Hoppy Easter

While I was at Archiver's Saturday, I saw this adorable Easter card that I had to duplicate. The above is my effort of duplication.

All the stamps are from Northwoods. All the papers are Hero Hues. I used Nestabilities to cut out the circles. I also used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the orange cs that is under the "Hoppy Easter". I distressed around the "Hoppy Easter" using Ranger Distress Ink, Victorian Velvet. The images are stamped using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored with Copics.

Painted Petals

On Saturday I attended a class at Archiver's up north with my best friend Liz. We really enjoyed the class and I did learn something new as I had never painted with Distress Inks before. We did four cards in the class and the two pictures above are of those cards.

For the bottom two cards, we used Versamark ink and embossed in white ink on a piece of white cardstock. Then using a water pen we used the following Distress inks to "paint" the petals.

Broken China

Dusty Concord

Fired Brick

Rusty Hinges

Wild Honey

We also "painted" the lace and the flowers that were used as emblishments on the cards.

On the top two cards, we add the Distess ink to the stamp then spritzed the stamp with water then we stamped on to the card stock.

If you get a chance to take the class, I highly recommend it. I've got the stamps ordered and I know I'll be using these techniques on cards in the future.

Tilda with hatched chick

Seven inches of snow last night. At least the sun is trying to come out. It's one of those days where I'm very glad I'm retired and didn't have to face traffic to go to work this morning.

I have had the Tilda with Hatched Chick and Spring Background stamped for about a week now trying to determine how best to used the two stamps from Magnolia stamps in a card. I hope you like the outcome.

I used a 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 white cs for the base card. I used a 5 1/4 X 5 1/4 piece of turquoise card stock as my next layer. I then used a designer paper I purchased recently that is pink with white polka dots and some butterflies on it. That piece was cut 5 X 5.

Out of the same turquoise card stock, I cut a 2 by 5 1/4 inch piece and embossed it with the Cuttlebug swirl pattern. I then glued the spring background piece to it after I had cut out the stamped design that I had colored with Copics. I also cut out Tilda and popped her up.

Using a small egg Nestability, I cut out a piece of white cs and stamped Happy Easter on it which is from a Stampendous set. Using the small egg Nestability, I drew around the outside of it and then cut out the larger egg in turquoise cs.

On the spring background image, I used yellow flock on the chick.

Enjoy and stay warm!

First Easter card for 2011

One of the ladies from my church has put in a request for some Easter cards. She wanted some with musical notes on it so I thought of my Cuttlebug folder with the musical notes on it. As I was going through my Easter stamps from last year I found the stamp from DRS with the cross and lilies on it. I colored the image with Copics and popped it up. The base card is a royal purple card stock that I really like and then I used a light gold shimmer paper for the dry embossing. I gave Anna Lu the option of two sayings for the inside of card that are from Our Daily Bread Designs. Either "Blessing As you celebrate His Resurrection" or "The flowers appear on the Earth; the season of Singing has come. Song of Solomon 2:12".

One more Riley

Here's one more Riley that I finished this week. It was originally a make n' take at Stamper's Ink. It was on a solid white card with the embossed dots. However, I like lots of layers on cards, so I changed it up by putting the embossed dots on top on a beautiful blue card base. I colored the Riley using Copics. The balloons are colored with fluorscent Copic markers. I'm either going to make this in to a "floating by to say hi" card or a "floating by to wish you a Happy Birthday" card.

If anyone would like to purchase any of the cards featured today. Please contact me at WindyGEM.earthlink.net.

Just Riley cards

Today's class at Stamper's Ink was Just Riley cards. These cards are cute...but then I love the moose! Notice that one of the cards is ready for Easter and another one is ready for summer. It's been a long winter here in KC and we're ready for it to be over! Unfortunately we may have some snow tomorrow, but it is still February.

Sympathy and Get Well cards

Yesterday at Stamper's Ink was a card class that featured cards for sympathy and get well. I had already put my cards away and then remembered I hadn't taken pictures of them. Today when I went to pull them, I could only find five of them instead of the six. Maybe I'll find the 6th one and have it pictured later.