Some Spring Cards...

I got to play a little bit today with some new stamps and my March Counterfeit Kit.  I struggled a bit with these colors, and I'm not quite sure that I was successful.  Getting inky made me happy, though!  Here are the 4 cards that I made today-but I still have a ton of paper in my kit that I want to use up!  I see a few more blue and yellow cards being created before the weekend is over. :)

This card uses some older stamp images from Hero Arts and Art Impressions.  My wonderful sister-in-law, Patti (the one who got me hooked on stamping a few years ago), recently passed all of her stamping supplies along to a few lucky recipients.  This is a thank you that I made for her using some of those stamps. 

I am in love with this little bunny stamp from Unity and Jillibean Soup's "Chicken Dumpling".  Isn't he sweet?  This is a super-simple CAS card that used just a few scraps of patterned paper from my kit.

I'm not quite sure about this card.  I think it needs a "pop" of color somewhere.  What do you think?  I think it just may be a bit too much blue for me.  I love the white lace over the kraft, however.  To make the kraft border, I traced a blue die cut border from my kit onto kraft, trimmed it with scissors, then used a brass stencil to dry-emboss the edge.  You can see just a hint of it in the picture.  Adds a little "oomph". :)

This card is super bright and cheery.  I used a Hero Arts flower set and a "vintage" sentiment from PSX (another pressie from my SIL.)  The blue and green patterned paper on the bottom is actually a journaling box that was on the back of one of my kit papers.  It worked perfectly as flower stems!  I added some bling to the centers and a little notch to the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today-and remember the Lily Pad Cards' Birthday Blog Hop starts tomorrow morning at 9 AM!  Lots of inspiration and goodies up for grabs!

Vintage Easter Bunny

I just finished a last minute Easter card based on this week's sketch at Card Patterns. I picked up this adorable bunny stamp a few weeks ago at A.C. Moore for just a buck, but have been a little hesitant to use it because it's not my usual "cutesy" style. I paired it with some Anna Griffin polka-dot paper, antique lace, Imaginisce flowers and SEI pearls. How's that for a hodge-podge of materials? :) I love that I made a teeny tiny dent in my stash. I may have to make some more of these before Sunday (minus the handstitching around the edge. Too time-consuming for multiple cards!) Speaking of the stitching, I added that so that it would fit with another web challenge-this on for Embellish magazine. Their challenge was to use kraft, light pink and light aqua, plus incorporate some sort of stitching.

I want to wish you all a very Happy Easter. Hope the bunny hops by to visit you!

Happy Day, Happy Easter, Happy Everything!

Have you ever had one of those days where EVERYTHING just goes right? Today is one of those days for me. Actually, the past 24 hours. And I gotta tell ya, Denami Design has had everything to do with it! First of all, I found out yesterday that my "Bake Shoppe" card (from my last post) won the Denami Sketch Contest! I was so excited-that company is seriously generous with its prizes. Lots of new stamps, embossing powders, etc. And as if that wasn't enough, I found out today that I was chosen for the Denami Design Team! I was so excited-my daughter and I did a "happy dance"! Our two dogs wanted to join in (they LOVE happy dances!) so the four of us did a"happy dance" in the living room. Anyone who happened to peek in our windows would have been convinced that we were absolutely nuts!

I am sharing two of the cards that I made using stamps from Denami Design. The first one features a Mimi stamp-is she not THE most stylish gal out there? I paper-pieced the image using patterned papers from Bo Bunny that I received from another generous company, Northridge Media. (They sent me a goody box when one of my cards was published in Cards magazine.) I finished the card with a fabulous red ribbon sash (also by Denami Designs.)

The second card is so different, although it also features an image, ribbon, and button from Denami Design. After making my egg-shaped card base, I cut a circle from the card front and nested my image inside, so that it is still visible when you open the card. This card features new papers from SEI and Recollections pearls from Michael's.

I am off to do some scrapbooking (that's right-an actual layout!) for the Imaginisce blog. It's been ages since I did a layout...hopefully I can get back in the swing of things. (The new Lucy Bird paper from Imaginisce is adorable, so I'm sure it won't be too hard!)
Don't forget to check back tomorrow for my latest card for the Get Sketchy Challenge. I tried something new, and I was very pleased with the results!

Easter card for Jellybean...

Maybe I'm dating myself, but have you ever said, "Know what I mean, Jellybean?" Well, I said this to my daughter a while ago and she looked at me like I had three heads. Her reply: "Um, not really, Lollipop." So our nicknames for eachother came to be-she is Jellybean and I am Lollipop. People probably look at the two of us like we each have three heads whenever we say these nicknames.

So that's the story behind this Easter card. I wanted to do something cute with the bunny, so I stamped him twice, cut him out and sandwiched a piece of white floss in between the two images. The other end of the floss is adhered behind the eggs and grass, so he can "hop" across the card (with a little help from Jellybean, of course.) The sentiment is personalized with her nickname-I just cut the "s" off the word "jellybeans". I'm not in the habit of cutting up my expensive stamps, but I don't mind cutting up my Studio G's. For a buck a set, if I really want the original sentiment, I will buy two packages. You could also use markers and just ink the part of the image that you want to stamp. I usually use a full-size black inkpad, though, so cutting the stamp was easier for me. (Yes, I am a WEE bit lazy.)

The bunny and the eggs-and-grass stamps are also from Studio G. To make the border, I simply masked the eggs-and-grass stamp and used it along the width of my paper. The sentiment and cloud are both by Hero Arts.

Don't forget the giveaway from my last post! Just leave a comment and become a follower of the blog-I am giving away a copy of the March/April issue of Papercrafts (which also includes a Tips & Tricks CD) to a random reader. Thanks for stopping by today!