Penny Black Bunny Kiss Easter Card + Update on Ruby

Hi everyone 😀

I have been on a roll of late making cards and boy, my Craft Room is a mess 😮 - but it is good to get back into making more cards and blogging.  Today I am sharing an Easel Card that I made for my daughter for Easter:

This is also my card for the following Challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PBSC April - Anything Goes with optional Easter  

 

Splitcoaststampers - Free for All Friday Challenge F4A634 - Renewal Old to New - with suggestions of using old items from your stash or recycle something etc.  My old items are the border punches and both stamps.  

The main image is by Penny Black - Bunny Kiss.  I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto Ranger watercolour cardstock and coloured it using Lyra watercolour pencils and a #2 round paintbrush.  I went over the black outlines using a black Unipin 0.1 marker to make them darker after colouring.   I diecut the panel using my Big Shot and Lifestyle Nesting Rounded Squares dies.  The tiny pink hearts around the image are the leftover punchies after using an EK Success Arrows border punch as they look like tiny hearts to me.  I added Stampin' Up Dazzling Details glitter glue to the cheeks on the bunny and chick as well as the flowers and tiny hearts.  You can see a little bit of the glitter in this close-up:

The designer papers are by Craft Consortium - Bloom and Wild.  I adore the designs in this pad - so pretty.

The sentiment is a clear stamp by Pink Gem Designs which I have had for a really long time which came in a set.  Pink Gem Designs have a store on Etsy but only sell digital products these days.  I rounded the corners on the sentiment panel using a Corner Chomper then added Artstar pink gemstones.  I popped the panel up using several scrap pieces of cardstock so it would hold the front panel in place when open.

The punched border is my old favourite - Martha Stewart Doily Lace edge punch.  The ribbon is from my stash and I attached it in 2 separate elements - and the bow itself was made using my Bow Easy.  I glued the bow down using Fabric glue.  The pink and white cardstock layers were trimmed to 1/16" or 1/8" using my Perfect Layers Tools.

Here is a photo of the closed card:

On a happy note and an update from my blog post on 21st February:  I took our cat Ruby to a different Vet clinic a week ago to get a 2nd opinion about her vomiting and he took about 5 seconds to diagnose Inflammatory Bowel Disease from Ruby's blood tests which had been taken by our regular Vet clinic.  Somehow, the diagnosis had been missed and they were thinking that her vomiting was caused by a tumour - possibly a brain tumour - and they had recommended X-rays and an ultrasound - and if that showed nothing, an MRI.  Poor Ruby was so thin and very unhappy.  So, the 2nd Vet put Ruby on a specially made Hypoallergenic diet by Royal Canin and nightly steroids and wow, what a difference!  This Vet also said that it is more common than what you might think with dogs and cats developing IBD.  Apparently, the animal develops an allergy or intolerance to either one food or multiple foods or preservatives or something else in the food that upsets them.  It was so confusing because Ruby could eat some foods and keep them down - but other foods, would come up - yet she was asking for food all the time.  Of course, it all makes sense now with the diagnosis.   

He also said that having an X-ray or ultrasound isn't necessary UNLESS Ruby doesn't respond to the special diet food and continues to vomit - so I am glad that my instincts told me to get a 2nd opinion before paying out over $1000 for the tests.  Ruby is eating well and back to her sassy-self - still a bit quiet but putting on weight.  I am being cautiously optimistic - but gosh, it's been a difficult couple of months and I felt like my heart was being ripped out.  It's awful when you see your beloved pet goes downhill.   Ruby is 13-1/2 so not a young cat but oh, we just adore her and we can't imagine our life without her.  

