I felt inspired by the Two Old Bats mood board for April and Anything Halloween but I had to put my thinking cap on once again. My card is not too dark nor too wicked and was really fun to make this background. I made my lightning strikes by following Frenchie Stamps lighting technique. I used glue in a fine tip bottle to draw my lightning strikes on shimmer white cardstock, then added white embossing powder and heat set. To add a little interest, Frenchie recommends inking some yellow and pink in the beginning of the lighting. The stamped images were definitely oldies but goodies. The clouds are Cornish Heritage Farms large cloud, Outlines Rubber Stamp Company grasses, Inkadinkadoo Halloween Trails for my witch and sentiment from Gina K Designs Wicked stamp set. The background was inked in grays, charcoal and some blue and a few clouds were stamped in white pigment ink (I think my pad needs to be reinked).

I’ll be sharing my card today with:

Two Old Bats Halloween April Challenge – Anything Halloween

and Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #2

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An Easter card for a sweet grand-friend of mine using pastel colors of a little yellow, a little orange, a little green. Stamped and colored in my bunny then fussy cut it and mounted on an oval piece of vellum The patterned paper was from a paper pad that I cut apart. This super cute card will be shared with:

Colorful Options: April 2023 Pastels challenge.

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My card today was made for Day 7 of my OnLineCard Class Stenciled 2 in which we were instructed to add a stamped image through the stencils. For my stenciled portion, I used SimonSaysStamps Mix & Match circles, ink blended and the flipped the stencil and ink blended in a darker shade. After the ink was completely dry, I replaced the stencil and stamped the butterfly image from Stampin Up’s Hoppy Easter in versamark and white embossing powder and heat set. I added a Gina K Designs word die and stamped sentiment to a piece of vellum and a few punched butterflies. Lots of different techniques for this OCC class. It was fun to particiapte.

My card today will be shared with the April Stencil Fun Challenge to use a stencil with a theme of PATTERNS.

Crazy is our fame — STENCILS are our game — APRIL Patterns Challenge

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I was inspired to make today’s card with two different challenges in mind. The Double D Challenges is an April Showers theme and Cardz for Galz is looking for an easel card.

I don’t make a lot of easel cards but was ready to give it a go. Using Gina K Designs patterned papers and Warm Spring Wishes stamp set for the umbrella image and sentiment, a Frame in Frame 3 from Taylored Expressions die, I created my easel using different patterned papers, adding the white frame, stamped, colored & fussy cut the umbrellas as well as fussy cutting an additional chick with rainboots from the patterened paper which was popped up completes my card today.

I’ll be sharing this card today with:

Double D Challenges: April Showers

Cardz 4 Galz #196 An Easel Card Challenge

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Our grandson’s first Easter card. I’m pretty sure he won’t be attending any Easter egg hunts as he is just trying to get crawling accomplished. I was first going to enter this shaped card into the AAA Cards challenge but then didn’t think it was CAS enough for that challenge blog. Then I was going to enter it into the As You Can See It challenge with an outdoor theme until I realised that it was a timed challenge and I forgot to set my timer. So I’ll just be sharing this one with all of you.

My card was die cut using SSS Nested Eggs die and a second cut to cover the top fold portion that formed the card. Inky Antics cloud stencil and some blues left on blending brushes made my clouds, The sun is from Gina K’s Your Own Kind of Beautiful from the Sentimental Summer StampTV Kit, Stampin Up’s Heaven Blessed is the main stamped and colored image. My grass was die cut using The Cat’s Pajamas grass cut ups die and some Poppy Stamps Stitched Eggs Medley dies.

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