The Flower Challenge Reminder: Use Spring Colours

 

Spring brings heavenly color to the world. And the  Flower Challenge  is

all about it!

The  month of  April we are asking for Spring colors. Use them to create

a card.

I chose the Greetery's Botanicuts: Crocus for my  Pocket Posey Wrap, and added

Botanicuts: Lilac as a filler. I kept the lilacs pale so my Crocus would take

center stage.

The Penir family is looking forward to Easter and all it's fun family activities,

including  an Easter egg hunt!

Hope to see your creations in our lineup. Our challenge closes on the 25th.

Happy Easter!

Rejoice For He Has Risen

 

Hello and welcome. I am sharing a card with you done with some new stamps

and dies from The Greetery's new release. 

The basic nest die was cut from white and inked with several oxide inks.

I added the tiny flowers and some leaves. from The Baby Face Orange set. 

The nest is backed with brown for depth, and placed on top of Big Branches

Ruscus,  also inked. All placed on the Patchwork die, stamped with Spring

Meadow Background.

Rejoice stamp onto a Tear Strip Tag. 

Closeup of the nest and eggs.  A symbol of new beginnings! 

Happy Easter my friends!

The Flower Challenge #79 Background Stamping

 

It's a beautiful Spring day and The Flower Challenge this month is to create

a card with Background Stamping.

My Easter card features new stamps, dies and a foiled sentiment from The Greetery.

Spring on a card! Come play along, we love seeing your takes on the

theme challenge!

The Flower Challenge #79 Focus on Background Stamping

Easter

 

The end of March brings the beginning of April, and all things Easter!

Sending out the last of my Easter greetings today, and sharing this one

made with The Greetery's Spring Meadow Background, Bountiful Wreath

and, some blooms from Spring Meadow.

The sweet Easter eggs are from a group of eggs from SSS.

Springs of spring are Tim Holtz Thinlits called Flower Field.

And of course a favorite from Tim Holtz, Mr. Bigz Bunny Die.

I love putting scenes like this together. So therapeutic!

Wishing all of you a blessed spring and Easter!

The Card Concept Happy Easter

 

It's a new season, and we're welcoming spring with a new challenge at 

The Card Concept Challenge!

Complete with color swatches, and with Happy Easter as the theme, 

you are challenged to create with your choice of style.

My card is a bunny silhouette, revealing The Greetery's Spring Meadow Background.

The die cut is Mr. Bigz, a Tim Holtz die. 

The daisy chain is another die from The Greetery's new March release, from the

Ribbon Maker series.

The beautiful Easter script is called Let's Have a Word: Easter, and is cut 3 times

and glued together. I would call my card 'Layered and Embossed'. 

Remember, you can use our styles or create one of your own.

Hoping you get a chance to play along! 

Have a great week!

The Flower Challenge #78 Reminder Die Cuts or Stencils

 

It's reminder time at The Flower Challenge, and I'm working on Easter cards

with my die cut card today.

The Greetery's Botanicuts are my go to dies for any season, and The Lilies have

my heart for Easter! Added a few palm branches and sequins, an

embossed Easter Greeting, and done!

Closeup of the sponge inked lily and leaves.

Play along for 2 more weeks, hope to see you on the blog!

The Flower Challenge #78 Reminder Use Dies or Stencils

The Card Concept: Easter Blessings

It's spring, and Easter is right around the corner. The Card Concept Challenge has

a new inspiration for you, Easter Blessings.

I love artful arrangements assembled for the holidays, and I was drawn to how 

lovely the new photo for our challenge is. The sweet elements, all symbols of 

the Easter season inspired my Clean and Layered card.

I used The Greetery's Hippity Happily Stamp, Stencil and Die set to create my card.

The simple stylized bunny wreath is further decorated with the Greetery's new flower

and sequin shaker elements. 

Hope you'll have some time to play along. Don't you love that we've added color swatches

to help you with your card creation? Play along, and don't forget to include out photo 

inspiration on your blog post.

Have a wonderful week!

The Card Concept #172 {Easter Blessings} 

The Card Concept: Celebrate Easter

 

Hello, and welcome to a Celebration of Easter! It's a new challenge at the Card Concept,

and my card plays with several of the Greetery's newest release, which I was so happy 

the Card Concept's photo had displayed.

Bunnies and Carrots... definitely my inspiration!

