Happy Easter Sunday. I have many happy memories of Easter's growing up. Often it would rain, so my folks would send the 3 of us to the basement while they hid the eggs inside our house. Our church youth group always went to the community-wide sunrise service together. Then we met at one kid's house for Easter breakfast prepared and served by the parents before church. Such love I probably didn't really appreciate at the time. Today, I wake to an unhinged rant including an expletive by the US president. I can only pray that God opens the eyes of my fellow Christians. The character of our president does matter.
A friend recently sent me a card she made using multiple thin Washi tape strips. That inspired me to pull out my box of tapes I pretty much never use. I didn't find a variety like she used, but I did see 3 beautiful ones with gold foil. So I switched gears and made a card with my new SSS Nested Eggs.
I watched Jo Simons video a long time ago, thanks to someone referring to it in their blog post. Unfortunately, I can't remember who it was. Finally decided to make a card using her technique of embossing cardstock and vellum at the same time. It truly did work perfectly. Here's one of the cards I made using Altenew's Dreamy Daylilies folder with a satin vellum. Soon I'll show you what I did with the cardstock embossed in the same run through my machine.
I used the matching lily stencils and very lightly brushed on pink, green and yellow inks. I added Champagne Stickles to the ends of the stamens and used a PTI frame diecut. Altenew's Essential Sentiment strip was die cut from matte champagne and white cardstocks. Another Spring BD card ready to mail. I'm entering DCD and WAW.
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An elegant Easter card and with some precious memories, the second card is just beautiful in the soft pastel colours.
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Such a lovely Easter card and I'm so glad you entered the gorgeous Embossed Daylilies in our Die Cut Divas' challenge. They are just gorgeous. WOW.
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful cards Greta. Love that gorgeous washi for the eggs on your Easter Card. And I completely forgot that You Tube of Jo's. She really does great embossing ideas. Just love the soft colours on the vellum with this folder. Simply stunning.
ReplyDeleteGreta... love the gold for Easter! Fabulous card with so much texture... Hope your Easter was wonderful. Thanks for sharing with Just Us Girls!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous golden Easter egg, Greta, and I love your lily birthday card!! Thanks for sharing at Die Cut Divas!! Hope you had a Happy Easter too!!
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful cards Greta, such beautiful designs.
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Loving all the gold on your first card, Greta! Such a lovely card! And, your second one is just as beautiful! Very pretty soft color for the lilies!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards Greta. I don't turn on the news anymore.
ReplyDeleteYour first card looks so noble and your second card makes me speechless. How do you always manage that? It looks so beautiful and so delicate.
ReplyDeleteA duo of lovely cards, Greta. The foiled/sparkly Easter Egg is especially eye-catching; thank you for sharing it in the JUGS gallery.
ReplyDeleteWoofs from Lily to Fritz!
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Greta, the golden (washi tape) egg card is beautiful! The gold touches made it so pretty. I loke that embossing you put in there as well. Thank you for sharing this beauty with us at Just Us Girls!
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely cards, Greta! They are so very elegant, and I often don’t see that in Easter cards. Gorgeous work! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Word Art Wednesday. We appreciate your participation!
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