Easter Basket Chicken

I made this card to go with/match my Easter Basket Critters seen HERE.

All products are Amuse Studio unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Made for Plaid, Hexagon, Essential Sentiments Too

Ink: French Roast, Cocoa, Squash 

Paper: Cherry, Vanilla, Kraft, Saffron
Dies: Easter Basket, Squares, Little Flowers, Heart Trio

Schtuff: Metallic Brad, Toffee Twine, Onyx Twinkle, Sponge, (basket stuffing from $Tree) 

  

Gingham Flowers & Pot

Here's another retiring products project to share with you.  The Flowers 1 and Flowers 2 dies are going away soon, here is a little bright & cheery 3-D project using the Flowers 1 set.

Stamps: Springtime Day

Ink: Cocoa, French Roast
Dies: Flowers 1

Paper: Yellow Gingham, Fern, Sugar 

Schtuff: Lime Organdy Ribbon, French Roast Buttons, Doily.
    Clay Pot,White Sticks & Moss (Dollar Tree) 

  

Circa 1950 Easter Card

 Wishing everyone a Happy Easter.

Package-O-Peeps

This Peeps card was inspired from a picture I saw in a retired Amuse catalog and I just changed a few things, well I changed most things but I want to give credit where the inspiration came from.  You can't really see it in the photo but I put a piece of crystal clear window sheeting across the stamped peeps so it looked a little more like they were in a package.

Stamps: For Peeps Sake

Ink: Saffron, French Roast

Paper: Saffron, Cocoa, Sugar, Lemon Whip 

Schtuff: Doilies, French Roast Twine, Crystal Clear Window Sheet, Tombow Marker 

  

Gingham Easter Basket

Have I mentioned how much I love our gingham card stock, well okay maybe I have a fewww times :o).  I made the little pink bow with our crepe paper which BTW I'm loving that too.  What's neat is you can make pretty much any size bow you want just by cutting the width you want, loosely fan folding it then twisting it in the middle and wrapping a little strip of paper around the center.  Oh and trimming the ends a little once it's put together.  I'll be posting a couple other crepe paper projects from my "Crazy for Crepe Paper" class last week keep checking back for new posts.

Stamps: Snail & Co., For Peeps Sake,

Ink: Grass, Memento Cocoa

Paper: Pink Gingham, Sage, Blush, Shimmer Sugar, Sugar

Dies: Bunny, Easter Basket
Schtuff:  Blush Crepe Paper

  

Chocolate Easter Bunny

Lets keep the bunny trail going with a chocolate Easter bunny today.  He looks almost good enough to eat! 

Stamps: Eggstravaganza, Essential Sentiments

Ink: Lemon Whip, Eucalyptus, French Roast

Paper: Sky, Grass, Kraft, French Roast, Lemon Whip, Gingham, Chevron, Polka Dot 

Dies: Easter Basket, Grass 

  

Mad for Plaid Peeps

Well I can't hardly post gingham bunnies and then not post plaid bunnies too.  So here's my Mad for Plaid peeps, Mad for Plaid is one of my all-time favorite stamp sets...custom plaid...ummm yeah! :o)

Stamps: Mad for Plaid, For Peeps Sake

Ink: Grapefruit, Cocoa, French Roast, Grass

Paper: Grapefruit, Cocoa, Grass, Vanilla

Dies: Peeps, Egg, Grass
Schtuff: Sponge

  

Gingham Bunny Trio

Cutie dutie gingham bunnies for Easter.

Stamps: For Peeps Sake

Ink: Memento Cocoa

Paper: A Blush, French Roast, Sugar, Ginghams
Dies: Happy, Bunny set
  

Speckled Eggs

This card is another "Halloccasions" card, I used the moon from the Harvest Moon stamp set to make the speckles unique on each egg.  Also did some masking and sponging too.   

Stamps: Harvest Moon, You're Too Kind, Essential Sentiments 

Ink: Latte, Cocoa, Memento Cocoa

Paper: Cocoa, Sugar, Shell, Pistachio, Amethyst, Lemon Whip, Sky
Dies: You're Too Kind

Schtuff: Sponge, Shimmer Chalks 

  

Peeps Easter Egg Holder

Here's a cute little Easter egg holder we made at yesterday's class.  Boy do we ever have the cutest stuff for Easter or what?! Feel free to email me or leave a comment for the simple egg holder box dimensions.

Stamps: Mad for Plaid, Egg-stravaganza

Ink: Cocoa, French Roast

Paper: Lemon Whip, Sage, Shimmer Bubblegum, Sugar

Dies: Easter Basket, Peeps, Tiny Flowers, Grass

Schtuff: Tombow (for eyes), Vanilla Pearl, Easter egg from Target

  

Copic Easter Bunny

I colored the bunny with Copic markers and added some "le pouf" to make his tail fluffy.  Also sponged on an oval background which was intended more as sky background but looking at now it could almost be a giant egg too. :)

Stamps: Springtime Day, Essential Sentiments

Ink: Sky & Eucalyptus

Paper: Blush, Grass, Sugar

Dies: Grass, Oval

Schtuff: Copic Markers, Le Pouf, Sponge

  

Birthday Shamrock

I have a special friend who's birthday is today and I know she loves shamrocks for her birthday.  Happy Birthday Kyrie hope you have a magical day! 

