Double Trouble Challenge #206 “Wrap It Up”

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Wow, it’s hard to believe that this will be the last Double Trouble Challenge for 2025. How fitting that it is named “Wrap it Up”! It is an Anything Goes challenge, the 3-2-1 recipe calls for 3 somethings from your stash, 2 anythings from your stash, and 1 of everything else from your stash. The optional twist from Thing 3 is to use ribbon, twine or cord–for wrapping it up of course! Thing 2’s double dare is to follow the TSOT Sketch #685, which looks like this:

My card has a couple of sets of 3 ingredients…3 cardstocks/papers, 3 buttons, and 3 ink colors: Lumberjack Plaid Distress Ink, Evening Evergreen Stampin’ Up classic ink, and Hero Arts Unicorn white ink. It has 2 squares on it, since I conveniently followed the TSOT sketch. And it uses 1 ephemera tree which I fussy cut out from a Simple Stories 6×8 paper pad called Simple Vintage ‘Tis the Season, one small sentiment at the bottom, one stencil and one embossing folder.

The pattern in the bottom left corner was stenciled with the evergreen ink and a Hero Arts stencil. Lumberjack Plaid ink was blended lightly around the edges of the background paper. By the way, that musical paper used as the background layer came from the same paper pad mentioned above. The red square was embossed in a Spellbinders embossing folder, and then I used the white ink to emphasize the pattern. For my optional twist to wrap it up, I stitched with floss/cord around the edges of the squares, giving it a quilt or swatch like appearance. I have never used a sheet music background before, it looked like it needed a little something when all I had were the 2 squares…so then I added the stencil and the buttons. It is also spritzed with shimmer spray, but unfortunately that detail doesn’t show up well in the photo.

I hope everyone who sees this post has a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Double Trouble team looks forward to making more cards with you in 2026!

Double Trouble Challenge #205 “Tie One On Day”

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Hi everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving! Welcome to the Double Trouble Challenge blog with another fun project challenge. Thing 1 has a 3-2-1 recipe to follow: 3 colors, 2 layers and 1 image. Thing 3’s optional twist is to use ribbon, twine or cord. And finally Thing 2’s double dare is to utilize the Try a Sketch on Tuesday sketch for the layout of your project or card, which looks like this:

I’m still using a Christmas theme so I can hopefully end up with enough cards to send to family and friends next month. Someday I hope to have a larger supply of cards built up so that I can make what I’m in the mood for instead of what the calendar is calling for. 🙂

My supplies for this card were some patterned papers by Echo Park (the 3 in the center) and some stamps and dies from a couple of 2024 Hero Arts card kits (the tree, notched panels, snowflakes and sentiment). The weathered wood paper used for the background came from a Recollections paper pack. The tree is stamped onto the patterned paper with white ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder. Last but not least, I used some silver metallic cord to wrap it up. I like that it has a rustic and retro vibe to it.

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Double Trouble Challenge #204, It’s a Tall Order

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Hello and Happy Fall! It’s time for the next Double Trouble card making challenge, It’s a Tall Order. The 3-2-1 recipe used for this challenge (Thing 1’s requirements) is 3 colors, 2 images, and 1 slim line card (regular or mini). Thing 3’s optional Twist is to include something that starts with the letter “T”. And Thing 2’s double dare is to follow the sketch for the TSOT challenge #683, which looks like this:

My card has 4 colors (green, red, white and craft). The 2 images are the stenciled and die cut Tree and the die cut star. My card is the mini slimline size. It’s obvious what my “T” item is, and I was also able to incorporate the sketch.

I made the tree by using supplies (stamp and die) from the Jolly Holiday event kit put out last year by Scrapbook and Cards Today. I stamped the image (clear) then heat embossed with white powder on white cardstock. I blended Distress Oxide inks in bundled sage, mowed lawn and rustic wilderness, and created a shading gradient as seen in the sketch on the tree image, instead of on the background. The star is cut out of gold glitter paper with a die from the same set.

I used white ink on craft cardstock and a Hero Arts background stamp with the holiday collage of words and added a strip of red plaid patterned paper to put behind the tree. The little peppermint candy embellishments are also by Hero Arts. The Merry Christmas Wishes sentiment stamp and die are from Spellbinders.

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Double Trouble Challenge #203 Round & Round

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Welcome to the next challenge brought to us by the mischievous Things at Double Trouble…Round & Round. A summary of the requirements for this challenge is listed here.

Thing 1’s recipe calls for 3 circles, 2 images and 1 ribbon/twine/cord. Thing 3’s optional twist is to include a bird, and Thing 2’s double dare is to follow the TSOT #682 sketch and enter it into that challenge. Here is the sketch.

I need to make all the Christmas cards I can in the next couple of months, so I went with some round penguin stamps I have in my stash (Creative Expressions “Penguin Baubles”). What luck that they also checked off the optional bird requirement! I stamped and colored them, then cut them out using a stitched circle die. For the background panel I started with navy cardstock, then added snowflakes using picket fence distress ink with a Pink and Main stencil. Next I added some white spatter and the ribbon to match the sketch. The sentiment stamp and die are from Spellbinders. The tiny, stamped snowflakes are also from Pink and Main (stamps with dies). Who could resist a flock of penguins bearing gifts and singing Christmas carols? 🙂

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