Will and I will be celebrating our 48th wedding anniversary in May and I actually completed his card early thanks to a challenge of Wedding or Anniversary. I liked this sentiment better than the usual Happy Anniversary but will add that to the inside with my hand written not to hubby.

My card uses a homemade heart stencil from a heart die from my stash and some inks in a light rainbow order from Taylored Expressions (Guava, Peaches n Cream and Mango), the sentiment and silhouette are Gina K Designs Vintage Summer card kit named Ocean Silhouettes. TE’s A2 Postage Stamp Stacklets die, and Diagonal Stitch Rectangle Stacklets completes my ivory CAS card today.

My anniversary card will be shared with:

AAA Cards: AAA Card Challenge#263 – Anything goes with a theme of wedding/anniversary.

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Our weather has either been rainy or windy and most days it’s both of those types of weather, so my weather themed embossing folder card today includes a Darice cloud embossing folder which I rainbox inked after embossing then put it back in the embossing folder and ran it through my Big Shot one more time to redefine the embossed clouds. A fussy cut kite from an older Gina K Designs StampTV kit Vintage Chic, some wink of stella and a Tim Holtz die cut sentiment completes this card.

I will be sharing my card with the challenge at:

Can You Handle The Pressure?: April 13th 2024 Anything Goes with a Twist of Weather and the required embossing folder.

Phew!!! Four cards posted and four challenges met after last night’s marathon card making session. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care. Be safe.

Adding a masculine birthday card to my stash, I decided to focus on the word sentiment with the SimonSaysStamp Chunky Happy word die. I cut some strips of “scrap” 65 lb cardstock and glued it to a piece of copy paper then die cut the sentiment from the stripes, die cut the outline again from the pale blue cardstock and die cut the shadow from a sand colored cardstock. The layering panel was splattered with gold and brown inks/paints and for good measure a perfect pearls spray too. Of course all of that warped my card pretty badly and the ivory cardstock base was not of the heaviest weight but I think adding an inner panel of some better weight will help balance the weight. After adhering the word die, cut apart a sentiment strip and added a few enamel dots to complete my card.

I will be sharing my card today with:

Word Power Challenge #4

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I had a previously made panel from powders on my desk and it was time to turn it into a card. Using Taylored Expressions Peace Within dies and add on dies for my focal panel over the pastel green and a tiny layered purple butterfly completes my card today.

I will be sharing my card with:

Colorful Options: April 2024 with a color theme of pastels.

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and Pumpkins Gleam it’s time to get ready for Halloween……

Taking inspiration from the mood board I decided on some patterned paper from my stash that included the tree branch, spider web and spiders, then place Tim Holtz Stapers Anonymous layering moon mask stencil on the background and blended some Distress Oxide ink in Iced Spruce and Black Soot to darken the panel, removed the mask and added the moon feature stencil and lightly ink blended on top of that too. The cat die is an unbranded die from my stash and sentiment is SimonSaysStamp preprinted sentiment strips.

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Two Old Bats April 2024 Anything Halloween Challenge

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