Spring-a-ding-ding!

Hello Stamplings!

I've got a lot of spring art on the blog today, thinking especially of those of you dealing with this year's second winter dervishing its way from Colorado through the Great Lakes and eastward. Since you can't see anything but blowing snow outside your window, I'm glad you stopped in here to take your mind off it. And I'm glad to see you have your beverage!

Onefer

That beautiful pink paper has a lovely sheen and the MFT frame is cut from glossy paper. The white-embossed egg is from an out-of-business company, and the white-embossed sediment and vellum butterfly are both from Happy Little Stampers.

Who's that, you ask? Hammy has his friend Fitzwilliam visiting and he kindly let Fitz be in the card shots today. They met online. We are taking care of Fitz while he has some corrective eye surgery at a well-known clinic here in the Bay Area. I know, right? You'd think the surgery would be for those rather large ears, unusual for a frog, but we don't embarrass him by mentioning it.

Here's a closeup of the pretty sheenification:

Challenges

• Country View Challenges: Easter and/or spring.
• Inkspirational: Pop it up.
• Rainbow Card Challenge: Perfectly pink.

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I made quite a few cards with this design, using different papers and colors, but they were too similar to post them all. The only ones a bit different were these two:

Challenges

• The Color Throwdown Challenge.
• Fusion Card Challenge: Play with the photo ~ Easter eggs.
• Moving Along With the Times: That spring feeling.

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Twofer

Next up is a QACAS card made with a NBUS Freida Curve die from Memory Box, attached to some pretty pp. The sediment is from the Essentials Greetings set from Simon Says. I made several and you know how frogs are, once you take one photo, they want more taken:

After I took the above photo, I overheard Fitz telling Hammy that he thought the fronts of the cards were a bit meh. I had to agree with him once I got down to his level and looked at them. So I added more interest with some polka-dotty spring wellies:

Challenges

• Cardz 4 Galz: Pretty papers. (I used two.)
• CAS on Friday #155: Spring.
• Memory Box Challenge #48: Clean and simple.

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Threefer

Another CAS design, this time for a spring birthday card using Altenew's Beautiful Heart stamp set. For this card I followed the brief laid out by host Susan at the CAS Mix Up Challenge. We are to use the technique of "layered stamping with  heat embossing." I heat-embossed the flower using SU melon mambo and Ranger white e/ps, and for the leaves I used WOW olive and Ranger white e/ps. Another new technique to me and I have to say, it really does add a lot vibrancy to your images!

I added some additional shades of pink to the flower with my Ziggies and popped it and the leaves on a leafy embossed background. Can you see the sediment? In order to keep all eyes on the flower, I simply stamped it with Versamark and white heat-embossed it for shine.

Challenges

• Altenew April Inspiration Challenge: See photo below.
• The Card Concept: See photo below. I was inspired by the pink flowers for my clean and simple card style.
• CAS Mix Up Challenge: Layered stamping with heat embossing, stamping, die-cutting, and dry embossing.

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