet die and then embossed the arch with a TE Embossing Folder called Shoutout birthday.  I added some Stampin' Up Shimmery Dots around the image. 

I hope all of The Creative Crew Gals enjoy my card this month.  Please be sure to stop in to see what fun cards are posted this month.  All of the blogs can be found on my left sidebar.   I am sure you will enjoy all of the cute birthday cards.

For August, Jeanette and I are up for our sketch and color challenge.   Be sure to check in with us on the 15th to see what fun is planned!

Image/Sentiment:  Taylored Expressions Silly Goose Stamp and Die Set

Cardstock/Patterned Paper: Accent 110# White; Various Patterned Paper

Ink:   Hero Arts Intense Black; 

Accessories:  Copic Sketch Markers; Taylored Expressions Arched Stacklets, Shoutout Birthday Embossing Folder; Stampin' Up Shimmery Dots

Lily of the Valley

I am catching up on a couple of Card Stash Door Dash kits from Sarah and Stampin' Up.  This is the Lily of the Valley from May of this year...............  not too late!  Reminder--these are not my own designs!  The cards are the designs from Sarah and I am just recreating the cards from the kit.

The kit included all of the items to make 2 sets of 3 cards.  Plus, a pack of shimmering dots and a half pack, 24 6x6 sheets, of the Lily of the Valley patterned paper.  I have the stamp and die set, as I too love the flowers.  They remind me of my mom as we had them all around the house at the farm.  They do spread and we used to have them in our garden at the bottom of the steps, but no more.  They really, really do spread and we had to take them out a few years ago.  I still find a few plants coming up each spring.

 

I really like Sarah's designs and I hope you enjoyed my cards!

Image/Sentiment:  Stampin' Up Lily of the Valley stamp and die set

Cardstock:  All included in the kit

Ink: None Taylored Expressions Cilantro; Hero Arts Intense Black

Accessories:  All included in the kit; Stampin' Up Shimmering Dots

Getting Messy

 

Today is the 12th and it is time for another Hot Mess card.   This card is #83, so we are into year #8. The idea of Hot Mess ~ Success is to Get Messy and you will have Success!  Messiness can be almost anything that we come up with--glitter, alcohol inks, glimmer glitz, sponged backgrounds, etc., anything that is a bit messy.  We are a very fun group and will post a card each month on the 12th.  The links to the other members are on my left side bar and I will also link them at the bottom at this post.

For my messiness this month, I cheated a bit and went to my stash of unused backgrounds and pieces.  This is a piece of watercolor cardstock that I made a few years ago with various shades of alcohol ink.  I also had two pieces of the Pinkfresh Studio Simple Diamond Cover Plate, so I glued those two together to layer on the top of thee colorful base.  I did cut the Pinkfresh Studio Curvy Leaves die set 3 times from Dill Pickle cardstock. I placed them around the cover plate and added a sentiment from my stash.  The bling is Taylored Expressions Black Rhinestones around the leaves.

I like this colorful card and hope you do too.  I also sure hope my fellow messy ladies like them too!  Here are the links to the other somewhat messy crafters: Darlene, Jeanette and Terry.I am sure you will enjoy seeing how everyone got messy this month and was successful in making some great cards!   Be sure to check back to see what we are up in August!

Image/Sentiment: None; Sentiment from stash

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White; Taylored Expressions Black, Dill Pickle; Watercolored Cardstock

Ink:  Various shades of Tim Holtz alcohol ink

Accessories:  Pinkfresh Studio Curvy Leaves, Simple Diamond Cover Plate; Taylored Expressions Bits & Pieces Black Rhinestones

Spring Rain

 

Today is the 9th of the month and here is my card for another The Three Musketeers post. This round, Jeanette was the hostess and sent out a sweet hedgehog image and sentiment from Spellbinders called House Mouse Spring Rain.  For July, this is card #143 and we are now in year #12!  I cannot believe this trio has been going strong coming up on 13 years! 

I colored the sweet image with my Copic Sketch Markers and die cut the image with Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 set. I added a backer with a banner end to the cute sentiment Jeanette sent. I did not add any bling at all to this card.  I hope Jeanette and Kelly along with you enjoy my card!  

Please check out the other Musketeer's cards.  Here is the link to Jeanette's blog along with Kelly's blog.  I am sure you will not be disappointed and will see a couple of pretty cards!  Kelly will be for our August challenge, so please be sure to join us again next month! 

Image/Sentiment:   Spellbinders House Mouse Spring Rain

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  Accent Opaque 120# White; Taylored Expressions Oreo, Cilantro

Ink:   Hero Arts Intense Black 

Accessories:  Copic Sketch Markers; Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 Dies

Time to Throw Confetti

 

Today is the day I am posting my card for our One Plus Twelve challenge in 2026.  This is year number 8.  For this challenge, we are to use just one stamp, to make a card every month and post on the 3rd of each month.  For this year, I picked a Pinkfresh Studio set called Amazing Things.  The set includes a stamp set, matching dies, a 5-piece stencil set and a better press set. I am excited that I get to use this set every month for all of 2026 and have so many options.   

For my card this month, I am going with a few nontraditional ink blended colors.  I used the press plate with gold hot foil for the image.  I then brush blended the image with the stencil set using shades of blue and purples with Taylored Expression inks.    I then die cut the floral image with the matching die and layered 3 times.  I picked a Pinkfresh Studio Die set called Elongated ovals and taped two together to make an oval frame. The background is a Taylored Expressions Embossing Folder called Garden Trellis. The sentiment is from a Pinkfresh Studio Foiled Sentiment pack.   I added some Pinkfresh Studio Metallic Pearls-Gold around the image, inside the oval. 

