He is Risen

Hello,  

I love making Easter cards with cute little bunnies and chicks, but every so often it is nice to make a card that on the more serious side.  I found this Silhouette stamp from Blue Knight Rubber stamps.  I like the simple silhouette scene it creates.  It sort of says it all.  I hope you enjoy.  We will be back to cute bunnies soon.  :)

I colored this with watercolor pencils.  The paper is not watercolor, so I only used a tiny bit of water to blend.  It was just enough to add a touch of color. 

Eggcellent Gnome

Hello friends, 

Easter isn't too far away.   I couldn't let it pass without visting one of my favorite gnomes stamps.  I just LOVE his little carrot hat.    What things do you like to color for this season?

watercolored

Brighten Your Day

Hey,, Is it Spring Yet? 

I feel like that is what this little bunny is peeking in to see.  Isn't he cute?   It doesn't have to be an Easter card, but it is hard not to think Easter when you see a bunny.     Maybe that would be a fun challenge...making bunny cards that have nothing to do with Spring or Easter.  Who is in?

Copics:

Brown: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44

Pink: R20, R00

Green: YG13. YG11

Tag- Easter Chick

 Hello. (again)!

This is my second post of the day.  I'm playing a little catch up.  I know Easter has passed, but these are so cute I wanted to post.    I made these for the Easter class at the Senior center.  We had so much fun putting these together.  I love the eyes on the bird all the way to the right.  He looks like he just learned that bunnies lay eggs on Easter too! 😂😂😂😂.  

I hope you all had a great Easter with your families! 

Chris

Materials: Taylored Expressions Stamps

Spring Squad- 

Bunny Faces- Peachy Keen Stamps

I used a white gel pen to add color in their eyes

Baby, Bunnies, and Balloons

 Hello, 

It has been awhile since I've made a slim line card.  I forgot how addictive that is!  Spellbinders released this bunny die in March 2022.   I think this was intended to be an Easter card, but in my head I see it as a baby card.  What do you think?

Materials linked below-

Materials

Spellbinders kit-  this goes in and out of stock all the time.  Keep checking if it says out of stock. 

Welcome Die- 

Cloud Stencil- MFT or Amazon

Cloud Stencil- very similar in style

Spring Wreath with Bunny

Hi! 

Bunnies are cute yearound, but they are extra cute at Easter.  I love this new die set from Taylored Expressions.   Their new Squad die made these really easy and fun to make.  I recently purchased an animal face stamp set from Peachy Keen stamps.  These bunnies were the perfect size.  I'm absolutely in smitten with their expression.  I can't wait to make a bunch more of these.  

Materials: Taylored Expressions Stamps

Sentiment set- Joyful Joyful

Spring Squad- 

Spring Wreath

Bunny Faces- Peachy Keen Stamps

I used a white gel pen to add color in their eyes.

You are one of My Favorite Peeps

 Welcome, 

 I teamed up with my hubby on this one.  I wanted to make a peep card.  The shape was simple enough, but I wanted to find a way to spice it up.   He came up with adding the shadow to make them look more three dimensional.   I added some accessories to give them each a little personality.   I used copics to give them some dimension too. 

What do you think?  Should I made these in pink too? What peep color is your favorite?

Copics:

Blue: B12, B14, B16, 

Pink: RV34, RV32, RV10

Will work for Jellybeans

 Hi,

Whipper Snapper is one of my favorite companies.  They have a whole bunch of really (I mean REALLY) cute bunny stamps.  This little guy just hopped on my stamp table and made himself a little home on my card.  Do you have any spare jelly beans?   Wait, is there such a thing as spare jelly beans?

Materials:

Square wonkey die

Bunny Stamp- Whipper Snapper Designs

Background stamp- unknown

Copics used: Best deal as of posting - click here

Green: G46, G43, G40

Dk. Blue: B18, B16, B14, B12

Lt. Blue: B05, B02, B00

Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15

Cream: E50, E51, E53

Purple: BV00, BV01, BV02, BV04

Pink: RV66, RV63, RV52

Brown: E30, E31, E33, 

White Gel Pen

Cross my Heart

Greetings, 

Taylored Expressions included this cross in their Spring 2022 release.  I love the simplicity of the cross.  I hope that I can use it all year long for Baptism and other occasions.   Today I paired it with Easter sentiment strips.   I put a heart in the center, but I think when I make more of these, I'll leave that off.  I think it covered up too much of the beautiful cross.  

Materials:

Cross die set

No copics today

Eggs in a Basket

Welcome, 

I'm having fun rediscovering watercolor pencils.  They go so well with CCC stamps.  I created a mask for the bunnies and used a Blender brush to add the soft blue sky.  I love how these brushes let you apply a light about of color without brush marks on the paper.  I will be doing this much more often on future cards.  I hope you will give it a try. 

Materials:

Watercolor Pencils-- really loving these

Colorado Craft Company Easter Stamp 

Double stitch Border- ( Amazon or Scrapbook.com)

Versafine Black (Amazon or Scrapbook.com)

Tumbled glass ink for the sky

Blending brush for sky --- love these!!

Water brush Set

No copics today.  I used watercolor pencils instead.  LOVE THEM. 

