Hello Stamplings!
I hope you are feeling your oats, cheerios, or bran flakes, because as you can tell from the title, we have busy days ahead of us this week! You might think Happy Pencil Day is a joke because of April Fool's Day, but it snot. It's truly a day to celebrate the pencil. Which we know, sadly, is becoming obsolete.
I've made a card for the occasion and for S = Stencil on the I.D.E.A.S. Calendar on this rare fifth Monday of the month.
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I used a NBUS stripe stencil from Honey Bee Stamps for the notepaper background, inked in navy blue ink. Next, I sponged ink around the edges to draw your eyes to the hocus pocus sweet child in the center holding her mysteriously humongous pencil.
The image is "tiny townie Penelope has a pencil" from Stampingbella. That sentence is a Double Alliterative, in case you wondered. I would have gone for a Triple by adding ... "poised pointedly."
I colored the image using my Ziggies and Hammy topped it off with his winker. I cut the image using a stitched oval die from MFT. The text panel is from my pp stash and the wee sediment is part of the stamp set. (Please ignore the splotch in the lower right. Sometimes hamsters have to sneeze.)
Playing in: AAA Colourful (Navy and Gold); Addicted to CAS (Stripes); Freshly Made Sketches (Sketch by Amy).
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I used a new set of ink pads which I received from The Mister yesterday for no specific reason. What a sweetie!♥️The image is dynamic and, as you can see, very emotionally evocative. I colored it with ... wait. What?! Oh, that man! He got me with an April Fool's Day prank ~ clearly the ink pads were filled with invisible ink!!
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This pretty NBUS stencil from Pinkfresh Studio is inked over its partner NBUS coverplate die called, "Petal Mosaic." The three inks I used are from Catherine Pooler and the sediment is an ancient PTI favorite. Bun E. Frogman came out for his annual hello to you!
Playing in: Just Us Girls (Stencil Week); Try it on Tuesday (Spring); and Pinkfresh Studio (March 2026 Challenge).
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Enjoy your week! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*
As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower!
Happy Easter, Happy Passover, and Happy Spring to all! Enjoy this time with your family if you are fortunate to be together!
Happy Easter, Happy Passover, and Happy Spring to all! Enjoy this time with your family if you are fortunate to be together!
Mwah!
*Life is too short!
38 comments:
As ever your post made me smile on a rather grey and blustery day. Fab cards, love the Stampingbella image and the colours of the last are so pretty, as to the middle one, well what can I say! :)
Two stunning cards, Darnell. And one that sucked me in lol xoxo
Happy Holiday week, my friend! Love your pointedly penciled triple alliterative first card, Your silly second card and your pretty third card. A triple threat of delight! Hope you have a marvelous week!
A perfect nod to the pencil! Happy April's Fool's day which is also my granddaughter's 9th birthday:)
Great cards !!!
Love the Easter card !!!!!
Great colors !
Love that giant pencil card it’s so cute. Gorgeous Stenciling on the second card also. Thanks for joining in at a TCAS and also JUGS
Love that irst one; all around her fots so good! And love the fresh colors on the last! Hugs, Gerrina
So you know it's not April Fools till Wed right, sis??!! So this is an early April Fools trick!?! I had to look at my calendar to be sure I didn't lose two days???!!! which was very possible. Love your Double alliterative (thank you for the lesson, I've forgotten a lot of those parts of speech things we learned so long ago! ) Beautiful coloring on the pencil girl and such a fun design! Love that die cut stenciling in your lovely spring colors and cute hammy inside the cracked egg!! Happy Easter!
Well you are right, it does seem to be Happy lots of things this week and I'm doubly happy because tour entire post just made me smile. Love your cards, especially the one done with your gifted ink pads 🤣🤣 what a hoot. Happy all of those things (and more) to you 😊
An Austrian army awfully arrayed. Talk about alliteration! I don't know why I always remember the first part of that poem. But I digress. Your little Penelope is darling, Darnell, and the notepaper is perfect for celebrating Pencil Day. You had me with the ink, although I do think you have the beginning of a wonderful card there. ; ) The colors of your third card are just what I think of for Easter and Spring.
I got so caught up in all your wonderful cards that I forgot to thank you for sharing the Easter one with us at Just Us Girls. So glad you joined us.
Love your Easter card and the laugh at invisible ink. BTW I love mechanical pencils and use them all the time. Hugs to you and Kevin.
Beautiful cards, Darnell! I really love your coloring on the pencil one, and the stenciled one is just so lovely!
Two beautiful makes, D! I just love those Townies and Penelope is just too precious with her oversized no.2 pencil!
Happy everything!
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Fantastic post and cards! Happy, Happy .... everything!
