Hi Everybody,
I made a whopping two Easter cards this year! Now I'll start on Mother's Day which is a great 'excuse' to watercolor beautiful floral stamps.
So... here's an update on my surgery... I received a call from the doctor's office a week before surgery saying that my insurance was not in network with the hospital that the surgeon works at. Whaaaat? Needless to say I was a mad mess! I had to start all over with a new surgeon! It seems to be working out so maybe that was a blessing in disguise. My knee surgery will be week of April 9th. What's my point?? I need to make as many cards as I can this next week. :)
I just love the Whimsy stamp I used on this card. it is called Bunny with Daffodil. I envisioned using it on Spring cards and all occasion such as birthday, hello, etc., but then it called out to me to be an Easter card for someone.
Here I'm showing the dimension of the card layers. I love using fun foam or foam tape as I did here. I cut this top layer shorter than I normally do because I wanted to flower to hang off the side.
I used Deco Foil Transfer Gel with a Tim Holtz stencil called Rays and then foiled with Gold Deco Foil from Thermoweb with the Mini Minc machine.
I made a video on using Transfer Gel and HERE is the link and I made
a video on adding Foil to the Transfer Gel and HERE is the link. I am a newbie video maker and these are for beginners.
Next I colored this stamp with Copic Markers and fussy cut it out using Cutter B Scissors (and readers of course). I used a grass die from Lawn Fawn since when I fussy cut, the bunny had grass on his feet so I needed to hide that a little. I used Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Pen over the flower petals and insides of bunny ears and nose. I also cut down the sides of some of the petals so that I could bend them to look a little more realistic.
I used Nuvo White Drops on the tail of the bunny and Clear Nuvo Drops over the lady bug and over the gold foiled word die, Believe. I wanted to give some dimension. I think when you use clear drops over foil, it gives it somewhat of an acrylic look. I added Black Nuvo Drops to the dots on the ladybug as well.
I hope you have a Happy Easter! Let's get a head start on our next cards shall we? :)
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Regina
Hi Everybody,
I wanted to share an Easter card I made for my Mother in Law. I saw the cutest picture of my husband's nephew watching his Dad working on something. The nephew had his tongue out of his mouth, on his lips watching his Grandpa work and his Grandpa also had his tongue like that, out of his mouth on his lips. You know how some people do that when concentrating? Well, now my husband and his nephew both do that as adults because they saw Dad/Grandpa doing it whe they were growing up lol.
I saw this stamp from C.C. Designs called Roberto's Rascals Coloring Eggs and knew I had to get it. I think my Mother in Law will love it because she will know the meaning behind it. :)
This stamp is called Roberto's Rascals Coloring Eggs and here is a link, it is half price right now. (as of 3/31/18)
I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers. This is an easy stamp to color, no room to do much fancy work but I did draw in lines on the wood of the table to give it some detail and texture. I used Memento Ink in Summer Sky and a scalloped metal die and sponged around the die to make clouds. I just turned it slightly after sponging along the scallops and get doing that all the way down. Now he looks like he is painting outside. I almost used a grass die but it seemed to take away slightly from the background and stamp I had there already so I just used Gina K Designs Ink in Grass Green and sponged ink at the bottom. I cut this panel out with a Lawn Fawn Large Rectangle Stitched Die.
I cut out a word die, blessed, three times and glued them together with a Zig Glue Pen to give some dimension. I used Gina K Designs cardstock in Wild Lilac for bottom layer and this word die. This is one of my favorite purple colors in cardstock. I reach for it all the time when wanting to use purple.
To finish off, I used Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Pen on the bunny's noses and inside of ears. I used Nuvo Drops in Simply White for the bunny tails and Nuvo Drops in Violet Galaxy for the egg and paint he is using. I used the Nuvo a little 'messily' on the egg to make it look like he is in the middle of painting it. I dabbed on some Nuvo Drops in Sweet Lilac for the other color paint dripping down side of container. Finally, I used the Nuvo Drops in Morning Dew over the word blessed. These drops are clear so now the word die has a shine to it, kind of looks like enamel.
When you use a cute stamp like this, it pretty much does the work for you. It's so much fun when you use a stamp that has a special meaning to the recipient like this one will.
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a Happy Easter!
Regina