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  Happy Easter everyone!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black - Bunny Kiss!  2563H wood-mount, Sentiment - Pink Gem Designs

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Designer Paper:  Craft Consortium - Bloom and Wild 6" x 6" pad

Accessories:  Big Shot, Lyra watercolour pencils, #2 round paintbrush, ribbon - stash, Bow Easy, black Unipin 0.1 marker, Stampin' Up Dazzling Details glitter glue, Perfect Layers Tools, Artstar pink gemstones - Easter - 7mm, Tombow Mono Multi and Mono Aqua glue, Fabric glue, Martha Stewart Score Board, Corner Chomper, Cardstock - rose pink, white + white card base, Ranger Distress watercolour cardstock

Punches:  Martha Stewart Lace Doily edge, EK Success Arrows border

Dies:  Lifestyle Nesting Rounded Squares

Docrafts Tatty Teddy easel birthday card

Hi blogging friends

It's been beautifully sunny and mild today where I live and even though it is still technically winter, I can sense that spring is just around the corner.  I had about 15 minutes of "me time" at lunchtime and sat in the sun reading a cardmaking magazine - oh, it was BLISS and so good for my soul!

The card I am sharing today was for my daughter's 10th birthday earlier in July.  She loves Tatty Teddy (as do I) so I was especially pleased when Docrafts brought out their Tatty Teddy range of designer papers, decoupage, pre-coloured toppers and sentiment panels, ribbons etc. etc. - everything that you need to make your own Tatty Teddy cards.   Because it is a little while since they brought out this particular range, I was lucky enough to pick up a few packs on special at the Picture to Page Scrapbook show in May - yay me!

I really went to town with the Easel Card as you can see and tried to make it as pretty and as sparkly as I could.  The main image, designer papers and sentiment panel are all from the 'Especially for you' A4 decoupage pack.

Just as an aside, if you are feeling confused as to what is decoupage and what is paper tole:  paper tole is also known as 3D decoupage so technically, both names are correct. Where I live, we call the layering of cut images together paper tole (well, that is what my teacher called it when I did a course at a local community centre) and when I  did decoupage at the same centre, we cut out intricate images, glued them onto a painted wooden item, then added about 50 layers of lacquer over the top so you ended up with this beautiful, glossy surface and you couldn't feel the edges of the images because of all the lacquer on top (and it took forever to do - all that waiting for the lacquer to dry and the sanding inbetween layers - but it looked amazing in the end).  I find it a little confusing but I guess it is really just semantics when it is all boiled down!

The main image came diecut so it was super-easy to just pop the pieces together with dimensionals.  The pink lace doily was diecut using a Cheery Lynn French Pastry Doily die and my Big Shot.  The pink diecut heart is a Memory Box Sofia Heart die and I added some tiny pink Molossi gemstones to all the flower centres on the heart.  

If you have a close peek, you might see that I tied on a silver charm underneath the ribbon bow on the back card panel.  On the back of the charm, it says 'Made with love'.  The ribbons were attached in 2 separate elements and both bows were made using my Bow Easy.  I added some Fray Stop to the cut ends of the ribbon to stop them from fraying.  The pink paper roses are from Enthaily Wholesale (Australian company).  Because the roses had a yellowy-green calyx underneath them, I removed that part because it didn't match my colour scheme and looked pretty awful.  Instead, I diecut a star from the Light Awesome Aqua cardstock and glued that underneath the flower - which looked much nicer.

The sentiment panel is up on dimensionals and I used 3 pink Sparklets (an EBay purchase) to hold the back panel in place.  The Sparklets were glued on using Crafter' Pick Incredibly Tacky glue.  The pink diecut corners on the bottom panel are a Cuttlebug Vintage corner die (I used my Cuttlebug for diecutting them as I don't know the correct sandwich for my Big Shot).  I added 3 tiny pink Molossi gem stones to each corner of the Vintage diecuts.

I went crazy with the Kindyglitz Crystlina glitter glue all over the card which I know is a little hard to see in the photo but believe me when I say that most parts of the card are glittered LOL!

On my next post, I will share the knitted Cat Bookmark and a felt Owl Egg Cosy that I made for my daughter.  I have a great passion for knitting and making small projects with felt but just run out of time to share it all here on my blog, but I hope to be able to share more of these and other crafts with you.  I have my finger in so many crafty pies and my hands are always busy with something - I just can't seem to keep them still!

Before I go, I thought I would share a photo of my cat Ruby.  I was trying to take a close-up of her pretty face and her beautiful green eyes but she didn't like the camera being so close - and this is the result.........

