No Fooling!!

| Gayle Chrvala

We made it to April and Spring and the blooms are popping and no fooling that I am a guest designer for Triple B Birds, Butterflies and Blooms April challenge. Panic was my first reaction but Darlene and our Bonnie calmed me down and this is my card for the challenge. Not an April Fools joke!

I decided on Colorado Craft Company’s Pretty Little Lines Daffodil Mice stamp set and I opted for the tulip stem and this little mouse for my card. Lightly colored with markers from my stash and a little Wink of Stella for some shine was added.  The background was ink blended using Taylored Expressions Pretty Petals stencil and added a few Martha Stewart punch butterflies for good measure.

Hope you all can play along with this challenge.

Triple B Challenges – April 2024

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for my hunny bunny

| Judy Inukai

I made this card for my husband. I cut the postage die from Master Layouts 14 and used the matching stencil to brush Ocean Mist in the squares. The bunny and birdie are from Happy Spring, Colored with Copics. The sentiment is from the same set, stamped in Blue Lagoon. The duck is from Spring Fling. The squiggle in the upper left box and the flower in the lower left box are stamped in Ocean Mist – they are from the new With Sympathy set. I matted the focal panel with Blue Lagoon on an Ocean Mist CB. All products are from Gina K Designs. On the inside I stamped “Wishing you a Hippity Hoppity Easter” from Cottontail Wishes by Simon Says. I’m entering this in The Sisterhood of Crafters Bunnies and/or Chicks Challenge.

Bunny Love

| Gayle Chrvala

One Easter card for next year!!! I stamped this cute little image from SimonSaysStamp’s Sweet Tweets stamp set and didn’t use it for a card this Easter but when I saw a challenge of Bunnies and/or Chicks, I decided to make a card and save it for next year. A mini-slimline card with some light ink blending of green and pink left on my brushes for the focal panel. And can I just say, look at my sentiment!!!! OMG….Sending is one stamp and the so much love is a separate sentiment. Maybe they were meant to be nestled in each other like that but I can hardly believe that I didn’t mess it up. After fussy cutting the image I popped it up on dimensionals and it kind of gave a 3D effect. After struggling to make the glossy accents flow and adding to the eggs and a few other items, my card today is completed and will be sharing it with:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: March 27 Bunnies and/or Chicks Challenge.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Happy Easter, Happy Spring and Happy April Fool’s Day!

Anniversary Rocker

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our son & d-i-l. Their anniversary is the day after his birthday.

While going through my stash I found this scrap of pp that I thought would make a nice anniversary card. Card base was cut on the Silhouette, circles are Spellbinders scalloped and classic circles. Sentiment & clip art roses were printed on the computer. There was just enough of the pearly trim in my stash to finish it off.

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

pinwheel birthday

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. After seeing some pinwheel cards on Pinterest I thought I’d give it a try. Patterned paper is from a 6×6 book from Stampin Up. Squares were cut using Stampin Up’s paper trimmer, center circle is a no name stitched circles die. Sentiment stamp is Gina K’s Birthday Blessings, fussy cut & popped up.

This is for our son. Inside sentiment is very simple… “Enjoy the last year of your 50’s”. Next year’s card will be really fun. 🙂

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

With Sympathy

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Our grandson-in-law’s grandma passed away this week, so this is the card I made. Die cuts are Flourish Thinlits by Stampin Up, embossing folders are both from Cuttlebug. Sentiment was printed on the computer, and I added score lines on top and bottom of panel. Inside sentiment is a combination of 2 different sentiments found on Pinterest. I don’t think I ever embossed the inside of a card before, but I think it adds a lot here.

Just a fun little note… our granddaughter told me how she loved her grandma-in-law and thought of her as her grandma Gerry away from home. She is so sweet.

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

Easter Daffodils

| Lisa K

I made an Easter card with daffodils. This will be entered in Shopping Our Stash and also on Splitcoast Stampers in the Challenge Your Stash and March to the Beat challenge.

The daffodils are from a Simon Says Stamp set called Joys of Spring. The Happy Easter greeting came from a Your Next Stamp set. The patterned paper is Echo Park ad the green print is from Memento. The cardbase is from my stash and matched well with everything.

I am the hostess for both Splitcoast Stampers challenges for the month of March. I sent each person in the March to the Beat challenge two pieces of the stamped daffodil image, several greetings from the same set and a few more. They also received a piece of this green patterned paper as well as a yellow piece. It is fun to see how each person uses the same image differently. The Challenge Your Stash group will each be making Easter cards as that is the theme I chose. I look forward to seeing the variety.

The Shopping our Stash is titled Spring Has Sprung: https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2024/03/sos518-spring-has-sprung.html

This is my other daffodil card that I created a few weeks ago. I wish each of my Buddies a very Happy Easter. I will not be sending cards as I just didn’t get them made. I have these two and I think I will send them to my two aunts, who should receive them my Easter.

Par-tee time

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. I wanted to make a golf card so I searched Pinterest for ideas. The sentiment was printed on the computer and the golf balls are clip art. Corner balls that say ‘PAR-TEE time’ were hand punched and backed with a black circle. Die used is Stitched Squares by Die-namics. I wanted to add a little texture but the square shape didn’t fit any of my ef,. so using the Stampin Up’s score buddy, I hand scored it. If you really look at it, you’ll see plenty places where the stylus slipped. lol

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

Easter Butterfly

| Gayle Chrvala

I saw this idea on the Fans of Taylored Expressions Facebook group and knew I needed to CASE it. The card was made using TE’s Fluttering Friends Embossing Folder and Stencil. This was part of the recent Virtual StampJoy 2024 that I participated in but instead of using the stencils I just swiped white pigment ink over the raised embossed areas. Sentiment is SSS’s Sweet Tweets which was still on my desk (lol) and TE’s Frame in Frame 3 cutting plates, butterfly is Tim Holtz. I made several of these in spring colors and still haven’t decided which color I liked the best. This was is going to my sister in FL because she likes pink.

My card will be shared with:

Triple B March 2024 Challenge: Anthing Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies

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