Yummy papers and a new punch!

I picked up these yummy papers by Bo Bunny yesterday and just had to play with them right away! I really am a freak for plaid paper ......especially soft girly colors and there were several coordinating papers to go with the plaid as well which made me very happy.  I broke in my new SU tiny tags punch and the friends sentiment is a coordinating SU set as well. I've had the leaf die as well but hardly ever used it..... so I tried that as well for this card. Lots of distressing here with my fave Ranger ink-  vintage photo. I had to color the brad in the center of the flower to match...... used one of my Bic markers for that. The sentiment is from a fave set from Hero Arts " CL140 Thinking of you".

Card Recipe:

Bo bunny papers: Kitchen Spice Nutmeg

Card base SU: Blush Blossom

Ink: Ranger Distress vintage photo

SU Tiny Tags punch

SU tiny tag stamps 118592

SU Little Leaves die

Assorted circle punch and scalloped punch

off white string- brass colored brad

Anne

Who's hiding in my Easter Basket?

 Stamps used: Hero Arts CG119, CL153
Sentiment See D's

Bazzill pastel papers

Versafine Black ink, Antique linen distress ink

Versamagic cloud white for BG

Copic markers and clear embossing powder

MS border punch, SU border punch
SU modern label punch

I found this basket image a  friend sent me last year in my image stash ......so I thought I would make a fun- kind of whimsical Easter card out of it. The paper that the basket is stamped on was very thin so I mounted it on a sheet of sticky back label paper to give it some rigidity when cutting it out. I also distressed it a bit using antique linen to darken it up a bit. I used some fun critters from Hero Arts to hide in the basket....they look so darn happy to be there don't they? In retrospect I prolly should have added some grass or a few eggs so it looks a bit more like an actual Easter basket, but I think it's ok just the way it is. Now I just wish I had more copies of the basket so I could make more fun Easter cards- this time with eggs and grass!

Thanks for stopping in ladies and I love all the nice comments you leave!

Anne

Spring flowers and a butterfly!

Stamps: HA C2899,C2901,F2661, F2897, CG120

Sentiment is by Impression Obsession

Bazzill papers (pastel collection)

inks: Ranger distress spiced marmalade, spun sugar, Marvy Yellow

SU modern label punch

Hemp Twine

Here is my second card made for the Hero Arts Spring challenge. I pulled out a bunch of my favorite silhouette stamps and inked them up using more of my Distress inks and regular dye inks as well. I came back and added some of the green inks around the base of the flowers using my distressing tool. Stamped a portion of the big BG Antique Writing stamp and then stamped the butterfly again and poppped it up for some dimension! All paper on this card is by Bazzill other than the tag, my dear friend Cheryl sent me a bunch of those pretty label tags to play with.

Our weather here in WI is been beautiful and sunny- we almost got up to 50 degrees yesterday and the snow is melting quickly- I can even see some grass poking out and I spied the first few tips of daffodils poking up as well- yeah spring is on it's way!

Anne

Spring is in the air

Here is a card I made for the current Hero Arts challenge to make a Spring or Easter card. I found this little musical note stamp in my stash and wanted to make it look like the little bird was singing sweet Spring songs. I've got another card in the works for this challenge too, just waiting for some good lighting to take a nice photo of it.

I'm still struggling how to go back to my custom layout with all the fun blinkies and such.......got it narrowed down to that stinking "Halloween Countdown" gadget,  but I can't seem to get it removed. Somehow I ended up with some advertising on my blog while I have been trying to repair it too......sorry as I know that is incredibly annoying....will try to remove that also. Hopefully I'll have my fancy blog back soon.

I hope you are all enjoying your Sunday!

Anne

Masculine card Challenge

Inkadinkadoo Old script

Inkadinkadoo Fern

Hero Arts Sentiment

Distress inks: antique linen & peeled paint

Hemp twine

This week the challenge over at ISC is to make a manly card and the only stipulation was you cannot use brown anywhere on the card. So I thought why not try green and cream? I layered the stamps using the old writing first, then stamped the ferns, and when I stamped the green ferns I kind of twisted the stamp to make the image appear darker and fuller (does that make any sense?). I stamped the ferns again on the base using antique linen distress inks,added some hemp twine, stamped the sentiment, and all done!!
The inside of the card is stamped with the ferns as well. I really like it- and NO brown at all......that part was hard....

Anne