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Challenge: April Showers

4/14/2017

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"April Showers" is the title for the Frilly & Funkie Challenge for April 12, 2017, but showers can be interpreted to mean any number of things. For example, the design team suggested "rain, storms, umbrellas, baby showers, wedding showers...". 

​I was leaning toward the rain interpretation, as in "April showers bring May flowers", butI have already done a card called "April Showers" and also one called "May Flowers" in other recent challenges and I didn't want to copy them, so what to do?

I received the Summer 2017 issue of Cardmaker (Volume 13, No. 2) this past week and in it was an article by Robin Arnold (page 12) entitled "Dandy Diagonals". It was a fold technique that I wanted to try, so I thought I'd use it in this challenge. And because of the size the card ended up being
 more like a gift card than a greeting card (roughly 3.25 x 4 inches), I thought it might work for a baby shower to be held in April for a baby expected in May (if I knew of such an event --- I don't)...

I followed the instructions for cutting and folding, using two-sided Basic Gray paper, which resulted in this 12 inch long trapezoidal shape:
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I cut a piece of floral card for the inside of the card and stamped "May Flowers" on it in Archival "Jet Black":
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I used a stencil, a blending tool and Distress Ink to create lines resembling rain on the front of the card and stamped "April Showers" before adhering the smaller triangle to the front of the card with foam dots:
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It felt a little plain so I colored a Wendy Vecchi Mat Mini butterfly with Distress Markers, added some Glossy Accents for a little shine and attached it to the card front:
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Products used in the making of this card were:

  • Stamps: Karen Foster Snap Stamps “Mini-Formal” (00377)
  • Stencils: Stampers Anonymous Layering Stencil “Stripes” (THS004)
  • Inks: Archival “Jet Black”, Distress Ink “Tumbled Glass”; Distress Markers “Worn LIpstick” and Crushed Olive”; Pigma Micron 05 pen “black”
  • Embellishments: Wendy Vecchi Mat Minis “Mini Butterflies” (WCMM 010)
  • Papers: Basic Gray Lily Kate Collection “Twinkle” (LIK-550) and “Cherry Blossom” (LIK-560)
  • Adhesives: Scor-Tape; EK Tools 3-D Dots; Glossy Accents

I'm also entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge for April 12, 2017: Spring Color Inspiration. The blue, pink and green colors in the palette in that challenge were used in this card in the papers, the blue Distress Ink "Tumbled Glass" was used for the "rain", and the "Crushed Olive" (green) and "Worn LIpstick" (pink" Distress Markers were used on the butterfly.


3 Comments
Lin Brandyberry link
4/15/2017 08:54:49 am

What a fun folded card, Carol - the soft colors are perfect for spring! Thanks for playing along with us at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge!

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kathy/NorthCarolina link
4/26/2017 02:44:00 am

This is such a fun fold! I love the soft, springlike colors you chose. Your butterfly just pops against the background. Thanks so much for joining the fun at the Frilly and Funkie "April Showers" Challenge!

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Jenny Marples link
4/30/2017 11:04:03 am

What a clever idea for the design of this card! Thank you so much for joining us at Frilly and Funkie again Carol xx

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    Born in New Jersey, I grew up in Southeastern Ohio. Attended university at Bowling Green State University (B.Sci  in biological science, 1964), University of Southern California (M. Sci in biological science, 1967) and University of Florida (Ph. D in zoology, 1971).
    Worked in environmental consulting for a little more than a decade and then seven years as an instructor in biological science at various community colleges in California and Texas. Moved to London in 1992, then Beijing (1996) and Saudi Arabia (1998), before returning to NW Ohio in 2002. I am currently living in NW Ohio with my husband and three Bombay cats.  I love to read (mystery, science fiction, history) and stitch (have done crewel, currently experimenting with free embroidery and needlepoint but blackwork and cross stitch are my main genres); have been known to knit; and now I'm heavily into papercrafting!
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