Easter Trio

Hello Crafty Friends,

Easter is a week away and I have some last-minute card ideas for you today.

My first card is a fun one that was inspired by THIS cute card done by Cristena who is the Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers.com this week. 

I water-colored the sky and background grass and stamped the Brush Pussy Willow and painted them as well. Then I stamped Vicki's Versatile Background on some white paper and then cut the paper into fence posts.  I used a little leftover water-colors to add more interest and then sponged the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo.  For the critters, I stamped the Tails Up Bunny and Easter Ears Leonard the Pig, fussy cut them, and water-colored them as well.  I removed the egg from Leonard's arms and ticked him in the fence.  My banner was a bit boring so I got the Stickles out and fixed that.  The glitter was speaking to me and I used it in a few more places as well - lol. I finished it off with a part of the 1 Line Easter Blessing Greeting. 

My next card features the Flower Cross Image and the Sending You Sunshine Greeting. 

I sketched and painted the tulips and wreath, stamped the cross and painted it, and then added in gold dots with some gold paint.  I was aiming for shabby chic so I distressed the panel with white acrylic paint and some Distress Ink.  

My last card was easier than it looks and features the Small Rejoice Greeting. 

I water-colored the flowers on the egg and added in Stickles to make it more festive.  I followed THIS video to learn how to do this. 

Hoping you are having a wonderful week.

Hugz, 

Nancy

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Happy Waves

 Hi Everyone,

I made another card using the fun new Happiness Comes in Waves Greeting, and the whole concept is making me wish I was at the ocean. 

I began by making an underwater scene using some fish stamps and a die.  I colored it up using markers and some chalk shading.  I attached it to a background made using the Sand, Snow, Water Lines stamp and wrapped it in some netting.

Links to stamps:

School of Fish

3 In 1 Ocean

I'm hosting Easter for a group for the first time since, what I call, the "Before Times" and I needed some invites.  Hence the simple design since I was making multiples.  Just a bunny die and some great sentiments were all I needed. Only 5 more to go!

Here are the stamps I used for both:

Flower Scroll

Some Bunny Loves You Greeting

Happy Easter Everybunny Greeting

Happy Spring!

Karin

 

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Everybunny!

Hello everyone!

Today I've mae my first Eater card of the year.  Can you believe it's only a month away?

For this card I used a stencil to create the background using Distress Oxide ink in Eastery colors.  The stencil is actually pebbles but it looks like little candy eggs to me.

I used DRS stamps: Happy Easter Everybunny and Sneaky Bunny Flower Pot

The sentiment has been divided onto 2 arrow tags.  I used alcohol ink pens to color.

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

 

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Favorite Peeps!

 Good morning crafty friends!

Today I'm sharing a couple of last minute Easter cards with you.  I've used DRS stamps: Favorite Easter Peep, Simple Easter Bunny, Jelly Bean Jumble, and Splatter Background

Bunnies are fussy cut.  The jelly beans were colored and then I made a mask to show only the jelly beans so that I could use the splatter background with multiple colors.

I used the same Jelly Bean Jumble and Splatter Background for the background panel of this next card as well.

I also used Somebunny Loves You and Big Bunny Face for this card.

Big Bunny Face was fussy cut then popped up.

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Everybunny!

 Hello my friends!

Today I've made a mini slimline Easter card.  I've used some old favorites from DRS Designs: Easter Egg with Bow, Happy Easter Everybunny and Vincent Van Bunny along with some fun dies.

The dies used were from: Pink Fresh (Mini Slimline) and Rubbernecker (Oval).

The eggs and bunny with egg were fussy cut after coloring then popped up.

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Everybunny

 Hello friends!

Today I'm sharing another Easter card using DRS stamps: Happy Easter Everybunny! and Tails Up Bunny.

I've also used Stitched Oval dies and a wonky plaid die. 

Hope you like this card!

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Some Bunny

 Easter Greetings friends!

Isn't this first one fun with the bright colors? 

Got this idea dressing up bunnies from my friend and team-mate Nancy!  

I'm using Tim Holtz bunny dies as a main feature and accenting with a variety of DRS stamps: Happy Easter Everybunny, Jelly Bean Jumble Background and 4 in 1 Fashion Accents

I also used some oval and stitched rectangle dies.

My second card also uses the Tim Holtz bunny dies from Sizzix.

I used DRS stamps: 4 in 1 Fashion Accents and Some Bunny Loves You.

Thank you for visiting today! 

Robin

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Beauty of Springtime

 Good morning friends!

Today I have 2 more cute Easter cards to share with you.  This first one features my favorite bunny buns (Tails Up Bunny).  For the border strip I used Jelly Bean Jumble Background Splatter Background and Happy Easter Everybunny. 

I used a few dies too, background plaid die by Tim Holtz, card frame from Lawn Fawn

and the Square die from Penny Black.  The grass border is a border punch 

from Martha Stewart.

I popped up the card frame with foam strips.  The Jelly Beans were colored then masked to stamp the splatter over them, I used pink ink then blue ink.

For my second card:

I used the Chick In Nest cut out with a cross stitch circle from Rubbernecker.

I also used Springtime Easter cut out with the rectangle cross stitch die from Lawn Fawn.

My background die again is from Sizzix-Tim Holtz collection.

This card needed something else to finish it so I chose died seam binding in the yellow/gold

color from a Ranger Ink refill.  The front of the card it wrapped with a tie where the bow would go then I made a multi-loop bow on my (dowl type) bow maker and hot glued it over the tie.

The sentiment and image panels are popped up with foam (like fun foam in a sheet and die cut).

I hope you like these and Happy Easter early!

Robin

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