Happy Easter weekend!

May your weekend be filled with lots of jelly beans, bunnies and family love.  And please don't forget the true meaning of the holiday.

I'd like to show you a couple of Easter cards that I've made this year.  I did not make as many as I'd like to because as you know I was busy with other things ~ but I did get to make enough to send to the people on "my list".  These are special people who I'm always sending cards to for one reason or another over the years.  Heck, I used to send cards out for Groundhog day.  Now that's just crazy isn't it?  But I am a paper crafter, card maker first and it is an addiction as all of you well know.

So here are the cards that I made.  I'm sorry if I don't have a list of the actual supplies - I was in a frenzy and unless I know what I used from heart I didn't write it down to remember, sorry.

I can tell you that the images I've used on these cards are all from SU! the A Good Egg set.  I love that little chick and it's a must to pull out every Easter.  The base card is Almost Amethyst and the DP is also from SU! but I forget which collection. 

Like him?  He is just the cutest thing, don't you think??  I stamped and colored him in with my YoYo Yellow and Only Orange markers and then stamped him again and stamped the flowers and dots over the egg part and colored it in.  I then cut out the egg portion and paper pieced it on to the chick.  I cut the image out with my nesties.  I stamped the flowers and dots out and colored them in with my markers and cut it out with my oval nestie and cut out a corresponding scallop oval nestie to place it on.  Kinda looks like an egg huh?  After it was placed on the card I used stickles to give it some sparkle. 

See it up close?  Pretty huh?

For my next card I had got the idea on SCS to make a flower pot card, just with eggs.

Tell me this is not adorable.  I actually took my little sewing machine that I got for a steal (did I tell you about that?) and stitched the sides of the flower pot closed.  I like that so the inside piece does not slip out each side.  I made the flower pot a little larger than the normal ones, and the inside pull out a little larger too because of the eggs on top.  While I was working on it I had an A2 envie handy and I'd lay the card down on top of it as I was putting it together to make sure that it would fit in it when I was done. 

There have been times that I've made a card, got carried away and then it does not fit in the envelope.  Trust me, there is nothing worse.  Then you have to go and make an envelope to fit the card into.  I don't mind making envies, it's just a pain.

Whoops, I got off topic - choo choo the train derailed...  he he he...

But if you look to the lower right in the picture that is the insert for the card.  I stamped the large egg shape from A Good Egg on to 3 different colors of card stock and cut close to the edge of the stamp.  I layered then on to the insert (while I had it layed on top of the envelope) all kind of offset from each other.  Then I took the chick images and adhered them with pop dots to give a 3D look.  Really easy and super cute!

That's all I've got for you today.  I hope that it gives you some inspiration to go and make that last Easter card for this year.  Have a great weekend and Happy Easter everyone.

My little chick-a-dee

Don't you just love this little guy??  When I bought A Good Egg I wished that I could use it for more than just Easter ~ because he is so darn cute... 

Here is a quick Easter card that I made up.  I hope that it inspires you...

It is actually Danielle's favorite of all that I made this year.  It was easy to make, just a bunch of punches.  The longest part was the coloring and stickel-ing (is that a word??).

You have to take a peek at the little brads that I picked up from Oriental Trading.  They were super cheap and SUPER adorable!!  Wadda ya think??

I appreciate all of you being patient with me while I work on my blog.  I really don't sit at the computer all day so I do things in bits and pieces.  I am working on some pages next.  I want to make a pages bar across the top so you can just go to one place for tutorials, for sale and whatever else.  That's the next thing I'm going to do.

I hope that you all have a great day!!

Happy Friday the 13th

OK, if you keep a positive outlook nothing can go wrong. I am a firm believer in the positive. If you walk around with a negative Nelly attitude then of course bad will attract to you like a magnet. In my "past" life - that is prior to 3 years ago, I was a negative person. Always preparing for the worst. But I was always unhappy. Now in my "new life" I am so happy it's hard to believe. I have no reason to think negative or unhappy, so therefor I'm always positive. Ok, now that Dr. Joani has spoke ~ keep happy thoughts today! I'm done, I'll step down from my soapbox Ü

Wanna see a card? Of course you do. But first I must tell you I made this with SCS sketch challenge 108. I've got quite a few cards to make and when your making a lot of cards sometimes you need a little inspiration. Trust me, I need the inspiration....

So here is what I came up with. The panels are just a tad bit off from the sketch, but I think it is still cute.
The base card is Blush Blossom. I layered that with a piece of pattern paper that I pulled from the scrap drawer. I stamped the images and colored them in with pencils, gamsol and markers. I layered them on to a piece of Certainly Celery and I was done. It was a quick card to make. The images are all from Bunny Hugs, Hello Spring and A Good Egg. If you look close enough you can see that I used some pink fun flock on the bunny's tail and ears. I also used colored stickles to give a little punch to the eggs in the basket.

