Coneflowers and Butterflies

I love coneflowers and I fell in love with a card at Archiver's made with this stamp from Stampendous. This my interperation of the card I saw.

The base card is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 and is brown card stock from Yours Truly. The pick is Bazzil. The white cs is Neenah. The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copics (R81, R83, R85, YG93, YG95, E47, and E25). The ribbon is from American Crafts and the pearls are from Kaiser Craft. I used three different butterfly punches from Martha Stewart. I used flock from Stampendous in two shades of brown (Caramel Latte Tan and Cinnamon Toast).

Where the bunny tryouts?

Every now and then I try to have a sense of humor in my cards. I thought the Great Impressions Duck in a bunny suit was cute and of course so is Magnolia Bunny Tilda. What happens if they met? My mind went to the Cadbury chocolate commerical that is currently airing...the one where all the different animals have on bunny ears. Since I plan to put the card on Splitcoast, I wasn't sure if outside of the USA other world wide card makers would know about the Cadbury commerical. So I hand wrote the caption: "Do you know where the Easter Bunny tryouts are held?"

The base card stock is purple and is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. All images were stamped using Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with Copics. I put white Sparkly fluff on the duck/bunny tail and put pink flocking on Bunny Tilda's ribbon.

I hope you enjoy my sense of humor on this one!

Birthday Hollyhocks

Here's another card inspired by a design from one of my magazines. This card is in the Spring 2011 Paper Creations magazine and was designed Deborah March.

The card uses stamped images from Hero Arts. The card in the magazine uses some paper from Creative Imaginations that was called Red Music. I couldn't find that paper so I improvised. I have a cling stamp from Hero Arts that has musical notes on it and I stamped in black ink on to the red cardstock. I then used the Hollyhock stamp from Hero Arts. I stamped it using Versamark ink and then used white embossing powder and heat set it.

My card is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 and I used Luxuary Opal card stock as my base for the piece with Happy Birthday stamped on and the bottom half of that piece is embossed with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder from ProvoCraft. The red bling is from Hero Hues. The ribbon I had on hand and I'm not sure of the company that produced it.

For God So Loved the World

My inspiration for the above card is from a card by Connie McCotter that is in the March issue of CardMaker magazine.

All stamped images are from Our Daily Bread designs. I stamped the cross using Staz On Dove Grey ink. I stamped the John 3:16 verse using Walnut Stain distress ink from Ranger. I sponged Vintage photo around the off white oval and both pieces of designer paper. The designer papers are from Bo Bunny. The butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch. The pearls are from Kaiser Craft.

I hate to admit this about myself, but when cutting the ovals, I didn't use matching die cuts. So that's why I offset them in my card. As those of you who make cards know, there's no mistakes in card making just a change for embellishments. So I offset the two ovals and added pearls on the dark blue oval. Of course none of you of would have know that unless you have a copy of the magazine with Connie's card in it :)

Hugs to my Peeps

Happy March everyone!

Today's card contains a cute bunny hugging his peeps. The stamp is from Inky Antics. I generated the saying on my computer (Times New Roman, 14) and cut it out using ovals and scalloped ovals Nestabilities from Spellbinders.

The base card is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. I'm not sure what the color name is, but it looks a little like suede. The designer paper is 4 by 5 1/4 and is from a designer scrapbook pad from We R Memory Keepers. The pad is called Vintage Blue. The purple back to the stamped image and for the scalloped oval is from Hero Hues.

I used four Copic colors on the bunny. They were FY1 for the chicks. YR16 for the chick's beaks and claws. I use R81 on the bunny's ears, paws, mouth and nose. I outlined the image in C1.

The glitter brads are from Bo Bunny.

Happy Birthday Tilda

This was one of new Tilda stamps that was released earlier this year. I've had a request for birthday cards so this image of Tilda holding a cake with candles is perfect for a birthday card. Tilda was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored with Copics.

I used a Cuttlebug folder on the grey card stock. I used a Tim Holtz die for the swirls. The followers are from Hero Hues and the pearls are from Kaiser Kraft. The butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch.

Hello

This card was a make n' take at Stamper's Ink a couple of weeks ago. I love dogs so any dog stamp I see usually ends up in my inventory. The stamp is from Penny Black. The image was stamped using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and colored with Copics.