I made a card this week to send to a person recovering from surgery. This is my first post using my Ipad.
The paper is GKD red hot and Neenah Classic Crest. I hope this card brightens her day. The stamp set is SU. I fussy cut the image and greeting.
I made a birthday card for my brother following the alphabet challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.
Our letter is S and my brother’s name fits the challenge. The AAA Cards challenge is a Clean and Simple birthday card. This fits perfectly for that challenge. The AAA Cards challenge site has sister challenges. One of the sister challenge is a birthday challenge. I am also submitting to that challenge.
https://aaacards.blogspot.com/2025/05/aaa-card-challenge-290-anything.html
https://aaabirthday.blogspot.com/2025/05/game-73-anything-birthday-goes-our-6th.html
I used Sizzix dies to cut the stars out of SU Specialty Glimmer paper. The greeting is from a Park Lane stamp set and the name is from a Your Next Stamp alpha set. This is CAS as I didn’t add a lot of other things. I followed an idea I found on Pinterest which helped me place the tiny stars around the larger star.
Thanks for stopping by. I am happy to have this card ready to mail as soon as I do something on the inside.
Each month I receive a stamped image and sometimes patterned paper to create a card with. The month of May was Sue’s month. I received images from Stampin Up Friendly Hello set and patterned paper. I own this set so I added a few leaves and a die cut to add a bit to balance my design.
The white frame to hold the images is from Stampin Up and is very retired. I cut out the bird and flower image provided, but added the large flowers in the front. I had those in my stamp case already colored, so I matched the marker colors to the small flowers. I found some pink paper in my stash that worked well with the provided patterned paper and placed everything on a white card base. I added gems to the center of each flower; once again very retired SU.
https://cardz4galz.blogspot.com/2025/05/flowers.html
I see the Card 4 Gals challenge has ended.
https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-2025-challenge.html
https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2025/05/51425-flowers.html
https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2025/05/anything-goes-weeks-698-699.html
https://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2025/05/seize-birthday-305-flowers.html
I am adding this card to each of these challenges linked.
For the May Triple B challenge, I have a bird and flowers.
The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge is about flowers.
The Word Art Wednesday is Anything Goes.
Seize the Birthday is to add flowers to the birthday card.
It is nice to create a card that fits so many challenges. Thank you for stopping by and seeing my card. Last month was Virtual Stamp Night at Splitcoast Stampers. I hosted a challenge and made several samples for the other challenges. It is nice to be able to make a card that I want to make that is not dependent on a time frame and specific challenge. This card happened to fit all of these challenges.
I have been creating for several days and finally took photos. I just posted these to splitcoaststampers and two are linked to other challenges.
This is for this week’s alphabet challenge for the letter N. The word from the list is Nature and my words are Navy and Narcissus. Also the images are from Newton’s Nook, another N word. This was linked to the Double D Easter challenge. There are two other entries from the buddies blog, so I linked from splitcoast in case another buddy wants to create an Easter card and link from here.
https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/04/double-d-easter-challenge.html
I am entering this card in Word Art Wednesday, anything goes: https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2025/04/anything-goes-weeks-694-695.html
This is my March to the Beat April card. I am the April hostess and I sent each person this image and a piece of patterned paper from the same pack. The images is Newton’s Nook Spring Haul. I used Neenah Classic Crest paper for the stamping, Echo Park Spring Fling or Easter Wishes paper packs, Hobby Lobby vellum, SU gems, and Accent White card base. I like this truck with the beautiful blooms.
I added this to two challenges: The Sisterhood of Crafters: https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2025/04/4925-springtime-designer-paper.html
The other challenge is the Four Season’s challenge: https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/04/spring-season-april-2025.html
One again, I chose to go ahead and link from splitcoast in case there were others who wanted to link from here.
This card was created for the technique swap, I am involved in. They chose stencils for the month of April. I used my Gina K Designs kit called A Happy Hello. This was the first layering stencil kit I ever used, so it was fun to pull it out and create with it. I used a color challenge in the colors Flirty Flamingo (bright pink), Lost Lagoon (the blue color), Lemon Lolly (which I substituted with lawn fawn Butter, light yellow), and gray for a neutral (I used lawn fawn manatee and narwhal).
I posted this to Triple B for the blooms: https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2025/04/april-2025-challenge.html
I posted a lot of cards this week, catching up. Since I was posting each of these to splitcoast, I just went ahead and posted to the challenges from there.
Today, I will be taking a break from creating and cleaning up my space. I have stuff all over and I would like less stuff in my way. Thanks for reading this long post. Have a wonderful day!
