My Easter Gifts for Cute Card Thursday's I Want Candy Challenge

I decided to use Close To My Heart's milk cartons for my candy gift holder for my kids. I made candy boxes to fit the Cute Card Thursday's I Want Candy Challenge. I covered the cartons with card stock in pink, blue, green and yellow. I then used some jelly bean paper that I had and laying around and put it around the lower half. Then I stamped the peeps bunny from my Easter CTMH stamp set called "My Peeps". I love this little set. It comes with 4 stamps, the peeps bunny, the eggs, a SPRING saying and the saying on my cards "Happy Easter to my peeps". It is darling. I used the springs that are also from CTMH and put them under the peeps to raise them up. I cut a hole in the milk cartons and added acetate behind it. I then used stickles in matching colors to edge the circles and the peeps. I added rhinestones to the eyes. I made my kids cards just little 3"x3" cards. (I did it at 3 am, so little is what they got). I used the stame stamps, just pop dotted my bunnies. I hope everyone had a great Easter. I decided to share my table as well. Love to spoil the midgets.
Happy Easter,
Hugs xx
Carolyn

April Calendar Card

Well not too much on this one. I was at a Scrapbooking Retreat and wanted to get it finished by the end of the weekend. I used my Magnolia Easter Stamps from last year. I found some old Easter paper I had laying around from last year and colored my images to match with my Copics. I used some rafia to tie a ribbon on it to match the straw that is under the eggs. There's tons of glitter on those eggs and also a little rhinestone on the flower in her hair.
Hope you enjoy
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Easter Card for my Baby! (She's 20)

Here is a card I have done for my daughter for Easter. I used my Basic Grey mini pad called Olivia. I added some flowers I had laying around to the edges. It is an easel card with a pop up egg. The image is Mo Digital image called Savannah in her Easter Dress with chicks. My oldest daughter, who has come so very far these last few weeks, used to love the dresses I used to sew for her. There were layers of tulle and lace and the more the merrier for her. This is a card that reminds me of when my 20 year old was a little one. I hope she loves it too. The sentiment is from Close To My Heart's April stamp of the month.
Hope everyone has a safe and happy Easter.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Just Magnolia-Sketch by Jane/Magnolia-licious - Spring Project with Acetate/ Fussy and Fancy Fridays - Easter / Magnolia Down Under - Stitching

Today I had some fun putting together some creative cards for challenges. For this card I used my Nestibilities, Labels, and cut through the card to make a frame for the image on the inside. I used some acetate that I had laying around and put it between the layers on the front of the card, that way it doesn't show through the card. I then added some ribbon on the card as the design papers are from Martha Stewart's new Easter collection and only come in 4 x 6". That was a tiny bit small for my card. I covered the seam of the two papers on the front with co-ordinating Papertrey ribbon. I sewed down the papers to fit in with the Magnolia Down Under Challenge of Stitching, Real or Fake. I added on my little Tilda holding her lamb, colored in copics. At the top of the front of the card I added some decorative corner cut outs and put Martha Stewart flowers on top to match the sketch from Just Magnolia. Here's there sketch:
Magnolia-licious is looking for cards with acetate on them, so the window on my card was so it would fit that challenge. Finally fussy and Fancy Fridays is looking for Easter cards. So my card was made for 4 challenges.
On the inside of my card I used an Easter scene I purchased from Magnolia, colored to match Tilda. I layered some Martha Stewart Easter paper over the stamped scene, added tons of glitter and more Papertrey ribbon to match the front of the card. My sentiment is the fabulous sentiment from Stamping Bella that Emily made for me. It is now for sale and you can get one before Easter.
Have a great Monday.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

The Sweet Stop - Fuzzy Wuzzy/Magnolia-licious/March DT Sketch/Magnolia Stamp Lovers-#6 Die Cuts

Happy Tuesday everyone. I have been busy this week catching up. I am now officially 3 challenges ahead for my DT position at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge!! Yeah, now some free time to enter a few challenges this week. So much fun. I am coloring up these Easter Tildas, like there's no tomorrow. Still have tons more to color, but there's still time until Easter. This card is for my 19 year old daughter, yep, the cruise girl, for Easter. I was able to fit it into 2 challenges.

