April Showers

| Gayle Chrvala

Four Seasons Challenge – April Spring Challenge

April Showers for this sweet little chick are in store today as well as playing along with the Four Season Challenges: April Anything Goes Spring challenge. Inspiration was taken from their mood board with the frog and umbrella made me remember this Simon Says Stamp Hello Easter stamp set. Sentiment is a Stampin Up Heaven Blessed stamp. After stamping my image and creating a mask for both the image and the border, I blended some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Prize Ribbon ink on the background. The chick & umbrella were colored with Ohuhu markers. I had to redo the umbrella bow because I didn’t like the original color. Lots of blue today!

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Easter Dude

| Gerry Morse

This Easter card is for our almost 13 year old great-grandson. Image is from an online coloring page, colored with Copics. The yellow of the shirt and egg are really much lighter in real life. Blue background was run through the basket weave ef by Sizzix, the double layer piece was cut on my SU cutter and I used a small circle hand punch to punch out the corners. Sentiment oval is Stitched Ovals by Die-namics, sentiment was printed on the computer
Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.
Gerry

Birds & Dragonfly Sketch

| Gayle Chrvala

Paper Dragonfly Challenge #4

Sunday Stamps SSC280 In the Middle

Today’s inspiration came from two challenge blogs. The Paper Dragonfly challenge was Birds with a origami dragonfly….oh my! And a very classic sketch with the Sunday Stamps group using any shape in the middle.

I wasn’t quite sure how to incorporate the birds and dragonfly together but when I saw the sketch challenge decided on patterned paper. Gina K Designs patterned paper was the focus of my birds…birds with umbrellas, my center shape is an Altenew Linear Crossroads die and my origami dragonfly finished off this card. I guess there is origami paper but alas none in my stash so I used patterned paper. These fingers of mine kept on getting in the way of my folds but after the 4th try decided this was the best of the bunch. LOL. Always fun to play along with these challenges.

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Running Bunny

| Gerry Morse

Today’s card is for our 4 year old great-grandson. This entire card is a Silhouette cut file. Bunny is cut from textured cs. And as usual I couldn’t resist the googly eye. Since it was all cut on the Silhouette it was just a matter of putting it all together. Quite easy.

Thanks for taking time to look. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Masculine Easter

| Gerry Morse

Welcome. I found myself in need of two masculine Easter cards, one for our 22 year old grandson and one for our16 year old great-grandson so I made two of these.

Card base is white cs, gray layer was run through a crimper, background paper for the bunny is soft birch found online. Bunny is from an online coloring page colored with Copics, sentiment was printed on the computer, eggs are online clip art and fussy cut. Very quick and simple.

Thanks for stopping in. Comments are always welcome.

Gerry

Hugs

| Gayle Chrvala

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Sentiments, Only is the challenge with The Sisterhood of Crafters so I decided to make my card with multiple birthday rainbow hugs. My card was a CASE of Cathy Z.’s card that I admired on SSS. After die cutting SimonSaysStamps Painted Hugs die multiple times, I added a sentiment and hearts from Gina K Designs A Little Love stamp set.

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Happy Easter

| Gerry Morse

Today’s card will probably go to our son & d-i-l. Basket and eggs are from the Silhouette, eggs are cut from various scraps of pp. Grass is a MS punch, soft sky background paper was found online. After running the basket through a basket weave ef I thought the white still looked a little blah, so I sponged it with Bashful Blue ink. To my surprise I kind of like it. The unevenly place flowers are stickers from my stash. The first flower went on perfectly but the second dropped a tad too low but trying to move it would make it pretty messy, so I just left it. It doesn’t show well in the photo, but there is a shear white bow in the top middle of the basket. It’s very noticeable in real life. Sentiment strip was printed on the computer and the little eggs are clip art.

Thanks for stopping by and your comments are greatly appreciated. Stay healthy & safe.

Gerry

Winter Trees

| Gayle Chrvala

Can You Handle the Pressure

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #12

The little taste of spring seems to have reverted to February weather for today so it seemed like a perfect time to create some Chrismas/winter cards and play along with not one but two different challenges.

The Can You Handle the Pressure challenge is Anything Goes Embossing Folder challenge with a Twist of Green. For my card today, I pulled out a SimonSaysStamp Forest Border embossing folder which was layered on green cardstock. Using the Mood Board for inspiration on the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge #12, I focused on the image with the Christmas tree front and center. I die cut the Tim Holtz Sizzix Woodlands tree in two shades of green layering it the front of the embossed forest background. Undecided about a sentiment, I held my breath as I opted to add the tiny sentiment from Gina K Designs Simple Snowflake stamp set.

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Bunny With Carrot

| Gerry Morse

Today’s card is a CASE of one I saw on Pinterest but I can’t find it again so you could see a comparison. My bad! Bunny face is the ornament punch from SU, ears are large & small ovals from SU. Cheeks and paws are a 3/4″ circle punch with hand drawn enhancements, nose is a 1/8″ hand punch. Carrot is a circle punch hand cut to a point, carrot tops are 1/4″ strips of cs cut at an angle. Cheeks, paws and ears are edged with pink. Grass is a Martha Stewart punch, tulips are a small punch I’ve had forever. Fence is cs run through the Woodgrain ef by The Paper Studio. Background paper was found online. Googly eyes are blue, just like my 3 year old great-granddaughter’s. My original intent was to send this to her but now I’m not sure I really like it.

Thanks for stopping by. Comments are greatly appreciated. Stay healthy & safe.

Gerry