I created a card for the As You See It challenge.
I used SU Fresh Freesia cardstock for the card base and ink for one of the zinnia flowers. I used SU Gorgeous Grape for another zinnia and GKD Peach Belini for the other zinnia. The leaves are all painted with GKD Grass Green. The stamp set used is Altenew Zinnia Magellan Rose. I used Ranger Watercolor paper to paint the images on.
https://www.asyouseeitchallenge.com/2025/04/345.html
I enjoyed coloring quickly with watercolor. Thanks for coming by and seeing my card.
I wanted to share this card that I made last week. This is called a Back Fold Fun Fold card.
Here are the directions I followed to create this card: https://karentitus.com/5-minute-fun-fold-card-the-back-fold/
I used a piece of DSP from Stampin Up. It has Pretty Peacock in the paper, so I used that ink for my vase and the shadow and oval. I am totally out of paper that matches that color but do have a marker. I used the marker to color the oval and shadow for hello. The flowers are stamped in Calypso Coral. I found a piece of coral paper from MFT and it worked well for this piece of patterned paper. The vase and flowers are from a Paper Pumpkin set. The hello greeting is from Altenew. I like the greeting dies in this set.
I enjoy fun folds so had to give this one a try. I have a new computer so this is the first time uploading a photo and creating a blog post. Hopefully this will work well.
I created a Christmas card this week. It is green, so I will add it to the Sisterhood of Crafters, the Peace on Earth Christmas and the Can You Handle the Pressure challenges.
This card started as the alphabet challenge card at Splitcoaststampers for the letter J. I needed to use a word off of the list and one of my own. The word from the list was Jade and my own is Joyful. I used SU Just Jade for my cardbase and embossed layer. I used the Spellbinders Evergreen 3D embossing folder. The patterned paper is SU Flowers for Every Season. The brown paper is from Spellbinders. The greeting is Lawn Fawn Winter Wavy Sayings cut with a die from Simply Wavy Banners. I added SU snowflake sequins for a bit of sparkle.
https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2025/03/31225-shades-of-green.html
https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-2025-peace-on-earth-challenge-83.html
https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2025/03/anything-goes-with-twist-of-luckyst.html
We reached 80 degrees today! I have windows open and am enjoying getting a bit of fresh air in the house. Thanks for coming by and reading my post.
I have an almost one layer card to share.
The flower is Altenew Zinnia Magellan Rose, dated 2022. The dotted stencil is from SU Basic Patterns Decorative Masks, 2019 Holiday Catalog. To create this card, I stamped the Zinnia first, then stamped it onto a masking paper. I blended ink over the stencil next. I colored the zinnia with Zig Clean Color Markers. Everything was stamped with Versfine Black Onyx ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. I die cut my panel with Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped dies; they were a recent blog post win. I used Bristol paper for the images and placed it onto a MFT heavy weight vellum paper.
https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2025/02/challenge-249-tic-tac-toe.html
I am entering this into the Retro Rubber Challenge. I used row 2, stencil, die cut, and flowers.
https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-stencil-fun-challenge.html
I created this card for a challenge at Splitcoaststampers for the group Challenge Your Stash. The challenge for February is to create a card with Love or Friendship. I chose friendship.
I enjoyed creating this card. It has been a while since I have masked and created an almost one layer card. I have never placed a card on a vellum card base. This is very strong vellum so it should hold well.
I understand we are heading to 70 degrees today! The weather has been fantastic this week. I even walked to the mailbox a few times which I have not been able to do for several months. I do like warmer weather and am very ready for spring to come and stay. Have a wonderful day and thanks for checking out my card.
I created diagonal patterned paper birthday cards. This will be entered in Seize the Birthday Anything Goes and Love Those Pretty Papers.
This card is made with Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen cardstock. The patterned paper is retired. I used Lawn Fawn Scripty Sayings set and stamped it in Evening Evergreen. The gems match the paper.
I used the same layout. This one is in Magenta Madness, Ohuhu Black, and retired patterned paper. The greeting is Lawn Fawn’s Scripty Sayings stamped in Gina K Designs Black Onyx ink. The gems were ones that seemed to match.
I created this from the Featured Stamper today at Splitcoast Stampers. I basically changed the greeting and paper colors. The layout remained the same.
https://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2025/02/reminder-299-add-heart.html
https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/02/love-those-pretty-papers-february-2025.html
Today has been a beautiful day outside. We have reached 57 degrees! The snow is melting and it is looking like spring. It is still too early for spring, but the feeling is there.
Stamp Buddies 