Early Spring

 

Today I am posting my card for the newer The Encore Challenge!  This is a monthly challenge to be posted on the 25th with a group of friends, also from the April Retreat.  Some may post on their blog and I will note those with blogs at the end of this post.  And, some might post on other social media. Darlene came up with this challenge and these are her words:  Go and grab a stamp set, stencil or dies--your choice, that you have used once before and have always wanted to revisit it and use it again.  However, despite your best intentions, you have yet to use it!  Now's your chance! Go dig it out and have fun with it once again.  Create anything you like, a card, gift card holder, decorate a gift bag, make a refrigerator magnet...whatever lights up your creative juices! So--Encore Challenge! 

My plan is to pick a different company each month to highlight and maybe even a different product than the month before.  For April,  I picked a cute set from Gina K Designs called Early Spring. The set has a sweet corner tulip mages and a number of sentiments.  I always need Easter cards as our church sends about 25 families from our sister church in Milwaukee grocery gift cards for Easter.  I am working on my 2026 cards! 

For my card, I stamped the image in Hero Arts Intense Black ink in the corner of a panel.  I colored the image with my Copic Sketch Markers.   I then die cut the panel and backer with my Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2.  I die cut the sentiment from a new to me die set from Stampin' Up called Greetings of the Season dies-- know I will use that set all year round!  I added some Stampin' Up pink twine on the stitched label.  I added some pink enamel dots around the image.

 

I am not sure who will post each month on their blog, but this is a list of the other ladies who do have blogs.  Jeanette, Carol, Terry, Darlene and Rebekah.  Be sure to come back on May 25th to see another fun card for The Encore Challenge!


Image/Sentiment: Gina K Designs Early Spring

Cardstock:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White

Ink: Hero Arts Intense Black

Accessories:  Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies; Copic Sketch Markers; Stampin' Up Greetings of the Season Die, Pink Thread; Pink Enamel Dots