Spring into April

The Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for April is "April showers bring May flowers". Since this went along with the photo inspiration, Spring,
challenge from Paper Smooches, I am combining the two this month.

I created the background using stamps from Botanicals 2 and heat embossed them in white. Then, I blended the background with Gina K inks. The panel was wrapped with black twine and the silhouettes were added from the Silhouette Flowers Wise Dies set. The sentiment comes from Delightful Greetings and was heat embossed in white also and popped (as was the bow and a few of the flower tops). The panel was backed with black and attached to a piece of Gina K paper.

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Cat Mail from Stitchy Bear

The optional twist over at Twisted Thursday, The Outlawz, is to use our favorite card shape. I love so many different card shapes and love to try new ones. That being said, I think my "go to" is an easel card. I used this sweet silhouette called Cat Mail from our sponsor, Stitchy Bear. The floral background is cut from a SVG file from Sherri Baldy. The image and sentiment are edged with Black Soot Distress Ink and both are popped up with foam for dimension.

Easel Opened

Card Closed

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Spooky Owl Shaker Card

For the last twist of the month, Twisted Thursday at The Outlawz is an anything goes. Our sponsor this month has been Stitchy Bear, and I found this wonderful spooky owl silhouette digital stamp that just begged to be turned into a shaker card. I only used three Copics to color this one, Y11,Y13, and Y15. I added a few yellow sequins and some gold and clear fine glitter. The sentiment is from Recollections which I heat embossed with black embossing powder from Ranger.  I also added some gold button brads.

Happy Father's Day from Stitchy Bear Stamps

Twisted Thursday, from The Outlawz, has an added twist of  Father's Day and/or Nature. I chose this sweet silhouette from Stitchy Bear Stamps. I added some black and white ribbon, popped up some embellishments, and added a button to complete the card.

Dance in the Rain

The twist for Twisted Thursday at The Outlawz this week is "music". I have just gotten some vellum and really needed to play, so I used a silhouette, A Touch of Class, from Simon Says Stamps and printed it on the vellum. I added it to music paper from DCWV Tattered Time mat stack on black cardstock taped to a kraft paper card.The quote was put through my Xyron to attach to black.