You've been egged

After I designed this chic/rooster guy to sell as a digi stamp I was really wishing he was a clear stamp.  I think he'd make a great mini stamp set. So I enlarged the original image "Egg-scape" and removed all the background stuff and used him as the main focus of the card.

 These little goody bags were fun to make.  I usually hate making the same card twice but when it comes to production type work I actually enjoy the challenge.  I made 25 of these little bag of goodies for my co-workers.  I bought the brown candy bags at a local supply store. Now I have 985 reasons to find something else to do with them :)

I'm entwined in some exciting news.

I've been waiting a while to announce this!!  Now I can officially tell you that I made the Design Team for the Twinery.

I saw an adorable bag on Pinterest and just happened to have some burlap. 

1. I used the bunny cut files from Whimsie Doodles and enlarged it to 4 inches and cut it from vinyl.  I figured the vinyl would be great because it's sticky. You want the bunny to be completely cut through.

2. Stick the stencil on onto the burlap bag.

3. Use a stiff brush and white acrylic paint to fill in the "blank" area of the bunny.

4. I started from the outside edge and worked my way in.

*make sure there is a scrap of paper under the burlap because paint will leak through.

5. Then peel off the stencil

6. I was impatient so I used my hair dryer to dry the paint. Or you can just let it dry on it's own. Acrylic paint doesn't take very long to dry.  

This is a photo of the back side, some of the thicker areas of paint came through the burlap.

7. I picked up some pink Gelato on my still wet with white paint brush (just scribble some pink on the backing -slippery side of the vinyl stencil)

and rubbed it in a circular motion to create blush.

I used Strawberry Solid twine to decorate this bag.

Die cut a tag, stamp sentiment and wrap the Strawberry twine around the top to finish it off.

Now repeat these steps on kraft cardstock to make bunny cards.  Make sure the vinyl stencil has lost most of it's stickiness so that it won't pull the cardstock.

I made these adorable pom pom tails with Solid Strawberry and Caribbean Solid twine from the Twinery

Materials
Twine-Caribbean and Strawberry Solid:The Twinery
Cardstock-Kraft, baby pink, and blue: PTI
Tag Die:Spellbinders
Bunny SVG: Whimsie Doodles
Burlap bag was hand stitched because I couldn't find the cord to my sewing machine :

Why not meet the rest of the team??

Denise Hahn

http://www.inmyblueroom.blogspot.com/

Jen Cuthbertson

http://www.jencuthbertson.blogspot.com/

Christine Meyer

http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com/

Rebecca Grecco

http://hugsarefun.com/

DoBea Alberts

http://dobeaalberts.blogspot.com/

Rebecca VanDeMark

http://rebeccavandemark.wordpress.com/

Andrew Roberts

http://downundercrafter.blogspot.com.au/

Melyssa Connolly

http://www.fantastink.blogspot.com/ <= You are here

Suzanna Lee

http://www.lifestrivialities.typepad.com/

Tobi Crawford

http://tobicrawford.blogspot.ca/

Jeanne Jachna

http://akeptlife.blogspot.com/search/label/Poppystamps

Stacey Schafer

http://stampinwithstacey.blogspot.com/

Anita Mulcahey

http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/

Melania Deasy

http://melaniadeasy.blogspot.com/

Katarina Damm-Blomberg

http://krumeluran.wordpress.com/

Returning Designers for 2014

Monika Wright - Sr Designer

http://iloveitallwithmonikawright.com/

Jamie Cripps - Sr Designer

http://jamielanedesigns.blogspot.com/

Ashley Bores - Sr Designer

http://heartmadelife.com/

Amy Crockett

http://www.scrappingmommy.com/

Tifany DeGough

http://inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com/

Jaclyn Miller

http://designsbyjax.blogspot.com/

I {heart} Chocolate Bunnies

I have these gorgeous papers from My Mind's Eye called "Blush" and it was just calling to be made into a shabby card.  So I coloured the new "love chocolate bunnies" digi from Whimsie Doodles to make this card.

