Sunday, October 11, 2026

Challenges Day 3

 Hey Everybody,

I've been making cards in the Falliday Fest Challenges. I'm going to share some with you. 
This is now LIVE with lots of challenges.
Splitcoaststampers is hosting 41 challenges over 10 days!

Click on the link or the image for more information.

Here's a list of supplies we'll be using so far. Click the link to see an updated list. People are still getting their challenges ready.

I hope you can join us for a few of the challenges October 7-17th.
so far......


🍂 Parchment Paper
🍂 Cling Wrap or Glad Press n' Seal (tried it, works great)
🍂 Salt: Kosher, Course or Table, each works, but all have a different result
🍂 Pretty Napkins
🍂Tissue Paper
🍂Shaving cream/foam
🍂Watercolor Paper
🍂Plastic wrap
🍂Metallic embossing powder _OR_ metallic deco foil  
* Metallic Embossing Powder:  
* Deco Foil: Opal Deco Foil  
🍂 Glossy Card stock

Here are a few more cards that I've made for these challenges.

Our challenge is snow. I used a long retired SU set called, Scenic Season. I took a 1 1/2" circle punch and a post-it note to mask the moon. I used my blending brush and added balmy blue and boho blue to the background. I uncovered the moon and used a dauber to color it a light yellow. I stamped the trees and sentiment with evening evergreen. I used glue to add fun flock on the trees and under the trees. I used clear wink of stella on the snow in front of the trees. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.

Fun flock comes in a small jar.  White Fun Flock—such as the popular Stampendous Fun Flock in Cotton Ball White—is a fine, velvety fiber powder used to add a soft, fuzzy, low-level tactile dimension to paper crafts, greeting cards, and scrapbook pages.

How to Use Fun Flock

• Adhesive: Apply a liquid glue, a two-way glue pen (like a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen), or craft paste to the specific area of your design.
• Application: Sprinkle the white flock generously over the wet glue.
• Press & Shake: Gently press down straight with your finger (avoid rubbing), then tip the project or tap it to shake off the excess.
• Cleanup: Pour any leftover fibers back into the jar using a coffee filter or funnel.


Keywords: FF26annsforte3A
Stamps: Stampin' Up-Scenic Season
Paper: white, shaded spruce
Paper Size: A2
Ink: boho blue, balmy blue, evening evergreen, pineapple punch
Accessories: blending brushes, wink of stella, white fun flock, dauber, 1 1/2" circle punch
Techniques: ink blending, masking, stamping


Our challenge was to use purple and orange. I stamped this little guy with Memento tuxedo black ink. I colored him with Copic Markers and Karin Brushmarker Pro pens. I die cut three layers then added a black glimmer paper on a white card base. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.
Keywords: F4A868
Stamps: SU-Thinking of You, High Hopes-Still Sleepin'
Paper: white, gorgeous grape, pumpkin pie, black glimmer
Paper Size: A2
Ink: memento tuxedo black, gorgeous grape
Accessories: Copic Markers, Karin Brushmarker PRO, orange gems, purple fine shimmer gems, textured notes dies
Techniques: coloring, die cutting

Black Glimmer paper comes in sheets like other cardstock. I can easily be cut with a die or your paper trimmer. I prefer to buy it by the piece and I like the type that does have glitter that rubs or falls off.



Our challenge was to make a card that uses things that hold things together on our card. I used painter's tape for my background and put it into the ink then pressed it onto my background paper. Here's the tutorial I used for this technique. I used boho blue and old olive. I stamped the image and colored it with Copic Markers. I used some of my purple glimmer washi tape as a bandage for the little lemur. I also used a mini paper clip to hold the sign onto the image panel. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.
Keywords: MIX715
Stamps: SU-Back On Your Feet
Paper Size: A2
Ink: memento tuxedo black, secret sea, boho blue, old olive
Accessories: textured notes dies, Copic Markers, painter's tape, washi tape
Techniques: masking tape stamping, coloring, die cutting

Here's a video to show you how to do the painter's tape technique I did for the background of my card.


Glimmer and glitter washi tapes are decorative, paper-based adhesive tapes infused with shimmering finishes for scrapbooking, journaling, card making, and gift wrapping. Hobby Lobby carries these.
Well, there you have it another day of challenges. Are there any that interest you?  I've enjoyed finding old stamps to use. It's fun to dust them off and use them again. It is a great feeling to have my stamps used and not just sitting in a drawer.

