Springtime with Dies

The new challenge starts today at Frilly and Funkie.  Nicole is our hostess this time and she is calling the challenge Spring Time Die Cuts.  She wants to see vintage or shabby chic projects that include die cuts, especially those that make you think of spring such as flowers, foliage and butterflies.

I don't own many steel dies but I do have a Cameo die cutting machine so I cut all the petals for my flowers and the filigree egg to make an Easter card.  This one will have to be for next year since I didn't finish it in time to give to my family.

I started with some scrap card stock for my blank and then added a background layer of paper from the Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics pad.  The squares are cut from that same pad and the Coffee in the Arbour pad.  All the paper has been distressed with my scissors and then inked with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I then did some faux stitching around each square using my piercing tool and a white Signo pen.

The flowers petals were cut from white card stock in two sizes, spritzed with some water and then inked as follows:

One large and two small - Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint DI
Two large - Scattered Straw DI
Four small - Worn Lipstick DI

 The petals were folded and twisted and allowed to dry slightly before they were opened carefully and shaped.  Once dry they were glued together with some Wilton stamens for centres.

I also hand cut some leaves and inked them with Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint DI.  The flowers and the leaves were then inked on the edges with some Vintage Photo DI.

The filigree egg was cut from some grunge paper and then painted with some Antarctic Fresco Finish paint.  Once dry the flowers and the egg were coated with Perfect Pearl Perfect Pearl (no there is no echo, that is the name - lol).

I cut the sides off a filigree corner and the charm loop off a butterfly charm and painted both with some Folk Art Tapioca acrylic paint before inking them with Worn Lipstick DI and adding a bit of Rose Quartz Treasure Gold wax paste.

The loopy bow is seam binding dyed with Worn Lipstick and Scattered Straw DI.  I also tucked a couple pieces of lace and scattered some pearls around to finish the card off.  The stick pin is made from a dollar store pearl headed pin with some added beads from my stash.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew - Handmade Flowers
Fan-Tastic Tuesday  - Anything Goes with a twist to use a die or punch
Inky Chicks - Stitching (Real or Faux)
Card Mania - Flowers
The Crazy Challenge - Floral
The Pink Elephant Challenge - Pastels
Pile It On - Die Cuts or Punches
That Craft Place  - Easter/Spring
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - Anything Goes with a twist to use pastels
Card and Scrap - Easter/Spring Colours

The following products used in the creation of this card came from The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Easter Chicks

The new two-week challenge starts today at Sugar Creek Hollow and this time it is appropriately called EASTER.  We want to see vintage or shabby chic projects that depict Easter.

We have a talented Guest Designer joining us for this challenge.  Her name is Nicola but you probably know her as Paper Profusion.  Please make her feel welcome and head over to her blog to see her wonderful creations.

I made a little card after I found this adorable vintage Easter postcard online at Mambeenoe.  Don't you just love their Easter bonnets? 

I started with some white card stock from Staples for my blank and then added some paper from a pad called Picadilly by Basic Grey that I distressed with my scissors and then inked with some Frayed Burlap Distress Ink by Ranger.  A coordinating paper from the same pad was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder called Victoria and inked with more Frayed Burlap.

Next I added some lace and a strand of pearls from my stash.  After distressing and inking the image, I mounted it on some white crepe paper that came from Dollarama.  The pearl flourishes are also from Dollarama and the large oval crystal gem is from a David Tutera bridal collection that I got on clearance at Michaels.

The flower is made of a large flower by Recollections, a ribbon flower that I made with organza from Arton Bead Supply and a white rose from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons  - Flower Power
Cute Card Thursday - Easter
It's All About The Vintage - Shabby Chic
Fairies Challenges  - Shabby Chic or Vintage
Penny's Paper Crafty - Flower Power
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - Easter
Artistic Inspirations -Easter Animal/ Anything Goes
Card Mania  - Easter
Lexi's Creations - Easter
Victorine - Easter

Easter Treat Box

When I saw the current challenge to make an Easter/Spring gifts (but not a basket) at Frilly and Funkie the timing was perfect because I needed to work on some little gifts for my Grandchildren so I decided to play even if my mojo is still on vacation :)  This is for my 6 year-old Granddaughter and she won't be critical, especially since it contains some pink Easter straw and a whole bunch of Cadbury Mini Eggs like the ones in the photo.  I have also made a less vintage and more boyish version for my 4 year-old Grandson.

