Not a new type of sandwich but rather Blooms, Butterflies and Lattice card! My sister in Florida shared a card using a lattice card design and I was inspired to make one myself. My blooms are Gina K Designs Curved Floral Layeirng bundle, butterflies are from Martha Stewart triple butterfly punch that is ususally within arm reach of my work station. The curved floral layering bundle contains two dies, one for the outline and the stencils are used on the solid section to make your flowers. I did stamp the lattice strips and the front of the card with Taylored Expressions Sea Salt ink and a linen background stamp which is very faint to the eye.

My card today will be shared with:

Triple B: April Challenge which requires the use of blooms, butterflies and/or birds.

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My card today is using the theme “Things that Fly” and my flying things are hot air balloons! Using a My Monthly Hero kit from 2020, I chose the cloud with rainbow image and then the hot air balloon icon die which were cut from shimmer cardstock. Stenciled in some pink clouds with a cloud stencil from my Buddy Bonnie and stamped a few hearts. Sentiment is Penny Black Flying By stamp set.

Today’s card will be shared with:

Double D Challenges: Things That Fly

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After watching, Mindy Eggen’s recent YouTube video, I was inspired to CASE her card and technique for overlapping colors with stencils. The stencil I used was Balloon Party from Taylored Expressions. This is a layering stencil & clear stamp combo using the largest balloon and well I was quite surprised that they all look lined up correctly. LOL. I then did partial embossing using a Darice clouds embossing folder and lightly inking with some blue ink left over on a brush. The grass was die cut with The Cat’s Pajamas CutUps grass die and Gina K Designs word die while stamping wishes from a GKD stamp set Garden Silhouettes after completing stamp surgery. The butterfly is American Crafts’ Garden Party dimensional sticker.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Can You Handle The Pressure? An Anything goes challenge with the requirement to use requires an embossing folder and an optional theme of CLOUDS.

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I felt inspired by the Two Old Bats mood board for April and Anything Halloween but I had to put my thinking cap on once again. My card is not too dark nor too wicked and was really fun to make this background. I made my lightning strikes by following Frenchie Stamps lighting technique. I used glue in a fine tip bottle to draw my lightning strikes on shimmer white cardstock, then added white embossing powder and heat set. To add a little interest, Frenchie recommends inking some yellow and pink in the beginning of the lighting. The stamped images were definitely oldies but goodies. The clouds are Cornish Heritage Farms large cloud, Outlines Rubber Stamp Company grasses, Inkadinkadoo Halloween Trails for my witch and sentiment from Gina K Designs Wicked stamp set. The background was inked in grays, charcoal and some blue and a few clouds were stamped in white pigment ink (I think my pad needs to be reinked).

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Two Old Bats Halloween April Challenge – Anything Halloween

and Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #2

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An Easter card for a sweet grand-friend of mine using pastel colors of a little yellow, a little orange, a little green. Stamped and colored in my bunny then fussy cut it and mounted on an oval piece of vellum The patterned paper was from a paper pad that I cut apart. This super cute card will be shared with:

Colorful Options: April 2023 Pastels challenge.

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My card today was made for Day 7 of my OnLineCard Class Stenciled 2 in which we were instructed to add a stamped image through the stencils. For my stenciled portion, I used SimonSaysStamps Mix & Match circles, ink blended and the flipped the stencil and ink blended in a darker shade. After the ink was completely dry, I replaced the stencil and stamped the butterfly image from Stampin Up’s Hoppy Easter in versamark and white embossing powder and heat set. I added a Gina K Designs word die and stamped sentiment to a piece of vellum and a few punched butterflies. Lots of different techniques for this OCC class. It was fun to particiapte.

My card today will be shared with the April Stencil Fun Challenge to use a stencil with a theme of PATTERNS.

Crazy is our fame — STENCILS are our game — APRIL Patterns Challenge

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I was inspired to make today’s card with two different challenges in mind. The Double D Challenges is an April Showers theme and Cardz for Galz is looking for an easel card.

I don’t make a lot of easel cards but was ready to give it a go. Using Gina K Designs patterned papers and Warm Spring Wishes stamp set for the umbrella image and sentiment, a Frame in Frame 3 from Taylored Expressions die, I created my easel using different patterned papers, adding the white frame, stamped, colored & fussy cut the umbrellas as well as fussy cutting an additional chick with rainboots from the patterened paper which was popped up completes my card today.

I’ll be sharing this card today with:

Double D Challenges: April Showers

Cardz 4 Galz #196 An Easel Card Challenge

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Our grandson’s first Easter card. I’m pretty sure he won’t be attending any Easter egg hunts as he is just trying to get crawling accomplished. I was first going to enter this shaped card into the AAA Cards challenge but then didn’t think it was CAS enough for that challenge blog. Then I was going to enter it into the As You Can See It challenge with an outdoor theme until I realised that it was a timed challenge and I forgot to set my timer. So I’ll just be sharing this one with all of you.

My card was die cut using SSS Nested Eggs die and a second cut to cover the top fold portion that formed the card. Inky Antics cloud stencil and some blues left on blending brushes made my clouds, The sun is from Gina K’s Your Own Kind of Beautiful from the Sentimental Summer StampTV Kit, Stampin Up’s Heaven Blessed is the main stamped and colored image. My grass was die cut using The Cat’s Pajamas grass cut ups die and some Poppy Stamps Stitched Eggs Medley dies.

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Can You Handle The Pressure?

I do believe this will be my Easter card for this year. As of course I am behind schedule again, I’m not sure how many cards I will get completed but I’m really happy with this one. After using the Taylored Expressions Redeemer embossing folder, I then carefully lined up the Redeemer layering stencils**** and ink blended in Gina K Designs Lovely Lavender and Wild Lilac and SimonSaysStamp Seafoam and Surf inks. The final item is the Redeemer detail die which was cut from SSS matte gold cardstock. I really like how these Taylored Expressions pieces were designed to work perfectly together. I’m hoping to complete another card tomorrow using the Foil It background and stencils. I think it could also be embossed but will save that for another time. I didn’t add an outside sentiment. What do you think?

Today’s card will be shared with the Can You Handle the Pressure blog. My card includes the required embossing folder and the Easter twist.

****corrected to read layering stencils not dies.

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