This next card, well I had bigger ideas for it ~ it just did not work out like I planned. Sometimes I'll sit and think "ahhh, I'll do this" and then "that" comes out. Like I've said before, my brain and my hands don't communicate like they should. Sometimes my mouth is involved too Ü

Now if this isn't a BRIGHT and cheery card, huh? The base card is Pixie Pink. I layered that with a piece of So Saffron and the yellow swirls. I don't understand why not all paper companies don't put their names on their paper, sorry... The image is printed from my Diamonds Rubber Stamp CD and colored in with my watercolors. I've not had a problem with the colors "running" after I print them out with the printer. I give them a heat shot under my heat gun for a minute. I don't know if that really helps or not, but it's worked so I'll keep doing it.

I colored the image in with my watercolors and sponged some Old Olive ink around the edges. I added a piece of Certainly Celery with a piece of the green check paper to the center of the card. But before I adhered it I added a length of yellow rick rack and a yellow brad to each side. I then used my nesties Label Two set to cut the piece of Pixie Pink out. I then cut a piece of Certainly Celery and So Saffron with my large label nestie to add under the image. Notice the punched corners on my image panel. Well I don't have a ticket punch. I actually don't have room for any more punches ~ so this is what I did:

I took my 1/4" circle punch and stuck the image panel in the punch just like I show. I'm kinda good at eyeballing something, but I stuck it in til the point is just about center and punched it.

Once you punch it you have a little piece like this.

And it turns out it is almost identical to the nesties punched corner on the Large Labels set.

So anyway ~ choo choo-my train derailed and I got off track.... I added the image panel to the card with pop dots. In the bottom right corner I punched a piece of Pixie Pink with my Classic Scallop Oval nestie and the egg image with my Classic large ovals and pop dotted it to the corner. Then I was done.

Sorry this post today was kinda here and there.... But I hope that you enjoyed it!! And don't forget I'm giving away a different kind of blog candy, you can see it at this post. I've still got 3 spaces open....

Hope you all have a great weekend. I will try to get back to show you something or another. I'm not sure, but I may be going prom dress shopping (there goes the tax refund....) so I may not get back to you.

Have a great day!
Hugs,

Joani

A good egg & the chocolate bunny!

One more Easter card, that's it. I promise!

I needed a couple more cards and popped these out real quick. I was trying to think of what I'd put in an Easter basket for this card. When I met my ex-hubby he had 2 little ones. Easter came around and he wanted to go "buy" an Easter basket! **Gasp!!** Are you kidding me I said to him, no we make it! My parents always made up my basket, they never bought one! So, of course that's what I've always done. Buy the basket and all the goodies then put it together the night before for the kids to wake up to in the morning. Even to this day my DD will be almost 16 and she still get's a basket and DH and Mom get a chocolate bunny!! That's how it's done!

Ok, enough babble. I get side tracked so easy. I was saying "what do you put in a basket?" Well, of course the eggs, a chocolate bunny & those jelly beans in the bags that look like carrots!

I stamped my egg from A good Egg in Pink Passion and filled it in with Gable Green and Yo Yo Yellow then sponged around the image with Pink Passion ink. I stamped the bunny from Whipper Snapper and colored him in with pencils. I put some pink fun flock on his ears and tail for fun and sponged Close to Cocoa ink around that panel. I colored the carrot image, also from Whipper Snapper direct to the rubber with Gable Green and Only Orange. I layered the egg and bunny on a piece of yellow orange paper, same as the base card and the carrot on Pink Passion paper. Those were adhered to a piece of green polka dot paper. I finished with some stickles on the egg for a *punch* of color and I was done.

Tomorrow I've got more to show, and I promise it is not holiday related!! Have a great day!!

Another Good Egg

Good morning everyone! Don't ya just love this set??



Another card down, many more to go!!!
This card I made using the set A Good Egg. I just love everything about this set!!

The base card is Chocolate Chip which I layered with Mint Melody and SP from The Paper Patch. I bought lots of that in California and have used it for years. I'm sorry I've tried to pull them up online and can't seem to find them!

I stamped the images and colored them with - yes, MARKERS. Can you beleive it? The little chick I stamped again on yellow and paper pieced him. I then sponged YoYo Yellow around the egg and Mint Melody around the chick. I layered them on to YoYo Yellow and Mint Melody papers. I took my gel pen and made the doodles around the two panels after I mounted them to the cards. I know that I am missing something in the top corner, but I've got to find a small Easter saying in my stash someplace.

And how are You doing on your Easter cards?