Sweet Something swap cards

The topic for this month's swap was to make an Easter card for a young person or child.

I chose to use the Sweet Something stamp set, stamping  the image with Stamparatus.

Stamp:  Sweet Something
Inks:  Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Black Memento
Papers:  Old Olive, Whisper white, Sweet Soiree DSP, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Old Olive glimmer, Other scraps of glimmer papers.
Accessories:  Basket Builder Framelits,  Oval Framelits, Dimensionals.

Enjoy an Egg-cellent Easter - Try Stampin' on Tuesday or Not #316

For this week's sketch by Donna, with Try Stampin' on Tuesday or Not, I thought I would make an Easter card. After all, Easter is only a matter of week's away. The optional theme?  A burst of color.

I made the central focus of the card a shaker element and placed colorful embellishments around it.

I made the shaker the usual way, using layering circle framelits, and the Sprinkle Embellishments as the "shaker" elements. These elements are from the Occasions Catalogue and come in wonderful Easter colors.

Three different embellishments, all symbols of Easter, surround one side of the shaker.

The first one has an Old Olive pansy flower base with a Daffodil flower adhered to it. This flower was made using the Basket Bunch stamp set, but I chose to fussy cut it rather than using the coordinating framelits.  It was coloured using the new watercolor pencils and a blender pen. I made 3 flowers, and the other two were used to decorate the inside.

On a scallop garden green circle, 5 tiny colorful Easter eggs are added. These are die cut using the Basket Builder framelits because all 5 eggs can be die cut at the same time.

The lower-most embellishment is a Daffodil Delight star on which there  is an Easter bunny holding a basket.

Don't you just love the Easter colors?

Close up of focal point,

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Basket Bunch, Retired SU Easter stamp set (? name)
Inks: Black Memento, Old Olive, Tip Top Taupe, Watercolor Pencils
Papers:Sweet Sugarplum, Whisper White, So Succulent DSP, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Garden Green
Accessories: Layering circle framelits, Star framelits, Basket Builder Framelits, Pansy Punch, Sprinkle Embellishments

A Z box pop up get well card

My friend of 47 years had open heart surgery - to replace two heart valves which were damaged when she had rheumatic fever as a child. The last couple of years have been particularly hard on her so I was very glad to hear that her surgery had finally been scheduled.

Friends are very important to me. We met when I was starting University in Kingston, Ont.  I had been working in a bush hospital in Northern Manitoba, so I could not come south soon enough to find accommodations.  My sister, living in Kingston at the time, found an apartment and a room mate for me.

This room mate and I had an immediate connection and a friendship that has survived 47 years began. She now lives in Manitoba; I live in Ontario, but despite the distance we have remained friends.

You can understand why I would want to make a very special Get Well card for her.

 I started with a Tip Top Taupe base, making another Z box pop up box.  I made a similar box yesterday where I gave a link to a tutorial I used.  See blog post here

Flowers die cut using the Succulent framelits and the Botanical builder dies were adhered to strips of window sheets which were adhered to the inserts inside the box.  Bermuda Bay glimmer butterflies were adhered randomly on various parts of the card.  They provide that touch of glimmer that I so love.

My friend loves flowers, but is not a nature person, preferring to renovate her house rather than tend to a garden.  And she's quite good at it too.

This is a sideways view of the box within the Z fold card.  The sentiment, when stamped, would have been too large for the space available for it, so I cut the sentiment into smaller pieces and adhering it to a piece of sponged Mint Macaron cardstock and then adhered some on the front, and some on the back panels.

The Mint Macaron glimmer grass was due cut using the Basket Builder framelit/die.

The Succulent DSP dresses up the card nicely.

The close up here shows the multi layered flowers with rhinestones in their centers

The card folds closed for mailing.  It will be posted in a bubble envelope hopefully today.

You're Egg-stra Special

This egg carton had been altered earlier by adding colour to it using a spritzer filled with rubbing alcohol and So Saffron reinker.  Because So Saffron is a light yellow in color I spritzed it twice to get the color saturation that I wanted.

Today I made an Easter tag which will be attached to the carton.

The top end of a 2 by 4" piece of Very Vanilla cardstock was punched with the Scallop Top Tag Punch.

A 2 by 2 3/4" piece of Serene Scenic DSP was adhered upon which the other elements of this tag were built.

Using the Basket Bunch stamp set with its coordinating Basket Builder framelits/dies, were used to create the following:

• Basket and handle
• Flower on basket
• 3 Easter bunnies
• 3 different Easter eggs
• Grass

These elements were arranged and adhered as shown. Both dimensionals and glue dots were used. Dazzling details was applied to the eggs and the flower on the basket.

The sentiment was stamped onto Whisper White, the edges were sponged with Soft Suede ink, the ends notched and the entire piece added to the card front by the basket using glue dots.

On the side of the egg carton, another sentiment is attached.  The 3rd bunny is adhered next to the sentiment.

Supplies Used:

Stamp: Basket Bunch

Inks: Black Memento, SU Markers (Crumb Cake, Soft Suede), Old Olive

Papers: Very Vanilla, Scenic Scenery DSP, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral

Accessories: Basket Builder Framelits/dies, Scallop top tag punch, Dazzling details, 1/8" stitched Melon Mambo ribbon , dimensionals, glue dots

A Basket of Flowers - Just Add Ink #345

Maybe because January, the most depressive month of the year, is done with, or maybe its the extra sunshine that we have received, but I've had flowers on my mind lately. My downline and I were discussing flowers as well, so maybe that was a factor as well.
Whatever it was, for the sketch challenge with Just Add Ink, I created a basket full of flowers.

The Card:
The base card is Calypso Coral layered with Whisper White embossed with the Hexagon Texturized Impression folder.

Focal Point:
Two circles were die cut using the Shaped Stitched Framelits.  The larger circle is die cut using the Succulent Garden DSP; the smaller circle in Whisper White.  Between the two circles is a strip of Calypso Coral card stock.

Before the basket of flowers was adhered to the Whisper White circle, the background was stamped with Mint Memento ink using the dot stamp from the Avant-Garden stamp set.

The two layer flowers were made using the Petite Flower Punch.  Two of the flowers were punched with Sweet Sugarplum; the third with Calypso Coral. Each flower petal was sponged with the corresponding colour of ink.

A tiny slit was made between each petal after which each petal was curled with a wooden skewer.  They were adhered together using a glue dot. A green flower was punched and cut into 5 petals. These became the leaves of the flowers.

In the center of each flower, sprinkles embellishments were glued in place using tombo glue.

The flowers were adhered on a basket which was die cut using the Basket Builder Framelits, They were then adhered to the Whisper White circle.

Sentiment
The single word. highlighted with a Tip Top Taupe marker to omit the other word, was stamped on a scrap piece of Whisper White card sock and then punched with a small oval punch.  The edges of this oval were sponged with Tip Top Taupe ink and then applied to the front of the basket.

The smaller circle was adhered over part of the larger circle using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Good Greetings, Avant-Garden
Inks: Tip Top Taupe, Calypso Coral, Sweet Sugarplum, Mint Macaron
Papers: Calypso Coral, Whisper White, Sweet Sugarplum, Garden Green, Tip Top Taupe, Succulent Garden DSP
Accessories: Basket Builder Framelits, Petite Flower Punch, Embellishment Sprinkles, Shaped Stitched Framelits, Small Oval Punch, Hexagonal Dynamic Texturized Embossing Folder