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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Spring Bloom

| Lisa K

I have been coloring lately. This bloom set is new to me. I am entering this is the Triple B March Challenge. https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2023/03/march-challenge.html

Two other challenges have come to my attention which this card fits. Shopping our Stash: https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2023/02/sos491-flowers-flowers-everywhere.html

Four Seasons: Spring Season March: https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/03/spring-season-march-2023-challenge.html

I used Honey Bee Spring Joy Bouquet stamp and die set. I colored it with Spectrum Noir markers. The background paper is Stampin Up Blushing Bride and Basic White. The patterned paper is also SU Perfectly Artistic which was released in 2016. I looked it up to the get the name and the date was in the blog I found.

I used a tutorial by Lynn Dunn. I love her tutorials as they are so easy to follow and I am able to use whatever product I have on hand. https://stamptasticdesigns.com/2023/03/08/diagonal-design-cut-and-shuffle-technique/

pretending

| Gerry Morse

https://cardsbygerry.blogspot.com/

Hello and welcome. Time again for dear-old-sisters’ chuckle of the month card.

Sentiment, “It’s OK to pretend you’re Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, After all you pretend you’re good on Christmas!” was found online. Leprechaun and 4 inside clovers are from an online coloring page colored with Copic’s, border was also found online. Well, isn’t this just one of the shortest posts ever???

I’m entering this in https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-color-green.html

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

CA&Stencil

| Gayle Chrvala

AAA Cards Challenge #235

Stencil Fun Challenge – March 2023

A new day and a new challenge or two! AAA Cards Challenge #235 is always a clean and simple challenge and this month the challenge is ink blending along the edge. Stencil Fun March Challenge which you are required to use a stencil is also a CAS challenge so I’ll be sharing my card with both of these challenges.

Using the Tim Holtz Layering Lace stencil and very, very carefully masking my border, I ink blended pink, red and orange inks. Unfortunately these inks seemed closer in shades then I expected so the don’t have a lot of dimension. A sentiment from Taylored Expressions’ Scenic Sentiments stamp set and this card is completed. AND no fingerprints!! Nope, not adding anything else!!

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