Easter Message

The masking technique places the palm frond behind the cross in both of these cards.  To mask the cross while you put the palm frond behind it, stamp the cross on a scrap of paper and fussy cut the top half of the design.  Roughly cut the bottom half leaving paper for you to hold onto as you stamp the palm. Hold the mask over the cross and stamp the palm frond.  Remove mask.

On both cards, the cross is stamped with Archival Black Ink onto 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" Very Vanilla card stock.  The palm frond is stamped with Pear Pizzazz.  The sentiment is heat embossed using VersaMark and Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder, as seen on page 181 of the Annual catalog (AC).  I lightly colored the cross with Early Espresso Watercolor Pencil (seen on page 24 of the Occasions catalog, or here) before using an almost dry Aqua Painter to blend the color.  Both cards have clear Wink of Stella on the shroud.

The card above has a 3 3/4" x 5" middle layer of Soft Sky card stock. The ribbon is retired Soft Sky seam binding.  The brass colored brads are from a craft store. 

Instead of the Soft Sky, I off set a piece of Old Olive in the upper left corner of the A2 Very Vanilla base.  Old Olive also backs the 1" x 2 7/8" sentiment banner.

The cross stamped onto 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" Very Vanilla card stock.  It is backed with a piece of Basic Black card stock to create an 1/8 inch border to set it off.  The framed design card stock is placed 1/4 inch from the lower right corner of the card base.

Both cards have the Easter Blessing from 2016 Occasion catalog stamped with Mementos Tuxedo Black ink as the inside sentiment.



Thank you for stopping by to see my Easter Message cards.  Any of the above supplies may be purchased in my on-line store here.  I will appreciate your business!                                        
                                                                      Happy Easter!

Father Christmas is here again!

Father Christmas was fun to color with Stampin' Write Markers!  The Father Christmas stamp set is on page 22 of the Holiday catalog.

I used Very Vanilla as the A2 card base.

The 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Old Olive card stock was embossed with the Holly embossing folder as seen on page 195 of the Annual catalog.  Then I lightly sponged along the embossed areas with Old Olive ink.

Father Christmas is on a  2 1/4" x 3 3/4" piece of Very Vanilla card stock.  He is stamped with Stampin' Up! Archival Black Ink so when I colored the image, it would not get muddy from the black ink.   His robe is colored with Cherry Cobbler ink.

Everything else is colored with Stampin' Write Markers that stuck my eye at the time.  I made several of these cards and used different colors for the toys on each card.

The colored piece is glued onto 2 3/8" x 3 7/8" Cherry Cobbler card stock.

All white areas on Father Christmas are painted with Clear Wink of Stella for a festive look. 

The sentiment is stamped with Cherry Cobbler ink onto a Very Vanilla scrap of card stock and then die cut with the new Layering Squares Framelits on page 193 of the Annual catalog.

The ribbon is Cherry Cobbler 3/8" Taffetta.  The square sentiment is tied on with Cherry Cobbler Metallic Thread.  Both are in the 2016 Holiday catalog on pages and 20 and 7, respectively.

Thank you for stopping by.  If you would like to order any of the supplies used in this card, please shop in my on-line store here.

Lil' Lamb - here for Easter - here for many occasions!

The Stampin'Up! Easter Lamb stamp is one wood mounted stamp on page 24 of the 2016 Occasions catalog.  As you can see, the lamb has many more applications.  You can wipe any ink you get onto the "Happy Easter" sentiment and stamp the lamb alone.

The cardstocks I used for both cards are Perfect Plum and Smokey Slate.  Other card stocks used are:  Wild Wasabi and and Pink Pirouette on the top Easter card and Old Olive and Crushed Curry on the bottom Oh, Hello card.

Both lambs are embossed with White Embossing Powder.  Embossing folders are Happy Heart and a polka dot folder form my stash.  However, Decorative Dots on page 174 of the Annual Catalog is a great substitute for the polka dots.  The lamb is highlighted with the clear Wink of Stella pen.  Love the subtle glitter of the Wink of Stella.

The "OH, HELLO" sentiment is part of the FREE Sale-A-Bration set Honeycomb Happiness seen on page 15.  With every $50 of merchandise you purchase by March 31, 2016, you may choose an item from the Sale-A-Bration  catalog.  The cute chickie is part of this set, too.  To see my card using the chickie:

Do you want a balloon? They are FREE.

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Do you want a balloon? They are FREE.....well, they were during 2016 Sale-A-Bration. I just might have an extra one to share, contact me.

I love rubber stamps!  I love baby animals!  I love FREE things!  So, just look at what happens when I have all three things together!  This cutie and his balloons are part of one of the Stampin'Up! FREE Sale-A-Brations (SAB) stamp sets.  See all of the set on page 15 of the SAB catalog.

Onto water color paper, I stamped this cutie and his balloons with the Black Archival Stampin' Pad (page 28, Occasions catalog) because it is a permanent ink and perfect for water coloring.  TIP:  Make a mask for the bird before adding the balloons with strings.

With my Aqua Painter I painted the chickie using Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad; the balloons with Tempting Turquoise and Tangerine Tango; the ribbons are Blackberry Bliss and Garden Green respectively.  I painted his beak and feet with Crumb Cake.  When the feet were dry, I added a swipe of the Tangerine Tango.

The balloons are decorated with the small flower and leaf stamps from the Blissful Bouquet Paper Pumpkin kit with corresponding ink.


Additional supplies used with this card:
8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Hello Honey card stock (CS), scored at 4 1/4"
4" x 5 1/4" Blackberry Bliss CS
3 3/4" x 5" water color paper
1" x 3" Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper (DSP)
Banner Triple Punch
Word Window Punch
scrap of Whisper White CS
Hello Life Stamp Set
Wink of Stella

TIP: I cut a mask to go around the outside of the balloons before I added the designs to that I could stamp part of the flower and/or leaf to appear as if it continues around the sides and back of the balloon.

I had so much fun with this chickie that I made another one with the colors from the SAB Wildflower Fields DSP to use it as the banner at the bottom of the card.  Because, as you know, I love that word FREE, so I have the DSP!!!  You can have some too, just click on the items below to order.  For every $50 of merchandise that you order between now and March 31, 2015 you can choose a SAB item for FREE!!!  If you want to choose the DSP, the number is 141022.  The Honeycomb Happiness stamp set is 141288 in wood and 141291 in clear. 

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