Easter Cards

 Spellbinders has some great monthly kits.  Each month, I look at the kits avilable and choose one or two.  One of the ones I purchased in February was the Large Die of the Month called Floral Bunny Basket.

I had a great time working with it - I made six Easter cards.  Here are the die cuts for five of them:

Many Easter Card Parts

See the bunnies? Here are the bunny pieces:

Bunny cuts

All in all, each card had 52 different die cuts (not counting the sentiment which wasn't die cut).  That's 312 die cuts for six cards.  Whew!

I did a little bit of shading for the tulips, bunnies, and carrots.  The blue background is embossed with the one of the Altenew Sweater Pattern Builder stencils, just to give it some texture.

Happy Easter!

Easter Cards

 I'm working on Easter cards this week, and I feel in love with Cottontail Cuties from Neal and Tangled.  I belong to an accountability group (called an Emmaus Reunion Group) - I've made cards for each of these women - 7 of them.

As I worked on the cards, I thought a post about these cards - step by step - might be fun to do.

I stamped the images in Hero Arts Black dye ink on Neenah Solar White 80 pound card stock - I like both of these for colored pencils.  I masked the little girl's hand and stamped the carrot, so that it looked like she was holding it. I wanted a soft look, so I used Prismacolor pencils (instead of copics). This design is very much inspired - if not stolen - from Laura Fadora - at this link.  Watching her video inspired me to purchase the stamp set.

I masked the images with post-it notes, and then used Inc. makeup brushes from Target to brush on Distress Ink (Twisted Citron and Broken China) for the grass and sky. I added a few pencil strokes in green to provide ground and blades of grass. I wish I could remember where I saw the idea of using the makeup brushes - they are a substitute for the more expensive Clarity Brushes. This is the first time I've tried them - I loved the light touch of ink they provide. I never could have gotten this soft of a background with the ink applicators I usually use with distress ink.

The panel is mounted on a frame and card base from My Favorite Things.  Seven of them ready for Easter!