Out Like a Lamb ~ Happy Easter!

Hello Stamplings!

I hope you are well! 

Don't tell March since she still has a coupla days to wreck havoc on us, but it's looking like (if she's not aggravated) she might tiptoe quietly out like a lamb and allow April to bestow us with her abundant blue skies, budding bulbs, green trees, and the smell of fresh-mown grass. Sssh.

I've got just the hushed design for the occasion:

This design came as a surprise, but not really a surprise, because what happens is, every time I get in the area of my pp drawers (😆) that contain my handmade and mulberry papers, I HAVE to pull them all out and swear an oath that I will make cards from every last slip of them until they are gone.

Of course, because I'm a big fat liar, I don't keep my promises, even to myself, and so back they went into my drawers, but not before I made this fresh spring number. It is QACAS to the max. All I needed was a colored card base for the background, a ribbon to tie it down, a simple sediment from PTI, and a NBUS unmarked pair of die-cut sweet tulips as a focus-pocus. (Although if you're like me, you're eyeing every inch of that beautiful paper!)

Challenges

• Just Us Girls: Photo inspiration (Spring Time) hosted by Vicki.
  
• Simon Says ~ Wednesday: Easter/spring mood board.
  
• TIME OUT: April gardens.

Twofer

I won't be back with a post on Sunday, so I want to wish those who celebrate a very Happy Easter! 

This black and white CAS design is unusual for an Easter card, but I made it last week when working on other b/w designs and I like the look of it. The beautiful cross stamp has built-in shading. It's a NBUS stamp called Easter Blessings from Fun Stamps Journey. Both the cross and the sediment were stamped with Color Box white ink and then heat-embossed.

Challenges

• Less Is More: CAS inking.
  
• Simon Says ~ Monday: Easter/spring.
  
• Watercooler Wednesday: Helen's All About Occasions.

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We went for a visit with Nellie to see the grandtwins over the weekend. Having both vaccines made it possible and it was great fun being just the four of us for the first time since Christmas of 2019!

Henry is on the left, Adam on the right. Or is it the other way around?! And when I say "just the four of us," I mean just the seven of us ~ Duke and Jack are just out of sight.

And Hammy? Hammy has been away since last week with his friend Fitzwilliam. Cruises are dirt-cheap right now, so they booked a spontaneous trip sailing from Greece to Dubai through the Suez Canal. Oops. There's been a considerable delay, so I'll have to do all my own work for a while. I miss him!😢

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Enjoy your day and have a blessed weekend! 

More mirth from Mamie:

• Chocolate is God's way of telling us he likes us a little bit chubby.
• It's probably my age that tricks people into thinking I'm an adult.
• Marriage counselor to husband: "Your wife says you never buy her flowers. Is that true?" Husband: "To be honest, I never knew she sold flowers."

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