Valentine’s Day is over so I guess we are off to Easter…and/or Spring! I didn’t necessarily plan to make an Easter card for today, but this Storybook Moments Ducks Happy Easter Card came about after cutting apart these different little panels on the two sheets of designer paper.
This card features the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. You will find it on page 25 in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog (January-April Mini). It is part of the whole Storybook Moments Suite Collection if you want it ALL! Two stamp sets, two sets of dies, two designer papers, embellishments, and ribbon! It’s an understatement to say it’s an adorable suite! The designer paper has images of cottages, neighborly critters, gardening accessories, and garden grown produce! Don’t think it is only for Easter because it will make darling cards and scrapbook pages for babies, children, springtime, and any time you want to send a special card. The designer paper package also comes with two sheets of diecut images that you can adhere to your projects, cards, and scrapbook pages.
This card starts with a base of Lost Lagoon cardstock. This color is so pretty yet I don’t use this cardstock as much as some others. Besides the diecuts in the Storybook Moments DSP, the other special thing are the two sheets of smaller panels of different images from frames to flowers, to critters and produce. Just cut them apart easily with your Paper Trimmer and then use individually. The one that stood out to me the most was this one with the mother duck and two baby ducks, I assume.
I layered the ducks (panel is 3″ x 4″) on a 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Lemon Lolly Cardstock and another layer of Basic Beige at 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″. This leaves a nice margin of the Lost Lagoon cardstock to show around the edge of the duck panel picking up the colors of the sky and the duck clothing.
The greeting is in the Greetings For All Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. Just punch out the diecut greeting that you want. This greeting had a white background which I didn’t like because I didn’t have white on the card. So I watercolored the greeting! I thought the Stampin’ Blend marker would be a little too dark so I used a Water Painter and tiny amounts of Lost Lagoon ink. I really mostly picked up the ink off the edges of my ink pad and maybe a bit more by just touching the corner of the actual ink pad. It sort of turned out to be an ombre shading on the greeting! I like the size and shape of the diecut greeting and I like, with my watercoloring, how it blends in a little with the sky in the background. Try it!
That’s how easy this card was, as easy as it looks! I loved it! I thought it was a stunning panel with the ducks, so cute and colorful, yet soft and subtle. I liked how the Lemon Lolly cardstock layer lightened it all up a bit.
As I write this, this paper is “Low Inventory” so if you want it I would order it very soon! Easter, this year, is April 20, 2025 so we have time to make things, but get your supplies while you can!