Hello and welcome. First, I want to apologize for not commenting on all your recent beautiful posts. Time just got away from me this week.
Today’s card is for our 7-year-old great-grandson. Patterned paper was found online, bunny peeps and bow tie are computer clip art that I fussy cut. I just had to go with googly eyes. Embossing folder used for the yellow strip from the Paper Studio, oval is Spellbinders scalloped oval. Sentiment was printed on the computer.
Tomorrow we’re going to MN to surprise our son for his 60th birthday. His wife planned a surprise party for him, and I can’t wait to see his face when he walks in and sees us there. He thinks our next trip to MN isn’t till Aug. This is going to be so fun.
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I have been creating for several days and finally took photos. I just posted these to splitcoaststampers and two are linked to other challenges.
This is for this week’s alphabet challenge for the letter N. The word from the list is Nature and my words are Navy and Narcissus. Also the images are from Newton’s Nook, another N word. This was linked to the Double D Easter challenge. There are two other entries from the buddies blog, so I linked from splitcoast in case another buddy wants to create an Easter card and link from here.
This is my March to the Beat April card. I am the April hostess and I sent each person this image and a piece of patterned paper from the same pack. The images is Newton’s Nook Spring Haul. I used Neenah Classic Crest paper for the stamping, Echo Park Spring Fling or Easter Wishes paper packs, Hobby Lobby vellum, SU gems, and Accent White card base. I like this truck with the beautiful blooms.
One again, I chose to go ahead and link from splitcoast in case there were others who wanted to link from here.
This card was created for the technique swap, I am involved in. They chose stencils for the month of April. I used my Gina K Designs kit called A Happy Hello. This was the first layering stencil kit I ever used, so it was fun to pull it out and create with it. I used a color challenge in the colors Flirty Flamingo (bright pink), Lost Lagoon (the blue color), Lemon Lolly (which I substituted with lawn fawn Butter, light yellow), and gray for a neutral (I used lawn fawn manatee and narwhal).
I posted a lot of cards this week, catching up. Since I was posting each of these to splitcoast, I just went ahead and posted to the challenges from there.
Today, I will be taking a break from creating and cleaning up my space. I have stuff all over and I would like less stuff in my way. Thanks for reading this long post. Have a wonderful day!
I had a plan!!! Thankfully I also had plan B whick was implemented to complete this card to my liking. I took my inspiration from this month’s mood board with the Two Old Bats Challenge. I pulled out a variety of product including Gina K Designs Haunts & Harvest stamp set, Whimsy Stamps Keyhold & Keys dies, AI Double Stitch Rectangle dies, Taylored Expressions Postage Stamp dies and Birch Tree Border die, Hero Arts Bats background stamp, Distress Oxide inks in Twisted Citron, Chipped Sapphire, Weathered Wood and Black Onyx. The bat background that was stamped in versamark and heat embossed in clear embossing powder then ink blended with the DO inks did not quite do it for me but used it as the keyhole with a piece of vellum on top of it. I inked a new background, die cut the birch trees, key hole, a few bats and my black cat. I added some color to the cat’s eyes and a few stars for the background.
Thanks to Two Old Bats for choosing my card last month as a Top 3 and also our Stamp Buddy Gerry’s card was a Top 3 too!! YAY for us Halloween lovers.
I used SU Fresh Freesia cardstock for the card base and ink for one of the zinnia flowers. I used SU Gorgeous Grape for another zinnia and GKD Peach Belini for the other zinnia. The leaves are all painted with GKD Grass Green. The stamp set used is Altenew Zinnia Magellan Rose. I used Ranger Watercolor paper to paint the images on.
And yes, we are experiencing April Showers with a bit of thunder and lightning as I’m posting my card. This Penny Black slapstick stamp named Sunshine in the Rain has been in my stash for years and I was happy to bring it out of it’s storage box. Some light coloring and Taylored Expressions Wavy Stitch Stacklets for a bit of a border detail. I am hopeful that this will be accepted as a CAS card so I can share it with:
Time to get motivated with Easter cards and I thought I would begin with this cute stamp set from Simon Says Stamp “Hello Easter”. I know I used the umbrella chick before because I have a mask of the image attached to my stamp folder! But, trust me, this is a new card design. After stamping, coloring and fussy cutting the chick and the egg, I ink blended my background and then added a grass and cloud stencil. Sentiment is from same stamp set.
Hello and welcome. Today’s cards are for our 2 great-granddaughters, a 3- & 6-year-old. Background papers were found online, bunnies are computer clip art, eggs are from the Silhouette. Sentiment on both were printed on the computer. The yellow one was punched with Stampin Up’s word window and modern label punches, pink one was cut on my paper trimmer. Corners on the pink sentiment background strips were kind of rounded with a nail file. Eggs were embossed with Stampin Up’s dots ef. Fussy cutting the bunnies was kind of a challenge because Mr. Arthritis decided to stiffen my fingers today.
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Hello and welcome. Finally, I got started on Easter cards for this year. The front panel, bunny & bow were cut on the Silhouette. Blue background is a small piece of paper from my stash. Grass is a Martha Stewert punch, tulips are from a very old small punch, eye is just a small hand punched circle. Panel is embossed with Stampin Up’s dots ef. For a little interest I ran the bow through the Paper Studio’s striped ef. The paper the bunny was cut from is white with kind of swirls throughout so it doesn’t look as start as white cs does. I was quite surprised to find that in my stash.
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I used a piece of DSP from Stampin Up. It has Pretty Peacock in the paper, so I used that ink for my vase and the shadow and oval. I am totally out of paper that matches that color but do have a marker. I used the marker to color the oval and shadow for hello. The flowers are stamped in Calypso Coral. I found a piece of coral paper from MFT and it worked well for this piece of patterned paper. The vase and flowers are from a Paper Pumpkin set. The hello greeting is from Altenew. I like the greeting dies in this set.
I enjoy fun folds so had to give this one a try. I have a new computer so this is the first time uploading a photo and creating a blog post. Hopefully this will work well.
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