A CASE of Easter Lilies

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER # 212 - CorieFoster who has a lovely gallery.
I decided to CASE her THYMES & QFTD03 Card. I kept the layout but changed the embossing folder to Victorian, colors to Daffodil Delight and the image to an Easter Lily. I also used yellow ribbon instead of white.
My image is from MARKS FINEST PAPERS called "He Is The Lamb" and was stamped in Momento Tuxedo Black then colored with copics Y00, Y02, Y04, Y08, YG93 and YG95. After coloring I cut the image out and popped it up on the white oval matted on Daffodil scalloped oval both where cut then embossed.
I love how this turned out and hope you do too. Now I should be relaxing today to get ready for another stressful work week but I am off to work in ICU again.
Have a beautiful Sunday everyone else.
RECIPE:
Stamps: He Is The Lamb - MFP
Paper: white, daffodil delight
Ink: momento tuxedo black
Accessories: copics, Cuttlebug, Nesties Ovals, Nesties Scallop Ovals, stickles
Techniques: dry emboss, 3D, copic coloring

Coloring Easter Eggs

Are these eggs cute or what? I have not colored eggs in a while. I had such a fun time coloring these and then decorating them. Our 7 grandchildren are headed over tomorrow afternoon for an egg hunt. I have these 12 real eggs, 12 large prize eggs, and 40 small prize eggs. I can not wait to see them try to find all of these. The last time we let them hunt eggs here at our house Jessie was still finding plastic eggs in August. LOL. Hope to have some great pics to share tomorrow night.

Tiny Easter Basket

This is for today's FREE 4 ALL # 4 - Colorful Baskets. Sylvia challenged us to create a 3d project or a basket on a card using Perfect Plum, Barely Banana, and Old Olive. I found a tutorial in SCS for this darling TINY TREAT BASKET and went to work. I printed out this cute Easter basket in black, olive, and plum all sized the same then I cut out an egg from the olive & plum colors and paper pieced them in the black basket that was then colored with copics and cut out. I used Perfect Plum pattern paper for my basket and white for the Martha Stewart picket fence border. My ribbon is secured with banana colored brads. The sentiment on the back side (right pic) is matted on barely banana then perfect plum cs. I filled this basket with some speckled Malted milked balls that I just love this time of year.
RECIPE:
Paper: white, perfect plum cs, perfect plum pp, barely banana
Accessories: copics, ribbon, brads, slot punch

Easter Chick Free Standing Pop Up

This is for today's FREE 4 ALL # 2 CHALLENGE - Free Standing Pop Up. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 260 - Always Crushing Grays. I used a hint of gray for shadowing under the eggs but it is there. My base was made using some digital designer paper that will be released next Wednesday from TREEHOUSE STAMPS DIGITAL LINE and is paired with a set just released from Treehouse Stamps called Easter Chicks. I colored with copics. Tag was trimmed inside and out so that it became a frame. It is from Beary Birthday Digital set. I cut out a 2nd bow, colored and popped it up. The tag layer is matted on crushed curry. The sentiment is matted in crushed curry and always artichoke with the eggs free standing when the card is open. I had a hard time trying to get a pic of this thing closed. It will lay in a fold but it springs right back up. It will NOT lay flat and stay so I did the best I could. This will fold flat and fit in an envelope for mailing purposes. I love how this turned out.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Easter Chicks, Beary Birthday, Easter Egg Digital dp - Treehouse Stamps Digital Line
Paper: white, crushed curry, always artichoke
Accessories: copics, dimensionals
Techniques: Free Standing Pop Up Card

Easter Basket Sneak Peek

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Ribbons & Trim. I used a Martha Stewart Border punch on the yellow matt under my Easter Egg Digital DP and sheer yellow and orange ribbon for my bow. My image is also a digital image. Both the digital image and digital dp are due for release Thursday, Feb 25th from TREEHOUSE STAMPS DIGITAL LINE. I colored the focal image with copics. On the digital dp I changed the color of the yellow eggs to orange and left the yellow dots on them then covered them with stickles. My main panel is orange and all of the orange is for Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Orange Love. My layout is from today's GET SKETCHY # 26. I trimmed my focal image with Nestie Labels 3 then sponged the inside with Only Orange ink before coloring with copis then added some stickles to the eggs. Hope you like it.