Stamps:  Birthday Greetings

Ink: Stazon Black

Paper: Shimmer Gold, Evergreen, Onyx, Sugar

Dies: Candy Box Cutouts, Scallop Border

Schtuff: Green/Lime Bakers Cording

  

Hill of Three Crosses

Here's another  "Halloccasions" card using a stamp from the "Spooky Boo Day" set to make the Easter Crosses.  We have LOTS of adorable Easter products to choose from but none for religious projects so once again I put on my "Halloccasions" hat and came up with this Hill of Three Crosses Easter card.   (Halloccasions are cards I've made with Halloween stamp sets for occasions other than Halloween)

Stamps:  SPooky Boo Day, For Peeps Sake

Ink: Grass, Fern, Eucalyptus, Saffron, Memento Cocoa

Paper: Sugar

Schtuff: Sponges, Tombow (for crosses shadows)

  

Hello Spring

We made this card at my "Hop into Spring" workshop last week.  It's a regular A2 card with just 2 inches cut off from the front right side.  I cut a separate piece of onyx card stock 2x5.5,  stamped the leaves, glued on a piece of 2x2 bubblegum at the bottom and added a little strip of our new patterned paper & flower then glued the whole panel to the "inside" right side of the card.  For the "hello" on the front I carefully added glue to just the first three letters only and glued it to the front lime flap.  I love pink & green together and I think our Lime & Bubblegum are just the perfect match :o) hope you likey the limey...I'm a dork!

Stamps: Beautiful Botanicals 

Ink: Lichen

Paper: Bubblegum, Lime, Onyx, Sugar, Everything's Rosey Patterned Paper

Dies: Hello, Tiny Flowers

Schtuff: Onyx Twinkle

  

He is Risen

Unfortunately there is only one (yep one) religious Easter stamp in our catalog so I had to get creative and came up with this card.  I do wish we had at least a couple other options to choose from but maybe the next catalog will have some more.  In the meantime I do like the simplicity of this one and hope you do too.

Stamps: Mad for Plaid, Grunged Sunrays, Essential Sentiments

Ink: Saffron, French Roast

Paper: Cocoa, Sugar

  

Happy Easter Banner

I LOVE that we have our gingham card stock back and coupled with our new bunny dies well it just can't get much cuter!  Gingham bunnies = total cuteness!  And of course my little cotton tails are holding the new "happy" thin die banner too! So many cute Easter toys in the new Spring accessories guide!

 

Stamps: Ovalicious 

Ink: Seattle, Eucalyptus, Squash

Paper: Pink Gingham, Bubblegum Shimmer, Seattle, Sugar

Dies: Bunny set, "happy", scallop border

Schtuff: bunny bums, pearls, sponge

  

Spring Chickie Holiday Tag

I was just playing around and came up with this little spring chick "tag".  I cut the tag from the rounded Holiday Tag die which also creates a hole at the top so I just punched a second hole and backed it with black card stock for his eyes.  I used the tiny Flowers die (so many neat uses for that die!) for his feathers and his chickie feets.  Hand cut his beak and hand doodled around the edges.  Oh yeah and sponged on a little orange around the edges too.  He makes me smile :o).

Ink: Orange

Paper: Papaya, Orange, Onyx

Dies: tiny Flowers, Holiday Tags

Schtuff: Copic Multiliner, sponge

  

Spring Country Chickens

I love it when a project turns out exactly how I envisioned it in my head! I couldn't wait to get my hands on the new Amuse Studio basket die and as soon as I cut out the first basket and saw the left over piece (from inside the handle) it instantly spoke "hen" to me! It took me about 2 seconds more to realize the new tiny flowers die was absolutely perfect scale for the head feathers, waddle and beak and of course the blue flower for the basket too...it was all just meant to be! Eeeee I had so much fun using all our new items from the Spring Accessories Guide creating my country chickens & basket, I hope you like it and I hope you have fun with them too. 

If you'd like the super easy dimensions for the basket "box" just leave me a comment or send me an email.  

Don't forget to share my Spring Country Hens on Facebook & Pinterest too :o)!

Stamps: Mad for Plaid, Lots of Dots

Ink: Cocoa, Memento Cocoa, Lemon Whip

Paper: Yellow Gingham, Kraft, Onyx, Eucalyptus, Sugar, Cherry, Fern, Papaya

Dies: Easter Basket, tiny Flowers, Heart Trio 

Schtuff: Toffee Twine, Pearls, sponge

  

Chocolate Easter Bunnies

The Amuse Studio Spring Accessories Guide goes live today - YAY! 

I know this isn't an original idea but I just had to make one using the adorable new Bunny dies from Amuse Studio.  No matter how many times I see this concept it makes me snort.  Hope it makes you smile too :O).

Paper: Gingham Assortment, French Roast, Pistachio, Vanilla, Sugar

Dies: Easter Basket set, What's Up

Schtuff: computer generated sentiments