The Dies R Us challenge and The Sisterhood of Crafters challenges made me think of Butterflies and Easter Eggs. First full day of spring is tomorrow and am hopeful that it will follow with some more wonderful weather. My card includes stamp sets and dies from Pretty Pink Posh’s Easter Eggs and Beautiful Butterflies and my grass is a Memory Box Pasture Grass die. I lightly sponged my background with some Distress Ink mulled lavender, scattered straw, spun sugar and then some Memento angel pink, added my pasture grass and some GKD vanilla ice sequins.

So happy to be moving onto some spring projects and that I have this lovely hobby while social distancing.

My card for the Black Background trend week challenge #527at Just Us Girls didn’t quite turn out as I expected. LOL…I think I may add some more color to my flowers before sending this one out the door. I stamped first in GKD white pigment ink, heat set it then stamped in Wild Lilac. The lilac did not give me as much color as I would have liked to have unfortunately. The stamps set and die is GKD’s Sunshine & Love stampTV kit and the sentiment is Hero Arts Happy Stamp & Cut.

Thanks for stopping in for a look.

St. Patrick’s Day cards for the grandchildren. Brooke is my rainbow and our song was “somewhere over the rainbow” for bed time sleepovers. Mickey is for Chase who even at 9 years old has a heart of gold. Our song is “you are my sunshine” so I’m thinking the gold will reflect the sunshine. I did find both of these images via on-line free coloring pages, resized and colored them in. I did have one more for a little friend who is celebrating his 1st St. Patrick’s Day but in my haste to put it in the mail forgot to take a photo.

We are practicing social distancing at our home and Pennsylvania has strongly urged all non-essential businesses to close but unfortunately not every will comply with that directive. A very hard time for our country and the world. Together we will weather this storm and rainbows will be on the horizon. Stay safe everyone and we keep washing our hands.

The challenge hosted by Nancy at the ModSquad Challenge is to include wheels on your project. I created a birthday card using SSS Classic Bicycle die, Momenta frame die, cloud stencil by Bonnie, and stamps from Sugar Pea Designs for Stamp of Approval. GKD inks in Blue Raspberry and Ocean Mist and my go to black ink is VersaFine Onyx Black.

Have a great weekend and stay healthy everyone.

This week’s ModSquad Challenge is to use neon or bright colors. I opted to go with bright colors as I do not have any neon stamp pads so using the stamps and dies from Gina K Designs’ Bold & Blooming stamp set I created my bright pink or maybe I should say shocking pink flowers. The cardstock is GKD and I believe it was from one of those variety packs maybe carnival??? and the patterned paper is The Paper Studio’s Uptown Flair glitter paper pack. I stamped the flowers in versamark and heat embossed three of them in GKD clear embossing powder and two in GKD fine detail white embossing powder then die cut. My frame was cut using Waffle Flowers A2 dies.

Tags and Shaker cards are always such a challenge for me but today I’m taking on the Tag challenge for Dies R Us. I felt in the need of a frosty brew so pulled out my Cheapo dies “beer mug” die and Spellbinders Labels 16 dies to create this tag. I added a pop dots behind the middle of my mugs for some dimension and cut the foamy top from glitter paper, added some Kiss Me, I’m Irish ribbon and a sentiment from my stash as well as a few other shamrocks and yes, I do have a tag!!

Thanks for looking and have a great day! 9 days, 11 hours and counting to spring!

Double D Challenges It’s All About The Green

Sunday Stamps SSC226 Get Sketchy

It is that wonderful time of year again. Spring is on it’s way but before that can happen I’ll be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and my birthday which I missed St. Patrick’s Day by 3 hours. My mom pushed extra hard so I wasn’t a little Patty. The mood board at Double D is to be green or St Patrick’s Day. Why are there so few St. Patrick’s day stamps??? I did pull out Fluffles from Stampendous and colored him gold, used some GKD patterned paper and ribbon. My sentiment is one that was found many years ago in the dollar section of AC Moore. The sketch fits the sketch challenge hosted by Heather at Sunday Stamps. Midnight green cardstock is from SSS.

My card today will be entered into two challenges: The Color Challenge hosted by Laurie at The Paper Players using SU’s Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana and Calypso Coral. I inked my background lightly in the following GKD colors Coral Reef, Ocean Mist and Tranquil Teal then placed the GKD art stencil over the background and inked the same colors adding a darker shade. I die cut SSS Dahlia Stem from the background, layered it several times and popped the silhouette back into the die cut space. Sentiment is from GKD’s Stippled Flowers. The challenge for Just Us Girls is “Heal” for Sue’s Word Week Challenge.

The color challenge at the As You Can See It Design Team member LeAnne is a color challenge to incorporate Poppy Parade Grapefruit Grove, Mango Melody and Whisper White. Gorgeous SU colors so thanks to our Buddy Lisa I was able to find substitutes for these colors with the inks I have on hand. I used Memento Rhubarb Stalk and two colors from Kaleidacolor inks. My cardstock besides the white is GKD’s Lipstick Red which I believe is close to the Poppy Parade. After sponging a background I die cut a frame using Waffle Flowers A2 dies and die cut the SSS Carnation Frame die multiple times, inlaid the petals into the die and then cut the carnation once more in the lipstick red cardstock. It needed to “pop”.My sentiment is from SU’s Upsy Daisy stamp set.