I love your two card! Your coloring is gorgeous on the pencil card, and the lined paper is perfect with the image. Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!
Fantastically fresh and festive cards.
Such a fun post, I liked hubbies April fools! Your stenciled card is darling, nice coloring and framing of your image, Your next card is stunning with the pastel background and like your frog too!
The girl with the big pencil is so adorable. I love your colouring and the note paper in-behind. And your stenciling Happy
Easter card is so pretty with the beautiful combination of Easter colours. Mister tried to surprise you by playing the April Fool a few days early! :) xx
Penelope has a pencil...!!! Oh, I might have to go shopping! What a CUTE card, Darnell. Love your Easter card for JUGs too. Thanks so much for playing along this week!
Wonderful cards! Including the Invisible InK.
Well you fooled me - I sat staring at the second card for ages waiting for the image to appear, thinking my computer was being very very slow to open the image, and why wouldn't it hurry up when it had managed to open the first and third images just fine? And then my little pea brain noticed the last line of the paragraph below it. Adorable child with her giant pencil and striped background on the first, and lovely soft spring colours for Easter on the third.
Ahhhh, stenciling - my favorite crafty technique when making cards. In fact, I have some new stencil sets that I absolutely have to try...immediately. Your beautiful cards have inspired me!
She's adorable. Do you know I still use a pencil at work so not obsolete as far as I'm concerned, athough I do know I'm in the minority!
Have a wonderful Easter - chocie treats have become so pricey here the (adult) kiddos are going to be pared back this year. They want petrol vouchers instead!
So glad I saw your blog post Darnell - I have been very 'slack' about visiting blogs this year... maybe with winter coming on I will make more time to spend on the computer... and also with my trip cancelled, April will be somewhat slower.
Loving your cards - especially your twofer!! Glad to hear The Mister is up to playing pranks again. I trust he is well on the way to full recovery now after kissing the road...
Give Hammy and Stanley an extra treat from me for all their hard work
Love and blessings
Maxine
Hamster snot indeed! You always make me laugh, and you always inspire me with your lovely creations, (even the middle one….soooo funny), Happy Everyday! Xxx
Happy Easter Darnell lots of happies and so welcoming too, your cards are amazing the pencil card is gorgeous with an adorable image and layout, lovely Easter card and your hubster is a gem sending lots of hugs x
Well it's the perfect card for the occasion and it looks fab. Lovely peaceful Easter card too.
Such a sweet little girl with a BIG pencil. The stenciled note paper background broken by the scripty paper is the perfect place for this petite pencil holder! God Bless you Hammy! What a great idea to have a stencil paired with a coverplate! Love the pastel spring colors!
You've created wonderful cards with stencils. I like stripes stencil and hamsters sneezing is the cherry on the cake. :-) Is just as it has to be. Easter card is so nice with soft colors. Great stencil.
I'm enjoyng the time with my sweet Aida. She is a heroe. The long flight around the world she managed with no problems. Children are stronger as we think. :-)
Have a nice day.
Hugs, Sonja
I love using pencils, so it was great to learn about Pencil Day from you. I think the pencil card is very cute.
Sweet girl with pencil image and you've colored her beautifully, Darnell! Ah that Mister - such a prankster & you fell for it! Love the stenciled coverplate too!!
Darnell, I just love your play with words, always and just an added bit of fun with your invisible inks... well done... fabulous cards - love the girl with the pencil, hugs Robyn, enjoy your Easter
Your first card is adorable and your watercoloring always wows me. Oh, and I love a good alliteration. You got me with the second card's invisible ink. Sheesh. How pretty to have the stencil that works with the die! Very pretty Eastery colors! Looking at your Easter frog... I realize I've seen him a few times, but this time he reminded me that I have a collection of what appears to be the same frog, but mine are for Thanksgiving. I'd forgotten about them. Just now pulled them out to look and they're so danged cute! I'll try to remember them for this year.
I'm absolutely in LOVE with that tiny girl and her pencils--and your coloring is perfection! I am totally a pencil girl--need to erase too often to use a pen--except when writing notes to folks, of course. I see that The Mr. has the same sense of humor you do--makes for a happy couple, for sure. The pastels on your Easter card are so soft and pretty! Have a great week and a Happy Easter!
LOL! for your blog. But seriously that girl with the pencil is adorable. And how appropriate to put her on a lined paper. The Easter one is pretty with all its spring colors.
Gorgeous cards. Happy Easter 🐰 🐣 from Montreal, Canada ❤️ 😊 🇨🇦
How cute is that little lady with her giant pencil! Thanks for playing at AAA Colourful, hope to see you join in with future challenges too. Stay safe and keep crafting!
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