Easter cards 2

I absolutely love polka dots so this DSP is right up my street and I tend to use a lot of polka dot papers on my cards.
This time I am combining it with the Stampin' round Easter egg wheel stamp.

The first  card is a large card  7"x 5"  and the second card  is just 4"x 4".

 I used Copic markers to colour the eggs.







These are the last of the cards made with this stamp for this year. I hope like them. Thanks for dropping in.

Laura.

Iris card

I haven't been spending  much time in my craft room of late, probably because it needs a good sort out.  Instead I have just been popping in there to stamp a few images then taking them downstairs to colour while watching TV.
I have owned  this stamp for many years, but until today, I had never made a card with it.
 I tried water colouring the image a couple of times, but  I was never happy with the results. Twenty years ago  I had never heard of Copics or  any other brand of alcohol markers.
So this  Iris stamp, along with many other stamps got shoved in a drawer and left there for many years.
Over the the last few weeks  I have been digging out a few of those old stamps and colouring them with Copic markers. I am a lot happier with the results now.
I think these stamps will get used more often now.

Easter Egg Shaped Card

I don't usually  make Easter cards but I have a set of egg dies for a very long time and not used them. So I thought I would have a go.

 

It's not a particularly exciting card but I thought, I would share the making of this card.

 

  I have seen egg shaped cards made  by folding a sheet of card stock in half and  placing the fold of the card  over the die , slightly short of the edge of  the die to create the hinge, perfect for the first step to an egg shaped card.   but this  leaves the egg with one straight side, which looks a little odd. 

 As you can see from the photo below .  It doesn't matter how beautifully the egg is decorated  if it has a straight edge it's not going to look right.

 

 

 

 

 However, this can easily be rectified by cutting another egg shape and adhering it on the front of the hinged card.  as in the photo above.

 This not only hides the hides the hinge it  restores the egg to it's proper shape.

 

 

Then the egg can be decorated in anyway you like. I chose to decorate my egg in  Stampin' Up's DSP polka dot papers in spring colours.  

Easter Blossom Card

My fourth and final post for this evening is this quick Easter card using a range of ink pads from Stampin' up of course and the ornate egg stamp from the Easter Blossom stamp set.
 The colours here are more vibrant than they are in reality.

Large Post it notes were used to mask off the top and bottom of the base card.
I measured 1" up from the bottom edge and placed the first post it note across the card then measured  up  1 1/4"   and placed another post it note across the card.

These  post it notes protected the card while I sponged and created the straight edges above and below the eggs  as I sponged on the blue.

The Eggs...
I began by stamping  three eggs in three different colours .  Gumball green then melon mambo and then  the crushed curry.  ( they are the whole eggs you see )
Then I cut masks slightly smaller than the stamped eggs and placed the masks over the three eggs  I had stamped on the card,  then I began to stamp in between the three.
 I had to move the mask from the green egg and place it over the lilac egg   before stamping the yellow egg.
Once all the eggs were stamped I removed the egg masks and stamped the sentiment..

Tip: If you cut your masks  very slightly smaller than the image you won't get the white space  in between  stamped images.

Happy Easter Everybunny

An Easter card.
I  don't usually do Easter cards so I really don't know why I bought two Easter themed Stamps sets.

Having said that I must have liked them so perhaps with Easter coming along it's time they came out of the cupboard.

I used my Copic markers to colour in the rabbit.

The egg however was stamped onto some glossy card stock which I had previously smeared with a mix of inks, then it was cut out and glued on top  of the original stamped image.