Our Cleveland Guardians came back from 0-2 in playoff games to win last night! Their pitching was unbelieveable!



Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day.
Blessings,
Sue






Saturday, October 10, 2026

Challenges Day 2

 Hey Everybody,

I've been making cards in the Falliday Fest Challenges. I'm going to share some with you. 
This is now LIVE with lots of challenges.
Splitcoaststampers is hosting 41 challenges over 10 days!

Click on the link or the image for more information.

Here's a list of supplies we'll be using so far. Click the link to see an updated list. People are still getting their challenges ready.

I hope you can join us for a few of the challenges October 7-17th.
so far......


🍂 Parchment Paper
🍂 Cling Wrap or Glad Press n' Seal (tried it, works great)
🍂 Salt: Kosher, Course or Table, each works, but all have a different result
🍂 Pretty Napkins
🍂Tissue Paper
🍂Shaving cream/foam
🍂Watercolor Paper
🍂Plastic wrap
🍂Metallic embossing powder _OR_ metallic deco foil  
* Metallic Embossing Powder:  
* Deco Foil: Opal Deco Foil  
🍂 Glossy Card stock

Here are a few more cards that I've made for these challenges.

 Our challenge was to use wood somewhere on our card. I started with a light woodgrain from my designer series paper. I stamped the greenery in mossy meadow and old olive full strength then stamped again without reinking. I stamped the wheel off of the page in Sahara sand then stamped the horse in the center in early espresso. I stamped the sentiment on designer paper then used the sign design punch to punch it out. I punched out an early espresso piece and cut it in half to put behind the sentiment.
This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.

This is a retired Stampin' Up set called, Country Road. It was a lot of fun to get it inky again.
Keywords: FF26sleepyinseattle
Stamps: Stampin' Up!-Country Road
Paper: white, SU-Country Woods designer series paper, early espresso
Ink: sahara sand, mossy meadow, old olive, early espresso
Accessories: Sign Design punch, dimensionals
Techniques: stamping, 2nd generation stamping
Our challenge is Feature a seasonal animal for Fall or Winter on our cards. I chose this little guy eating the plentiful apples this season and spitting out the seeds to plant for another year.
I stamped the mouse then colored him with Copic Markers. I edged the top and bottom with poppy parade cardstock. Then I placed it on a wood background to match the mouse and added it to a poppy parade card base. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.

This is a very old House Mouse stamp called, Spitting Apple Seeds. I really liked this image because it reminded me of my childhood when in the summer we'd eat watermelon on our back patio and spit the seeds in the flower beds or at each other which ever was closer! LOL

Keywords: FF26Dockside
Stamps: House Mouse-Spitting Apple Seeds, SU Fabulous Sayings
Paper: white, poppy parade, SU-Country Woods
Ink: memento tuxedo black, poppy parade
Accessories: copic markers
Techniques: coloring
Our challenge is to use holly or mistletoe on a card. I stamped with two stamps for the holly and berries. I used a water brush with watered-down ink to splash dots of ink onto the image panel. I did the same with wink of stella. I cut a frame from copper paper with the two largest textured notes dies. I added a cherry cobbler bow with a glue dot. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.

This is a retired stamp set called, Leaves of Holly. It is a two-step stamp set with holly leaves in two sizes and holly berries. I experimented with watering down red and green inks and splattering them on my card. I did the same with wink of stella.

Keywords: FF26susanbri
Stamps: Stampin' Up!-Leaves of Holly
Paper: white, poppy parade, copper
Paper Size: A2
Ink: evening evergreen, soft sea foam, cherry cobbler, poppy parade
Accessories: SU-Textured Notes Dies, Cherry cobbler and gold ribbon, glue dot, wink of stella, water brush
Techniques: two-step stamping

Today was a fun day at my son's house. I got to see my two grand blessings. I also helped Ben by doing inventory of most of his Disney cards for next weekend's show.

See if any of these challenges appeal to you and give one or two a try.
I'll see you again soon.
Blessings,
Sue

Friday, October 9, 2026

Challenges Abound at Splitcoaststampers

 Hey Everybody,

I've been making cards in the Falliday Fest Challenges. I'm going to share some with you. 
This is now LIVE with lots of challenges.
Splitcoaststampers is hosting 41 challenges over 10 days!

