March 2025 Card Chain Reveal

Hey there - I'm sharing the card I sent for the March 2025 Card Chain; twenty-four people played & you can see the full reveal HERE!

Supplies: Paper - Recollections grey A2 card;

Neenah white; BoBunny patterns;

Recollections black glitter

Die - Divinity Designs Stitched Sunburst;

Trinity Stamps - Simply Sentimental Friend;

Hero Arts Window on Love Confetti

Other - Tim Holtz Ideology Sentiment Label Stickers

We had the following possibilities when creating our cards:

Color Palette Option

Sketch Option

Theme Options: Stripes / Africa / Friendship

Product / Technique Options:  Felt / Layers

I used the color palette - black, white & grey. Grey is a neutral but it was a prominent part of the papers I was combining so went with it. I used a quilt die that reproduced the sketch pretty nicely. And, of course, I used the theme of friendship.

First I die cut the sunray quilt four times, glued the glittery black frame to a white cardstock panel just a bit bigger & inlaid the patterned pieces. Adhered to an A2 grey card. Note: If you wanted a less fussy sunray quilt pattern, check out the one Frantic Stamper carries HERE. It has only 8 ray sections & doesn't include the tiny bits on the edges (lower left and right of the sun section). I often lose those bits if I don't inlay them right away!

The delicate "friend" die cut I used for the sentiment actually says "friendship" but I trimmed away the "ship" from the word & outline. I die cut the outline from a deconstructed envelope from the grey card/envelope set. I prefer to use white envelopes for mailing so I often repurpose any colored envelopes in this way. The "hello" is a TH label sticker. To finish the card, I added a little heart die cut from the stash. The Hero Arts coverplate cuts a bunch of them which comes in handy for a quick embellishment. 

I received this fabulous card from the very talented Julia (Create with Me) in MA. Such a beauty with the string wreath, pretty flowers & striped paper behind!! And coincidentally, she also used a TH sentiment sticker - love that! She also sent me some overlays from Kawaii Pen Store - fabulous; thanks, Julia!!

Want to play along? You only need to make and mail one card! Go HERE for details and to sign up by April 6th for the April exchange.

Thanks for stopping and have a crafty day!!

Stenciled Snowflakes!

Hi all - Happy April Fool's Day! Did anyone have tricks played on them? For me, right away, the game Wordle had an ancient country for the solution. I didn't get it! Oh well, on to cards!

This week, Darnell's IDEAS program (see her inspiration HERE) is doing S for Stenciling. Thought I'd have a go:

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio A2 card; Neenah Solar White

Stencil - Simon Says Stamp Snow Flurries 

Dies - My Favorite Things Blueprint 20 (retired)

Other - gifted die cut; printed sentiment strip;

Park Lane gems

I was doing some crafty clean-up and came upon the Simon Says Stamp 2023 Wintermas Wonder Box. Poor thing - still unopened! Pulled out the contents to find a little stencil, blending tool & silver ink among them. Perfect for this week's IDEAS, plus Just Us Girls has a stencil week too with Anything Goes Stencil Week #768. I'll also share at Darnell's April NBUS Challenge #73 since the stencil was newly used.

Simply stenciled the upper left and lower right corners of a Neenah panel, then die cut with a stitched rectangle. Added to an A2 card. I looked through my bits box and found a jumbo SEASON die cut gifted from a friend (sorry, can't remember which one but thanks again!) along with the "Tis The" flag. Also added a subsentiment strip so I could play along at Inkspirational #338 where you need two or more sentiments on your card. Some pink gems finished the card.

Here's a twofer with the same stencil, this time inspired by Darnell to stencil down the left edge:

Additional supplies:

Paper - Spellbinders A2 card; scrap of black;

Recollections grey A2 card cut in half

Stamps - SSS Winter Wonderland

Other - printed ephemera (sweater) free from SCT magazine;

various snowflakes from the bits box; Hero Arts gems

The sentiment came from another Wintermas stamp set. A lot of the box items are available for individual purchase now so I've linked to them where possible. After stenciling down the side, I die cut the panel with the same stitched MFT rectangle. Die cut the scalloped mat using another die from the same Blueprints set. This time I gave the white panel a narrow black mat before adhering to the scalloped one. Added the fussy cut ephemera with foam tape, plus a couple die cut snowflakes. Stamped the sentiment and gave the white snowflakes some gems - done.

That's it for today, friends! I'll be back tomorrow early with our March Card Chain reveal. Thanks for visiting!!