Easter Favors

Hi blog friends!

I know I'm late with an Easter post, but I wanted to share 

with you the favors I made for my Easter guests.

As usual, I decided pretty last minute that I would 

make something for each place setting.

I don't know why I do this, I know I like to have something

for my guests, but always decide to make it at the last minute.

A couple days before Easter I picked up some things for 

the favors and the day before I decided that I would make

little tags to go on the bags.

I did a few different designs, all stamps from my stash

from when I was on a few design teams.

I've been playing with ink lately and making

background sheets to use when I need them.

This was what was left after I made the tags.

I used alcohol inks on some glossy paper

and I love the results.

Each goodie bag had a little package of 

chocolate chip cookies, some orange chocolate

sponge candy, and a few Reese's cups and Cadbury mini eggs.

Here they are all ready to go on the table.

This one is made with 

Daydreaming Bunny

This one is 

Happy Duckling

This one is

Bunny with Flowers

There were 3 of the guys that love hot sauce

and since we had ham and they love it on ham,

I thought it would be the perfect little favor for them.

All the images were stamped with VersaFine, Onyx Black ink

colored with colored pencils, fussy cut, then adhered to the back

ground piece.

The sentiment is from a set that I got on clearance, 

because it had no outer wrapping, so I have no idea what

company it is from.

This is what each place setting looked like.

We had a wonderful Easter and I hope you did too.

Like I said, I know it's late for an Easter post,

but this kind of favor can be done for any 

dinner or event, it can be pulled together 

very quickly.

You don't have to stamp, color and fussy cut

everything.  You can just as easily, stamp a sentiment,

trim it down and put it on a little goodie bag, candy bar

or whatever you like.

I love doing this for my guests.

Thanks for stopping in today,

I hope you'll pop in again soon.

Until then,

create something beautiful.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Little Bunny

Hello!  Welcome back.

Easter is almost here and I'm showing y'all 

some of the cards I made.  Guess I better get them

ready to send out, eh?

Today I'm showing you 3 cards of the same 

design.

I had stamped and colored these little bunnies,

then couldn't decide what to do with them.

They are "Bunny With Flowers"

They seemed much too small to just put on the 

front of a card.

Then I came up with the idea of putting them on

a small folded piece and adding that to a larger 

background piece.

Inside the small "cards" I simply stamped

"Happy Easter"

I love this Easter greeting, I don't know what 

company this is from, I got it in a set that was on

clearance, because it had no outer package and one

greeting was missing.

I decided the background of the "little card" needed

something, so I used a small stamp and

added some flowers to the background.

That was just the right addition to finish it off.

All the backgrounds were from my stash

and were all done on watercolor paper

and water colors of one kind or another.

Here's a close up of this last card,

I used a different little flower stamp for this one.

All the bunnies were colored with colored pencils

and then fussy cut.  They were adhered with foam tape to

the little card and it was adhered to the background with 

ATG tape.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

think outside the box and try something

a little different.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Cute as a Bug!

It's time for another Eureka! Stamps Challenge.

This week the theme is Pregnancy/Baby

I chose to do a double page scrapbook layout

of my daughter when she was a baby. 

I used several different stamps from

Eureka! Stamps

for this project.

All images were colored with FlexMarkers

Many of the images are only a portion of the original image.

I just colored the parts I wanted and fussy cut them.

Here are the images I used. 

They are available in digital format,

but I used red rubber stamps for all of mine.

"Lg Chicks in Egg" (#3406)

"Bunny with Flowers" (#13407)

"Baby Animals (#40204) 

"Lady Bug Border" (#25302)

"Party Poopers" (#14303)

 

"Not Corrected" (#5310)

 

"Lion Balloon" (#8009)

"Parrot Balloon" (#23906)

 

"Monkey Balloon" (#24101)

"Moose Balloon"  (#11804)

 

I hope you have been inspired in some way and will join the

Eureka! Stamps Challenge.

For all the details about the challenge pop on over to

The Eureka! Stamps Blog

and join in the fun.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

 

 

 



Stamped Easter Eggs

The day before Easter, I decided that I should make some Easter eggs and that I should try stamping on them and coloring them with my new FlexMarkers from Letraset.  FlexMarkers are alcohol markers, much like the Copics that are very popular.  Letraset is a company out of the UK.

I had won them (from Going Buggy, one of my favorite blogs)  and just received them in the mail the day before and was itching to try them out.

So I boiled up some eggs and set about gathering some of my stamps.

I learned a few things in the process.

*It is pretty difficult to stamp onto eggs.

*Ink doesn't dry very well on eggs.

*Ink doesn't clean off the eggs very easily.

*Even heat setting doesn't work all that well.

*I don't think this is something I will be doing again.

I found that getting a nice clear, unsmudged image was very difficult,

consequently, you will see that there are some areas that are missing a bit of the image and others where there is a bit of a smudge.

None the less, here are the 3 eggs that are good enough for anyone to see.  I had 10 eggs that I worked on and 3 that were decent.

For the first one I used "Bunny with Flowers" (#13407) from

Eureka! Stamps.

The other two were made with "Happy Duckling" (#6807) from

QKR Stampede, both the same stamp, but colored a little differently.

How can they be the same image and one duckling looks happier and one looks a bit worried?

Since I only had 3 eggs that I wanted my company to see, this is how I "displayed" them on the dinner table.

So if you have any thoughts about stamping on eggs, here is what I'd recommend.

*Use small images, they will be easier to stamp.

*Maybe alcohol markers aren't the best choice as they can't be used with all kinds of ink and will cause the ink to run.

*Water color crayons may be another choice, although I didn't try them, so who knows?!?!

*Lastly, maybe it's not a good idea to decide to do this the night before you need them done.  LOL! Leave it to me to wait till the last minute.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing my eggs and maybe you have been inspired to try something different and new.

Take that leap, experiment, try different techniques and supplies. 

You never know what you'll discover.

Leave a comment if you wish and maybe tell me something different that you have tried.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!