Easter Treats

Happy Easter!  Had to share these adorable treat bags I made for my neighbor's granddaughters.  Everything used was Stampin Up except for the tags, those are my new My Favourite Things Traditional Tag and Pierced Tag Stax dies, LOVE them.  You can see the piercing in the close ups.  I had so much fun making these.  It was my first time using the Designer Frames embossing folder too.  I added some Wink of Stella around the embossed frame for a touch of bling, girls gotta have bling. The sentiment was actually punched out using the Word Window punch, but I didn't like the rounded ends, so I made them into flagged ends instead.

And of course my daughter asked me to make a card for her boyfriend, so I cased this, you can find the original here, Bada-Bing!  Paper-Crafting! - another one who always inspires me.  We thought the colours were good for a boy card.

Happy Easter

Oh my gosh!!  My niece is going to LOVE this!!!  I know I do, but I have to give it away, lol.  I used Stamping Bella's Izzie is a Bunny, love the Izzie stamps :)  Aaand I used up some more of my old paper stash.  I got this a few years back from my local scrapbook store, it's My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary and I always imagined it on an Easter card.

It's funny, everytime I go to colour with my copics, I get a little anxious as I don't play with them often enough, but I just grabbed some colours that I thought would go and this is how it turned out.  I was happy.  Izzie's hair is my favorite hair to colour.  The egg is covered in glossy accents and her dress and ears are all sparkled up.  I even shined her shoes :)

I'm entering this card over at Shabby Tea Room #214 Easter Sweetness.  It turns out the Challenge suited my card perfectly, polka dots and/or stripes and here is the inspiration photo:

 

Stamps:  Stamping Bella Izzie is a Bunny
Paper:  My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary, Core'dinations Colourburst cs, PTI's Stampers Select Choice White
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, copics
Accessories:  Spellbinders Nestabilities, Stampin Up Rose Red Seam Binding Ribbon, Glossy Accents, Sakura Glaze black pen, Chrystal Stickles

Deepest Sympathy

Here is the second of three sympathy cards I planned to make using some old papers and stash. I love how this turned out. I honestly would not have put these colours together on my own. The patterned paper is from Kaisercraft's Peachy Keen collection. At the bottom of the paper are five coloured spots in shades of green, yellow, orange and brown. I picked the pale yellow and it is really so soft looking. The picture doesn't show the exact colour, I think it's Barley Banana from Stampin Up and the ribbon is So Saffron. 

Once again, The Feshly Made Sketch #129 inspired the layout, I just flipped it to the side :)

Paper:  Kaisercraft Peachy Keen, SU Barely Banana
Stamps:  CTMH Card Chatter - Sympathy
Ink:  Stampin Up Soft Suede
Accessories:  SU So Saffron ribbon, CTMH Bitty Sparkle, Spellbinders Nestabilities

Thinking of You

I've been trying to build my card stash and thought it was a good time to also go through some old papers. I dug up a few and decided I was going to make three sympathy cards. These papers were left over from a scrapbook layout I did several years ago. The sentiment is from CTMH - Card Chatter Sympathy and the feathers are from my newest Stampin Up set Fine Feathers.  I resisted adding any embellishments, I was very pleased with the simplicity of this card. 

Freshly Made Sketches #128 just happened to be the perfect sketch :).  

 

I think my favorite part of the card is the softness of the gray and the pretty little ribbon bow. 

Stamps:  CTMH Card Chatter Sympathy, Stampin Up Fine Feathers

Paper:  MME 29th Street Market, Stampin Up Very Vanilla

Ink:  Stampin Up Basic Gray

Accessories:  Stampin Up Basic Gray ribbon

Smooches

Yippee!!!  My Paper Smooches haul arrived this week!!!!!  My daughter had her wisdom teeth out yesterday so I made this 'adorable' card for her!!!!  A close up of the kitty shows a little sparkle on the stripes and eyebrows :)

It's the first time using my MFT fresh cut grass die too :)

Stamps:  Paper Smooches Chubby Chums and Sentiment Sampler (inside)
Paper:  Cosmo Cricket Togetherness, PTI Stampers Select
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, copics
Accessories:  Paper Smooches Chums Die, MFT Frest Cut Grass Die, Spica Clear Glitter Pen