Happy Retreat Day

 

First--Happy Retreat Day.  Today is the start of the No Foolin' Retreat that I am hosting at Gather House in Waunakee.  I picked up Darlene at the airport yesterday.  This morning, we are meeting Terry at my house and caravanning the hour plus to meet Jeanette at the retreat house.  The 4 of us are going out for breakfast and then setting up for 3+ days of amazing fun, crafting, food, laughs and huge smiles with 11 sweet ladies. I am looking forward to a huge swag bag, sweet door prizes, a very funny and lively white elephant crafty game along with tons of giggles!  I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!  

But, then today is also the day I am posting my card for our first One Plus Twelve challenge in 2025.  This is year number 7.  For this challenge, we are to use just one stamp, to make a card every month and post on the 3rd of each month.  For this year, I picked a Gina K Designs set called Blooming Sunflower.  The set includes a sweet  stamp set and matching dies for the image and all four of the sentiments.  I am excited that I get to use this set every month for all of 2025. 

For my card this month, I stamped the image with Versamark ink and added Brutus Monroe Penny Embossing Powder.  I colored the image with my Copic Sketch Markers and die cut both the image and sentiment.   I then picked a Pinkfresh Studio Cover called Dotted Chevrons plate for the background and used Copper Mirricard to match the embossing.  I added a panel of white that was die cut and layer three times with another Pinkfresh Studio Cover Plate called Simply Diamonds.    I added some Pinkfresh Glacier Jewels around the image and sentiment.

 

Please be sure to check out the other One plus Twelve posts to see the the stamp set for the 2025 cards that Kelly and Jeanette have created for April!  Here is a link to both Jeanette's  and Kelly's blog.  Be sure to come back on May 3rd to see another fun card. 

Image/Sentiment:  Gina K Designs Blooming Sunflower stamp and die set

Cardstock:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White, Copper Mirricard

Ink: Versamark; Brutus Monroe Penny Embossing Powder

Accessories:  Pinkfresh Studio Simply Diamonds Cover Plate, Dotted Chevron Cover Plate, Glacier Jewels; Copic Sketch Markers