 

Please be sure to check out the other One plus Twelve posts to see the sweet cards that Kelly and Jeanette have created for July!  Here is a link to both Jeanette's  and Kelly's blog.  Be sure to come back on August 3rd to see another fun card. 

Image/Sentiment: Pinkfresh Studio Amazing Things press plate, stencil and die set

Cardstock:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White; 

Ink:  Gold Hot Foil; Taylored Expressions Berry Smoothie, Plum Punch, Popsicle, Salt Water Taffy, Gumball

Accessories:  Pinkfresh Studio Metallic Gold Pearls, Nested Elongated Oval Dies;  Taylored Expressions Garden Trellis Embossing Folder

Mirricard & Alcohol Inks

 

Today is the last day of June and I am posting a set of cards for our challenge-The Catch-up Club!  A few of my stamping friends, Darlene, Jeanette and Terry along with myself, have signed up for a number of virtual stamping events in the past 4+ years.  One of the benefits of these events are that they are available to rewatch or even watch for the first time at a later date as they are all recorded. The 4 of us "try" to watch live and chat by texting during the event.  But, life steps in and there are times when one or more of us are not participating during the live.  Then, the kits from sponsors sits in our stamping area until we are ready to watch the video and create.  During one of the events, we decided we needed to push ourselves (and each other) to get some of these events done!   So--we all decided to devote one day a month, the last day of the month for the somewhat procrastinators that we are, to post cards we missed making. 

 So--here we are in our 37th month of The Catch Up Club!  Starting on year #4 this month!

Reminder--these are not my own designs!  The cards are the designs of the other instructors from these classes.  I am just recreating the cards from the class. This month the creations are again from Sarah and The Paper Cut in Appleton, WIS!

These 10 Thanksgiving cards from a Mirricard & Alcohol Inks parts & pieces kit that I recently bought at one of their Comment Sold Sales.  There were enough pieces for 10 cards and I changed the sentiment to Thanksgiving.  I made about 30 cards for our church as we send grocery gift cards to congregants at our sister church in Milwaukee.  The background was already embossed with leaves and I blotted 3 colors of alcohol inks over the gold metallic cardstock.  The leaves were also precut as was the strip of vellum.  The sentiments I used were from 2 Taylored Expressions stamp sets. 

 

Sarah offers many different kinds of classes through the year and kits can be ordered from their website.  I have a few other virtual classes from The Paper Cut that need to be completed.   And, I also have parts of other virtual events and classes from many previous classes!

I hope you enjoyed my cards!  Here are the links to the other of the Catch Up Club.  Please be sure to check out Jeanette's, Terry's, and Darlene's blogs.  They may post tomorrow or in the next few days but we have all promised to post cards that we have missed the making along the way!  Come back in July to see what else I am behind on!

Image/Sentiment:  Taylored Expressions Sentiment Sets 

Cardstock:  All included in kit--all are available from The Paper Cut

Ink:  Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks--Rust, Cranberry, Honeycomb

Accessories: None

Winter's Night

 

Today as it is the 28th and the day I am posting my cards for our Challenge Your Stash group on SCS. This is our 114th month of de-stash, so we are into our 9th year of challenges.  I cannot believe my thought about using what we have is now 9+ years old! I really like these challenges and know they will continue as I know I have many, many items in my stash that I can use and love the fun challenges!  

The premise is to create a card or something else that uses only items that are in your own stamp room--nothing new is to be purchased.  The hostess each month posts their challenge to the group. Each person in the group creates their card with their own image, their own papers, their own embellishments with their own supplies--using up items from their own stash!  The card can be for any occasion and each person is encouraged to send the card on its way to someone so it can be admired.  It is a way for us to step out of the box a bit and create something that follows a challenge--isn't that what a challenge is supposed to be.  And--no money is spent as all items are to be already available in each of own stamping spaces.

Darlene posted our June challenge--Starry Night. Create a card with a night sky full of stars (and the moon if you like).

I picked a Brass & Bliss Christmas set called Winter's Night as I recently used it in a class from The Paper Cut.  I knew it had a starry sky.  I stamped all 4 of the stamps on Sour Gummy cardstock.  I stamped the trees and sentiment first.  I then covered the sentiment with a piece of tape, so the stars would not interfere with the words when stamped on the top of the card.  The north star was added.  I then sprayed Wink of Sarah all over the card for lots of sparkle.  Wink of Sarah is Wink of Stella poured into a glass spray bottle the filled with rubbing alcohol.  It is a fine spray with lots of shimmer and shine!  No Bling Needed!

 

If you check some of the blogs on my sidebar, you may find others who have posted their cards in the next few days. They will all probably have chickens on their card!  There may be more posted in the thread on SCS, so you might want to check out the link here.  We also have a keyword for the SCS Gallery--it is CYSJUN.  You might see many cards there if you do a search.  They probably will be posted today or in the next few days.

I hope you enjoyed my card and I know I am excited to check out what my other hoarders, I mean stash reducers have made!  Thanks for stopping by today!  For July, I am up for our challenge.  Be sure to check back to see what we create then!

Image/Sentiment:  Brass & Bliss Winter's Night

Cardstock:  Taylored Expressions Black Licorice and Sour Gummy

Ink:  Hero Arts Intense Black

Accessories:  Wink of Sarah