Sunday, April 5, 2026

April Showers with The Paper Players

Happy Easter!  Mornin' y'all and it's time for a new challenge from The Paper Players!  First though, thanks to everyone who played along with Ann's tic-tac-toe board last week, we had so many beautiful cards in the gallery!  And today we have a new challenge courtesy of the marvelous LeAnne, take a look:


As I said earlier this week, I've been feeling kinda blocked lately and so this challenge took me a while but then I ended up with two cards for it.  So here's the first card:


I got Million Dollar Moments out of the To Sell? boxes and paired it with the same Pleased as Punch paper I used for a different rainy day card a while back.  I stamped the lady in VersaMark + Night of Navy and embossed with clear EP.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Million Dollar Moments
Ink:  Night of Navy, VersaMark
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Pleased as Punch DSP
Accessories:  Clear EP, Textured Notes dies, Full Heart Punch, Dimensionals, Milky Dots

Here's my second card, actually I think I made it first but whatever:


Rather similar to the other card with embossing an image on DSP, but this time I used the Rain or Shine Specialty DSP.  Same Balmy Blue card base and Milky Dots for embellishments.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Silhouette Scenes, Playing in the Rain
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Balmy Blue
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Thick Basic White, Rain or Shine Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Clear EP, Textured Notes dies, Dimensionals, Milky Dots

Funny story:  we actually got rain for the first time in a long time one day last week, and Daphne rang the bell to go outside, so I opened the door for her.  She stuck her nose out and noped right back into the house and I laughed.  She did the same thing ten minutes later and looked at me like "Mahm, why is water falling from the sky?  I don't understand!"  Yeah, we haven't gotten much rain around here lately.

Check out the other design team creations on the Paper Players blog, and you can hop through their individual blogs to leave some comments too:

The Paper Players Design Team



And then upload your card at the Paper Players blog!  Keep in mind a few simple rules:
1.  Create a new paper project
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4.  Have fun!


4 comments:

Claire Broadwater said...

Christy, I love both cards! Your mix of patterns is fabulous! You always amaze me with all you mix the patterns. I am partial to the one with the couple. I love how embossed the images. They actually look wet from the rain! Just perfect! Wishing you and your family a wonderful Easter!

Tracy Grauer said...

I like both cards! Love the embossing, looks like shiny wet rain! I'm always amazed with the stamp sets you use that I've never seen...or just don't remember seeing them. Ever. lol!

LeAnne said...

I think BOTH of these are amazing---and you got rain on both of them, which I didn't even get on mine, and it was MY challenge! I love how you used the embossed images, and those papers are both perfect! Cute as can be!

Tanya said...

I love both of these images and how you used them! I also love the DP in the first card. Very fun.