"In Your Easter Bonnet..."

Pals Paper Arts #34

 
A festive Easter Bonnet for PPA's sketch challenge this week.  I titled this card after the song, The Easter Parade, a very popular Easter song .  At Easter, in the church where my father preaches, he started a tradition to get all the women to wear hats or bonnets on Easter Sunday.  Of course, the women were more than happy to oblige him, but on one condition......that he wear a 'bonnet' as well.  So, my father will wear a beret or a nice type driver's cap on Easter Sunday and have his picture taken with all the women in the church. Thankfully, he lives in WV and I do not have to partake of this tradition (I hate hats except for my Red Sox cap)! I am much happier making bonnets for cards.

I inked the edges of two layers of paper and the bonnet to give it a more old time spring feel since hats were all the rage many decades ago. 

Easter Blessings!



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Wreath of Easter Joy

 

Two weeks before Easter and just like everyone else, I'm heavy into getting those Easter cards finished!  Here is a colorful one using the color challenge at The Color Dare.  I thought it was perfect for my idea to create an Easter wreath of Easter eggs. I used to have an Easter wreath made out of Easter eggs a long time ago.  Who knows where it went.  Anyway, I started this card earlier today (Monday), but it just wasn't coming together.  Probably had to do with the fact that I had no DP paper in those colors at all without at least two or three other colors too.

So, since I had to take my son to soccer practice, I decided to kill the 90 minutes at the local craft store browsing.  What happened is that I came home with a bag full of craft goodies including this wonderful multi-colored circle pattern and the ribbon!  Not only does the paper have all the colors for Color Dare, but it also fits with the challenge at Crafty Creations to use 'spots and dots'.  What luck!  I even got the cute transparent sticky dots on the eggs!

For the wreath, I used the Sizzix scallop circle with frame  (saved the frame for another project).  I stamped the Easter greeting in the middle of the circle and then glued the eggs around the edge of it.  Then, I used the Sizzix clear circle scallop for the outer wreath and embossed it with the Quick Kutz flower emboss folder.  I originally came up with the idea of using my Cuttlebug Xmas wreath emboss folder and to embellish it with the eggs and gems.  However, it just didn't work too well.  And, I love the final look of the wreath with the double scallop layers.

The green dot embossed paper is not the back of the Basicgrey DP.  I stuck it on after folding back the corner of the other DP.  At that point, I really loved the card but felt it needed something in that upper right corner, so the reason for the bunny.

SPIES:

Stamp:  Sentiment - Craft Smart
Paper:  DP -Lime Rickey from Basicgrey.  Embossed Green Dots - DCWV.
Ink:  Versamark with turquoise emboss powder.
Extras:  Striped ribbon, transparent dot stickies; Sizzix bunny diecut and two  circle dies.  EK Success mini egg punch.


Dazzling Challenges:

The Color Dare  Color Challenge
Crafty Creations:  Spots & Dots
Our Creative Corner:  Easter
Lexi's Creations:  Easter


Smiles!


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Spring Chicks

Dazzling Challenges:

SPCC: Color Challenge
Sweet Sunday:  Sketch
Bee Crafty:  Digi Stamp/Spring Theme
Crazy4Challenges:  Spring


SPIES:

Stamps:  Digital Stamp -Tiny Friends from Soft Pencil.
Paper:  Colored cardstock.  Plaid DP.
Ink:  Watercolor pencils and Marvy pens.
Extras:  Yellow gingham ribbon; yellow flower button; raspberry buttons; yellow button; yellow and raspberry flower brads. 






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Happy Easter

CPS

A festive Easter card.  I had some new Easter DP I've been wanting to use and so even though I wasn't able to get this entered in time for the challenge at CPS, I still used their sketch  because it compliments my stamp trio.  It's also a very classic layout.  The bunny, egg and sentiment made a good stamp trio that I found in a bargain bin.

Now I'm off to 'Spring Forward'!





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Hippity Hoppity

It is finally beginning to feel like spring around here. Of course, spring time many times means wet and soggy weather and that is exactly what the southeast is experiencing for the next few days.  No bother.  Gives me the excuse to stay indoors and craft!

I made this card yesterday and didn't have time to post it.  I have had the idea for it brewing for a while.  So while I was perusing the world of card challenges that I normally participate in, I came across  Ann's Creative Nook, Challenge #80- White On White.  Thus, the work commenced.  Since I found her challenge via Pile It On, I noticed that they were having a color challenge as well that fit my card as well .So I decided to try multi-challenges.  I think the most I have done is maybe three at one time.  This time, there are five.  Probably if I look long enough I could add to that number, but I don't think I will.  The list of challenges that I entered this card into is below my 'spies'.

Stamps:  Hippity Hoppity from Craft Smart
Paper:  White cardstock. DP from stock.
Ink:  Memories Blush
Extras:  Paisley and tiny dots emboss folders from Cuttlebug; egg punch, butterfly punch - EK Success; clear and pink gems; lace ribbon.  Paper crimper.

Challenges:
Ann's Creative Nook:  Challenge #80 - White On White
Pile It On: - The One You Must - One Color + A Neutral
Stampin B's:  Spring or Easter card
Stamp Something:  Girly card
Flutter By Wednesday: Open challenge - just include butterfly, fairy or angel

I must say that I love the blog, Pile It On, it's a kind of 'one stop shop' for challenges and some of my favorites are listed there.  So, hop on over and take a look yourself, if you don't already!




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Bunny Layers

  

  

  

Sweet Sunday Sketch #57

  

ColorQ #21

It was a very cold day today, the wind brought temps down in the 20s.  A far cry from 62 this past Sunday!  So, what's a gal to do when it's cold and dreary outside?.......Stamp!  As I said in my last post, I have a long list of projects so I'm on my second post for today.  ColorQ's challenge this week is very springy and festive i think.  It gave me a chance to use my Bella digital stamp from M&M Designz.  She is so adorable.  She reminds me of a stuffed bunny my oldest son received before he was born 18 years ago.  The eggs around her feet were my own touch. Along with the ColorQ challenge, I tried out the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch.  A great way to use all of those colors. 

Stamp:  Bella from M&M Designz.

Paper:  DP from stash.

Ink: None, water color pencils.

Extras:  lime green and raspberry gem stickies, ribbon, egg punches.

Cheeri-O!

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Eggstra Cheery

 

  

  

SPCC

PPA30-KISS (Keep it Simple, Sweetie)

 

I am so loving playing around with all of these bright and cheery colors lately!  SPCC had another springy color combo this week and after winning last week, I decided I had to try again.  However, all of these colorful challenges is revealing that I am a bit DP challenged at the moment as far as springy and cheery patterns go.  Yet, I just pulled out my cardstock and embellished!  And, thus, I kept it simple in line with PPA's KISS challenge this week as well.

And, if you notice, I figured out my problem with adding links to the challenge images.  It's a tad bit complicated as I have to go back and forth from Mozilla to Opera.  I guess whatever works for now. 

Have a Cheery Monday!

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