An Easter card for a young man who likes Peter Rabbit. The Rabbit image is from the retired set Fable Friends. I stamped the rabbit on an oval die cut and coloured the image. I didn't want to mount the rabbit on a second oval layer , so I  rolled the edge of the die cut along the surface of the ink pad until I had a very fine border, just wide enough for it to separate the oval from the background.

 The background was created using a stencil from Lavinia stamps. Again I created the edge on the background panel by dabbing the edge of the card on the surface of the ink pad. This is a great way to give the impression of extra layers without actually adding  the layers. It also means the card weighs less saving you money on postage as well as saving you card.

Floral Easter Cards

Well here's a first.... A batch of Easter cards and what's more, made well in advance rather than last minute. For these cards I used a retired set by Stampin' Up called  "Indescribable Gift." The Ombre background  was a free gift From Stampin' up during this year's sale a bration. To   be honest when I saw this paper in the catalogue I wasn't that impressed, but I thought I give it a try as it was free. I have to say....  I love it!!

I wasn't sure whether this blackberry colour would work with this stamp when I was making this card as it's not traditional Spring colours. But I like it. So then I went on to make another using the green Ombre and that works too.

Not wanting to use up the whole pack of these papers on this years Easter cards, I decided to make a few more cards using the same image, as I had coloured half a dozen images the night before. But I didn't want them all the same.  On the card below I fussy cut the image after I had coloured it. Then stuck it on navy card to really make it stand out. I added a layer of pink card behind the navy before sticking it to my base card. This is a bit of an odd size card as I cut the navy card a bit too short. So I added a thin pink ribbon and bow to fill in the excess white space.

Now this one was born out of a disaster. I hate wasting things so I thought I'd try something different. Hubby doesn't like this one he says it looks like it's been cut in half.  I tend to agree with him on this one. But I didn't say that, I tried to save face and said "yes, because the pattern continues round the back."

Does it!!?  he asks.....No not really, I had to confess, but it gave me an idea to make one where the image does wrap round the back. I 'll have to try it and see what it's like.                                                                                           Note the branch comes in from the side on this one.

The following three cards are very similar. They are clean and simple cards. But I have changed them up a bit.  I have changed the shape, the size or the colours of the layers of card under the images.

 The card below is 6 x 4 inches and mounted on to a chocolate brown card before being adhered to the white base card.                                                                                                                                              I had the branch come in from the top this time.

I changed the size and shape of the next card to a 6 x 6 inch card. I added two layers of card  beneath the image this time. One blue and one chocolate.

The card below has a wider pink layer and a narrow chocolate layer of card beneath. and the branch comes in from the other side this time.

I heat embossed the stamped image in gold before colouring on this one.  The sentiment is also heat embossed in gold. It doesn't show up very well in this photo.....

So here's a close up shot just to prove it.

Here's a blast from the past.

The stamp I used on this card is one of the  long since retired Stampin' round wheel stamps.
I can't remember the name of this one,  it's been and awful long time since I've used it.
I used Copic markers to colour the eggs.



If you've never seen the wheel stamps here is a photo on the one I used.

You buy the wheel and handles separately, the wheel stamp clicks into the handle and out again so you can change the wheels easily.

You can also buy ink cartridges that slot into the handles, which  means you can roll that wheel around your whole house without running out ink if you desire.  I personally don't recommend you do that though.
It is quite handy to have an ink cartridge or two for larger projects.


I used an ink pad for this project as I only needed small  pieces for these cards.

Hey Chick Easter card.

 "Hey Chick"  This stamp set was one of the free gifts in this years Sale a bration  event  held by Stampin Up.  It has three chickens in the set and a couple of sentiments.
 I love this funky looking chick and have been playing with it quite a bit, trying  him out different colours.  But so far this is the only card I have made using him.

The background I coloured with Copic markers then drew in some grasses  using stamp and write markers.