Spring Challenge

So I am so excited, I actually found time to do a Stampin' Royalty challenge and I got to scrapbook.   Can't get better than that!    I am so grateful, my fellow goddesses at the Stampin' Royalty site are so accommodating and have kept me as a design team member even though I haven't had the time to stamp.   I am hoping things change in the next couple of months and I find at least time to do some of their challenges.

So the challenge is Spring.  I hope you can join us, so easy and it makes me so happy to think of bright and cheerful flowers, baby chicks instead of SNOW!!    What is with snow in March and not only that but we were in the home stretch without having a major storm and now we get over 18 inches!   Yikes.   Mother Nature this is not funny.    

Here is my scrapbook page of last year's Easter egg hunt.     Some of the fun products used on this page is the Happy Celebrations stamp set and the retired Honeycomb Happiness.    The eggs were traced and cut out with a pattern.    Easter was die cut with Little Letters.    The fun paper is Festive Birthday, just perfect for Egg Hunt photos with all the bright fun colors.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!   Hope everyone has a great holiday with their family.   As soon as I saw this month's My Favorite Things color challenge, I knew an Easter card would be perfect for the challenge with the chickies!

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets:  For Peep's Sake and stamp sets from a local craft store

Ink:   Tangerine Tango, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight

Paper:   Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron Patterns Designer Series Paper, Best Year Ever Designer Series Paper

Accessories:  Wood Enamel Dots, Linen Thread

Tools:   Corner Rounder from a local craft store

Last of the Easter Projects

Here are two gift tags I made to put on my niece and nephew’s Easter gift bags. What can I say I go a little nuts around each of the holidays for my family, so here are the tags I made. I was inspired by the red flower in the gift bag when making the tags. Lovin’ the red, yellow and white combo!

Ingredients to make the project: Stamp Sets: Spring Gifts (retired)
Ink: Real Red
Paper: YoYo Yellow, Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Blooms Die Cuts, Real Red Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon, Real Red Brads
Tools: Big Shot, Scallop Square, Scallop Trim Border Punch, 1” Circle punch, uni-ball Signo Gel Pen

Ingredients to make the project: Stamp Sets: Everyday Flexible Phrases, Polka Dot & Paisleys (retired set), Flight of the Butterfly
Ink: Real Red
Paper: YoYo Yellow, Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Blooms Die Cuts, Real Red Brads
Tools: Big Shot, Scallop Square, Scallop Trim Border Punch, 1 3/4” Circle punch, uni-ball Signo Gel Pen

Happy Easter Everyone

Here are the two cute little Easter baskets I made for my niece and nephew. I dressed the baskets up with some Big Shot flowers I made. I had to find baskets that weren’t too big because I knew the minute my nephew saw the goodies he was going to want to eat them all. So the smaller the better for right now until he can handle restraint. I wonder if that will ever happen.

Have a great holiday everyone!

Ingredients to decorate the baskets:
Accessories: Flet from a local craft store, Pretty in Pink Corduroy Buttons, Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon
Tools: Flower Layers Sizzex, Big Shot, Crop-a-dile

Dressing up Cheese & Crackers

I know it sounds ridiculous, but niece & nephew love cheese & crackers, so I decided to dress them up a little bit for the holidays. I wrapped them up with designer series paper and viola festive cheese & crackers to put in their Easter baskets.

Ingredients to make the project:

Stamp Sets: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Certainly Celery

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Afternoon Tea Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Whisper White Grosgrain Ribbon

Tools: Scallop Trim Border Punch, Wide Oval Punch, Extra Large Bird Punch, Lots of Tags Sizzlets, Big Shot

Quick & Easy Jelly Bean Holders

Here are some quick and easy jelly bean treat holders I made to put jelly beans in! Which is just perfect for this week’s Stampin’ Royalty Challenge, something with an Easter theme.

Ingredients to make the project: Stamp Sets: Spring Gifts (retired), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Brown, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Creamy Caramel
Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Chocolate Chip Corduroy Buttons, Linen Thread
Tools: Big Shot, Scallop Square

Ingredients to make the project: Stamp Sets: Spring Gifts (retired), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango
Paper: Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Razzleberry Lemondade Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Crushed Curry Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon
Tools: Big Shot, Scallop Square

Stamping Fun

This weekend I had my little cousin and her friend come over for some stamping fun. Here they are holding their favorite projects of the day. I am sure you recognize the bunny and the sheep from my previous blog posts.

Ingredients to make the bunny wall hanging:

Stamp Sets: Miracle of Spring (retired)

Ink: Regal Rose
Paper: Regal Rose Patterns Designer Series (retired) Paper, Regal Rose, Whisper White

Accessories: Regal Rose Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, 5/8" Jumbo Brad

Tools: Crop-a-dile, Big Shot, 1 1/4", 3/4", 1/2", 1/4" circle punches, small and large oval punches, small heart punch, trio heart punch, Big Shot, Top Note Sizzex, Flower Layers Sizzex, punch from a local craft store, uni-Signal gel pen, Stampin' Write basic black journaler

The baby card is similar to the one I made on Saturday. The only difference is the retired Certainly Celery Prints Designer Series Paper.

Inkredible Color Challenge

Okay I have to say I was a little stumped on what I was going to do with this week's Inkredible color challenge. The colors are: Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue and Old Olive. The colors scream a little boys shirt, but I just could not think of anything that would work with these colors. Then I was looking at printouts I made of beautiful cards I have found on the Internet on blogs and saw this punch art chickie! I was wow this would be perfect.

So here my punch art chickie Easter gift bag and the ingredients to make it:

On a side note, the designer series paper does not exactly match the color challenge, but when I picked it up it was a great fun fit for the project.

Stamp Set: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Crushed Curry and Old Olive

Paper: Sweet Pea designer series paper, Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Bashful Blue and Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: White Satin Ribbon, 5/16" Whisper White Jumbo Brads

Tools: Coluzzle Cutting System (retired), Scallop Circle Punch, 1/2" circle punch, 1/4" circle punch (retired), Big Shot, Ovals Sizzex, Sponge Daubers

Special Touches for this Project: I sponged Crushed Curry on the edge of the Oval and the scallop cut outs I used for the wing. I free form cut the egg with my paper snips after cutting the oval. The grass as well was free form cut. Also a big tip for gift bag, I always apply anything I make for a gift bag with Sticky Strip it really keeps the paper on the bag and that is super important with gift bags since they are constantly being handled.

March Open Workshop

This month's open workshop we will be making 4 projects!

1 homemade Easter gift bag

1 homemade Easter basket

2 cards made with Sale-a-bration products!

Stop by on Sunday, March 14th 3 p.m. and make these fabulous projects.

Don't forget it is Daylight Savings Time! So make sure you set your clocks ahead.

Workshop Fee: $20

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Please RSVP as soon as possible for all events so that the card stock is ready for everyone to start stamping when the event begins.