 Bunny Hop stamps and dies, the new Nordic Frames Circle Die and Botanicuts Carrots.

Couldn't resist throwing the new bow on top for my Very Layered Card.

Hope you're inspired to play along. Remember to add our challenge photo, and pick 

a style (listed on the blog), or choose one of your own.

Happy Easter!

The Card Concept #152 {Celebrate Easter} 

Easter Cards

 

Easter cards are some of my favorite cards to make. Full of Spring and colorful florals,

and of course faith. 

This latest release of the Greetery's goodies were full of joy... spring, florals and 

Easter symbols and sentiments!

This past weekend I spent some time creating with the Greetery's Print Shop: Florals

Frames and the sentiment Empty Grave. 

The 3 cards are more or less experiments with the stamp set, playing with Betsy's enclosed

stencils and dies.

 A one layer card with blues and greens, and a little marigold for berries. You can't miss

with the stencil layering, so easy, and the center is perfect for your greeting.

2nd card was done with the die that cuts the floral frame, and I stamped some 

enclosed berries in strategic places around and under the leaves and flowers. I added some 

Nuvo drops, (wish I hadn't),  and lifted the die cut with foam.

3rd card is a mix of stenciling and stamping first on the card base, upside down, then

attaching the foam lifted top right side up onto the card. The idea wasn't mine, I 

found inspiration from the Greetery's 'Lookbook'. I masked off the center sentiment,

and added a few splatters.

The sentiment is gold embossed, and I'd love to share a shade of gold I found, new

to me, from Ranger, called Princess Gold. It's the best gold I've used yet! I found mine

at Hobby Lobby. 

Have a wonderful week, hope your Easter season is full of God's Grace!

John 10:10

It's Easter week around this globe, and some, if not most will miss gathering in

person to worship the risen Lord. Our church, a gathering of about 500, meet on

First Street... Hence we are called, First Street Church. My son Ryan co-pastors with

 Joe Basile, 2 young men, filled with God's Spirit and enough Godly love 

to go around the globe twice!

I love our church. I love the people in our church. We love the neighborhood

around our church. So we planned a huge Easter extravaganza for the kids.

Then the virus came...

No Easter celebration.

No church service. 

So the pastors and worship team started an online service, one on Sunday at

10:00, and 2 midweek. Interactive Bible study and just to chat. (The link is 

that number below if you'd like to visit) 

2591842447716988

The day is coming, and I hope soon, when we can once again gather at my sweet

church. Meanwhile I am thankful for so many of God's provisions, family,

and for His promises too as we live on a planet coping with separation.

One of my cherished blessings is sharing our card making with so many

wonderful friends! Do you have a prayer need? I'd love to pray with you and

for you. You can message me through my Facebook, Nancy Penir.

Happy, Healthy Easter Season to you.

Remember: He died to give us life, and that life in abundance!

                                                John 10:10

All stamps and dies: The Greetery

Caring Cross & Budding Beauties Spring

Good Sunday Morning! 

Hoping you are doing well and have found time to enjoy some crafting.

Poppystamps and Rinea have partnered to showcase how well the Poppystamps

dies work with Rinea's fabulous foil papers. I have an Easter card to show you, full

of some of Poppy's new release dies.

All the details on how I created this card are on the PS blog

Easter Card with Rinea Foil by Nancy Penir

Hop on by and have a look! 

Thanks and enjoy your stay-cation! 

 

The Card Concept Challenge: Easter Blessings

Easter time greetings everyone!

I have some inspiration for the new challenge at the Card Concept:

Easter Blessings

My eye went immediately to the cross hung on the mirror.

My card features the cross and greens from the Greetery's Caring Cross.

I painted on some Shimmery Goodness (actual name) from TCW (Amazon)

I tried so hard to get it to show in the photo, it's really pearly irl!

I stamped the sentiment in Pirate's Gold on vellum, and fussy cut it so the Nuvo

drops could show.

Clean and Layered for this challenge!

Play along for 2 weeks,

we love to see your creations!

A  quick reminder that it's Floral Fantasy as your challenge this month on the

Poppystamps blog. Come play along! 

I feature one of the gorgeous new Washi tapes available now in the store. Wide enough 

for the front of an A2 card!

Check out the details on the Poppystamps blog:

March Challenge Reminder: Floral Fantasy By Nancy Penir