Should I be scared.................LOL!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jocelyn 


Card Recipe:

Stamps:  None

Ink:  None

Designer paper, Main Image and Sentiment Panel:  Docrafts 'Me to You' (Tatty Teddy) - Especially for you A4 decoupage pack

Accessories:  Memory Box Sofia Heart die, Cheery Lynn French Pastry Doily DL102 die, Cuttlebug Vintage corner die, My Favorite Things Die-namics star die, Cuttlebug and Big Shot machines, silver charm, pink paper roses (Enthaily Wholesale - Australia), light teal organza ribbon, Fray Stop, Bow Easy, Kindyglitz Crystalina glitter glue, dimensionals, tiny pink gemstones - Molossi Australia, pink Sparklets - EBay, Crafter's Pick Incredibly Tacky glue, Perfect Layers Tools, cardstock - pink, Colormates light awesome aqua

Penny Black: Frolic - birthday card for my daughter

Hi blogging friends Welcome to my blog and an extra-special welcome to my new followers - it's lovely to have you join me

It will be my daughter's birthday in a couple of weeks and I have finished her card already!  I think that's the first time I have finished her birthday card so early.  But I have most of my extended family's birthdays coming up in July and August (lots of them men....sigh.....) and are trying to get ahead.  I have a family birthday party to organise for my daughter too so that will keep me very busy!  Anyway, onto my card......

I love Easel cards - they are fun to make.  A bit more time consuming than a regular card but worth the extra effort IMHO (in my humble opinion).  Now tell me that you are NOT smiling at that happy cat with his bunch of flowers!  Isn't she just so sweet?  I stamped the image onto watercolour paper and coloured it with watercolour pencils; I added some areas of pink and blue around the image which shows up better in the next two photos.  I stamped the image again and cut out just the wings on the butterflies and glued them on top of the butterflies on the main panel to add some dimension.  I added some orange gemstones to the flower centres and both the butterflies and flowers have been glittered within an inch of their lives LOL!  Here is a close-up photo of the butterflies so you can the dimension:

And here is a close-up of the image itself:

The bow was attached in 2 separate elements and the bow itself was made with my fabby Bow Easy.  I sewed the heart button to the bow centre before I glued the bow on with fabric glue.

For the sentiment section of the Easel card:  I added some Doodlebug velvet brads but didn't quite push them all the way through so that they would stick up a little and hold the front panel in place more securely.  The sentiment panel was diecut using my Cuttlebug and Spellbinder Labels 10 nestabilities.   Here is a little close-up of one of the brads so you can see how soft and velvety they look:

And here is a close-up of the sentiment panel.  I coloured around the edge of the white panel with a pink watercolour pencil.

Not sure if you can see, but the designer paper is very glittery and sparkly.  I almost couldn't cut into it - it's so gorgeous.  I picked it up from a scrapbooking store in Bright when I was there on holidays last year - yes - it's taken me 8 months to use it!  How's that for hoarding?!  Now, go on:  admit that you have done it too so that I will feel better.......

Challenges:

This card fits the following challenges -

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes with the optional extra of white

My Creative Moments - Word Play Weekend #6 - Birthday

On a slightly different note:  here is a gorgeous card made by my blogging friend Samantha Post of Ryemilan's Blogspot.  Sam sent me this card to say thanks for the baby card and present I sent following the recent birth of their new baby boy.

Isn't Sam just so talented?!!  Sam is a whizz at punch art cards too and making jewellery, cake decorating, sewing - wow - the list goes on......!  You can check out Sam's blog here. 

As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me - my email addy is on the LHS of my blog sidebar - just scroll down a little. Or leave a comment below.
Thanks for stopping by!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black - Frolic 3972K, sentiment from Penny Black - Party Time 30-049 clear set

Ink:  Versafine Onyx black

Designer paper:  Best Creation - Once upon a time - Item #GP362

Accessories:  140lb watercolour paper, Faber Castell watercolour pencils, small round #2 paintbrush, yellow gemstones - Hero Arts CH126, ribbon, Bow Easy, heart button - Trimits, pink sewing thread, Kindyglitz Crystalina, Doodlebug crushed velvet brads - 1884 pastel, Cuttlebug, Spellbinder Labels 10, Cardstock:  green, dark pink

Punches:  Martha Stewart Doily Lace

La La Land: Marci Ballerina Easel card

Hello Blogging friends! 

