April 20th Weekly Post

 Happy Easter Monday to you!

I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Yes, I'm a day late. 

We had bad weather yesterday (and today), and our internet went out, just as I was finishing my SPA art.

It just came back on, so I am hoping to get this posted in case it goes out again.

Michele is hosting this week at Sunday Postcard Art and she wants us to Add A Hat.

I want to apologize to Dr. Suess right up front, lol.

My background was created on my 4X6 card by pressing a few small square ink cubes onto it, which weren't giving me an opaque enough impression. So, I looked in my stamps and found a Leave Memories silhouette square stamp, and I used that with several different dye inks to fill the space with color. Next, I stamped 3 of Tim's Snarky Cats, colored them with Promarkers and fussy cut them to add to the card. I got out my Lawn Fawn hat stamps and dies and chose 3, coloring them with Promarkers and adding to the cats' heads. I stamped the bottom Snarky Cat sentiment and created the top title with stickers from my stash. Then I ran a black marker all around the card edge to finish.

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I wasn't that enthused this year to make multiple Easter cards, due to so much going on.

But I did make my 95 y.o. Mother-in-law this card.

Awhile ago she had sent me a card with the prettiest envelope and I kept it.

I've used that envelope as my base paper on this card, cutting it down with a Carnations Crafts die and edging the cut lines with some gold border scrap from my stash.

I cut the Amazon cross die and Lawn Fawn sentiment die out of gold mirror card. I cut the cross again out white card and colored the robe inset purple with a marker. I placed the cross on some white card cut with a Carnation Craft oval die. All is adhered onto gold mirror card and a white card base. I thought it turned out beautifully and so did she.

 

And here's the sketch I used, stretched to a landscape format.

The second I saw the sketch, I knew it was perfect for what I had in mind.

LOVE when that happens!

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Last Monday was Honey's birthday and I made him this card.

I've had Spellbinders' Sunday Drive dies for a while, but all of those teeny tiny pieces scared me into not using. Well, I needed something he had not seen before so I bit the bullet.

It really wasn't that bad after all. In fact, the hardest part of this card front was getting the threads holding the balloons to look just right and tying them to the card windshield.

I used stash scraps for everything on the card front. I stenciled the dotted highway line using a Dylusions stencil and white paint and carefully freehanded a glitter gel pen border on the green base layer. The 2 hearts were punched.

It's a nice looking convertible and Honey loved it.

And the sketch I used. 

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Today is my friend Carol's birthday and this is the card I made and mailed her.

I used a dark purple SU card base and cut a base layer out of white card using a Carnations Crafts die. I colored the edges of it with a gold glitter gel pen. On the white card layer, I used Versamark to stamp the Spellbinders balloons twice, then heat embossed with gold powder. I colored them with Promarkers. I stamped the Avery Elle balloon animal and sentiments with Fantasia Versafine ink. I cut the balloon animal with the corresponding die and I cut the sentiments with an SU label punch. I also cut a Lawn Fawn die sentiment from the card base's leftovers and adhered to the bottom of the card.

And the sketch I used.

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Well, that's all I have this time.

I thank you for visiting and hope you have a great week.

We've got rain in the forecast most of the week, so I'll have my hands full trying to remain upbeat. Honey goes stir crazy and gets in such a bad mood when it rains for days, not that I blame him. I get the melancholies myself.