RECIPE:

Stamps: Joyful Blessings, Easter Digital Paper - Treehouse Stamps digital Line
Paper: white, orange, yellow, Easter Digital DP
Ink: Only Orange
Accessories: Nesties Label 3, copics, Stickles
Techniques: copic coloring, digital images, digital dp

Paper Pieced Easter Digi Sneak Peek

This is for today's TREEHOUSE THURSDAY CHALLENGE # 37 - Paper Piecing Featuring Anne Harada. I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 268 for my layout. My stamp sets I used are Joyful Blessings and Easter Chicks. Just 2 of many that will be released next Thursday from the digital line at TREEHOUSE STAMPS. I love paper piecing and this is an example of using this technique with digital images. I made the inside of the eggs transparant and moved them onto the Spring 1 digital designer paper leaving the background white for my frame. The striped dp is also from Treehouse Stamps Digital paper Spring 1 available now. Image and sentiment are trimmed with some WM cs in pink and mint green. Come on and play along with the rest of us challenge junkies, just be sure to include THT037 in your keywords so we can see what you made.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Easter Chicks, Joyful Blessings - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: Digital Paper Spring 1, white, pink, mint green
Accessories: digital images, digital paper, dimensionals
Techniques: Paper Piecing, 3D

Easter Basket Matchbook Candy Holder

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 258 - Soft Perfect Plums with Critters for Dessert and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 260 - Matchbook Candy Holder. These are just too easy and too precious to not make more of them. This time I used an Easter Basket image from High Hopes. My image was colored with copics. Front and inside panels are matted on pale plum then perfect plum. YEAH! I got my brads in the right place this time. Whoopeee. My critter is my layered butterflies from the Martha Stewart triple butterfly punch.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Easter Basket - HH
Paper: white, pale plum, perfect plum
Ink: graphite black, perfect plum
Accessories: stamp-a-ma-jig, crystal gem, brads, MS Butterfly punch,
Techniques: Matchbook Candy Holder

Frosted Cute Bunny Sneak Peek

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 257 - Chocolate Durango Shadows and another one for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 259 - Frosted Windows. I love this weeks TLC so much I had to do another. I printed my digital image on white cs then on vellum, colored the vellum with SU markers and the cs with copics. My image and sentiment are due to be released in just 2 more days from TREEHOUSE STAMPS DIGITAL LINE. Ashley has been drawing away. I love this darling bunny and decided he needed to be a chocolate bunny, yum yum. After coloring I trimmed my vellum and cs layers with Labels # 7 from my stock of Nestabilities. I adhered the white layer to my dusty durango and then hand trimmed around it for a mat layer. I have the vellum raised up with tiny circle dimensionals and that is covered by the crystal jems. I did not want to take the focus away from this darling image so I kept my card CAS. I love how it turned out, how about you?
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cute Bunny, Hoppy Day - THS
Paper: white, dusty durango
Ink: choc chip, sage shadow, dusty durango
Accessories: dimensionals, crystal jems, Nestability Label 7
Techniques: Frosted Window

A New Easter Someone

I am so glad to be back home so I can participate in the challenges. I was going through withdrawals. LOL. This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Bashful Saffron Cocoa for my color combo. This is also for Monday's OUR CREATIVE CORNER CHALLENGE - Easter. I used the bunny from A New Little Someone for my focal image. The sentiment is from A Good Egg set both from Stampin Up. I stamped the bunny in Esspresso ink then colored with copics. The sentiment is stamped in bashful blue and popped up on dimensions. Panel 2 is saffron cs trimmed with my brand new Fiskars Leaf border punch. Have I told you that I have a paper punch fetish? LOL! I used some close to cocoa pattern paper for the base. I really like how this turned out but what do you think?
RECIPE:
Stamps: A New Little Someone, A Good Egg
Paper: White, Close to Cocoa, CTC Pattern Paper, So Saffron, Bashful Blue
Ink: Espresso, bashful blue
Accessories: ribbon, Fiskars Leaf Border

