Happy Easter!

Here are the three Easter cards that I made for my grands and my great-granddaughter. I know the funny bunny on a box went to my grandson, but of the other two, I am not sure which went to my college age granddaughter and which to the little one. 

I think this one went off to PA where my grand is finishing up college. I've put away all the images here except the bunny that is a older die from Cherry Lynn Designs. The eggs are retired dies from Stampin' Up. 

Next up, here I used a SU brick embossing folder for the gray backround on a white cardbase. This adorable bunny who was supposed to be sitting on the box, but was too tall. He is from Stampingbella. I saw him for sale a few places online.

Last by not least, is the card that with the same bunny as before

cut in pink cardstock and surrounded by eggs from Clearly Besotted. More eggs and greetings are under the flaps. I know I colored them with SU Blends which are becoming a favorite coloring medium for me. 

We are having a wonderful Spring here and I hope it is nice wherever you are. 🌷🌷

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A Floral Birthday Card

 Hello Again!

Today I am showing a card casing one by Vicki at Heartwarmers From Vicki. It is my one of my first ventures into fun folds in years! Thank you Vicki for sharing your how-to.

The DSP used here is SU Wildflower part of a 6 x 6 product share I bought from demo Heidi Collins. She included this wonderful die cut flower arrangement, so making this card was pretty easy. Many thanks Heidi.

I used Basic Gray cardstock for the card base and some white inside where I stamped my greeting. This Happy Birthday stamp is from a long retired SU set called Vertical Greetings. I'll never get rid of the set, though have not used it in ages.

A fun card to make and I hope you like it. My adult granddaughter's birthday is soon, so she'll get the card.

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A chilly Spring day here in Minnesota, but beutifiully sunny. That makes me happy. You too?

Fun Stripes

 Howdy~

Below is my card for the March Card Chain Challenge. It is wending its way to Austria. I used the following options:

Theme Options: Stripes / Africa / Friendship

Color Palatte Option:

As you can see, I didn't crop this photo very well. Sometimes I forget how to do that. lol  Also, to my eyes, the photo looks almost dark brown and white stripes, but trust me, it is black and white. I used SU cling set called Layered Stripes with Versafine Onyx black ink. 

On top is a flower die by Simon Says Stamp that came with the Alstroermeria Bunch e f and die set. I cut the flower from water color paper so it is a bit textured. The card base is PTI, my go to white cardstock. 

The little sentiment is from the Waffle Flower Postage Collage that I believe was a gift but I don't recall who sent it. Thank you friend who sent it! I colored it with a pink marker before attaching it here.

What do you think? I like the card.

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Super Fantastic

 Greetings!

A quick card today as my great granddaughter and daughter are coming over. Yay!

Yay also for the wonderful ride I had on the London Eye on my trip recently. A highlight of the trip for sure. I bought this wooden stamp from Penny Black as soon as I saw it was available. I am entering this to the Woodblock Wendesday challenge. 

I stamped it on a piece from a recent SU set called Everyday Skies. I colored in the bottom of the pods where people sit or look out the window. The sentiment comes form SU Charming Sentiments which I did surgery on to lob off the bottom part. I mounted this focal point in black c.s. then onto a white base that was embossed, but have forgotten which one. Sorry.

The day we went was cloudy and rainy at sunset when we went, but it was really super fantastic fun. Also fun was that it was lit up pink! Alas, I could not figure out to make my rendition pink. Imagine it. OK?

Bye for now. It is rainy and cloudy this weekend here in the Twin Cities. 

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Happy Almost Spring

Hello Spring:

I made a card for The Paper PLayers Color Challenge: PP728 a challenge I have not entered in a very long time. I love the colors Jaydee has chosen and knew I had markers and blends that would match well. I like this card. Do you?

I left off a sentiment not knowing to whom or when I might send the card. Besides, there is not much room for one 😄

Here is my Springy card:

I found within one of my tulips die envelopes a white die cut all ready for coloring. This die is from Taylored Expressions.  I colored it using SU Blends and Tombow ABT markers. I do not believe I had ever used the markers before so will add this to NBUS #72.

I think I used all of colors Jaydee suggested, then pasted the pretty die cut onto white rectangles cut with SU retired Rectangles Stiched Framelits Dies. 

Next I looked and found a piece of cardstock from the current SU dsp called Everyday Skies that matched the pink tulip pretty well. 

Then to finish I glued this whole topper onto a card base of SU grey called Smokey Slate. I wanted the flowers to be the star.

All done, suprisingly I've made several cards this month and here I thought I was in a slump. lol

Happy Spring. There are good signs here that it is coming, but snow in March happens often. I have loved the warmer days.🌷

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Pink Flowers and Circles

 Almost Spring Greetings!

I haven't entered The FLower Challenge in ages, but made one this time to honor their big 100 challenges festival.

The Flower Challenge: #100  is a special challenge. Right? I had this embossing folder with circles laying out to use for the first time, so am adding the card to NBUS #72.

                        

Here are some details. I used Stampin' Up! fairly new folder called Dotted Circles. I inked up the folder with Hero Hues Unicorn white pigment ink and placed a piece of SSS Midnight Green paper inside before embossing. Next I went to work to find a nice flower from my stash. This one is retired SU Stippled Blossoms and I found out that I don't have the dies. Therefore the flowers and leaves are fussy cut out! Not my favorite thing to do. Do you like to do it?

Anyway, I love pink, so used WendyVecchi Pink Peony with touches of Granny Apple Green and Handsome Hunter ink.

 To finish I added a sentiment from Newton's Nook Designs called Orchids. The set is still available. To anchor the sentiment, I fussy cut some green c.s. to mount it on.

That is it for now. We got several inches of snow last night and today, but I know Spring is coming before too long. Yay!

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