April 2025 Cards

The following cards were created during April 2025

Lily Missing You

My son, Danny sent me a surprise treat in the mail.  A stamp set with matching dies.  I thought it only fitting to make him the first card from the, set.  

I colored in the lily's and used the Missing You sentiment from the stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. Blessings and inky hugs; ~§hawnie

Get Well Soon in Midnight Muse and Pool Party

Greetings Friends!

I'm sharing a Get Well Soon card with you all this evening.  The colors I've chose for the flower and the sentiment are Midnight Muse and Pool Party.  The flower is from Field Flowers by Stampin' Up! and the sentiment is from Ranger Arts.  

I fussy cut both the flower and the center of the flower and popped them both up with Dimensionals.  

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. 

 Blessings and inky hugs; ~§hawnie

Hello Friend in Sweetbrier Rose

Greetings!

Just finished another card.  I used a new Art Deco Sizzix Textured Impressions 3D Embossing Folder by Kath Breen, Sweetbriar Rose by Stampin' Up!, Ornate Layers Cut & Emboss dies from Stampin' Up!, the sentiment I used Bunch of Banners Framelits Dies from Stampin' Up!, heat embossed the image with Rose Quartz embossing powder from Stampendous!, and watercolored the image with Stampin' Up! classic ink pads using my watercolor water pen from Stampin' Up!  And then I finished it off with some gems from Stampin' Up! The sentiment Hello Friend, is from my stash, I think from Ranger Arts.

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. 

 Blessings and inky hugs; 

 ~§hawnie

Masculine Thankful for You

Greetings!  

I thought I'd put together a masculine card today. I ordered the stamp & die set originally for my husband, but it actually suits many friends and family members. 

Thanks for stopping by. Blessings and inky hugs. 

-§hawnie 

Happy Birthday Elephant

Good morning!

Late last night I put together a Birthday card with a cute little elephant as the focal point.  I love cartoon elephants and especially hippos.  I don't have any hippo's yet, but i do have elephants.  So elephants it's going to be.

The matt underneath the elephant was embossed with a 3D embossing folder.  I added a butterfly and a flower from the elephant set, slapped on a Happy Birthday sentiment, added some Dimensionals, and called it good.

I used a care sketch from page 22 of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog.

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. Blessings and inky hugs; 

 ~§hawnie

Fun and simple Front Step Pop- Up Design

Greetings! 

Here is a CASE (Copy And Share Everything) that was done by a creative stamper, Lynn Dunn at Stamptastic Designs After seeing Lynn's take on the Front Step Pop Up card, I just couldn't wait to get started on my own version:.  

Lynn's example is here:  Click on her picture for the instructions and video for creating this card.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie

Get Well Soon in Poppy Parade and Soft Suede

More later

It's "Snot" Fun Being Sick Get Well Soon Card

Good morning!!!

I love the cute play on words this stamp set made.  I used Dazzling Diamonds on the raindrops and the water puddle.  I had another opportunity to use my Fun Flock, but still only white this time.  I need to just be patient and will look for opportunities to use my other 11 colors.  lol

Anyway, I found another generous person who will be contributing her handmade greetings cards to Creative Kindness, so this is awesome.  We could use as many cards as we can find because there are people out there that sure could use them!

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. 

 Blessings and inky hugs; ~§hawnie

Get Well Soon in Paisley

Greetings!  

I decided I needed to add some Get Well Soon cards to my collection.  I love paisley's and haven't done any in a while, so that's what i did.

Stamp set used for the sentiment: Delightful Dozen.

Die's used:  Paisley dies by Spellbinders

Embossing folder used:  Paisley by Perovo Craft / Cuttlebug

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. 

 Blessings and inky hugs; 

 ~§hawnie

Gate - Fold Thank You Card w/ envelope

Greetings! 

I decided to shake it up a little bit this time,  so i made a gate - fold card with a matching envelope. I don't think it turned out too bad. 