I've been a busy little bee these past few days.  Over the weekend, I tidied up my Craft Room because I was working in a smaller and smaller space on my desk and had lost 2 pairs of 8 inch scissors over the past few weeks and somehow the floor had disappeared and I was tripping over things!  And I was getting grumpy about it.  Can't create anything when you are grumpy, can you LOL?!!

So once that was done, I was ready to have a play with my new La La Land Marci Ballerina stamp, and today I was finally able to photograph my card as it has been raining here where I live over the past few days - very dull indeed for the end of what was supposed to be summer!  The sun was going in and out like a yo-yo today which made photography challenging to say the least! 

Isn't Marci Ballerina sweet?  So perfect for a little girl's birthday!   She looks so graceful - unlike my dancing which is unco-ordinated and clunky (makes Elaine's dancing from Seinfeld look awesome in comparison - if you are a Seinfeld fan like me, you will know just what I mean ROFL!!).   Anyway, I am digressing.......

I coloured sweet Marci with Prismacolor + Derwent Coloursoft pencils and OMS, then lightly chalked around the image with blue chalk.  I added some Kindyglitz Crystalina to the rose in her hair, the roses on the top of her tu-tu and around the bottom hem.  I added some pink gemstones to her hair - here is a little close-up:

The pink cardstock/plaid panel was punched using my Martha Stewart Pinking Scallop punch, and I added a Scor-Pal line above the border just to "finish" the edge.  I was finally able to get my hot little hands on some pink seam binding/ribbon (all the way from The Ribbon Girl in the UK) - oh, I love this stuff and it was so beautiful to work with.  I attached the ribbon in 2 separate elements, and the bow itself was made with my Bow Easy.  I glued a rose to the centre using Crafter's Pick Incredibly Tacky glue.

The sentiment on the card front was popped up on mounts (dimensionals) and I added some tiny pink glitter cardstock hearts which were punched using my trusty EK Success Arrows border punch (they are leftover punchies).    Here is a closer photo of just the card front so you can see a bit more detail:

All the designer papers on the card - the floral plus the plaid - are digital from Bearly Mine Designs in the UK.

Here is a photo of just the card bottom:

I used my Cuttlebug and one of the dies from my Vintage Die set to do the fancy glitter cardstock corners on the card front and bottom.  To hold the top part of the card in place, I used my Epiphany Studio Button Tool to make some buttons with the same pink glitter cardstock (technically the colour name is Canna) then added 2mm mounts underneath the buttons so they would have a bit more height and hold the card front easily.  I did sew the holes in the buttons with pink sewing thread - I just like them to have some thread in them rather than leaving them as is.    The sentiment on this bottom panel was also popped up on mounts (dimensionals).

If you need a tutorial to make an Easel Card, please follow this link to one done by Splitcoaststampers on You Tube. 

Challenges:

I am popping this card into the The ABC Challenge of "P is for pink", as well as the Splitcoaststampers Try a new Technique Challenge TLC242 of "Easel Card".

Thanks for stopping by!  I have links in my Card Recipe below for many of the products used in the making of my card.

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  La La Land Marci Ballerina, Sentiment #1 - from Stamp-It Australia siset014 sentiment set, Sentiment #2 - My Memories MMSWHB 141502 (from Riot Art and Craft)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo black

Designer paper:  Best Creations Canna (pink) glitter cardstock GCS002, Bearly Mine Designs digital - BM Flower Delight 027 (roses) and BM Just Plaid 20

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Vintage die set, Spellbinder Oval + Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, Scor-Pal, Epiphany button maker tool 20mm + Epiphany blank button, pink sewing thread, pink seam binding - The Ribbon Girl UK, Bow Easy, mounts (dimensionals), Kindyglitz Crystalina, pink gems, blue chalk, Prismacolor + Derwent Coloursoft pencils, Odourless Mineral Spirits (OMS), paper stumps, pink roses, Cardstock:  KW Doggett Knight white, pale pink

