carrot chomper

| Gerry Morse

https://cardsbygerry.blogspot.com/

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our 5 year old great-grandson. Pp was found online, bunny is from the Silhouette. My first thought was to make the bunny a wobbler but then since his arm swivels I decided to put a carrot in his hand instead of an egg and thought it would be kind of cute for Matthew to be able to move the carrot to and from the bunny’s mouth. Bunny is popped up with mounting tape. Carrot is computer clip art that I fussy cut then used a decorative scissor to cut the tip to look like the bunny had taken a bite. Tail has brown Fun Flock from Stumpendous and of course I couldn’t resist the googly eye. “Happy” was printed on the computer. For a little interest I cropped the chick in the egg from the pp then added to the oval. “Easter” is computer clip art. Oval punches are from Stampin Up.

Thanks for stopping by your visits are very important to me.

Easter 2023

| Gayle Chrvala

Can You Handle The Pressure?

I do believe this will be my Easter card for this year. As of course I am behind schedule again, I’m not sure how many cards I will get completed but I’m really happy with this one. After using the Taylored Expressions Redeemer embossing folder, I then carefully lined up the Redeemer layering stencils**** and ink blended in Gina K Designs Lovely Lavender and Wild Lilac and SimonSaysStamp Seafoam and Surf inks. The final item is the Redeemer detail die which was cut from SSS matte gold cardstock. I really like how these Taylored Expressions pieces were designed to work perfectly together. I’m hoping to complete another card tomorrow using the Foil It background and stencils. I think it could also be embossed but will save that for another time. I didn’t add an outside sentiment. What do you think?

Today’s card will be shared with the Can You Handle the Pressure blog. My card includes the required embossing folder and the Easter twist.

****corrected to read layering stencils not dies.

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

sweet bunny

| Gerry Morse

https://cardsbygerry.blogspot.com/

Hello and welcome.

Today’s card is for our 2-year-old great-granddaughter. Embossing folder used is Basket Weave by Sizzix. Bunny is from an online coloring page colored with Copic’s. The 2 eggs are paper pieced, nose is Black Diamond Stickles and tail has Martha Stewart Fun Flock to give it a little fuzzy look. Bunny was fussy cut and popped up with mounting tape. Sentiment banner was created on the computer and fussy cut. Bottom border is cut from a small scrap of pp I found in my stash.This will be entered in Can You Handle The Pressure?: Anything Goes Embossing with a twist of EASTER (cyhtp.blogspot.com)Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate your visits.

bunny with egg

| Gerry Morse

https://cardsbygerry.blogspot.com/

Hello and welcome. This has been kind of a bad week for me, I had a nasty reaction to antibiotics. But, that’s in the past now…. on to creating.

Today’s card is for our 4-year-old great-granddaughter. Pp was a just the right size scrap in my stash. Embossing folder used is Stampin Up. Oval dies are Spellbinders Scalloped and Classic Ovals, sentiment ovals are Stampin Up punches. Sentiment was printed on the computer. Bunny image is from an online coloring page. I used Prismacolor pencils for the bunny and Copic’s for the flowers and egg.

Thanks for stopping by. I really appreciate your visits.

masculine birthday

| Gerry Morse

https://cardsbygerry.blogspot.com/

Hello and welcome. Here I am with another card using foil. Embossing the foil didn’t work out too well for me last time, so this time I mounted the foil on cs before embossing and it worked much better. Today’s card is for our son. Zig Zag ef is from Stampin Up, die cuts are Spellbinders Classic Diamonds, corner strips were cut on the paper trimmer. Number candles were found online and sentiment was printed on the computer.

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

Dotted Bow

| Gayle Chrvala

Can You Handle the Pressure – Rainbows

My card today will be shared with the Can You Handle the Pressure challenge blog group. Requirements include an embossing folder and an optional theme of RAINBOWS.

For my rainbow I used the Pink Fresh Studio Color Block Rainbow die multiple times to get my rainbow colors. After adding the color pieces to the frame, I embossed it usig a Cuttlebug dot embossing folder. The flowers are Gina K Designs ephemera as is the die and shadow.

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

Vellum Emboss

| Gayle Chrvala

Cards 4 Galz Challenge #194

My card today will be shared with Cards 4 Galz Challenge #194 to use vellum on your card project. After giving this some thought, I decided to stencil a Darice daisy stencil onto my vellum and then cut a Taylored Expressions frame from their Frame in Frame 3 cutting plate to use as my border and to be able to glue down the vellum. Looking through my patterned paper pads, I decided on this abstract piece which I think helps set off the embossed image. Sentiment is Taylored Expressions On Occasion stamp and die set and a little bit of bling for the flower centers will complete my card today.

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

Green Christmas

| Gayle Chrvala

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #35

A fun and inspiring green March mood board from Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #35 which is an Anything Goes Christmas challenge. My card today is using Taylored Expressions liquid watercolor in spearmint for my background. Brushing water on my watercolor paper panel then brushing on the liquid watercolor, I let my background dry then added another layer of water and water color. After drying again, cutting down my panel ran it through my on it’s very last legs Big Shot (yes I should just get used to the Gemini but it’s hard to let go of my Big Shot) using SimonSaysStamps Kaleidoscope embossing folder, then lightly inking the raised portions with Taylored Expressions’ Poblano Pepper ink and inking the edges for a little extra dimension. Snow hills are SSS Layered Hills dies, sentiment from Catherine Pooler Candy Lane Cane stamp set stamped in Poblano Pepper and my snow people were saved from a store bought card I received. The image was way too cute not to use so let’s call it ephemera.

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

foiled birthday

| Gerry Morse

https://cardsbygerry.blogspot.com/

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for my bonus grandson aka, favorite busser. While perusing Pinterest I saw several cards with a similar layout and using foil. I tried embossing the foil but that didn’t go well for me, so I just crumpled it. After it was all put together, I thought if I used a black stamp pad and a brayer it might soften the glare of the foil. So, I took it apart, used a different piece of foil, brayered it and was happy with the result and put it back together. Center square is Stitched Squares by Die-namics with sentiment printed on the computer. Square is popped up.

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