And here is the inside of the card: (notice the silver do-dad in the top middle of the card?   I used. A foil rub-on from Crafter's Companion and finished it with a Thank You sentiment Edgables die. 

And on the front of the card: 

I added a couple different Butterflies and some sequins.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Blessings and Inky hugs; 

-§hawnie 

Hello

Greetings! 

I love brown and pink together,  I always have. 

I used this full flower background and cut it out with my Sizzix Big Shot Switch Plus in pink and then matted with SU's Chocolate Chip cardstock. 

I cut out a shape from SU'S Apothecary Accents Framelits and then embossed it with SU'S Polkadot Embossing folder,  and then adorned with the hello sentiment,  SU's flower punchouts w/ paper punch and SU's halfback pearls. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Blessings & Inky Hugs; 

-§hawnie 

Distressed Embossing

Greetings!

I was looking online for an interesting technique that I haven't done in a while and decided to settle on the Distressed Embossing technique that I found and now that my cards have been completed, I cannot find the website any more.  (I hate it when that happens) Rest assured, though when I come across the site again, I'll update it here so the original author can get the recognition she deserves.

For the time being, here are the 3 variations I did.

After embossing a piece of Stampin' Up! Designer Paper with a chosen embossing folder, with a sanding block I began to lightly rub the sanding block along the raised-up images, which sanded off any color that was once on the Designer paper and left the core of the cardstock, which was white.  

Please forgive the lack of colors to show through...  the background on the first card was teal, the second card is a dark denim background, and the third one is a graple kind of purple color with the cardstock of Wisteria Wonder.  For some reason none of these colors shown through.

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. 

 Blessings and inky hugs; 

 ~§hawnie

Masculine Birthday

Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by and please remember to share your comments. 

 Blessings and inky hugs; 

 ~§hawnie

Wonderful Butterflies

Greetings! 

A simple card I created using a card sketch from Stampin Pretty. Sketch #39 got my attention this time.

The butterfly is embossed with Tourmaline Pearl embossing powder from Recollections,  halfback bling gems,  and a double bow. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & inky hugs;

-§hawnie 

Loving Wishes - Christmas Card

   This project is a card on a card. Thought i would try something different.  It feels weird making a Christmas card in March, but they've got to be made sometime. At least maybe I'll have my stash built up by the time the Holidays roll around and I won't have to be in such a hurry. (It's a good thought, anyway.)

 

And here is the opened version...

Thanks for stopping by...

Blessings & inky hugs;

~§hawnie 

   

A Little Birdie Told Me - Happy Birthday

This is my first attempt at a pop- up card. I don't think it looks too bad. I did some heat embossing on this card as well. I embossed Trish's name on the banner across the front of the card and the bows at each end. 

When you open the card the sentiment Happy Birthday jumps out at you. It's different,  but in a cool way. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Blessings and inky hugs; 

-§hawnie

Fanciful Sympathy for our Pastor in Flourishing Phrases

We just found out that our Pastor has been diagnosed with Cancer and is at stage 4 in his illness, so I thought I would make him a card to show or love and support. We have a lot of Cancer patients in our congregation and he has been so good to the families,  breaking away to tend to them at a moments notice and leading us to the promise land when it is our turn to join the Lord. 

Little did we know that while he was giving himself unselfishly that he,  too will be walking the familiar path of so many others before him. 

This card was really difficult to photograph because it's not a normal run of the mill card. It has like a book spine. I was trying to capture the black shiny embossed sentiment,  the silver accent in the ribbon,  and the bling gems on the front of the card. 

The next challenge was holding the card just right so you can see the special folds of the card AND the greeting. Anyway,  hope I didn't miss anything...

Thanks for stopping by...

Greetings and inky hugs; 

-§hawnie 

Floral Hello

Greetings!   Today is such a beautiful day!   The sun is shining,  the snow is melting,  and the bullies are happy to sun themselves. 

