It had been awhile since I have played with my 49 and Market goodies so I got them out for the birthday card I needed. I find I love putting together, these papers, rub ons and ephemera as much as I like stamping and die cutting.
Time to do some more stamping and add a bird of course :) I hadn't used my Gina K Wreath builder template in quite some time so I broke it out along with some stamps I had found at the Dollar store, this set had 11 stamps in it, and they stamp well too. I stamped colored and fussy cut 3 of the flowers and popped them up on the wreath.
In our cardmaking group, Cindi who posts our Christmas challenges, always posts on the first of the month. So on April 1st she said she wanted us to use Bunnies on our cards, she also gave us a sketch to use if we wanted. At the end of her post she said April Fool's but said if we actually did have bunnies to go ahead and use them.
So I went looking through my Christmas stuff and came across another cardmaking magazine from the UK that had these decoupage pieces that you punch out and sure enough there were bunnies with the snowmen :) I will be hand delivering them to my local friends since there is so much layering and dimension.
This first one as I was going along the way they had cut them they just were not lining up well so I would go in and try to trim to the one below, it was a bit of a pain.
Our group got together for another on line card making session. This time we did a little ink smooshing, using our acrylic blocks, adding some water base ink pens to the acrylic block, misting with some water and then applying to the card. We got our measurements a little off, I should have went in farther from the outside of the card, like 3/4 of an inch instead of 1/4 inch, but it still worked out I think so I went with it.
Since I don't mail square cards since that costs more I will be hand delivering this card to my friend.
HE is Risen indeed, these are the last two of the Easter cards I made this year. I wanted to use a cross and I thought that I could emboss some kraft cardstock and cut them into strips. I added a couple sticker flowers to finish it off. The background was done with a stencil, the stencil is not big enough for the card, so I inked half the background and then flipped the paper and did the other half.
I was in need of another male birthday card with no inspiration so I started going through all my stuff and came across these images from a cardmaking magazine and went with that, adding a die cut vine to give it a little something extra.
I just love blue and white plates and bowls, I actually put them on my wedding list and my older sister bought us two place settings, and that is all we got. I never have bought anymore, but I still love it to this day. Well when I saw Connie's post from Crafty Home cottage where she used this beautiful washi tape on her kitchen cupboards, I thought oh I need to get some of that and use it on my cards, she told me she found them on Amazon, so away I went and found all kinds there, using a little bit of it here on my card for borders. I used one of my coloring calendar images that I thought would be a perfect design to go with it.
I did not have enough time to post all my cards the other day, so back with a few more.
My hubby took me to a scrapbook store over in Missouri for my birthday and I found these beautiful papers with ephemera that I just couldn't pass up for Spring and Easter cards.
My Friend Birgit gifted me with this beautiful butterfly, I love the layers and the pretty details to it. I had to go a bit vintage looking with it, it spoke to me like that :) The friend I am giving it too likes vintage.
I needed another masculine card, and I have been collecting a lot of ephemera here lately, so I thought I would go through and see if any of them would be good for a guys card and I think I found them :)
Using more of my Advent Calendar dies, isn't this bee just the cutest and brings a smile to your face :) I like the big bold letters of the sentiment die from the Diamond Press Advent Calendar too!
It is sure signs of spring out there, our grass is greening up and growing strong, the trees flowers are starting to pop up and trees are getting their leaves, so love it!
Todays card is using another coloring calendar I haven't used in awhile, colored with pencils. This card is being hand delivered so I could go ahead and use my big gems on it :)
I am a little late posting my March Christmas cards but I did manage to get 5 done. Our Challenge was to use stars.
Starting with these two snowman stickers that had stars with them.