Punches:  Martha Stewart Pinking Scallop edge, EK Success Arrows border

Stampendous Star Lilies easel birthday card

Hi and welcome to my Blog :-)

I haven't made an Easel card for ages - I guess I kind-of forgot about them - but I really love them and they are fun and easy to make.  If you have never made one before, here is a link to a tutorial on You-Tube by Splitcoaststampers.  There are lots of variations which people have done since the Easel Cards first became popular last year, eg: circle ones, twisted ones - just do a search on You-Tube and you will find lots of them.

The beautiful Star Lilies were stamped onto Watercolour paper with Stazon Jet black ink and watercoloured using Jo-Sonya Acrylic paints.  I love this stamp because you can use it for so many different occasions - very versatile!  

The side border was diecut with my Cuttlebug and one of the border dies from my Nellie Snellen Border-2 MFD023 die set - these are not on Fat Cat's website at the moment but keep an eye out - I'm sure they will be soon.  I added a Scor-Pal line just next to the border on the pink cardstock (which made it easier to line up my embossing folder so I knew it was straight - you butt the folder up against this line), then ran it through my Cuttlebug using the Flowers embossing folder from my Sizzix Dots and Flowers set.  

I attached the ribbon in 2 separate elements then attached the side panel to my cardstock base.  The bow itself was tied with my ever-reliable Bow Easy (I did add some Fray stop to the ribbon edges so they wouldn't fray).   I made a 14mm button using my Epiphany Button Studio tool and the designer paper, then sewed it to my bow with pink sewing thread.  Isn't it just so cool that you can match your buttons to your card using this button tool?!  Here is a close-up piccy of the button and here is link to the tutorial on You-Tube for using your Epiphany button tool:

The fancy corner on the RHS of the image was diecut using one of the dies from my Vintage die set.  The sentiment is from Lily of the Valley and I added two tiny pink gemstones to the flower centres on the sentiment, then popped the panel up on 1mm mounts (dimensionals).

For the bottom of the card, I again used my Epiphany Button Studio tool - except I used the larger size 20mm, to make the 3 buttons which hold the top panel in place.  I ran some pink sewing thread through the button holes just because I like my buttons to have thread through them (not sure why - I just like them with thread in them!).  I added 2mm mounts underneath the buttons so they would up a little higher to hold the top panel easily.  Here is a close-up view of them:

And here is a photo of the bottom panel without the top panel being held in place so you can see where the buttons go:

I decided to add a ribbon to this bottom panel as well and tied the bow with my Bow Easy.  I punched a heart from Best Creations Glitter cardstock using the largest heart from my Carl CP8 Heart duo punch and glued it to the centre of the bow:

And then just to "balance" the card, I added another fancy corner the same as the one on the top card panel.  I added a tiny pink gemstone to the 'i' on Birthday.  Oh, by the way, the designer paper is digital and is from Bearly Mine Designs - isn't just sooooo pretty!!  The size of the card square is 5-1/2" x 5-1/2" or 137mm.  And lastly, here is a side-view of the card:

Challenges

I'm popping this card into the following Challenge:   

Splitcoaststampers 'Ways to use it' Challenge WT309 of  'Happy Birthday'

Thanks again for stopping by!  Hope to see you again soon!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Stampendous Star Lily CRP115 cling rubber, Sentiment (round) Lili of the Valley - For you - Happy Birthday set, Sentiment on bottom panel - Stamp-It Australia siset014 sentiment set

Ink:  Stazon Jet black

Designer paper:  Bearly Mine designs - BM Flower Delight 027, Best Creations Glitter cardstock 'Canna'

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, Sizzix Textured Impressions Flower from Dots and Flowers embossing folder set, Cuttlebug Vintage Dies, Spellbinder Nestabilities: Circle, Scalloped Circle, Oval, Scalloped Oval, pink gemstones - Basic Grey, 1mm/2mm mounts (dimensionals), Epiphany Button Studio Tools: 14mm + 20mm + matching buttons, Bow Easy, pink organza ribbon, Fray stop, Scor-Pal, Watercolour paper - 140lb/300gsm, Jo-Sonya acrylic paint, #2 round paint brush, Nellie Snellen MFD023 Border-2 die set, pink sewing thread, Cardstock: white (for card base), plum pink, pale pink

Punches:  Carl CP-8 heart duo

Dovecraft: Pepper and Friends - Have a relaxing birthday!!

