Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!


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Easter Wishes

Easter is right around the corner! Don't these cute little chicks look festive or are you too distracted by the foiled covered milk chocolate eggs? Mmmm! My photography skills are lacking, so I thought the little props might enhance my photo.

I love to emboss! The very first card making class I ever took was an embossing class. They utilized the old brass embossing templates and a stylus with a light table. I was so thrilled with the technique and what I created, I bought everything I needed to emboss and went to town with it! I still have my old collection of brass templates. Stampin' Up! still sells some of these on page 188 in the IB&C. I am totally spoiled now with my Big Shot and embossing folders which make things much easier and quicker!

My new favorite embossing product is Stampin' Up! Texturz Plates. The one I used for the chicks white background on this Easter card is called Perfect Details. The Texturz Plates come double-sided and measure 8" x 5-7/8". You simply run them through your Big Shot using the Multipurpose Platform, Impressions Pad, and Silicone Rubber. Stampin Up sells three different packages of these.

I'm off to buy my Easter ham and maybe some more foiled eggs. The ones in the picture . . . gone!

Enjoy your Sunday and happy stamping!


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Recipe for Easter Wishes Card (all supplies from Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: A Good Egg (#114974), All Holidays (#114916)
Ink: Basic Gray, Watercolor Pencils (#101879), Blender Pens (#102845)
Card Stock: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst
Designer Series Paper: Tea Party (#113992)
Tools: Perfect Details Texturz Plates (#115962), white uni-ball Signo Gel Pen (#105021)

Hippity Hoppity . . .

Easter is on the way! I just put in the mail all my Easter cards this morning.

This is one of the last Easter cards I made. I just love this little bunny from the new SU! occasions mini catalog called Eight Great Greetings.

I made a soft pink shadow behind the stamped bunny using Stampin' Pastels (chalk). The beautiful background paper is from the SU! Tea Party Designer Series Paper. It's perfect paper for Spring and Summer cards.

Are you ready for Easter? I'm getting there. We are going to color eggs tomorrow night. Thursday evening we will take Brandon for his picture with the Easter bunny. Friday I need to grocery shop and Saturday is the Easter egg hunt at the zoo. Busy week! All fun!!!

Have a wonderful day and thank you for visiting my blog!

Recipe (all products from Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted)

Stamps: Eight Great Greeting (SU!) and Hero Arts (Easter Greetings)

Designer Series Paper - Tea Party

Cardstock & Ink: Green Galore, Pretty in Pink, Barely Banana, Basic Black

Accessories: Prima flowers, Making Memories brads, Pink satin ribbon

Tools: Nestabilities

Spring has Sprung!

Good morning! I am just writing up a quick little post today because I will be off shortly for some retail therapy. I'm very excited!!!

Spring has sprung, but we actually woke up to a little snow yesterday! Typical Erie, PA weather. I was not surprised. Since the weather didn't look like spring, I thought my creation today would!

The design of the card was created using the card sketch challenge SC219 from Splitcoaststampers website. Click HERE to view the challenge. I made a little matching pillow box using the SU! Pillow Box Bigz Die to add a little something sweet to.

Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for visiting today!

Recipe:
Stampin' Up! Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Blush Blossom, Whisper White
Patterned Paper: Imaginisce
Stampin' Up! Stamps: Miracle of Spring (retired)
Stampin' Up! Craft Ink: Whisper White
Stampin' Up! Punches: 5-Petal Flower, 3/4" circle
Stampin' Up! Pillow Box Bigz Dies
Stampin' Dimensionals
Stickles Diamond Glitter

3 Little Chicks

Spring is in the air! Tomorrow it's supposed to get near 50 degrees here. Heat wave!!

I have an organizational unit in my craft room where I store all my holiday stamps. There are one or two drawers for each major holiday. I opened the Easter drawer to see what goodies were in there and came across these three little chicks that is a stamp from Magenta. Aren't they sweet?

I started this Easter card using Lovely Lilac SU! cardstock for the card base. The fun green polka dot paper is from DCWV Spring Collection. I stamped my image in black and colored in the chicks with SU! YoYo Yellow, Only Orange, Lovely Lilac, and Pretty in Pink. The background was lightly colored in green using watercolor pencils and a blender pen. I cut out each stamped image and layered it on top a piece of Basic Gray cardstock. I used Whisper White cardstock and the Scallop Edge punch to add another layer above my chicks. The finishing touch was adding Prima flowers.

I hope you are having a great week! My son & I are still recovering from our colds. They are just hanging on a little bit. Last night I was very excited to purchase tickets to see Joel Osteen in Columbus, OH in May! He is such an inspiration and I've wanted to catch one of his events for several years now. I'm very excited to be going!

Enjoy the rest of your day and stop back soon! Take care and happy stamping!

you crack me up

A Good Egg is one of my all time favorite Easter stamp sets from Stampin' Up! It's so cute and I just love the saying "you crack me up". It also comes with a "happy easter" greeting too. You can have a lot of fun with this set and get creative with it.

I think I need to make a more masculine version of this card for my son for Easter. My idea is to include on the inside of the card some fun things he does that "cracks me up"! It will be a good remembrance to have. Today he slide into my husbands shoes and walked around in them saying he is daddy. He told me I have to call him and daddy, "daddy". I told him those were pretty big shoes to fill and his response was "yep". Does he sound like a 3 year old to you? He always puts a smile on my face!

I hope you are having a great weekend and getting in some scrapbooking or stamping. Thank you for stopping by & I'll be back again soon!


All supplies for this card are from Stampin' Up!
Stamps: A Good Egg
Designer Series Paper: Spring Fling (retired)
Cardstock: Mellow Moss, Kraft, Whisper White
Punches: Scallop Circle, Ticket, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle, 1" circle
Silver brads
White grosgrain ribbon
Stampin Dimensionals