Hello and happy last day of March everyone! Can't believe it is the last day of March and Easter is just days away! I had Easter in mind when I created today's project for the A Jillian Vance Design blog. Here is a little peek:
I hope you have a lovely day and Easter! Don't forget to head over to the AJVD blog to check out my project!
Yep... back with more Easter cards! Gotta get them done... Easter is in one week! The first card is for the Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge, as well as Freshly Made Sketches and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. The Pinkfresh challenge this month is flowers so I just used that and took more of my color inspiration from the SSS mood board. I stamped the Pinkfresh Studio/Altenew collaborative stamp set called Celebrate Today on watercolor paper with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then watercolored very simply with Altenew's 12 pan watercolor set. When dry I die cut it with the matching die. I trimmed a piece of white cardstock down and then ran it through my die cutting machine in a pretty lattice design embossing folder that I have had for years. I added a little strip of light gray cardstock at the bottom and then adhered my panel to a white cardstock base and added the floral image. The sentiment is from A Jillian Vance Design. I stamped it on white cardstock with the Nocturne ink, die cut it with a banner die and attached. Finished off the card with some sparkling clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.
Hello! Still trying to make some Easter cards and here is another one I got done. This is for the Revese Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge, as well as the Card Concept and a new to me challenge called Day of the Month Card Club. I found this challenge through my good friend, Greta! Both the Card Concept and Day of the Month Card Club challenges feature butterflies. I pulled out the RC Stained Glass Butterfly stamp and die set and did some Copic coloring using colors from the Card Concept inspiration photo. The buttefly and the leaves were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink before coloring. I used the mid sized RC Lacy Scallop rectangle die to cut white cardstock that I stamped with the sentiment from the RC Easter Blessings stamp set. I then arranged the butterfly and leaves on the panel. I die cut some purple cardstock with the largest Lacy Scallop rectangle die and adhered that to a white cardstock base. The sentiment panel was then adhered to that. I thought about adding some sequins, but obviously didn't in the end. My card would fall into the clean and layered category at the Card Concept.
Hello, hello! Simon Says Stamp's All the Feels new release is now live and you can shop it here! (Affiliate link used). Simon was kind enough to send me the super cute Bear Hugs die set to create with. Thanks, Simon! When I saw the die set I immediately thought of Mother's day and Father's day cards. So I created to cards in that theme.
As you can see for the Mother's day card I went with white, pink and a little bit of soft gray. For the background I used the Simon Says Stamp Heart to Heart background stamp. I stamped it in a medium pink ink and then again with watermark ink. Clear embossing powder was applied and heat set. I then used Spun Sugar distress oxide ink to ink blend the background. The bears were die cut from white, pink and soft gray and then layered on the backing piece. I love that Simon included a backing die for this set! The sentiment is from a very old Simon Says Stamp Valentine's day stamp set called Roses for You that has a matching die. I die cut the love you and then stamped the outline with the medium pink ink. Additional words were cut, layered behind the top one and then adhered below the bears.
The Father's day card is a little bit stepped up from the Mother's day card in that I used the Center Cut Geometric Pattern background stamp and die cut the center circle and then popped it up on my card base. The bears were cut from two shades of brown cardstock and then layered along with the red heart. I used the same sentiment that I used on the first card. I finished off the card with some Nuvo Crystal Drops in Morning Dew for the bears' eyes and noses.
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Hello! Are you playing along with the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's blog hop? The hop ends on Friday and there are a ton of prizes available to win. A Jillian Vance Design is a super sponsor. Just click over to the AJVD blog to see my coffee themed project. Here is a little peek:
Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to head over to the AJVD blog to see what I made!
Hello! Hope you are having a good day. Popping in with a card for a few challenges: Paper Players, Fusion and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. The Paper Players challenge is to create a clean and simple card with an animal. I have a butterfly on my card and so I hope that counts, but if you look really closely at the light blue oval there are tiny rabbits on it. The inspiration photo at Fusion features eggs. Obviously I didn't use eggs on my card, but I did use the sketch and I tried to capture some of the colors found in the inspiration photo. Finally, I used three different patterned papers per the SSS Wednesday challenge to use two or more patterned papers. The papers and the butterfly are from a Spellbinders kit from 2020 called Feeling Hoppy. I die cut the two rectangles using the Spellbinders Essentials Rectangle dies. The oval was cut with an original Spellbinders classic oval die. The sentiment is from A Jillian Vance Design and was heat embossed in white on vellum. Even with the patterned papers the card is very clean and simple.
Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
