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Excellent Eggs Happy Easter Card

Excellent Eggs Happy Easter Card

This Excellent Eggs Happy Easter Card is the first Easter card of the season for me! Believe it or not, Easter is less than a month away! Time to get out your bunnies and eggs and make some cards to send, too!

For this card, I used the Excellent Eggs Stamp Set in the Spring Mini Catalog. You’ll find it on page 27. You can also get the Dies that go with the stamp set to step up your egg-making! Get both together in the Excellent Eggs Bundle and save 10%.

I started just stamping both egg designs on Basic White in Memento ink so I’d have lots of eggs to choose from as I designed my card. Then I colored in with various Stampin’ Blends Markers. I didn’t so much use the Dark and Light to blend but just chose whatever colors I wanted to use. The two eggs that are the same design I colored a little differently.

The center egg looks as if it would be tough to color, but truthfully, it is easier than it looks! I colored in the bunnies with a couple of different browns, including the skin tones of Stampin’ Blends. Just choose whatever you like! After coloring the stones and the little flowers, it was easy to color the background grass! Don’t color super-carefully, just scritch-scratch around with that marker and before you know it you will have it all colored!

The card base is Petal Pink with the largest Scalloped Contours Die for the layer behind the Easter eggs. I glued the two outer eggs down flat on the card, but the center egg is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is also in the Excellent Eggs Stamp Set. I stamped that in Petal Pink in on Basic White and die cut with a banner die in the Stylish Shapes Dies. It needed a layer so I adhered it to a strip of Petal Pink and flagged the ends to make a layer that fit right. This is adhered with a Dimensional on each end and a strip from the outer edge of the sheet of the Dimensionals placed at the bottom of the greeting so that it would go underneath the popped-up greeting and everything would fit.

For some bling, I added a few colored sequins in the Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins. It’s always fun to add some embellishments if you can. At the same time, sometimes you have to know when to stop!

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Regency Park Easter Eggs and Bunny Card

Regency Park Easter Eggs and Bunny

Here’s one last Easter card for the year, the Regency Park Easter Eggs and Bunny Card! I saw a card that used the Framed Florets Dies to make Easter eggs! In past years we’ve had oval punches or oval dies to use to make Easter eggs, but I hadn’t thought of using these dies. Naturally, I couldn’t find the exact card again but it was easy enough to make up my own design.

This card has a Basic White cardstock card base with a layer of Petal Pink. The Easter eggs are die cut with the smallest oval die in the Framed Florets Dies. I used the Regency Park 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is on the Last Chance List and is very pretty! It has all kinds of floral patterns plus more generic patterns on the “back”.

The bunny is also made by punching out the Regency Park DSP using the Easter Bunny Punch. The Bunny Punch was so popular it sold out pretty early but more are due back in stock the middle of May. The Easter Bunny Stamp Set and Punch are both in the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog which is great! Besides Easter, you can make cute baby cards with the stamp set and/or punch.

The background piece is Basic White but I added a little bit of Pool Party ink with a Blender Brush just so it wasn’t so plain. To make it look like the eggs and bunny are in the grass, I die cut some grass pieces from dies in the Playing in the Rain Dies.

The greeting is stamped with Flirty Flamingo ink from the Easter Bunny Stamp Set and die cut with a small Stitched Rectangle Die. These dies are retiring which makes me very sad! I used them a lot so if you don’t already own them you might want to pick them up on the Last Chance List AND they are discounted! For a finishing touch, I added a bow to the bunny with the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon.

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Fable Friends Bunny and His Basket

Fable Friends Bunny and His Basket

There’s still a little bit of time for Easter bunnies, so here is the cute Fable Friends Easter Bunny and his basket! I wanted to make a gray bunny for a change and I found a way to make some small Easter eggs with a punch!

The other day I discovered that I could use the Christmas Bulb Builder Punch. I just punched out the bulb and trimmed off the little thing on the end. Voila! You have an Easter egg! I just grabbed some scrap cardstock and designer paper to punch out some eggs, even one stamped heart! Instead of laying in the scrap heap, it is now an Easter egg!

The card base is Pear Pizzazz to coordinate with the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper layer. I liked the look of the leaves as if the bunny is out in the forest with his Easter basket!

The bunny is stamped in Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Love those! I originally thought I would cut out the bunny, but then I thought he might not show up very well so I left him on the Whisper White paper and added the basket. The basket is just a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock embossed with the Basket Weave Embossing Folder. The grass is first stamped with a tiny little grass stamp in the Sheltering Tree Stamp Set. I have actually used this grass stamp a lot! Then I filled in with a Stamping Blends marker. I used Mossy Meadow ink with the stamp and Pear Pizzazz marker. I also sponged a little Balmy Blue ink in the background for some sky. The plain white looked too stark.

The greeting is in the Fable Friends Stamp Set, along with other greetings you can use for other occasions. I used the Tailored Tag Punch to finish off the ends of the greeting. I’m not sure that was the best choice but it’s okay. I used some Gold Faceted Gems for an embellishment. I’m so glad this stamp set is carrying over! It will be great for baby cards also!

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If you own the Fable Friends Stamp Set, make a fun bunny card today and give it to someone on Easter!