Hello Rabbit

Love the inspiration photo for the Cure for the Monday Blues Challenge this week!

 It's so fun and colourful. I absolutely adore Easter!

 I chose to incorporate a pop of neon and a white bunny with a ribbon tied around it's neck. Here is what I came up with:

 Thanks for the challenge! Happy Easter, everyone!

 Supplies: Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine Stamp Set; Poppy Stamps Chocolate Bunny Die; Ink - Autumn Leaves Black Onyx, Hero Arts Neon Pink and Yellow; Ribbon; Cardstock.

Some Bunny Loves You

I have two cards a few different challenges to share today.  The first one is for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday challenge.  This week's challenge was to make a no-sewed quilt.  Doodlebug's Hello Spring 6x6 pad is perfect for this time of year.  The colours are so cute and the patterns are the best.  I cut 2x2 squares in three different patterns and laid them down in a quilt-like pattern.  Then I used the PTI Quatrefoil plate with their embossing pad for the embossed background.  The Chocolate Bunny die is from Poppy Stamps (I got it from Simon Says) and I used the PTI Scrambled Eggs sentiment to stamp all over him.  This is a good way to add a sentiment if you don't want to take away from the background.  I used Memento Lulu Lavendar and Grape Jelly and backed on a purple card because purple is my fav colour.

The next card is for MFT Wednesday Stamp Club and the Simon Wednesday Challenge.   Here is the sketch:

I love this fun Pure Innocence Bunny Ears stamp.  Not only is she holding an egg, she's got the cutest bunny suit on.  I made her purple and paper pieced the egg using paper from the Doodlebug pad again.  I know this is an MFT sketch, but I couldn't resist trying out my new Lawn Fawn Awesome dies and stamp set.  Love this instagram love and it's so cool to use only part of the image.  I always use the entire image and this time I had to cut off her ears and bottom half.  But it turned out well.  I coloured my instagram image with pastel colours, paper pieced and popped the lens. I stamped my sentiment in Grape Jelly in the bottom corner (from the same PI set) and added some bling.  I love this card.  
  

Easter is my second favorite season after Christmas.  I love the fun activities and cute things associated with spring.  I especially love decorating eggs.  I think it's a good thing we can't buy chocolate bunnies in Japan because I would probably eat too much.  :)

Hoppy Easter Suit

Woohoo, spring is in the air!  I am starting to think about Easter, how about you?

For the March MFT Color Palette Challenge 3, we were asked to used Kraft, Berrylicious, Grapesicle, and Sour Apple (I love MFT colour names).

I am using a retired stamped from MFT, Funny Bunny by Claire Keay.  I super love this kid in the bunny suit.  Kinda makes me want one of my own.  :)  I used a kraft base, a white mat, and a striped purple and white vellum piece from Daiso.  I wanted to put the long vertical diecut on its side (making it horizontal, not vertical...) and put my bunny upright, so a square card works nicely with this.  I added a Fancy Flourish in Sour Apple and a few pearls in coordinating colours from the Doodlebug Spring Pearls assortment.  Thanks for the challenge!  I know it's early...but Hoppy Easter!  (^_~)/

Supplies:

MFT KY - Funny Bunny (retired); MFT Fancy Flourish and Vertical Greetings Die-namics; Cardstock; Daiso Chiyogami (Vellum); Memento Tuxedo Black; Doodlebug Spring Pearls; Copic Markers (BV000, BV00, BV01, G07, R20, Y38).

Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge #3 - Pastel Eggs

It's time for another Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge.  For the third installment, the theme is Pastel Eggs.  We are asking you to use pastels.  Adding eggs is an option, but not necessary.  I, personally, couldn't wait to do something for Easter and definitely decided on using them.

I had went to Yuzawaya with the aim of picking up some styrofoam eggs.  And I was in luck.  Not only did they have what I was looking for, it was fairly inexpensive and there were a huge selection of them ranging from teeny tiny to massive, what would you do with that ones.  I recommend going here for anyone in Japan.  :) Plus you can use the members card and save.

There are so many ways to decorate Easter eggs.  Every year I do something different, with real eggs.  I was thinking of what I would do with my new fake ones and thought I would try out tissue paper and washi.  I even did a few glitter ones too.

Last fall, we went for a drive to Atami and I bought some snacks for my coworkers that came in these cute eggs carton type boxes.  To be honest, I bought them specifically for the packaging…but when you are a crafter, that is totally understandable.

So here is my altered egg carton box with tissue paper eggs.

I covered the packaging from my Pink Paislee tissue paper with Echo Park's Easter Lilies paper and scored it to place around the box.  I added a doily from Seria and a sticker from the Echo Park Happy Easter collection, to which I added a diecut circle and part of a banner from MFT that I inked using VersaMagic Pixie Dust.  I stamped 'happy easter' from PTI's Scrambled Eggs set in VersaMagic Pretty Petunia.  In my diecut stash, I had a pre-made flower (made using a cherry blossom punch from Daiso, a half-backed pearl and stickles).  I added the cherry blossom to the top and using some Twinery Buttercream to wrap around and tie.

Inside, I added some Echo Paper Easter Words paper to the top and popped up the basket and eggs from the sticker sheet.

I only had kraft straw, so I made my own straw by trimming thin pieces of pastel paper and then crimped it.  On top of that, I added my tissue paper eggs.

I made a video of how I made my eggs, so please take a look.

You could even fill the box with candy or other goodies.  I even found some crafty egg carton swap pics where they added ribbon etc.  Cool idea!


Here are the cards I made:

The chick one, front and inside -

The rabbit, front and inside (I show a process in my video) -

Please drop by the Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge and check out the other projects from the rest of the girls, as well as the participants.  Thanks so much for dropping by!

Sherri

Supplies:  Pink Paislee Tissue Paper; Echo Park Happy Easter paper and stickers; PTI Scrambled Eggs Stamp Set and Die Collection; PTI Tiny Tags; Unity Stamp; VersaMagic Pixie Dust and Pretty Petunia; The Twinery Buttercream; Seria Doily; Daiso Punch; MFT Scalloped Banner Die-namics; Circle Die; EK Success 1'' and 3/4'' Punches; Carla Craft 7mm Punch, MME Enamel Dots.  

Welcome Spring

Early morning cardmaking and post coming your way!  (Well, it's here actually...lol.)  So, I woke up this morning and noticed that there was a PaperTrey Ink Blog Hop for February going on.  I guess you only have the day to join and since I didn't see it till this morning (we're ahead in Japan here), I knew I would have to skip it or get crackin!

The theme was sweet spring.  I love spring and all the things that come with it.  What a good chance to bust out my Scrambled Eggs and Sweet Spring stamp sets.  I cut out the Holiday Die and used some pretty Artnic Mint and Memento Lulu Lavendar to colour it.  I coloured in the flowers, nose and ears with my Lindy's Magical Micas in the colours below.  Thanks for the inspiration to stamp this morning.  It was easy because I had fun stuff to work with! 

Have a lovely day! 
(Fingers crossed spring is headed our way...)
Sherri

Supplies:  Stamps & Dies - PTI Scrambled Eggs, Sweet Spring, Christmas Labels; Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black and Lulu Lavendar, Brilliance Graphite Black, Artnic Mint; LSG - Magical Micas (Tiffany's Blue, Creme Brulee Cream, Honeysuckle Coral, Cotton Candy Pink); Doodlebug Spring Mini Pearls.