24 Carrot Friend

 Greetings,  

Stamp companies are getting to be so creative.  I love how they are making dies that cut out the hands of critters so they can hold various items.  This little bunny is meant to be holding a cup of coffee/tea.  I thought it would be fun fill his arms with carrots.  It pairs perfectly with this sentiment.  It might be my new favorite Easter sentiment.  Gosh it is cute! 

Materials used:

Bunny Stamp Set

Bunny Die Set

Sentiment set

Copics used:

Bunny: C4, C2, C1, C0

Orange: YR07, YR04 YR02, YR00

White: E50, E51, E53

Pink: R00, R30, R32

Green: YG45, YG41

Bunny Hearts

Hello friends, 

When I started photographing the card.  Ryan just wanted to pop in and say hello!  He misses seeing you all in class.  We are sending you all Bunny Hugs!

 Copics used:

Bunny: E50, E51, E53

Pink: R81, R83, R85

Blue: B01, B00

Purple: V12, V15, V17

Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15

Green: YG67, YG63, YG61

Red: R11, R12, R14, R17

Orange: YR00, YR02, YR04

I added glitter to some of the flowers

Eggs-cellent Easter

 Hello all, 

Just wanted to pop in real quick and share this cute little bunny card.  Easter is one month away.  I'm looking forward to warm weather. I love that he has a cute little bow tie.  I used my copics to add some blue hearts and polka dots.  He is just so handsome.   

Copics used:

Bunny: E43, E42, E41, E40

Pink: R35, R32, R30

Green: G46, G43, G40

Blue: B02, B01, B00-  hearts B06

Purple: BV04, BV02, BV01

Pink: RV04, RV02, RV00

Orange: YR09, YR07, YR04, YR02

Dk. Green: YG67, YG63, YG61

Yellow: Y13, Y11

Bunny Remix

 Every once in a while, I like to revisit an older card design and update it a bit.  I made the original card six years ago.  The paper colors of the original card have both been discontinued.  It forced me to pick a bolder color palette.  I really like the depth it brings to the card.  What do you think? Do you like the original or the remake?

I made a video many years ago on how I colored the original.  You can find the link at the bottom is you are interested.  It was one if the first videos I ever made.  The lighting is terrible, but you can see how I colored it.  

Old card on the left; updated card on the right.

Copics used:

Bunny: C3, C2, C1, 0

Pink: R20, R00

Flowers: Y15, YR12, YR16

Green: YG13, YG27

Water: B00, B000, 0

Ground: E44, E43, E41

Glitter on the flowers

This video will not play unless you are on the blog or on Youtube

Bunny Window Card with video

Hello all,

Today I'm sharing another card from my March class set.  I have a video showing you how I made this card and some options to make it your own.  I hope you will check it out.

This is link to the video.   You need to be on the blog or on youtube to watch the video.  It will not play in email.

No copics today

Bunny Spinner Surprise Card- video

Hello all,

We just passed the one week mark of social distancing.   We are all praying that this pandemic ends quickly.  In the meantime, we are using internet to keep in touch and keep the creative energy flowing.   I hope you will check out the video.  If you want to participate in a virtual class-- email me for details.

The copic colors used are listed below.   If you like to see how I made this card.  Check out this video.  You need to be on my blog or youtube for video to play.  It will not play in email.

Photos:

Copics used:

Grey: C5, C3, C2, C1
Blue: B01, B02, B04
Purple: BV04, BV02, BV01
Orange:  YR02, YR04, YR09
Green: YG13, YG17
Red: R35, R32, R30

Cross

Hello all,

Yikes!  It has been a while since I've posted.  I've been playing catch up this last week.  I went to the stamp convention the last weekend of April.  It was nice to visit with my husband's family and see my crafty friends. 

I used wax paper to create a resist background on cardstock.  I sponged over the paper with Distress ink.  The cross is by SSS.   I love the wonderfully elegant look.   I'm going to have to revisit this technique again soon.

No copics used today

Grumpy Bunny?

Happy Easter,

I really like this stamp from Unity.... well I thought I did.  I colored it up and made this card.  I showed it to my hubby and he said the bunny looked mad.  Now that is all I see when I look at him.  Is he a grumpy bunny?  What do you think?  Is there something I could do to help soften the expression a little. 

No copics today-- I used colored pencils to color the bunny.  I know, I'm surprised too!

Carrot Buddies

Welcome to day 5 of my Easter Card series,

This is my favorite of all the Easter cards I made this year.  I'm not sure what these guys think they are going to do with this giant carrot, but I love the team work.

I hope you enjoyed following along this week. I had a lot of fun making this set.

Copics used:

Bunnies: E43, E42, E41- R32, R30
Carrot: YR00, YR02, YR04, YR07, E95, E97
Green: YG01, YG03, YG06
Ground: E50, E53, E55--dots done in lots of shades of browns.

Easter Pup

Hello and welcome to day 4 of Easter card series,

I have no idea what type of dog this is, but he is cute.  My favorite part is the ladybug on his rabbit ear.

Copics used:
Dog:E30, E31, E33, W3, W1,
Green: G43, G40
Ears: C3, C1, R30
Ladybug: R35