Bunny Treat Holders

Today's post was inspired by the video at Dawn's Stampin' Studio and I thought these were adorable for Easter notes.

 I just knew I wanted to make some for my class club as Thank You treat holders.

I made the main bunny card exactly like the video using the Stampin' Up "designer frame heart" dies and the "blossoms petal builder" punch.

I decided to make my treat holders 3D, so I bought a bag of plastic Easter Eggs for my bunny bodies, and then I just added an addition heart out of heavy weight cardstock for the feet.

 I put a piece of foam tape that will hold the egg upright with ease, even when full of candies. Here's my bunny butt and tail. Each bunny's bow matches the egg body color. Too funny eh?

Here's a peek at the inside of the cards. I used the Thanks from the SAB "Outlined Occasions" sentiment.

Oh Yeah.... I made a few more for my grandkids, but the card inside has LOVE from the same set and "Happy Easter".

 I sure hope the girls like em'!

The more I look at them ... they look more like hampsters!

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Spring is Tugging at my Heart Strings

Hi everyone. Well today is a beautiful Spring Day or so it seems because the sun is shining, the weather is comfortable and it makes me think of my sweet grandchildren. Soon they'll be playing in the yard on a regular basis so I decided to make a few digital pages while I'm enjoying my morning coffee. The thing I LOVE about MDS digital scrapbooking is that it is so stinkin' FAST!

So here are the three pages I made today.

My oldest Hannah 9 years.

The middle child Becca 6 years. I previously did this photo in another colored layout but I thought it would look nice in black & white.

Last but not least is the little man Brian 3 years and he LOVES his cars!

Well that's it for my crafting this weekend.

I hope you enjoyed viewing my scrapbook page layouts as much I enjoyed making them. I was trying to use some of new released items. Check out the tag labels for some of the items I used.  Now sooner or later I have to get some of these pages printed!

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     Diane

Spring has Sprung with a Twist {PP885} & {PPA130}

Hi everyone! Today I'm posting my card for two challenges! I just Love when that happens, don't you?

The Paper Players has a "Spring has Sprung" challenge #85 and Jaydee thought it was time to make a Spring card. 

 

 

Then the Pals Paper Arts has a "Color with a Twist" challenge #130, and we must use Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke (or similar colors) and add a color of your choice.

The color of choice for me was Melon Mambo and here is my card.

I finally broke down and tried this cute flower featured in the SAB book. I thought it was going to hard, but in fact, it's pretty darn easy. I used two of the 'flirtatious fabric' patterns for the blossom. Just a few stitches to hold everything together and wallah!

A cute button tied with embroidery yarn to make the center, then the blossom sits atop the die cut leaves. The base is Artichoke, then layered with the lighter green. (can't believe I used wild wasabi instead of lucky limeade! - dahhh). I guess I forgot that from the time I looked at the challenges to the time it took me to go down to my scrap room!

Here's a peek at the inside that will remain blank until I decide the occasion to mail. The flower is also from "Apple Blossoms" set and I thought it worked well with the fabric flower. In fact this fabric flower went together so easy, I made another but this time I reversed the green card stock placements and used the "Fun Flowers" die cuts in the same fabric I had in my stash for the blossom.

 The good news is I did use a lucky limeade button on this one! BUT it's not matching that wild wasabi too well.

The sentiment and random back stamping is also from the "Apple Blossoms" set on both cards. If you look close you'll notice the back stamping behind the blossom and to the left, as well as behind the sentiment. Sorry but this is not a very good photo.

Now before I go... I have to confess one more thing. This morning while blog surfing some of my favorite designers, I made a comment on Ann Marie Hile's blog about OCD. She said she would redo part of her card when her OCD kicked in. I commented that I just don't have OCD and would let it go... too much work.

Well... I DID have to redo my second card!

When I went to glue the inside piece I realized I had glued the front piece on but the card was UPSIDE DOWN... so it opened backwards. What a STUMPER I am. Needless to say I had to rip the front off, turn the card around and reglue the panel on the card front.

 HUGS!

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Mixed Bunch Blossoms & Tan Turtle Vellum

Just a quick post of two of the cards my gals will be making in the March 1st Wed. of the month club. I keep changing my mind, so now I have about 6 other cards kitted up! Oh well, I still have time and may change my mind again before the class. 

The first card is a favorite black-and-white combo and the second is a masculine card; both cards use vellum. 

The white card base is layered with basic black cs (I stamped and punched one black blossom from the center before gluing to the base). I then topped the black cs with a piece of Mocha Morning SDSP (covering the space from the punched bloom). I stamped three more blooms from the Mixed Bunch on vellum in whisper white and heat embossed in white embossing powder. Then I punch all four blooms with the new Blossom punch.

I snipped down the petals of each bloom to give them a fluffy feel. I stamped the sentiment from Lovely Thoughts in same white ink and white embossing powder, then flagged the end. I attached the sentiment and three blooms with glue dots.

 A peek at the inside with a scrap of SDSP and the final bloom from Mixed Bunch.

Done!

The second card is a masculine card in neutrals using the Nature's Nest set.

The images from Nature's Nest were stamped on vellum in brown Stazon ink, as well as the sentiment from Curly Cute. Then I flipped the vellum over and used a dauber and inks to color in the back side of the images. I also tried to make some sand by rubbing the dauber around the images with crumb cake ink.

 I attached the vellum to card front with two sided tape and didn't worry about the show through because I covered this with a piece of twill tape. I also threaded a tan button and added to one end of the twill tape with a glue dot. 

Here's a peek at the inside of the second card.

Just pretend you don't notice I stamped the sentiment crooked! Ok?

Done!

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Masculine Happy Greetings {PP#83}

Today's card is for the Paper Players clean and simple Masculine challenge #83.

Let me start by saying my inspiration is from my very dear gal pal Nancy Lempinen. She gave me a Christmas goodie using the same die cut deer and theme as my card. However, her treat was a Christmas theme, and I made mine a winter theme. So I guess this is really more a CASE, than an inspiration, but the source is the same. Thanks girlfriend!

Please stop and check out her creativity at Nanc's Niche of Stamping.  

 Here is my masculine card.

This is yet another card for my SIL's dad home from the hospital, but still recovering from endless trips back and forth due his delicate heart condition. It's just a little note to let him know we are always thinking of him, and praying things will return to normal.

The card is simple stamping and blending with ink and daubers. The snow is made by adding some torn vellum over the white ink. I trimmed the torn edges with dazzling details. The die cut deer were sponged with white ink to give them a bit of dimension, and I bent their antlers outward to give depth. Can you see the antler shadows?  

I tried to create a sunset blending red and yellow tone inks while using white and blues to create a sky.

Here's a peek at the inside

I hope you likes my simple stamped masculine card for the Paper Players challenge, but pretend you don't notice my trees are leaning a bit, OK?  

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Diane