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"love chocolate bunnies" digi from Whimsie Doodles 

Paper-Lost & Found (Blush)-My Mind's Eye

Copics:Chocolate E27,25,23

Hair E35,53,50

R83,85

BG53,10

Dies-Romantic Rectangles-Spellbinders

Grass-Fiskars

Ink-Vintage Photo-Ranger

Someone Egg-stra Special

Happy Spring!!  Here's a card using "Egg Hunt" digi stamp from Whimsie Doodles.  Now this is how I like to hunt for eggs, straight from the basket! hehe  Notice the wonky sewing job?  I'm not sure what happened but it all the sewing machines doing, yep I'm sticking with that....it's the machines fault!

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Materials

Paper-Bake me a cake-3 Bugs in a Rug

Copics-Bunnies:E53,50

Basket:YR27,24,21

Sky:BG10 + Inked edges in Juniper-CTMH

Flowers:BG57,53 and R85,83

You crack me up!

Happy Saturday all!  Today I have that made me smile the whole time I was playing with it. I created it for the Whimsie Doodles March challenge which is "Spring Fling".  I used the digi set "Egged" to make the card.

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Copic Colours-Egg:E43,31,30. Grass YG13,01

Reverse Wonky Labels-Spellbinders

Blue Sky-Broken China ink-Ranger

Easter digi freebie

I've got a freebie to share with you!!  Whimsie Doodles added a new Easter image in the "freebie" section and I made this card with it.

See ya later :)

sugar rush

 A-tisket a-tasket a green and yellow basket. This mini-set will be sure to please that egg-stra special person. The sentiment fonts are so whimsically fun and you’ll enjoy coloring these Easter eggs. This is a must have set.

 Egg-stra Special is a 3x4 set that includes a total of 9 stamps and will sell for $7.00.

Would you like to win the new Egg-stra Special stamp sets? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps!
The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday February 25th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

Easter Greetings

I love how this card card turned out.  I printed the Simple Bunny from Whimsie Doodles and stamped the text directly onto the printed bunny.  The rest of the card is decorated using Spellbinders Parisian Dies.

I've entered this card in the Die Cut Diva's challenge #8 of making an Easter card.  If your into die cuts and cartridges then you'll love the inspiration at Die Cut Diva's.  I was so glad I found it.

Happy Spring

Well I loved the There She Goes sketch so much that I made a second card for the challenge.  This time I used Our Craft Lounge's stamp set Pea-nut Bunny to make the card.  Pea-nut is just such an adorable little elephant I was thrilled to be working with him/her.  I used chalk to add blush to the cheeks and ears.  I find chalk gives such a soft and blended look that's perfect for cheeks.  The blue cardstock was actually white that I coloured with Copic BG01.

 Materials
Stamp-Pea-nut Bunny-Our Craft Lounge
Paper-Modern Homemaker-Cosmo Cricket
Chalk-Pebbles Ink-Cheeks and Ears
Sketch challenge-TSG98

My Peep's

Well it's time to get all sparkly with your images.  Today's card uses Martha Stewart glitter to give the peeps a sugary look.  The Peep's are the newest digi images from Whimsie Doodles.
Hop on over to Whimsie Doodles Blog and play along, there's a prize for one lucky participant.

Stamps-My Peep's-digital stamps-Whimsie Doodles
Paper-Modern Homemaker-Cosmo Cricket
Vintage Photo distress ink-Ranger

Got Bunny?

The Easter Bunny is on it's way and he's got lots of Whimsie Doodles images in his basket! Today is our March digi-release and we are so excited to share these adorable new images with you!

Before we can get to Easter, we must celebrate St. Patrick's Day as only Whimsie Doodles can-- with total cuteness, of course!

So were you close on your Sneaky Snippet Guesses yesterday? I promised we would draw a winner to receive one of these adorable new images, and we will announce that winner on Monday!

Melyssa

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! On March 15th, we're celebrating Whimsie Doodles' 2nd Birthday with a blog hop, prizes and MORE new stuff! You won't want to miss it!