Spring Double flap card

 

basecard is bubble bath cardstock 4 1/4x 5 1/2

Use delightfully eclectic double sided DSP  5 1/4 x 6 scored at 4 inches with 6 inch side across the top

take the old olive panel 4 1/4x 5 1/2 scored at 2 3/4 with 5 1/2 across the top.

front panel is white 2 1/4x4 white cardstock. 

stamp the easter bunny on a post-it note to use as a mask. 

stamp the Easter bunny on the white panel, cover with mask and then stamp the grass elements.

Stamp sentiment from Hooray for Surprises set in memento black.  color in the easter bunny - bubble bath inside the ears - green grass, however you want to color it in.

Easy card using 2 quarter sheet and a piece of DSP - you can get 4 pieces out of a 12x12 DSP so good way to use up your stash- especially the really pretty ones that you want to show both front and back.

Easter Bunny Corner explosion card

February Stampin' wtih Lynda was all about explosion cards- they are so much fun.

Depending on how you fold it you can have the explosion on the right side, left side top of the portrait card or a landscape shape card as this one was.

use thinner white cardstock or designer paper for the explosion base so it folds easier.   I wanted the card to be A2 size so this is what it needs: 

card base is 8 1/4 x 7 scored at 2 3/4 along each side 

make a mark at 5 1/2 inch on each side to make a diagonal  (it's 2 3/4 " further in )  as shown above.  you can use this format for any size card. 

 I used the Dandy designs DSP for the inside panel and the outside panels.

I stamped the bunny and bunch of other images on a scrap - punched out the bunny and fussy cut the other items  to decorate- including the carrot for the inside. 

Use the Blender brush and ink for sky- balmy blue or pool party would be good.

stamp the grass on the left upper panel ; granny apple green was used for the grass. 

stampin blends I used to color : pale papaya, calypso coral, fresh freesia, granny apple green, petal pink

stamp the sentiment on panels diecut from rectangle stitched dies.

the square s on the right were 2 1/2 inch squares. 

 

 

Basket Bunch February Project

 This is one of my February Stampin' with Lynda projects.
Using whisper white as base, then daffodil delight embossed with Sparkle EF.  Stamp the grass with Mint Macaron and add a layer of In color DSP.  Diecut the basket from Sahara Sand and add the flower stems and the flowers. color in with watercolor pencils and blend with aqua painter to create the soft look.  color the leaves with Mint Macaron marker.  Stamp the chick legs onto the whisper white CS then use dimensionals to add a diectt chickie.  Add the rabbit with ears and bow colored in with pink pirouette marker.  Watercolor pencil the chick in daffodil and use Peach marker for the beak.

A sweet little card- the sentiment "have a happy day" from the Hey, Chick fits on the top corner perfect

Easter Basket bunch

 This set is so adorable, I can't stand it.  The base is whisper white with Daffodil Delight embossed wtih Sparkle EF.  Add a layer of whisper white stamped with sentiment on the bottom and grass in Mint Macaron above the polkda dot DSP.  Diecut the solid and decorative basket with Sahara Sand- layer the solid basket behind the perforated one and add the handle behind it.  Layer the eggs as shown - use some with dimensionals, add the peep and the bunny stamped in chocolate chip.  I used the white gel pen to make white of the eye which makes a big difference.  Added some extra eggs and flowers, colored in with Soft Sky, pink pirouette, daffodil delight and Peekaboo peach to create that soft pallette.  Hoping to make someone happy for Easter.....

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!  Life has been very hectic working full time and so many crisis at work and raising 3 boys hasn't been easy but I am trying to eek out a little bit of time for stamping which gives me so much joy.  For my llittle treat make and take this month I took an 8  81/2x11 sheet -  score the entire  cardstock along the 8 1/2 inch side at 3 3/4 and 4 3/4 so you create the bottom of the treat so it will stand on its own then cut them into 8 1/2 by 2 inchstrips of paper- so you can make 5 out of each sheet. It is easier to score before you use the topper punch I used the Ornate tag topper punch  to make the treat but you can use which ever one you have.  Embossed the whole thing with elegant dots EF then used the large oval punch to cut out the window and taped  a little piece of Ghiradelli chocolate bunnies inside for a sweet little treat.  tied the gold metalilc baker's twine with colored ribbon and stamped Happy Easter from teeny tiny wishes. punched it out with word window.  I punched the 1/16 hole on the top - and this was a surprise for everyone- I cut a slit from the outside into the tiny hole vertically so I can slip the tag onto the twine as shown below so you don't have to string it- just slip it on and it holds the tag just fine.

 This is the little basket I made for my boys and put it on top of their Easter Breakfast plates- If teenage boys thinks these are cool, I did good!  The stamps and dies are from Lawn Fawn- I was inspired by Margery and little treatbags she gave us at the last Stamp-n-Chat.  Filled them with gigantic M&M's and chocolate bunnies.  The little daffodil was made using a 5 sided flower punch and one of those Michael's one dollar flower punch that I got eons ago- just folded them up like the center of the flower and the proportions were perfect.