I created a little Milk carton box using a template from Images by Heather M.  Before I folded it, I inked it with some Wild Honey Distress Ink by Ranger and a Honeycomb Mask that my friend cut for me on her Cameo.  Then I did a little more inking with Worn Lipstick and Dusty Concord Distress Ink by Ranger.  The sides and back have some daisies inked on them with a stencil from Dollarama (you can't see them but trust me they are there).

I found the adorable image at Magic Moonlight Studio, mounted her on some Card Stock from my stash and placed her on top of a piece of a Wilton paper doily.  The little flowers were made using EK Paper Shaper Punches and the leaves were punched using a Martha Stewart frond punch.  Everything was distressed with a little Pumice Stone Distress Ink by Ranger and Recollection pearl stickers were added to the flower centres.  I printed a couple of the birds from the image and added them along with some pink seam binding and a little button from my stash.

I am going to enter this project in the following challenges:

Frilly & Funkie - Easter/Spring Gift but not in a basket
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Anything But A Card
Hobby Cutz - Easter Gift Box

Vintage Easter

The challenge this week at Sugar Creek Hollow is called Vintage Easter so I have come up with this little card featuring a dapper looking Easter bunny sitting in his basket full of flowers. Your cards must include vintage Easter images.

My mojo has taken a hike so the best I could do was create some little flowers and a few layers of lace and lace punching.  I have made this flatter than I usually do so I can pay regular postage to send it off to my Mother-in-Law.

By the way, if you have seen my mojo, please send it right back here.  I promise to be gentle with it but if it doesn't get its butt back here soon I may get really angry - LOL.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

DL. Art - Easter
D.R.S Designs - Baskets
Forever Friends - Lots of Flowers
It's All About The Vintage - Dreams of Spring with Lace
Sincerely Yours Creations - Easter
Avadares  - Easter or Spring
Jellypark Challenges - Bunny Hop Challenge
Polkadoodle - Easter
Simply Create Too - Easter or Bunnies
Stampavie and More  - Easter

Image:  Far Far Hill
Card Stock:  Cream (Staples), Green (Bazzill), Rose (Recollections)
Paper:  Laura Ashley
Tools & Embellishments:  Scalloped Circled Die (Nellie Snellen), Swirls Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Peeled Paint & Tattered Rose Distress Ink (Ranger), Frond Punch & Eyelet Lace Edge Punch (Martha Stewart), Flower Punch (EK Paper Shapers), Pearl Stickers (Recollections), Lace (My Stash)

Vintage Easter

A wonderful vintage crafter by the name of Linda Coughlin has started a new vintage challenge blog called Frilly and Funkie and I wanted to play in her kick-off challenge.  Linda and I were on the Design Team for Isabella's Sketchbook and she plays in the challenges at Sugar Creek Hollow, which is the vintage challenge blog that I own now so I wanted to support her and her new endeavour.

I created a vintage Easter card, which will go to my Daughter and Son-in-Law when they come for Easter dinner on Sunday.  I have made a couple of fun cards for my Grandchildren but they are far from vintage.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Frilly and Funkie  - Your Favourite Vintage Style
Hooked on Crafts - Easter
Ooh La La Creations - Vintage
Paper Sundaes - Happy Easter

Image:  Clearly Vintage
Card Stock:  Recollections
Paper:  Far Far Hill
Tools & Embellishments:  Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger), Flowers (Recollections & Prima), Brad (Dollarama), Tulle (Fabricland), Ribbon (Fabricland), Lace (Sussman's Bridal Supply), Pearls & Flourish (Prima)

Easter Bunny

Our challenge this week at Phindy's Friday Challenge Blog is RIBBONS. We want you to make cards or other paper-crafted projects with ribbons and/or ribbon bows.