Hello and thanks for stopping by :-)

Haven't been doing much cardmaking this past week:  my DD was off school sick and then my cardmaking mojo went for a bit of a walk, so I have been doing some crocheted flowers plus playing the piano and fiddling around with some music that I wrote.  Thankfully, my mojo returned yesterday (Friday) and I started a card for my nephew (just as well - his birthday is next week!!).

The above card is one I made for my SIL's birthday in February and is another Easel card - just can't get enough of them!! 

This very sweet putty-tat was designed by Helz Cuppleditch and is from a set called:  "Pepper and Friends" - made by Dovecraft.  The image was coloured with Gamsol and Prismacolor pencils.  I chalked in the sky and ground with my Kaisercolour chalks and added some I-Kandee pink Pearlescent chalk around the image for some colour and soft sparkle.  I punched a heart and glued it to the pot then added Kindyglitz Crystalina to this heart as well as the flowers and the kitty's cheeks. 

The tiny hearts on the RHS of the pot are the left-over punchies from my EK Success Arrows Border punch - these are glittered as well (of course!!). 

The strips of plum pink and brown cardstock on the card front are left-over small scraps about 1/4" wide which I have glued underneath the white cardstock base - it's a good way of using them up.  Been saving them from when I use my border punches where you have that little strip left-over - too good to waste!!  There is a strip of brown cardstock above the ribbon (bit hard to see in the photo), plum pink & brown cardstock underneath the image, and plum pink cardstock underneath the dots embossing.   There is also a Scor-Pal line underneath the ribbon.  I love this double-sided ribbon - the opposite side makes a nice contrast to the other - it was made in 2 separate elements and the bow itself was made with my Bow Easy.  The sentiment on this section is from my Popcorn the Bear 'Bunches of Love' set.

The top line of hearts where the bottom of the card front sits were punched several times and glued to add a bit of extra-strength and I added dimensionals (mounts) underneath so it holds the card front firmly in place.

The doily lace punched plum pink cardstock has a Scor-Pal line above it & the sentiment on this section is from Wendy Irving Expressions and was stamped with Chalk ink.

 

Have a great weekend! 

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Dovecraft 'Pepper and Friends', Sentiment #1: Crafter's Companion 'Popcorn the Bear' Bunches of Love set, Sentiment #2: Wendy Irving Expressions J6412.02 clear stamp set 

Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, Colorbox Chalk Chestnut Roan 

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss dots embossing folder, Scor-Pal, Bow Easy, 2mm mounts, Bow Easy, Kindyglitz Crystalina, doublesided ribbon 10mm - 3/8" wide, Kaisercolour chalks, I-Kan-dee pearlescent chalks, Gamsol, Prismacolor pencils, Punches: Carl CP-8 Heart, Martha Stewart Doily Lace, EK Success Arrows border, Kaiser hot pink pearls, Cardstock: white, brown, plum pink

Penny Black: I'm so cute - another thank you card.......

Hello and thanks for stopping by :-)

I made another quick and simple 'Thank you' card to give to a friend who is very much a dog-lover.  

I love to make square cards and though it would suit this cute dog image so I'm popping this card into the Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple Challenge CAS56 - 'It's hip to be square!".  See this link for the deets on the Challenge.

This dog stamp was one of the very first Penny Black stamps I bought many years ago and it doesn't seem to date and I still love it as much as I did when I first bought it.

The image was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol, and then I lightly chalked around the image with my Kaisercolour chalks and added pink I-Kan-dee pearlescent chalk here and there so the card shimmers a little (not sure if you can see by my photo).   The 2 tiny pink hearts next to the sentiment are the leftover punchies from my EK Success Arrows Border punch (they look like tiny hearts)  and  I added some Kindyglitz to the hearts as well as the rose.