Happy Easter everyone and God Bless!
Lynda

Happy Easter Berry Basket

 Did I tell you that I was in love with the Berry Basket?  Yes, yes, gazillion times yes! This was the Easter Basket we made for my party last month and it was given to Max a sweet little boy when his mom invited Kyle over for a play date.

Coastal Cabana was diecut with the Berry Basket die then filled with paper grass and yummies including a giant egg with skittles inside it.

The tag was stamped with the small honeycomb and Happy Easter from Teeny Tiny Wishes on Daffodil Delight punched out with Note Tag Punch and stapled together  with the butterfly diecut from Whisper white onto the basket with the Crisp Cantelope Thick baker's twine with the stapler.

 I then covered the larger clothespin with Retro Fresh Designer Washi Tape and clipped it over the staple to look like it was holding it and an easy peasy basket to hold all your little goodies.   I really like this size -  i think it holds plenty of candies and goodies for the day.

Enjoy!

Lynda

Happy Easter! Purse handle basket

Ah, what to do with all those purse handles left over from the bunny purses I made for Easter treats?  I was playing and thinking about making a trellis , a background for a oval cutout, but I thought, hey, I need to make a Easter basket and it was perfect for it.
I make the basket by weaving the handles, tucked the ends over and put a strip on top and bottom to finish the edges and added the ruffle ribbon in brown sugar to "line the basket".  I used the Small Oval punch with white, daffodil delight, pool party, pumpkin pie, Pistachio pudding and Gold to make the eggs and used dimensionals to pop them out.  The base card is soft sky with grass made from strips of Pistaschio Pudding cut with Fringe Scissors layered- the top layer is attached with dimensionals as well.
The hello is from A Dozen thoughts stampset, punched out with  Deorative Label punch  twice to make it smaller -tied with Calypso Coral Bakers twine.  I put a left over strip to make a handle but left it  unattached at the top to make it more 3D and it works- although I probably can't mail it...
And the bottom picture was our Easter Sunday dessert - It was a gorgeous chocolate cake and yummy to boot!   Happy Easter to you all!  Celebrate Life.
Lynda

Easter Bunny Stampin' Up Purse

I dream cards.  Sometimes when I dream, I think of cards and projects I want to make and sometime they look just the way I dreamed and other times, I don't know what I just thinking.  For some reason, I had this bunny made of purse stuck in my head and how I wanted to make it. So I played with it and played with it until this came out.  It's the purse die from Stampin' Up diecut in whisper white.  I punche 4 large ovals from the left over white after diecutting the purse and put small ovals punched (I am so sorry it is retired but you can free cut it) with pink pirouette.
The face is made using the owl punch.  punch 2 black, the cheeks are punched from the same owl punch - the larger of the 2 round circles on the punch and the nose is the heart from the owl punch . I mounted the nose and cheeks with dimensionals.  Added the little toes with the pink pirouette marker to match. 

 The closure looked like the buck teeth so I used a little pencil to draw a line down the center but it is cute without it.

The bunny tail came from the Bojo Blossoms punch again mounted with dimensionals.

The feet was attached with dimensionals but the ears were attached using glue dots which makes it lay flat and not fall off.

So, this is the finished bunny. It was so easy and so cute.   Fill it with candy of your choice- little chocolate eggs are perfect for Easter!

Enjoy.  Lynda

 

to make the bunny purse you need:

 Petite Purse Bigz L         125606        $32.95

 Large Oval punch            119855        $15.95

Boho Blossoms punch      119858        $16.95

Owl Builder punch           118074         $16.95

Whisper white  CS         100730             $8.50 (40 sheets)

Pink Pirouette CS           111351            $6.95 (24 sheets)  

Basic Black CS                121045           $6.95 (24 sheets)  

dimensionals             104430               $3.95 (300 dots)

Glue dots                   103683                $4.95 (300 dots)

You can purchase any or all items here:  http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/lyndalee

Happy Easter 6x6 paper baskets

 My kids get way too much candy for Easter so I like to make little baskets for them. I have been eye-ing several little basket dies but you know what? I love this little simple basket made of 6x6 piece of paper.  I took a 6x6 paper, scored it at 2 and 4 inches on both sides to make like a tic-tac-toe board then cut 1/2 strips in one direction on the 4 corner squares only  and then bring them together in the pattern shown using some tape.  I do find that I have to cut about 1/4 inch from the middle square that sticks out after I put the sides together.  I then use a matching brad to hold it and a 1/2 inch coordinating piece of card stock handle together. This one I lined with a strip of the scallop ribbon punch first.  It is really cute with a white flower punched with the brad through the center but it was too foo-foo and girly for my boys so I kept it simple.  The little chocolate bunny did not make it into the picture but it fits the small Lindt chocolate bunnies perfectly (comes in a pack of 5).  The creme eggs are miniatures  not regular size and comes in packs or 12.

I love that this is such a simple basket but still has that woven look and feeling about it and it is such a great way to use up all your 12x12 or 6x6 DSP's that you have been hogging.....

