Bunnies Bunnies Everywhere

I don't know about you - but when I can't sleep in the middle of the night - I get up and start making a whole bunch of Easter cards - likely more than I will need in my lifetime.

Insomnia is soooooooo super fun sometimes, although, admittedly, I do find stencilling very relaxing :)

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock Recollections)
• Spring Shadows stamp and stencil set (Tim Holtz)
• Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Hickory Smoke and Squeezed Lemonde distress oxide inks (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• Stylus (for the small dots)

Entering these in the B is for Bunny challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

Shopping Our Stash #442 - Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the creative crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH!

Even if it doesn't quite feel like it yet - it is officially spring!! YAY!!

We are celebrating all things spring with this challenge: Here Comes Peter Cottontail

That means we want to see something spring-like on your project, maybe bunnies, Passover or Easter.

Here's what I made for the challenge (which I would like to say DID NOT take me the better part of a day to make...but alas...it did):

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Dwell 6x6 paper pad (My Mind's Eye)
• Everyday Flair 6x6 paper pad (My Mind's Eye)
• Die cut bunnies (Cricut Joy)
• Die cut banner (Cricut Joy)
• Banner sentiment (Cricut Joy)
• Paper piercer and mat (SU)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Q-Tips for the bunny tails

As always, we would love for you to join our crew and play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments for the rest of the crew!

Happy Little Stampers March ATC Challenge - Critters

Greetings & salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by today to check out the latest challenge from the Happy Little Stampers ATC team!

This month our theme is critters...a bunny is a critter right?? I think??

I love the soft pretty colours in the I Love Spring collection from Echo Park...gives me some degree of hope that the snow, freezing rain and cold of winter won't last much longer here in Southern Ontario (wishful thinking).

I used the Springtime Plaid washi tape over a piece of white cardstock to create the background.

I wanted to give the base a pop of dimension, so I ran it through the cuttlebug in the swiss dots embossing folder.

Shite I used to create this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Swiss Dots emobossing folder (ProvoCraft)
• I Love Spring collection by Echo Park
• design paper
• element stickers
• chipboard accents
• washi tape
• enamel dots

As always, we would love for you to play along with us!

You can find all the details for the challenge on the HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS BLOG.

While you are there, please share some love and comments with my ATC teammates.

Shopping Our Stash #346 - Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Greetings friends!

Thanks for stopping by today to check out the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH

Easter is quickly approaching, so we'd like you to hop along the bunny trail and show us your Easter projects

I painted an Easter ATC for the challenge and I even added a wee cottontail on the bunny.

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Spun Sugar distress paint (Tim Holtz)
• Scottish Highlands, Purple Yam and Pool satin acrylic paints (Martha Stewart)
• Bubble and burlap stencils (Tim Holtz)
• Bunny die (Impression Obsession)
• Early Espresso core-dinations cardstock (SU)
• Sanding block (SU)
• Bling (Michaels)
• Small Talk Occasions sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Cotton ball

As always, we would love for you to play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG

While you are there please share some crafty loves and comments with the rest of the crew!

Shopping Our Stash #295 - Forest Friends

Happy Tuesday friends!

Thanks for stopping by today to check out the newest challenge with the SHOPPING OUR STASH crew!

This week, our theme is Forest Friends.

We want to see something on your project that you would find in a forest (deer, fox, bear, birds, fish, skunk, beaver).

I chose to go with a bunny, not just any bunny, the best kind of bunny, one who comes bearing chocolate!

Here's what I made for the challenge:

Shite I used to  make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Everyday Flair design paper (My Mind's Eye)
• Typewriter design paper (Simple Stories)
• Early Espresso core-dinations paper (SU)
• Sanding block (SU)
• Bunny die (Impression Obsession)
• Small Talk occasions sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Ground Espresso distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Easter basket and eggs punch (Martha Stewart)
• 1 3/8" square punch (SU)
• Pink, purple, blue, green and yellow cardstock (Recollections)

As always we would love for you to play along with us!

