Z-Fold Gard Girl Easter Card

Easter is fast approaching and the cute little girl from "Garden Girl" makes a wonderful Easter card, especially as a Z-fold card.

A 4 1/4 by 11 piece of Pool Party cardstock was scored at 5 1/2 and 2 3/4 for form a Z-fold card.  Another strip of Pool Party 1 1/4 by 11" was also scored at 5 1/2 by 2 3/4".  This was added later to the bottom of the card.

The image of the girl was coloured with Stampin' Blendabilities cut out, and adhered to a Whisper White oval die cut smaller than the image.  This was added to some DSP which was adhered to the front of the Z-fold card.

After adhering another pattern from the Naturally Eclectic DSP to the card front, I added the 1 1/4" Pool Party strip.  But before doing so I stamped  the image of the fence 4 times, coloured the with Watercolor pencils and Stampin' Blendabilities, cut around them and adhered them to this strip.  After they were  adhered, I stamped some grass in Old Olive.  Then I stamped 2 birds, coloured the yellow, cut them out and added them to the top of the fence with dimensionals.

The sentiment was stamped in Black Memento, punched with the Pretty Label punch and added with dimensionals to a Green Glimmer banner.  I added a rabbit that looked like he was eyeing the flower garden.

The flower garden and butterfly were stamped on the middle front half and coloured with blendabilities.  Some glitter was added to the flower centers and the butterfly.

The Happy Easter sentiment is from "For Peep's Sake" (retired)

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Garden Girl, You're Inspiring, For peep's Sake (Retired)
Inks:  Black Memento, Stampin Blendabilities, Watercolor Pencils
Papers:  Pool Party, Whisper White, Naturally Eclectic DSP, Green Glimmer Paper
Accessories:  Layering Ovals Framelits, Classic Label Punch, Pretty Label Punch, Dimensionals,  Glitter

Woven Easter Basket - SUO Challenges #143

For this week's challenge with SUO I made a woven Easter basket using a tutorial from Splitcoaststampers
The basket is made from the retired Baskets and Blooms die, and does require a bit of fussy measurements, and weaving, but the end result is worth it.

Close up of the dancing Easter bunny

Side view showing tag

• Basket is woven using Flowering Fields DSP.  The strips are sponged with Soft Suede ink prior to weaving.
• A 1/2" strip of Hello Honey cardstock is used for the handle.  It is attached to the basket using large silver brads. A piece of Hello Honey ribbon was wrapped around the handle and made into a bow.
• The "Happy Easter Bunny", a retired stamp, is rather a large stamp.  But I stamped the entire image, coloured only the bunny using a blender pen, and then cut the image out.  Then 2 ovals were die cut using the ovals framelits - one in Whisper White, and the second larger one in Calypso Coral.  Both were sponged with Soft Suede before the cut out bunny was attached.
• After adhereing it to the front of the basket, the curved "Happy Easter" was cut out, the edges sponged, and adhered over the bunny.
• The tag was made using the banners framelits with the sentiment from "For Peep's Sake"- another retired stamp set. Hello Honey was stamped across the sentiment and eggs using the Work of Art stamp set.  A 1/8" hole was punched in the top, and it was attached to the handle using White Baker's twine.
• Put some Easter grass inside the basket, some styrofoam eggs (or a treat which I prefer) and whola you are ready for Easter.  It would made a great hostess gift

Supplies Used: 
Stamps: For Peep's Sake, Happy Easter Bunny, Work of Art
Inks: Black Memento, Hello Honey, Chocolate Chip, Calypso Coral, Soft Suede
Papers: Flowering Fields, Hello Honey, Calypso Coral
Accessories: Ovals framelits, Circle Framelits, Banners Framelts, 1/8" Hand held punch, 1/4" Hello Honey ribbon, dimensionals, blender pen. Basket and blooms die

Enjoy an Egg-Cellent Easter - Brokeh Background

Spring is in the air, and I felt like making a card with a spring-like background, and I used the Bohek technique to do this.  I used a tutorial from splitcoast stampers to create the background.

The colours of reinkers I used:  Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana, and Bermuda Bay.

After creating the background and applying the Whisper White ink with a template I made using the Circles Framelits on a piece of Window sheet, the focal image water colour paper was matted with first Daffodil Delight and then Bermuda Bay cardstock and then adhered to a Whisper White base.

The sentiment is from "For Peeps Sake" and stamped onto Vellum cardstock with Black Stazon ink and die cut using the Banner Framelits. Another sentiment was stamped onto Daffodil Delight cardstock and the work "Egg-cellent" was cut out and attached to the sentiment on the vellum using dimensionals. The banner was attached to the front of the card using vellum tape.
A piece of 1/4" Daffodil Delight cotton ribbon was wound around the left side and a ribbon added using a glue dot.

The tiny daffodils were made using 2 punches:  Petite Petal punch and Boho Blossom punch.  The edges were sponged with Hello Honey ink, and attached with glue dots.

Supplies used:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/bokehbackground/

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Easter Fancy Fold Card

This is a card fold I learned a while ago, and thought it would make a cute Easter card for class.

I started with a piece of Tangerine Tango cardstock cut at 11 by 4 1/4 scored st 4 1/4 & 8 1/2 on the long side.
After burnishing the folds, I took a 2 1/2" circle punch and inserted it on the fold by the small flap and centered it in the middle and punched.
A 4 by 4" piece of Polka dot parade DSP was added to the front of the card.
The embellishment of an Easter Egg and a chick on it was placed there to keep the card closed.  I made it by using a stamp-a-ma-jig and stamping 4 different colours of the egg stamp from "For Peeps" sake, then punching it with the large oval punch.  The chick was coloured with a Daffodil Delight and Tangerine Tango marker, stamped and cut out.  It was mounted on the egg using a dimensional.
The egg was attached with a dimensional only to the bottom.

Close up of the egg and chick.

To make the top I first punched a  2 3/8" scallop circle punch in tangerine tango cardstock.
Adhesive was applied to only the bottom half of this circle and attached to the card with the top folded down, matching scallops as close as possible.  A Daffodil Delight 1 3/4" circle (punched with 1 3/4" circle punch) as attached to this, followed by a Whisper White circle which had the words "Happy Easter" stamped on it.  The sentiment was split into 2 words in order for it to fit on a 1 1/4" circle.  The Whisper White circle was adhered with a dimensional.

A Daffodil delight ribbon was attached at the top.

This is the inside.


Supplies used:

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Enjoy an Egg-cellent Easter

Yes, Easter is getting close and in a week or so I will be having a class on Easter, so I'm putting together a few cards.  I've already done my 3D project, and today I did one of the cards.

Aren't these daffodils cute?  I made them with the Petite Petal punch and the Itty Bitty flower punch.

Here's the supplies I used:

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