There is a Scor-Pal line underneath the ribbon and above the brown/pink cardstock border (hard to see the brown one on the photo).  To do the bottom border, I punched brown cardstock with my Martha Stewart

Checkerboard edge punch then I simply glued some pink cardstock underneath so I ended up with the pink and brown checkerboard pattern which I thought would look pretty and match the pink and brown ribbon.

Edited to Add:

When I did the sentiment on the inside of the card, I dropped the stamp - which made a big mess!  DOH!!!  So I ended up cutting the front panel off the card and attaching it to a new card and turned it into an easel card to "save" it - so it's not technically really a CAS card anymore even if the front part still is.

Here's a little pic of the finished "Easel Card".  Aren't the paw pad brads cute?!  They were perfect for holding up the front of the card:

Thanks again for visiting - hope you enjoyed your stay!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black 'I'm so Cute!!' 1706H, Sentiment #1from Elzybells 'Spring Cubes' 20-015-CC clear stamp set, Sentiment #2 "freebie" from Verve stamps

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo black

Accessories:  Gamsol, Prismacolor pencils, paper stumps, Martha Stewart Checkerboard edge punch, EK Success Arrows border punch, Scor-Pal, ribbon 3/8" - 10mm wide, Kaisercolour chalks, I-Kan-dee Pearlescent chalks, Kindyglitz Crystalina, Paw pad brads: Buttons Galore & more, Cardstock:  brown, pink, white

Penny Black: Bunny Kiss - Happy Easter!

Hello and thanks for stopping by :-)

I made this Easter card for my DD.  She was SOOOOO excited about the Easter Bunny coming this morning - nothing is more precious than seeing a child's eyes light up in wonder at the magic of it all!

One of my favourite cards to make is an Easel card.  They are so easy but look so good, and it makes me decorate the inside of the card which I don't often do.  

I am entering this card in the Papertake Weekly Challenge of "It's fill your boots time" which is an open theme so we get to choose what we want to make and we have the chance of winning a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp on-line store.  Wish me luck!  I LOVE doing Challenges which is one of the reasons why I started a Blog and have learnt so much from doing them.

This cute little Penny Black bunny and chick was coloured with Gamsol and Prismacolor pencils and I lightly chalked around the image with both Kaisercolour chalks and I-Kand-dee pearlescent chalks.  It was very cloudy and quite "dull" here yesterday, so it was really hard to get a decent photo.  I added Kindyglitz to the bunny's cheeks and ears, the chick's cheeks, plus the flower petals.  The tiny pink and light mustard hearts near the chick and on the bottom RHS of the bottom panel (where you write your message) are the leftover punchies from my EK Success Arrows border punch.

The main panel has been popped up on 1mm mounts (dimensionals) as has the sentiment panel.  I finally "made" myself use 3 of my gorgeous little stash of pink Robin's Nest Dew drops.  They are so pretty and shiny!  I sure do love them!

When I added the 3 flower brads to the bottom section that holds up the front panel, I didn't push them quite all the way through so that they were high enough to hold the panel easily without the panel slipping off.  There is also a score-line above the pink punched border on the bottom section which I made with my new Martha Stewart scoring board.

Here is a pic of the side view of the card:

Thanks for having a peek at my card.  Hope you are having a wonderful Easter!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black 'Bunny Kiss' 2563H, Sentiment: Pink Gem Designs 'Easter Wishes' (clear stamp)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo black

Designer paper:  Basic Grey Urban Prairie - Bountiful

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, Swiss dots embossing folder, Kaisercolour chalks, I-Kan-dee pearlescent chalks, 1mm mounts (dimensionals), Gamsol, Prismacolor pencils, paper stumps, Spellbinder Large Square Nestabilities and Large Scalloped Square Nestabilities, Robins Nest dew drops, Kindyglitz Crystalina, glue dots, Martha Stewart Doily Lace edge punch, EK Success Arrows border punch, Martha Stewart scoring board, flower brads, Cardstock: Colormates deep pretty pink, white, light mustard