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG.

While you are there please share some crafty loves with the rest of the crew and our guest designer!

Sketch Saturday #452

I am super excited to be joining the Design Team at sketch saturday today with my first challenge.

This week's challenge is sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps

Here is the sketch for this week's challenge, created by the fantabulous Niki

I used the BUNNY LOVE 1 image on my project, he is just adorable isn't he??

Shite I used to create this card:

• Bunny Love 1 digi image (Bugaboo Stamps)
• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Be.Loved design paper (Fancy Pants)
• Glitter washi tape (Duck Tape)
• Spun Sugar, Shaded Lilac & Bundled Sage distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Water brush (Tim Holtz)
• Small Talk Occasions stickers (Tim Holtz)

We'd love for you to play along with us!

Bugaboo Stamps is offering four of their awesome images to the challenge winner!!

What are you waiting for??

You can find all the details for the challenge on the saturday sketch blog

While you are there pleas share some crafty love with the rest of the design team!

Easter Bunny Silhouette - The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge 108

My good friend BARB is on the design team for THE CHEERFUL STAMP PAD, their latest challenge is a Silhouette challenge. I loved Barb's reindeer silhouette card so much, I decided to play along with the challenge.

Here's what I made for the challenge...an Easter bunny silhouette card. 

I love this type of card, the base is a flat piece of 5.5" x 4.25" cardstock (the Early Espresso here) and the card is a folded piece of 10" x 3.75" piece of cardstock (the white cardstock). 

So it's actually the smaller white cardstock that opens...just a bit of a different fold, super cute, quick and easy to make and flat for mailing YAY!!

You can only see the silhouette of the bunny's head through the window in the front of the card, when you open the card...luckily no-one has taken a bite of his bum (YET).

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS CARD:

• Early Espresso cardstock and ink (SU)
• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• 1 3/4 " circle punch (SU)
• 2" circle punch (Marvy)
• Happy Everything stamp set (Lawn Fawn)
• Bunny die )Tim Holtz)

I am linking this card up to Challenge 108 at the Cheerful Stamp Pad - Silhouette

SoSS 30 - E is for Easter

Ha! Bet you thought we'd make E for Edna...nahhhhh...that would be too easy!!!! (or maybe we didn't think of that...mental note for next year)

Edna and the snarky sisters are back atchya with a fun new challenge...yep...E is for Easter, so grab your bunny ears, or tail, if that's how you roll, and play along won't you??

Visit the SoSS BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there be sure to show my sisters some crafty lovin!!

Here's what I came up with for the challenge:

Not sure if you can read the chit chat stickers, but it say's "happy easter my love bunny"

Shite I used to make this tag:

• Kraft tag (recollections)
• Scrap of flowery / texty design paper, no idea where I got it from
• Lace ribbon (Scraptures February 2015 kit)
• Burlap (older Scraptures kit)
• Frayed burlap distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Chit Chat Seasonal stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Pink pleated ribbon (SU)
• Bunny die (Impression Obsession)
• Stapler & staples
• Bakers twine
• Cotton ball for the bunny tail

Happy Easter!!!

If you are looking for my SoSS "E is for Embellishment" post, please CLICK HERE or scroll down.

Just a quick post this afternoon to show you a few Easter cards I made this weekend. I made 4 of this first one (for my parents, in laws and a few others).

 

Then I made this one for my brother and nephew...

 

Ha Ha Ha Ha...that's it for today! Hope you have a lovely Easter :)

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter!!! Has been a busy Easter weekend for me, Friday had lunch at Pickle Barrel in Toronto with my bestie, Easter dinner #1 with my in laws yesterday and off to Oshawa for Easter dinner with my parents, brother, #1 phew and cousin Josh (DINNER MOOCH!!!).

