Cards to Share

This blog post has been a long time coming. I intended to get these cards posted in two separate posts early this week. My desktop computer, however, has been giving me problems for the last several weeks. Apps weren’t syncing the way they should, and one of the photo editing apps I use wasn’t working at all. Tracy is very good with computers, but even he has been baffled by the problems. Finally today, he cleared the whole computer and reinstalled everything.

Here are four of the Mother’s Day cards I made.  Two of them ended up in the mail. We had planned brunch here on Sunday, but on Tuesday evening Matt and two of the girls tested positive for Covid, and when we tested the next morning, I was also positive. With both vaccinations and both boosters, it tells you just how contagious the new variant is. I would have never tested for Covid as the symptoms seemed like a bad day for allergies. Tracy, Betsy, and Skylar all continue to test negative. So random, really. Ella was the sickest, and it was her symptoms that prompted the testing. Everyone is doing fine now. 

All four cards were created with Pinkfresh Studio’s Washi tape and die sets. The sunflowers were part of a fundraiser for Ukraine early in the war. All the proceeds were donated to those serving mothers and children uprooted by the fighting.

The oval die is Pinkfresh Studio’s “Braided Tag” and I embossed the sentiments from Papertrey Ink’s “Simple Stems” in gold. The Washi tape is also edged in gold. 

This card uses the same Washi tape, but I arranged the floral on a Pinkfresh Studio “Braided Circle.” The sentiment is from Pink and Main’s “Special Day.”

Finally, the gold edges of the Washi tape show up here in the close-up. It’s really beautiful in person.

I used the Pinkfresh “Into the Meadow” Washi tape for the next two cards.

I already had a die cut panel of the Pinkfresh “Floral Grid” coverplate and I trimmed it down and layered it on a white card base. After adhering the florals with dimensional tape, I added tiny pink gems to the centers of the florals. The sentiment from Pinkfresh’s “Always Uplifting” was stamped on one of the PFS “Basic Frames”

The next card turned out to be my favorite. I laid the white die cut “Geo Tiles” coverplate on the bright pink cardstock and immediately thought of an elaborate trestle. 

After arranging the florals, I die us a Reverse Confetti “Lacy Scalloped Circle” and stamped the sentiment from The Stamp Market’s “Fresh Cut” stamp set.

I’m entering this card in The Card Concept Challenge: How Does Your Garden Grow.