Treat Basket

Well I was not at all happy with my 1st attempt at this so I will have to try again maybe later today. Just no MOJO. This plain and blah treat basket is for today's TECHNQIUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Mini Easter Basket. I used some CS and DP I have had for yrs that I got at Michaels. The base is the same as the border trim. I attached my handle on the ends for stability. I finally found some Robin Eggs, YEA! Maybe my Mojo will creep in later today. If not see everyone tomorrow for the CC. LOL


Well I decided to try another one of today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Mini Easter Basket. I think I like this one better. I used a stamp from All Holidays and used my quickutz balloon punch to match the balloons on the liner dp. The balloons are popped up on a giga scallop oval punched piece of the cs I used as my base. I may consider making these in black and white for my dh 50th birthday celebration in August.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Holidays
Ink: ballet blue
Accessories: Giga oval scallop, quickutz balloon

Inspired Curious Bunny

Well this site is wonkers today, it loaded me before I said to load. Anway this is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Fitz and Floyd. I was so inspired by all of the bunnies in this site I had to dirty my brand new image from High Hopes. This is also for Friday's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Bug Me and Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Going Green. The appricot appeal base is from a recent failed attempt. The bunny is also stamped on some white Ga Pacific CS that was left in the printer and dh printed on it. oops! I stamped the image in black brilliance and colored just the bow and inside of the ear. I stamped the butterfly colored with prismacolor pencils, blended w/gamsol, cut it out and popped it up. I applied some stickles to the butterfly also. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Curious Bunny - High Hope
Paper: Apricot Appeal, bashful blue, white
Ink: cameo coral, black brilliance, bashful blue
Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, gamsol blending medium, stickles
Techniques: Gamsol Magic, 3d

HH Easter Basket

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - On Your Mark.get set.... It took me longer to upload this cutie than it did to make it. LOL. After a 12hr day in ICU again yesturday I needed a quick and easy challenge and this was perfect. The best thing about yesturday was I had happy mail when I got home. A bag full of new rubbah from HIGH HOPES STAMP COMPANY. YEH! my order came. I spent this morning cutting and painting so when I finished I just had to get something new dirty. LOL. This Easter Basket is so cute and I knew it would make not only a quick but a cute card. I used my Marvy square scallop punches for layers and some SU ribbon my dd shared with me. I applied stickles to the eggs. I really like how this turned out. HOpe you do to.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Easter Basket - HH
Paper: Non SU yellow, purple, orange, white
Ink: only orange, brilliance black
Accessories: ribbon, scallop square punches, stickles, copics

Count Your Blessings

OK by all rights we should be packed and headed for Lake City,FL to THE BATTLE OF OLUSTEE but life sometimes interfers with our plans. Jessie is sick and it is supposed to rain all day Saturday. A cold wet ground and sitting inside of a tent all weekend is no fun but certainly not when you are not well. This is the main event of the year that we always look forward to going to. (insert pout). So we are driving down Sunday for the day which means I had time to stamp before heading to work. YEH!!

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Stretch Yourself where we were to use at least 2 things we did not normally use and list them. Well if you search my gallery you will find only a couple of cards with WIDE ribbon bc I do not do well with it. Just can not get it to work. Also when I do a SC that has a lot of layers I usually cheat some. Shannon says I am cheap I say frugile. LOL. Anyway today each layer is matted and the main image and cut out are both popped up. And since I don't usually attempt more than 1 challenge (teehee) I have 4 in this one. I stamped this gorgeous cross in perfect plum on some canvas material I had left over from making Jessie's gun sack to carry in camp for Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Fabric. Then I glued that to some chipboard which I also never use and cut it out. I really love the effect this gave. I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Perfect Pink Kiwis. The cross, sentiment and corner designs are from a brand new just released set from TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY. I am still not sure I like how the ribbon turned out just bc that is out of my comfort zone. I heated the ends of the ribbon to make them twist. I applied some stickles to the corner designs. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Count Your Blessings - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: pink pirouette CS & PP, Perfect Plum CS & PP, kiwi kiss
Ink: perfect Plum
Accessories: chipboard, wide ribbon, stickles