Before I head off I wanted to show you the Easter card / egg I got from the best little 2 year old card maker in the world...thank you Adrian!! Does he know me or what? He insisted it had to be pink and have jewels!
Happy Easter to you and yours!!

Wicked Wednesday #76 Spring Fever

I don't know about you...but I am totally ready for spring...or at least a few hours of sunshine during the day. This week's challenge on the WICKED WEDNESDAY ATC CHALLENGE BLOG is Spring Fever. Since next weekend is Easter, I thought I would make an Easter themed punch art bunny ATC.

SUPPLIES:

wisteria wonder & concord crush cardstock (SU)
white cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)
design paper (SU)
happy everything stamp set (lawn fawn)
concord crush ink (SU)
1 1/4" & 1" circle punch, small oval punch, small heart punch & border punch (SU) 
Thanks for lookin!

Tim Holtz March 2013 Tag

Eeeeeeeeeeeee it's the start of another month!!! You know what THAT means!! Time for another Tim Holtz tag of 2013. Visit TIM'S BLOG so you can see his tag (and all the cool instructions that he provides).

Here's my tag for this month, I am pretty freakin' happy with how it came out if I do say so myself!

I started with a plain white tag and covered it with the striped DP. Then I distressed the edges of the tag and coloured it up with ink. Next I cut the oval and the bunny shape inside it (and inked that as well). Then I made the grass and the sentiment banner (distressed & inked those up as well).

The two pieces of ribbon I coloured with Distress Stains, that was fun, and came out better than I hoped (despite nearly setting the ribbon on FIRE with the heat gun). I even frayed the edges of the ribbon to give it a more distressed look, which is totally NOT me! I will usually cut a piece of ribbon repeatedly to get it not to fray...but in this case I think it works.

Here's a closer look at the grass and sentiment banner:

SUPPLIES:
White tag, DP from 6x6 paper pack (My Mind's eye), Gumball Green core-dinatons cardstock (SU), kraft cardstock (the paper company), blue glitter carstock (recollections), Early Espresso ink (SU), crumb cake seam binding ribbon (SU), faded blue jeans & picked raspberry distress stains (Tim Holtz), happy everything stamp set (Lawn Fawn),bunny die (impression obsession), prima flowers petal pins (from Feb 2013 Scraptures card kit).

Thanks for lookin!!

Happy Easter Bunny Butt!!

Christa posted a super cute punch art bunny card on Scraptures.
I have made bunny punch art cards before, but never from the back of the bunny...I thought they were sooooo cute I had to make "bunny butt" Easter cards for my family this year.

Here's the group of six bunny butts:

Here's a closer bunny butt perspective:

Thanks for lookin!

Easter Cards

I have wanted to try one of these frame cards for a while now, finally got around to making one, so cute and easy...

This one was posted by Ter on Stampin' Canada...flower made from the large oval punch, then the top is fed back ito the scallop punch for the petals...

Another quickie Easter card...

Here's a quickie Easter card that I made as part of Stampin Canada's virtual crop day (VCD) today.

I am soooooo in love with this bunny stamp...thanks Val!!

Easter Class - April 1

Here's a quick sneak peek at the cards we'll be making in our Easter class tomorrow night.

Will also be making a top note Easter basket - that darn thing wouldn't scan, so I will have to post a pic when I remember to bring my digital camera home from work :)

Easter chick / egg card:

Easter flowers card:

Hinge card closed:

Hinge card open:

Easter's coming...

Only a few weeks until Easter...


Stampin Canada (see links) is having an Easter Bunny swap...here's the card I made for my recipient...shhhhh can't say who she is yet, but here's a hint....Hoooooooooooo haaaaaaa :)

Virtual Crop Day part 2

Here are more cards / projects we worked on for Stampin' Canada's Virtual Crop Day today.

Bag in a Box project:

Quilted card:

Easter Sketch Challenge:

Colour Pallete Challenge:

Non Traditional Colour Challenge: