Paper Circles

| Gayle Chrvala

Two cards from one design. The challenge is patterned paper and a circle theme. Do you believe I just donated almost all of my 12×12 sheets of patterned papers? I did keep a few of the paper pads though and came across this mod circle pattern design from an older The Paper Studio Uptown Flair paper pad. It took quite a few times to try to figure this design out but it’s not too bad to my eyes….I think the abstract glitter circles help. Sentiments are a combination of Taylored Expressions that I have been saving in my stash.

My card will be shared with:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: ATG March – Circles

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Pastel Spring

| Gayle Chrvala

Taylored Expressions’ Fields Aflutter background stamp in vermark ink and heat set in white embossing powder and ink blended in soft colors created the focal image of my card today. TE’s Arched Stacklets die then embossed with TE’s Tiny Twinkles embossing folder for some extra dimension. SimonSaysStamp Whirl Butterflies die cut in the smallest die and ink blended with the same colors of my background. My card will be shared in a color challenge that uses Stampin Up colors but I don’t have any of those lovely colors so my take on the color challenge was GKD’s Light Cranberry, Applemint and Blue Lagoon. I am really liking this background stamp.

My card with be shared with:

As You See It Challenge: Challenge#369 Soft Spring Colours

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Birthday Time

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card if for our son. While going through Pinterest looking for ideas, I saw a card with this sentiment and thought that would be fun to work around. First step was to go online to find a clock theme background paper. When printing the sentiment, I thought it would be fun to add number birthday candles. Candles are computer clip art, Stitched square is from Die-namics. At first, I cut the black strips 1/4″ but thought they looked too narrow when I added the 1/8″ white strip, so, I cut the black ones 5/16″ and thought that looked better.

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Easter 2026

| Gayle Chrvala

Finally working on some Easter cards. Taylored Expressions Risen Indeed die, TE Diamonds piercing plate, as well as Ray’s Pierce & Cut plate. I may need to tweek this a bit to be more satisfied with it.

My card with Double D Challenges (DD 3/26) Easter/Church/Cross Challenge

First post using a new desktop computer. It’s a bit different look and fingers crossed that this posts correctly.

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Chocolate Bunny

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Another simple Easter card done. Center egg shape and border eggs were cut on the Silhouette, ef used is from Sizzix, sentiment was printed on the computer and punched with Stampin Up’s modern label and word window punch. Chocolate bunny is computer clip art and fussy cut, the small piece of background paper was laying on my desk. Border eggs have Wink of Stella on them.

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This will be entered at Double D Challenges: (DD 3/26) EASTER/CHURCH/CROSS Challenge

Tiny Feet

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is to go with the baby shower gift for our granddaughter who is expecting our 6th great grandbaby. Since I really like the quote “The tiniest feet make the biggest footprints on our hearts.” I had to go with a footprint and heart theme. The footprint frame was found online, center footprints are computer clip art. Sentiment was printed on the computer, center hearts are Sweet and Sassy Framelits by Stampin Up. The 4 small hearts are from an old hand punch, and I added Wink of Stella for a little sparkle. Hubby thought this was very cute.

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Pink Tulips

| Lisa K

I created a card for the alpha challenge at Splitcoast Stampers, using colors for the Retro Rubber challenge.

This stamp is Sending Flowers from Gina K Designs. My search showed it was released in a kit of the same name in February 2025, which makes it over a year old, barely. I colored the flowers with Ohuhu markers using 2 pink ones and 2 green ones. The embossing folder is SU, not retired as it is in this year’s January catalog; I understand it is not available. I ink blended Petunia ink by Gina K around the border. I used foam to give it dimension.

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/2026/03/challenge-267-sweet-spring-showers.html

Thank you for looking. Our snow melted and warmer days are back. Maybe I will see tulips soon.

Easter Eggs

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. After seeing several Easter cards with this design on Pinterest, I decided to try one. Eggs and bow were all cut on the Silhouette, sentiment labels are Stampin Up’s modern label and word window punches. Sentiment was printed on the computer. Bow and border eggs have Wink of Stella on them for a little sparkle. Embossing folder used is dots by Stampin Up, pp was found online. I’m not sure if I really like it or not so it may not get sent to anyone. Maybe the next one will be better.

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Happy Easter

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card, first Easter card this year, is for our 7-year-old great granddaughter. Background paper is Echo Park, image is computer clip art, arched frame is an unbranded die set. Frame was embossed with a dots ef from Stampin Up, sentiment was printed in my Hallmark card program. Labels for the sentiment were fussy cut with decorative scissors. I wasn’t too sure about it at first, but I do like it.

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