Easter Afternoon Cards

Today I stamped several die cuts creating a set of three cards 

and found a fun wood stamp suitable for CASology's challenge.

First the card set featuring a gorgeous Altenew zinnia!

PTI Scallop Stackers: Medium die 

Pierced Feature Frames die

Altenew Build-a-Flower: Flourishing Zinnia stamp/dies

Impress sentiment

PTI Mix & Mat: Plaid die

PTI Butterfly Blooms sentiment

Altenew Build-a-Flower: Flourishing Zinnia stamp/dies

Altenew Vintage Roses

PTI Scallop Stackers: Large die
PTI Wet Paint III sentiment
Altenew Build-a-Flower: Flourishing Zinnia stamp/dies

Linked to: SMS Challenge: Beautiful Blooms

And now for my "leaper"

House-Mouse Designs (1999) Giddyup (Friend)

PTI Bunny Basket sentiment

Linked to: CASology: Leap

                                

See you also at vikkispapertrailetc

Happy Birthday

I've had several stamped panels with Concord & 9ths' Tree Ring waiting to be transformed into cards. This week's CASology cue word is "Squiggle" and I was ready.

Stamps: Concord & 9th - Tree Ring; PTI - Stemmed Statements & Swoosh

 Die: PTI Stemmed Statements

Also linking this to SSS Wednesday Challenge: Use More than One Stamp
SSS Monday Challenge: Masculine

hakuna matata

How could I pass up this challenge from CASology
and Time Out?

Last June I purchased Hero Arts' MMH kit. We have friends who have spent many years in Malawi and other African nations doing relief work in health and education. We were headed to Kenya in July 2017 with a church group to construct a school and now I could recreate those African safari scenes with this kit! 

I photographed the card on top of a South African 
copper telephone wire basket.

Below is a photo of the campus where we constructed two buildings (dark brown roofs). The older campus buildings are at the bottom. Two more groups followed ours and completed the campus  of five buildings and a large restroom. My husband and another dentist ran a dental clinic treating over 100 patients in five days.

Big Day

I was amused to see the CASology challenge this week - "BUG".

 I had planned to use one of my insect rubber stamps but an older A Muse

  VW bug stamp with its load of presents popped up first. It was stamped in

 Momento Tuxedo Black, colored with Copics and grounded with a stamped

  road from PTI's City Scene. It will work for spring birthdays or graduations.

Sending Birthday Hugs & Wishes

On October 1 a dear friend turns 65. We first became friends in 1974. While we have not lived near each other in 41 years we can begin a conversation as if we saw each other daily. She has a collection of mice so when my new Christmas Critters set arrived I was ready to decorate her birthday card.

Card Menu: Papertrey Ink stamps, dies and olive twist card stock and a miscellaneous bit of patterned paper; Inks: Hero Arts Soft Purple and Grape Juice shadow, Brilliance Pearl Beige; a gold wink of stella heart.

After re-reading the CASology rules my card front may be a bit busy for a clean and simple look. I kept the layers to a minimum with the frame containing the big element of the "cute" mouse!

Linked to: CASology: Cute

Linked also to:   Seize the Birthday

Sending you sunshine

Nothing like sunflowers to cheer up one's day!

Card Menu:

Papertrey Ink Stamps/Die: Simple Sunflower

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles die

Hero Arts Shadow Inks - Butterbar, Cup of Joe, Lemon Yellow; PTI Soft Stone

Top-folding kraft A2 card 

                                           Linking this to: CAS(E) this Sketch #187

                                                                     CASology Week 213: Stitch

                                                                     Darnell's NBUS Challenge #7