April Showers

| Gayle Chrvala

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:

Simply Clean & Simple April 2025 Challenge with an optional theme of Umbrellas

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe and keep those umbrellas handy.

Easter 1

| Gayle Chrvala

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.

My card today will be shared with:

Double D Challenges: Double D Easter Challenge

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.

Egg Bunnies

| Gerry Morse

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.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Bunny In grass

| Gerry Morse

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.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

This will be entered at https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/04/double-d-easter-challenge.html

Back Fold Fun Fold

| Lisa K

I wanted to share this card that I made last week. This is called a Back Fold Fun Fold card.

Here are the directions I followed to create this card: https://karentitus.com/5-minute-fun-fold-card-the-back-fold/

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.

With Sympathy

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Being in need of a sympathy card I went to Pinterest for ideas. I really liked the cards using this Tim Holtz Thinlits die so decided to go with that. Sentiment was printed on the computer, butterfly is from the Silhouette, gems are from my stash. This was really pretty easy and I’m very satisfied with it.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Pocket Birthday

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. I’m back today with another card made with my daughter. As a welcome to our daughter, I made her a pocket easel card and she liked it so much she wanted to make one for her daughter’s birthday. Background paper was in my stash, heart is Sweet & Sassy Framelits by Stampin up. Sentiment was printed on the computer and cut with my paper trimmer. She added Wink of Stella to the heart. For a personal touch, Lisa always puts a handwritten message inside.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Wedding Card

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. After a wonderful week with our daughter, I’m back to posting.

While she was here, she wanted to make a wedding card for her daughter who’s getting married this summer. After looking through Pinterest we came up with this design. Embossing folder is from Stampin Up, hearts are Sweet & Sassy Framelits by Stampin Up. Blue hearts have Wink of Stella for a little sparkle. Holes around the white hearts were done by hand. Since I didn’t have the right shade of blue cs for the flowers I found a blue gradient background paper on Google. Flowers were punched with a small hand punch then layered. Tiny blue gems are added to the flowers, leaves are some leftovers laying around. Her part of making this card was adding the Wink of Stella, poking the holes and punching the flowers.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Rainbow Recovery

| Gayle Chrvala

Taylored Expressions Rainbow of Possibilites layering stencil is the background today for my card which was mailed to a little grand”friend” who had her tonsils removed. Gina K Designs bold sentiments from the Luck and Love stamp set are my focal point along with a dragonfly which is also GKD’s Close to My Heart stamp & die set. A few stars and layering scallop panel in my still favorite wintergreen cardstock completes my card today.

My card will be share with:

Word Power: March 2025 Challenge

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, stay safe. The calendar may say Spring but Old Man Winter is not yet ready to give up the cold weather. BRRRRR!!! It’s is quite cold outside today in Pennsylvania again.