Scrapy Land - Challenge 112

Welcome to Scrapy Land Challenge 112, craft friends...

Created a simple but not fast Easter card for this challenge using the Tutti Design Tulip Egg die.

I die cut the tulip egg into a per-cut rectangle card panel several times.  I used double sided tape to make attaching all the die cuts onto the watercolor pattern paper easier.  wanting to keep the card simple/clean, i just added Nuvo drops as a finishing touch. 

Thanks for stopping bye.... I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  The winners... one selected randomly and one selected by the Design Team will both receive a $10 gift certificate to Scrapy Land.  Until next time... take care.

Scrapy Land - Challenge 111

Welcome to Scrapy Land Challenge 111, craft friends...

I created two Easter cards using the Impression Obsession Bunny die set for this challenge.

As you can see the cards are somewhat the same, but different. 

On this card I die cut the bunnies from yellow watercolor pattern paper and one of the Sizzix Garden Greens leaves from green watercolor pattern paper.  I arranged them onto a card panel with a light pink egg stenciled background.   A stamped Happy Easter and pink Nuvo drops finished this card.

This card was a lot quicker to make.  I die cut a panel of pattern paper with the one of the Stitched Rectangle dies by Elizabeth Craft  and next die cut my bunnies from the panel.  I mounted the panel onto a black card base.  A stamped Happy Easter and lime green Nuvo drops finished this card.

Thanks for stopping bye.... I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  The winners... one selected randomly and one selected by the Design Team will both receive a $10 gift certificate to Scrapy Land.  Until next time... take care.

Inspiration Squad - apr2018 Challenge 196

Hello crafty friends,

Happy Friday... and welcome to CAS-ual Friday's Challenge #196.  This challenge's inspiration starting point is Spring Fever:

Have you seen the new bunny stamp set called "Somebunny"?  I fell in love on first sight and ordered it right away.

I started this card by stamping lots of bunnies on a sheet of watercolor paper (I do most of my coloring during my lunch hour at work... helps me relax)  With the bunnies colored, I inked a card front with distress inks, sprayed some water on it and added some of the stars from the stamp set.  I used a light color ink, because i wanted them to fade into the background a bit.  Once the background panel was dry, I added three bunnies and the "hoppy birthday" sentiment from the set to the card.  As a finishing touch I added glossy accents to the balloons and tiny fussy balls (I can't think of their name) as tails.

Thank you for stopping bye today.  I look forward to seeing your SPRING theme submissions to this month's challenge. 


I'm entering this card in the following Challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner - Challenge 162, which runs until 4/10

Creative Inspiration - March Challenge, which runs until 4/3
Through the Purple Haze - Challenge 142 (Anything Goes), which runs until 3/30

Easter2018 Card1

Hello craft friends,

My Easter cards are going in the mail tomorrow... more likely, Tuesday.  So it's time to show them off and I'll start with my favorite.  I used  Impression Obsession's Easter Egg Carrot (E2391) to stamp a card panel, which I colored with my Zig Watercolor Brushes.  No fancy coloring... just three colors (orange, green and purple).  I used a stitched rectangle die to cut my stamped panel 1/4th of an inch shorter than my card, so i could add an orange mat under the panel.  I finished the card with some purple and orange Nuvo drops.

Thanks for stopping bye today.  I'll be entering this card in IO's Pick a Holiday Challenge, which runs until 4/3, so wish me luck. 

Scrapy Land's Challenge #86

Hello crafty friends,

Welcome to the start of Scrapy Land Challenge #86.  Since Easter is just around the corner, I made an Easter card as my inspiration card.

I wanted something a little modern, bold and somewhat masculine, so I started w/a kraft card base, white card stock die cut eggs and black egg backgrounds.   I was thinking hand painted eggs like these below... Pysanky eggs?

I used the Elizabeth Craft Designs Easter Eggs die set, which is not currently available in the store, but these other eggs dies would give you a similar look.  I kept the embellishments simple with just a few Nuvo Drops in green and black.

Thanks for stopping bye.... please join us for this challenge.  The winners... one selected randomly and one selected by the Design Team will both receive a $10 gift certificate to Scrapy Land.  Until next time... take care.

Scrapy Land Challenge #61

Hello crafty friends,

Scrapy Land's Challenge #61 has a theme of "anything goes using SL brand dies" this time, so stayed with the Easter theme I currently have going.   Here's my card for the Challenge:

I love how the card turned out, but honesty it took time... a few hours to create.  No coloring, just die cutting this time.  The bunnies were all die cut using the Impression Obsession Bunny Set.  For the grass you see peeking out of those egg shape windows, I used the Frantic Stamper Stitched Grassy Hill, which is not currently available, but Scrapy Land has several other grass dies that would work... here are a few of them.

As for the egg shape windows, I used my ScanNcut2 for them.  I created a card front cut file for an A2 size card containing 9 egg windows. If you want the file, I would be glad to send it to you (once I figure out how to save it to my computer).  Here's what the cut file looks like:

Thanks for stopping bye today.  Hope you'll join the fun at the Scrapy Land Challenge.  You have until 3/12 to submit your projects.  The winner, chosen by the design team, will receive a $15 gift certificate to Scrapy Land.