Melting Monday | 100DayProject Day 58 | Card 41a+b

100DayProject Day 58 | Card 41a+b

It’s not so great that I remembered that Altenew has a monthly colour challenge on their card blog. Now I’m going to want to make cards using the Altenew inspiration challenge colours as well as the Color Throwdown challenge blog colours. I’ve include the links to the current Altenew and the Color Throwdown challenge blog posts here in case you’re curious.

Card 41a | Altenew Let it Shine course Lesson 5a | Metallic Paper | using Altenew April Inspiration Challenge colours
Card 41b | Altenew Let it Shine course Lesson 5a | Metallic Paper | using Color Throwdown Challenge #831 colours
starting Card 42a | Altenew Let it Shine course | Lesson 5a |Metallic Paper | using Color Throwdown Challenge #831 colours
starting Card 42a | Altenew Let it Shine course | Lesson 5a |Metallic Paper | using Altenew April Inspiration Challenge colours

Melting Monday

Luna was very happy that her favourite spring pond is now completely melted. She’ll have to enjoy it while it lasts, because it disappears again by summer. She likes being in water, but only when her feet can still touch the ground – she is a good swimmer (when tossed in) but never ventures into water deep enough to swim by herself.

Everything is continuing to melt at the cottage. There is still ice on the lake as well as the occasional patch of snow on our lot and in the woods. Luna takes advantage of the snow to roll in and it was handy to clean off the soles of my boots after I planted the ferns I dug up yesterday from the side of the road. I had an early morning walk with Luna and an early afternoon walk with Roland and Luna. She was thrilled to discover that her favourite spring pond is now completely melted. I did some crafting at the cottage and some more at home. Heidi went home last night and to a coffee shop to get some marking done. Roland helped her with some multiple choice this evening. I enjoyed a nice catchup talk with Ivonne when she came over to get some of our extra cilantro, mangos and jalapeno peppers. I’m glad that her volleyball is over and she’ll restart walking with us on Tuesdays.

Picture This Year

I’m continuing to follow along with Tracey Clark’s Picture This Year 2025 photo prompts. I only started on April 7th so I’m also slowly working my backwards through the 96 prompts before I started.

Picture This Year prompt 94 (hole) | April 4 prompt, photo taken today | It’s a bit hard to see the hole that I dug into which I place the 3 ferns that I dug up from the side of the road yesterday, but it is there!
Picture This Year prompt 93 (twist) | 3 April prompt, photo taken today | After I dug the hole, transplanted the ferns I had dug up and stomped down the earth my boot treads were filled with mud. Luckily there was still a patch of snow around to ‘do the twist’ with my feet to get most of the mud out of my boot treads. So interesting that I could immediately have a photo to take after I checked out the prompt which proceeded the ‘hole’ prompt once I had taken that photo.
Picture This Year prompt 111 (ribbed) | today’s prompt and photo taken today | It has been ages since I used this crimping tool to add some dimension and interest to the front of a card. I haven’t yet finished the card front, but I did at least get enough done to be able to take my ribbed photo for today. I did get all of the ink blending done on the envelopes, inner layers and back of the 2 cards.

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