For this card I rounded up a bunch of generic flower stamps with matching dies. Finished with a bow and some half-back pearls in the corner. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Greetings and inky hugs; 

-§hawnie 

Thanks - Secret Garden

Here's a quick card I threw together with the matching Secret Garden stamp and die set. Because I adorned the center of the flowers with SU's Dazzling Diamonds I won't be able to send this card in the bundle that goes over seas for our soldiers. They cannot accept anything that has glitter because the reflection is like a beacon when using night scopes and we don't want our soldiers to be put in a vulnerable position where they could be spotted in the field by an enemy. Even if they are not handling the card it in the field,  the glitter sticks to everything and can be on their face or hands. Anywhere, it's better to just err on the side of caution and not use glitter. 

Thank You in Tempting Turquoise

I had to hold the card and tilt it in the light to get just the right reflection off the bronze embossing I did on the flowers.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Blessings and inky hugs;

-§hawnie 

First Frost - Best Wishes

I used the matching items from the Frosted Flotal Suite. This includes the clear stamp set, matching framelits dies, and Frosted Floral DSP (designer paper).

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings and inky hugs;

-§hawnie 

Perfect & Hip Hooray

My grandson Keegan was bored today when he joined me in my craft area and declared he wanted to make a card. We'll,  I slowed down and explained each step as I was going so he could follow along. 

He chose the Pun Fun stamp set from Stampin' Up!  He used the cat and I jumped for the Hippo. He wanted to decorate with a lot of buttons so I dig out my buttons embossing and gave him many buttons in tempting turquoise and Pacific Point. 

And here is our final product! 

Thanks for stopping by; 

Blessings and inky hugs 

-§hawnie and Keegan

Not so Seriously- Best Friend Birthday

I wanted to make a lighthearted Birthday card for my best friend, Tab. On the front of the card it reads:  "I got something fabulous for your Birthday!!!"

Open the card and it says: "And I'm thoroughly enjoying it!"

I'm sure she'll appreciate the humor in that. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Blessings and inky hugs;

-  §hawnie 

Thanks in Butterflies

Thanks in Butterflies. I am so excited and I can't sleep. My long awaited Big Shot Switch Plus (the beautiful sorbet color in light orangish and pink) should be delivered tomorrow. 

Since my wrists and hands have considerably gone down hill an electric version of my Big Shot is going to be the perfect alternative. And since I can use all the cutting pads from my original Big Shot, that's going to be a plus! 

Until later, here's a card in sharing...

Blessings and inky hugs

-§hawnie

Balloon Boquet

This Thank You card has many different aspects to it: embossed lines as the base panel,  half back pearls on the sentiment and base panels, a ribbon tied in a bow to adorn the balloon ties, and buttons to complete the balloons.  I think that's it. 

Until later; 

Blessings and Inky Hugs

~§hawnie 

Especially for you - in Bubbles

I made this card for the girl at my bank. She went above and beyond in helping me with a fraud issue. 

I really appreciated all of her help! 

On the inside I wrote a message on a postie note so she can pay it forward to someone else if she wants. 

Blessings & inky hugs,

~§hawnie 

Snowflakes Thank You

This Thank You card is one of many that will be given to the nurses in the Infusion ward at St. Al's. They were so good to Bill and I when he went in for chemo.  I wanted to show them our appreciation. 

Even though it's long after December /  Christmas, we had a freak snowstorm. I was inspired to play with some snowflakes inside while the snow fell outside.

Until later...

Blessings and Inky Hugs; 

~§hawnie 

Get Well Soon

Bill has been feeling under the weather, so i made him a card hoping to boost his mood and help him feel better.

He is stage 4 Colon cancer. His current Oncologist told us we are at the end of the road,  that there is no more hope of trying any chemo therapies,  so we're not giving up,  we're going to a well respected Oncologist with St. Luke's this time. We'll see what develops. 

Blessings and inky hugs; 

~§hawnie

Best Friends Listen to what You Don't Say

After years and years away from scraping, I decided I needed to get back to doing what makes me happy and crafting is one of those things. 

I look forward to hearing your feedback! 

Blessings and inky hugs; 

~§hawnie