Since Easter is only a hop, skip and jump away I thought I better start making some cards for my Grandchildren. This little bunny cuddling her favourite toy is adorable and I love the striped grosgrain ribbon to go with her that I found in the $1 bin at Michaels.

The flowers are bright in real life but the photo makes them look even brighter and edit as I might, I could not calm it down. Question for Husband: Where is that light tent you promised me for Christmas?

You don't have to use a Phindy image to participate but if you do, you will get 2 entries and we have two great prizes. If you don't have any Phindy images just pop over to her store and pick up a few. There are lots of new images that would be great for your Easter cards.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks - Easter
Aud Sentiments - Happy Easter Sentiment
Cute Card Thursday - Happy Easter
Delightful Challenges - Easter
Paper Play - Easter
Simon Says Stamps - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Easter
Penny's Paper Crafty - Easter
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Celebrating Easter
Crafty Sentiments - Easter
Party Time Tuesday's - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Easter or Animals
Crafty Boots - Easter

Image: Favourite Cuddle (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment: Ticket (Sugar Creek Hollow) with Computer Generated Text
Card Stock: White (Staples)
Paper: Yellow& White (Creative Memories), Green Floral (Wild Rose Studio), Orange with Yellow Dots & Yellow Scratched (Provo Craft), Yellow Plaid (My Stash)
Colour Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Gotrick)
Tools & Embellishments: Ribbon (Michaels), Card Candy (Craftwork Cards), Flowers (Prima), Button (My Stash), Floss (My Stash)

Bunnies and Chicks

This week the challenge at Delightful Challenges is to create an EASTER card or other paper crafted project. With Easter a week and a half away, you still have time to play in this challenge and create something to give to your family or friends.

Our generous sponsor this week is The Charm Barn and they will be giving the random winner a $15 gift certificate to their store.

This image is called Peeking Snuffles and Snuffles is meant to be a chocolate bunny.  I can't eat chocolate because it doesn't like me but if I sneak a little bit, I always go for a milk chocolate so my Snuffles is a milk chocolate bunny. 

We have our grandchildren (4 1/2 and 2) for a week starting on Sunday so I have already purchased a bunch of wrapped chocolate eggs to hide around the house so they can have an Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday.  The trick is going to be keeping them from eating all of them or I will be handing sick grandchildren over to their parents.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Die Cut Dreams - Easter
Stamps 'R' Us - Easter
Creative Inspirations - Easter
Sparkles Forum - Easter
Bee Crafty - Easter (must use a digi)

Image: Peeking Snuffles (Digial Delights by Louby Loo)
Card Stock: Yellow (Recollections)
Papers: Purple Floral (Provo Craft), Easter Chicks (Sandylion Sticker Designs)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolor) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Buttons (My Stash), Labels One Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Floss (My Stash)

Calla Lillies

It is another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and our challenge this week is called VINTAGE EASTER. 

When I found the vintage Easter postcard featuring the bouquet of Calla Lillies, I knew I wanted to use it with the Easter sentiment from Sugar Creek Hollow. Then I found the flowers in the bridal section at Michaels and I got a bit carried away but after the winter that didn't want to end, this makes me happy.

I have chalked the Easter sentiment and added a few purple Stickles and some pearls to it.  I cut the filagree cross using my Cricut and added some pearls. The butterflies were punched with Martha Stewart punches, spritzed with some pearl glimmer mist and some pearls added.  I added double organza bow and three pearl sprays to the bouquet (OK, so I got carried away with pearls too).   Then everything was mounted on the lemon paper with a piece of lace from my stash.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges.

