AI challenge - Milestone Birthdays #400

The theme for the 400th challenge for Art Impressions is Milestone Birthdays. And 2025 is a milestone birthday for myself and many of my classmates from the class of 1968. We turn 75!! So this card is going to be used for one of my friends who celebrates this big day in July. 

You can check out the detail for the challenge here:

https://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/2025/04/milestone-birthdays-challenge-400-and.html

I used this great stamp set from Art Impressions called "Spring Chicken" set. I die cut my numbers in silver chrome cardstock. I used a few scraps of design paper from my stash for this quick and fun card. I mounted it all to a blue card base. I stamped the chickens with versafine clair black ink and colored it with alcohol markers. I fussy cute around the chicks and mounted them with foam dimenstionals. 

 

Inspired by....rain #330

I love this stamp from Unity Stamps that I thought was perfect for this" Inspired by...challenge."

The white card front I stamped with versafine clair black ink nd colored with copic markers.The  sky was stenciled using stormy sky distessed oxide ink and a "Colorful Life" cloud stencil. The sentiment was stamped in versafine clair black ink as well. I mounted this card on a gray card base. You can find the linky and details for this challenge here:

https://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/04/inspired-by-rain.html

 

Time Out Challenge 285

 

What a fun challenge is going on over at Time Out challenges!

https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-285-inspired-by-your-favorite.html

I am a big fan of Clint Eastwood, so I picked "A Fistful of Dollars" for my card. I didn't have a stamp for this but I drew around my own hand and just got creative!! It was fun!!  Not a whole lot of supplies for this but paper and pen. I loved this colorful and bright design paper scrap I found in my scrap pile. 

TGIF 517 Technique challenge

http://tgifchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/tgifc517-technique-challenge.html

I have been doing a lot of stenciling over the last year or so. My grandmother did lots of fabric stenciling back in the 1950's so I have been enjoying the trend in stenciling on paper that is now popular. I used two stencils from A Colorful Life and the final layer I did by flipping the "Fractured beam" stencil and using red ink. I used 3 colors of distress oxide ink (red, orange and yellows). The bold sentiment is from Gina K designs. 

 

Festive Friday 180 - Piano Day

I used black, white, musical theme sentiment and I don't know if musical symbols count as muscial notes or not. This is for the Festive Friday challenge celebrating Piano Day. I made a whole set of these to send as thank you notes for a family who was visiting our church and who lead the worship music that Sunday. You can check out the details for this challenge here:

https://festivefridaychallenge.com/festive-friday-card-making-and-paper-crafting-challenge-ff0180/

The image is from a retired  2005 Stampin' Up stamp and the sentiment is from a retired 2007 Stampin' Up set. I've got quite an extensive collection of stamps and still find them to be classics in my collection. The flowers were fussy cut from design paper And the cross is die cut from gold chrome paper. I torn the edges around the sheet music of the stamped image. 

 

Paper Players 729

I love stamping onto design papers so I hope this will count as a CAS card. It is one stamp, and the only coloring I did was to add white gel pen to the little seed parts of the dandelion. I love this scripture and this  stamp from Unity features it well. The card base is a light green. 

https://thepaperplayers.blogspot.com/

 

House Mouse - In the mood for food

This card was made for the HMFMC this week with the theme being food. I thought these little mice so clever in discovering a wonderful way to pop their corn!! I colored my image with copic markers. I used red and hot pink cardstock for the bottom layers of the card and a festive polka dot design paper for the front layer. I added a few sparkly sequins just for fun! You can find the challenge details here:

https://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/hmfmc-436-anything-goes-with-option-in.html