Happy Easter

With Easter approaching, I found that Martha Stewart Craft's "English Garden" crafting paper collection was perfect for the occasion. This set comes with 6 colours, but I only used 3: sea lavender*, endive*, water green, pink viburnum*, sweet pea and swan. I matched these heavier card stock with crosshatch design paper from the "Sun Room" collection: fennel, glacial stream, and quince flower. The little bunny stickers are also from the Martha Stewart Craft line, from the baby girl set. In addition to the bunnies, there are ducks and teddy bears, which will probably appear in upcoming 'baby girl' cards.

Here are the 5 Easter cards:

1) Pink Bunny Easter card
2) Green Bunny Easter card
3) Green Daisies Egg card
4) Blue Butterflies Egg card
5) Blue Dotted Egg card

Techniques used: embossing, 3D foam mounting

Tools used: scissors, paper trimmer, scallop-circle punch, corner punch, glue-dots, adhesive tape runner. wood-mounted rubber stamps

Materials: card stock, embossing stamp pad, green ink pad, embossing powder in "pearl" and "lullaby blue", gel pens, ribbon, stickers, embellishments, 3D foam dimensionals, buttons

A Night Owl's Hobby

Working in the IT industry means having to work the dreaded night shifts every now and then. I prepare by adjusting to 'night owl' hours; this often means busying myself with card-making in the wee hours of the morning  :)

I used the scrapbook kit pack [containing paper, flocked punchout add-ons, and stickers] from the Studio HG (Heidi Grace Designs) Orchard collection to create the following 9 cards. I love love love the colour palette: cream, peach and green --- Perfect for Spring cards!

1) Celebrate Cupcake card
2) Hello Butterfly card
3) Happy Birthday Tag card
4) Happy Birthday Owl card
5) Thoughts of You card
6) Striped Heart card
7) Happy Butterflies card
8) Hello Porcupine card
9) Merci Papillons card

Techniques: embossing, faux-stitching, 3D foam mounting

Tools: scissors, paper trimmer, scallop-edge punch, tag punch, scallop-circle punch, corner punch, glue-dots, adhesive tape runner. wood-mounted rubber stamps

Materials: card stock, tinted embossing stamp pad, embossing powder in "pearl", white & gold gel pen, cream ribbons, chipboard die-cut shapes, stickers, embellishments, 3D foam dimensionals, vellum, buttons

Spring is Here

There's no better way to procrastinate from Spring Cleaning than by pulling out all my card-making craft supplies! :-)

Here are some Spring-inspired birthday cards made on the first day of Spring 2010:

1) Hip Hip Hooray Hippo birthday card
2) You're Too Sweet! birthday card
3) Celebrate birthday card
4) Bonne Fete Owl birthday card

Techniques: embossing, faux-stitching, 3D foam mounting

Tools: scissors, paper trimmer, scallop-edge punch, glue-dots, adhesive tape runner. wood-mounted rubber stamps

Materials: card stock, tinted embossing stamp pad, embossing powder "pearl and ballet pink", white & gold gel pen, brown marker, pink and brown ribbons, chipboard die-cut shapes, 3D foam dimensionals, vellum, button