Happy Easter!

Lynda

Heaven Blessed Easter

I love this color combo. Peach Parfait with Pool party reminds me of sherbet and spring. A simple card you can use with any image inside. Peach Parfait basecard with the chick image stamped in versamark to add some interest. Diecut the Large paper doily die.

Let me take a minute here. I read about using packing tape over the dies to minimize getting the chads and I thought " I will ruin it!" but after trying it I am SOLD! The doily just pops off without any of the chads stuck in the die. You DO have to push it out from the die but it's a million times better than the other ways around. I am tempted to wrap my Northern frost sizzlet die which drive me batty everytime I use it in class.

Punch out 2 1/2 inch circle in white and stamp the image of your choice in the center in black- stazon or memento- color in using you watercolor crayons directly on paper then use the aqua painter to blend it and make it soft and smudged. I used Blush Blossom marker to color in the face and arms though. I stamped the modern label surround from the Tea Shoppe in pool party and thne stamped the sentiment in black, punched it out with modern label punch and popped it out with dimensionals. ( I think Stampin Up included this stamp just to make me buy this set....I was vacillating buying, not buying but this tipped it over! ) Tie a bow 3/8 ruffled ribbon in pool party- is it not the most gorgeous ribbon?- and used glue dot to adhere. This was one of my projects last month and not too much grumbling from the crowd....

Lynda

Happy Easter from Mercedes

I opened my mail up and found this wonderful surprise from my most talented friend Mercedes for Easter and I thought I would share it with you. She is an amazing artiste and Stampin Up would be foolish not to recognize her.

The face is the upside down ornament punch and the ears are from the oval punches.

She shares her technique in a tutorial on 4-9-11.

Check out her blog at http://mercedesweber.blogspot.com/

Happy Easter to you all!

Lynda

Easter Blossoms silhouette

I was not sure how I liked this girl from this set- the silhouette is pretty but I wasn't sure how I wanted to use her. A simple monochromatic approach seemed best but I didn't want anything with too sharp a contrast and crumb cake on vanilla seemed to suit my taste. Then I saw the CC319 challenge on SCS- Concord Ivory Cake- pair it up with concord? I had not thought of that one- I was working on the CAS 115 challenge on a real simple cardsketch that I loved with the button and tucked under ribbon detail so I just combined the two and whipped this up.

Base card is concord crush, with crumbcake embossed with the polka dot on top and square lattice on the bottom to give 2 different textures, added the crumbcake seam binding ribbon with the fold detail that I wanted to use. Die cut Frame, oval scallop with very vanilly CS and just use the oval - stamped the silhouette in crumbcake and sentiment in concord. Stamped the egg with concord on vanilla CS and cut it out and attached with a dimensional and literally a 10 minute card from thought to picture!

Lynda

Happy Easter!

I've seen several versions of this idea and thought it was funny and wanted to make one for my in-laws for Easter.

With hearing aids in use with all my relatives on both sides of the family, this is a common conversation.

The base card is barely banana. The chocolate chip cardstock is punched with the pinking hearts border and corner punch. The pretty in pink CS is embossed with the perfect polka dots embossing folder. the chocolate bunny is stamped with versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder and areas punched with the scallop circle punch. The sentiment was stamped with simple alphabet from Papertr*y in chocolate chip, punched out with word window and the retired SU DSP from last year's sale-a-bration punched with modern label. It still makes me chuckle.

Lynda

Easter baskets

I have 3 boys and a DH who loves nothing more than chocolate.

so for Easter I made these little Easter baskets using the take out box die cut from Sizzix without the top closure. The handle is 2x12 inch strip, scored at 1/2 and 1 1/2 inche long folded. I used 2 eyelets on each corner to secure it in place.

It was filled with a mild chocolate bunny from See's and some little milk eggs and a butterscotch lollipop that they really love. Not so much candy to make them sick sick but enough to keep them happy for this special day.

You think they like, eh?

Happy Easter!

Lynda

Easter Parade

At the last Stamp and Chat, Mercedes Weber -the undeniable Her Punch Highness- made an adorable scrapbook page using this punch bunny and the Egg Hunt wheel. Of course you can never have enough wheels for that really easy background. It's saffron ink on saffron CS. The Bunny is made using a large Oval and samll oval and word window punch. The nose is the heart from heart to heart punch. The eyes and toes are 1/8" circle punch. Highlight the eyes with the white gel pen to add a little sparkle. Sponge the edges of the body with some pink pirouette ink and mount onto white CS diecut with Top Note. I liked the ear a little flopped though. Pink pirouette striped grosgrain finishes it.

I liked the layout so much I used it for another card this time using the An Egg-cellent Easter set. It is so sweet. It is colored using the SU watercolor pencils after stamping in basic black. The bunny was colored lightly with pinkish pencil then using aqua painter blended in. A shadow underfoot anchors the image.

Just goes to show you how you can use one layout that appeals to you in lots of different ways.

HOppy Easter to you all!

Lynda