Craft Us Crazy - Easter/Spring
Meljens Designs - Easter
Pixie Dust Studio - Lace it Up
ABC Challenge - R is for Ribbon
Flutterby Wednesdays - Open (must have butterfly, fairy or angel)
Freshly Brewed - Flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Spring Colors/Easter
Digital Tuesdays - Easter (must include digital element - sentiment)
Everybody Art - Easter
Scrap Creations - Pick 3 Recipe (I chose Ribbons, Pearls, Flowers)

Image:  Easter Wishes (Sugar Creek Hollow)
Card Stock:  White (Staples), Metallic Lavender (DCWV), Yellow (Recollections)
Paper:  (Lemon Meringue (Basic Grey)
Colouring Medium:  Chalk (Mungyo)
Tools & Embellishments:  Calla Lillies Postcard (Vintage Holiday Crafts), Pearl Sprays (Excelsior Wholesale), Pearl Stickers (Recollections), Purple Stickles (Ranger), Butterfly Punches (Martha Stewart), Lace (My Stash), Cross (Penny Duncan), Cricut, Calla Lillies (Michaels), Ribbon (Arton Bead Supply), Pearl Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels)

Eggstra Special

Easter is only a couple of weeks away so the challenge this week at Phindy's Friday challenges is to make an Easter card or a Spring card if you don't celebrate Easter.  This card is for one of my grandchildren who are both Eggstra special to me.

While you don't have to use a Phindy image to enter, you should really check out the images in her store because they are fabulous and I am sure you would love to create with them. The new Wee Babbies collection is growing each week and they are absolutely the cutest. If you do use a Phindy image, you will get two entries in the challenge and Phindy is very generous with a prize for a random winner and a prize for a top pick card, chosen by the Design Team.  At the end of each month the Design Team chooses a Guest Designer from the weekly top pick cards for that month and that person gets to select an image to work with for the Guest Designer spot.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

AI Factory - Easter
Craft Us Crazy - Easter/Spring
Meljens Designs - Easter
Outlawz POM  - Spring Cleaning (Use your stash)
Creative Craft World - Easter
Fresh Brewed Designs - Flowers
Crazy Challenge - Flowers
The Pink Elephant - Easter
Stamps R Us - Easter

Image: Eggstatic (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment: My Creation
Card Stock: Yellow & Dark Purple (Recollections), White (Staples)
Papers: Yellow Floral and Stripe (Wild Rose Studio), Polka Dot (Making Memories)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Yellow Stickles (Ranger), Circle Punches (EK Paper Shapers), Petite Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), George & Basic Shapes Cartridge (Cricut), Frond Punch (Martha Stewart), Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts), Braid Trim (Gift from one of my SCH Team Mates)

Easter Card

I'm back - hope you missed me!  I was out in Medicine Hat, Alberta to visit my Mother-in-Law and while I was there we looked at alternative living space for her since she is finding it stressful living alone in her home now that she is 88 and not as well.  We also eliminated as much paperwork as we could so the bills aren't as confusing to her.

After catching up on house cleaning, grocery shopping and a pile of errands I am finally able to craft again and have something to show you.  Since it is Easter weekend, I thought I better tackle a couple cards for my grandchildren.  I am a bit disappointed in them though because I tried a different paper and while I didn't get any smearing, it didn't blend as nicely so I won't be using that again.

This card features an image from Phindy's Place and is one I will be able to use over and over on cards for all ages.  Scroll down to the next post to see the second card I made.

The image is called Easter Tree and has been coloured using a combination of Koh-I-Noor and Prismacolor pencil crayons.  The papers and cardstock are from my stash.  Other supplies used:  Pearl Stickers (Dollarama), Ribbon (Michaels), Branch Punch (Martha Stewart), Silk Flowers (Michaels), Paper Flowers (Bridal Supply Store), Nestabilities (Spellbinders) and Pearl Ex.

Easter Card No. 2

The second card features a generous freebie image from Elizabeth O. Dulemba.   The blending problem is particularly noticeable here and doesn't do the image justice but I don't have time to redo it.  Thankfully my grandchildren are only 1 and 3 1/2 so they won't be critical especially since gifts will accompany the cards.

The image called Bunny Painting has been coloured using a combination of Koh-I-Noor and Prismacolour pencil crayons.  The papers are from a Provo Craft Scrap Pack and the cardstock is from my stash.  Other supplies used:  Flowers (Wal Mart), Brads (Making Memories) and Craft Candy (Craftwork Cards).