Click on the link or the image for more information.

Here's a list of supplies we'll be using so far. Click the link to see an updated list. People are still getting their challenges ready.

I hope you can join us for a few of the challenges October 7-17th.
so far......


🍂 Parchment Paper
🍂 Cling Wrap or Glad Press n' Seal (tried it, works great)
🍂 Salt: Kosher, Course or Table, each works, but all have a different result
🍂 Pretty Napkins
🍂Tissue Paper
🍂Shaving cream/foam
🍂Watercolor Paper
🍂Plastic wrap
🍂Metallic embossing powder _OR_ metallic deco foil  
* Metallic Embossing Powder:  
* Deco Foil: Opal Deco Foil  
🍂 Glossy Card stock

The first card is for a challenge where you had to show Fall on the Farm. I used my coffee cup dies with leaves and pumpkins to make a scene. Then I stamped and die cut this cute cow. I wanted the cow to have some pumpkin spice coffee. To make it look more like a farm, I added designer paper behind the image and coffee cup.


Our challenge for this card was, Laundry.  I stamped these little ones and colored them with Copic Markers. I colored the sky with Copic Markers as well then added black behind the image. I added it to a gingham designer paper background.

For this card we needed to show leaves on a faux silk background. I chose to make a baby wipe ink pad then stamp my leaves with it. I cut one leaf out to use in the circles. I dry embossed the leaf and circles.
Here is a video to show you how to do the faux silk technique.

Here's a video to show you how to do the baby wipe technique.

Take a look at the three cards and challenges. What would you use to do these challenges? This was a fun way to stamp today. I didn't have to come up with ideas, I let someone else do that. All I had to do was find a stamp and decide what to do with it.

I'll have more of these tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by.
Blessings,
Sue



Thursday, October 8, 2026

Double-Flap Gatefold Card

 Hey Everybody,

Today I have another card with a video.  It is a card I made using the Painted Pumpkins masks or stencils. 

Take a look at the card.

This is a gate-fold card with two flaps. So I called it a double-flap gatefold card.



Supplies:
Stamps: Painted Pumpkins
Ink: Golden Glow
Crisp Cantaloupe
Pumpkin Pie
Peaceful PIne
Paper: card base crisp cantaloupe 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 2 1/8" at each end
white 2 pieces 4" x 5 1/4"
Luxe Foliage designer series paper 4" x 5 1/4", 3/4" x 4" inside
white for image 3 1/4" x 3 1/2"
peaceful pine 3 1/2" x 3 3/4"
white 3/4" x 3 1/2" sentiment
peaceful pine 1" x 3 3/4"
Attach 4" x 5 1/4" designer paper to white 4" x 5 1/4" paper then cut it at 3 3/4" from the bottom.
Accessories:
Painted Pumpkin Masks or Stencils
Blending brushes
orange dots
Softly woven 3D embossing folder


168431

PAINTED PUMPKINS PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET (ENGLISH)

$25.00



168438

PAINTED PUMPKINS DECORATIVE MASKS

$15.00
                          

168466

SOFTLY WOVEN 3D EMBOSSING FOLDER

$12.00

LUXE FOLIAGE 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 CM) SPECIALTY DESIGNER SERIES PAPER

$5.00 with a $75 purchase


This is now LIVE with lots of challenges.
Splitcoaststampers is hosting 41 challenges over 10 days!

Click on the link or the image for more information.

Here's a list of supplies we'll be using so far. Click the link to see an updated list. People are still getting their challenges ready.

I hope you can join us for a few of the challenges October 7-17th.
so far......


🍂 Parchment Paper
🍂 Cling Wrap or Glad Press n' Seal (tried it, works great)
🍂 Salt: Kosher, Course or Table, each works, but all have a different result
🍂 Pretty Napkins
🍂Tissue Paper
🍂Shaving cream/foam
🍂Watercolor Paper
🍂Plastic wrap
🍂Metallic embossing powder _OR_ metallic deco foil  
* Metallic Embossing Powder:  
* Deco Foil: Opal Deco Foil  
🍂 Glossy Card stock

Thanks for stopping by.
Blessings,
Sue

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