It’s time! Easter is just a month away so here is an easy Easter card with the Lots of Lavender Set, available FREE during Sale-A-Bration. This card uses two-step stamping and a little bit of watercoloring.
I chose Wisteria Wonder Cardstock for the card base, a color I’d practically forgotten I had! Maybe it has been winter for too long! The lavender bouquet is stamped on Shimmery White Cardstock. If you don’t have this paper in your collection be sure to order some. It is so pretty on its own with just a barely-there glimmer. It also is good to use for some watercoloring, if you aren’t using Watercolor Paper. Whisper White Cardstock just does not hold up to very much water if you are trying to watercolor.
To use this stamp set as two-step stamping, I started with the “blob” stamp that doesn’t look like anything and stamped that with Wisteria Wonder Ink which becomes the coloring for the flowers. Then stamp over the “blob” with the bouquet outline image. I used Memento Ink, but you could use Wisteria Wonder to overstamp as well.
I was planning to color the leaves with markers when I realized there were leaf stamps in the stamp set. Here is a good technique for stamping the leaves. Lay the leaf stamps over where you want them stamped on the bouquet, facing down, then lay the acrylic block over them to pick them up. They will be on the block in the perfect position for stamping!
This is what the stamps look like on the block, but you couldn’t place them randomly on the block and get them placed properly on the image.
Now if you want quicker and faster, I would just color in the leaves with a marker, whether the Stampin’ Write Marker or preferably the Stampin’ Blends. Those colors are a little less intense than the Stampin’ Write Markers.
For the greeting I just stamped the “Happy Easter” from Teeny Tiny Wishes, one of my favorite stamp sets! To keep it easy, I just stamped it right on the card front, not on a banner or other piece. This stamp set has greetings for almost any occasion you can imagine, and I prefer having this set in the wood-mount since they are all small stamps.
After I stamped and colored the lavender bouquet, I felt the card still needed something, so I used my Aqua Painter and some Wisteria Wonder Ink to just add some very light watercoloring around the bouquet. Here is another card with Swirly Scribbles where I put a slight watercolored background behind the flowers.
And for a final embellishment, I tied a very small little bow over the stamped bow. It’s probably a little too large for this card, but that’s okay!
Don’t forget! Sale-A-Bration is going on through the end of the this month, March 31. Sale-A-Bration is the Stampin’ Up! promotion where for every $50 you spend on products, you earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration gift. No limit! And this year, if you have a $100 increment, you can choose one higher-value item instead of two $50 choices. Time will fly this month, so be sure you get your order in!
Flowers are always great for making an Easter card or spring card. If you choose the Lots of Lavender Stamp Set as your Sale-A-Bration free item, you can try your hand at this easy Easter card with Lots of Lavender.