The Sweet Stop has a sketch this week, with a twist. The twist is to have something fuzzy and wuzzy on your card. Here's the sketch:


What I did for my card was I added white fun flock to my bunny Tilda, and on my chicken Tilda, I added cream colored flower soft. It looked more like feathers. The paper is Making Memories an Easter line from last year. I added my baby blue polka dot Papertrey ribbon, some Magnolia flowers and some of my new Magnolia beads. My sentiment is my own printed off my computer.
At Magnolia-licious they also have a sketch which was almost the same as The Sweet Stop. When I inverted the design, I could make my card fit both. Here's Magnolia-licious sketch.

Over at Magnolia Stamp Lovers their challenge this fortnight is to make a card using a die cut. My card fits that challenge also.

I really enjoyed making this card. It was fun to fuzz up the bunny and the chicken. We have some great weather going on here, but my friend Christine from dol creations keeps threatening snow on Monday. Hope she's wrong.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Friday Sketchers #94/ Stamp With Fun # 51 Easter

Wow, too many posts for me today. I had come across a package of shaker domes in a little store in Barrie, Ontario that were for Flower Soft cards. I do have tons of flower soft, but this time wanted to do a shaker card for my little girl for Easter. I used the fabulous design from Friday Sketchers below:
The design is from the amazingly talented Claudia Rosa. Also over at Stamp With Fun they are looking for Easter Cards. For my card I used the Stamping Bella darling Izzie is a Bunny. I used Making Memories Flower Patch paper. It is so Eastery. I bought it last year, so I'm not too sure if it's still available this year. It is darling for Easter. I added a boarder with my Martha Stewart Lacy punch and placed some peach ribbon from Paper Trey on top. The flowers are from Cute Stamp and Card's webshop. Jacqueline and Gertjan are fabulous and will send product all over the world. Definately worth shopping there. I added some pearls from the wedding section at Michaels to finish it up. The sentiment "Hippity, Hoppity, Happity Easter" was made for me at Stamping Bella. Emily loved it and put it into a stamp. You can pop over there and purchase one for you card. Hope you are having a warm weekend somewhere in the world because it has gotten cool again here in Canada. Let's hope for a warm week.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Back In Time

This week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge we are asking for a card or project that is like stepping back in time. For my project I did a vintage cone. I used to have Easter parties when I was a little girl, and Mom always took old vintage wrapping paper and made them into cones. She added lace at the top, and a ribbon handle and then we all got one and started searching for eggs outside. I had an Easter party for years. I have to say I was stumped with this challenge and then my best friend Chris said what about a vintage cone. That's when I remembered Mom doing them for me. So that was my pick for my project. For mine I used some left over paper that I had and laid a dinner plate over it. I traced the plate, and then cut out the half circle. I shaped it into a cone and glued it down. I added Vintage lace and ribbon around the rim and added flowers to the rim. I used some of my Paper Trey ribbon for the handle. I colored one of my new club CC Design stamps. She was so perfect with her little Easter basket. I glittered the eggs. I colored her with my copics. Sorry, forgot to take a picture of the copics I used. I threw my little one's name on the basket as she seems to want all the projects that I make. Glad they get used.
Our prize this week is from our very own SARAH: This is what Sarah is offering for a prize this week:
A beautiful stamp set from Verve stamp set. Try your hands at something vintage, something that reminds you of something old or an old memory, and get an opportunity at this fabulous set.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Just Magnolia - Easter Baskets

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Just Magnolia this week is looking for an Easter basket filled with Easter candies. They have a tutorial on their blog, but you don't have to follow it. I chose to use my Stamping Up die cut and cut it out 4 times. You then put the papers into a square and weave the bottoms together, and voila, a basket base. All you need to do is measure the size of handle you would like and cut it out. I used 2 Martha Stewart boarder punches for this basket. I used the arched one for the handle, and I also used Martha's bunny boarder punch from last Easter. I cut that out of matching pink cardstock and mounted it around the base of the basket. I used Imaginisce paper line called For Peeps Sake. This also was available last year, but had so many different matching pieces. (Guess who bought 2 of each??) I used my Tilda with Tulips and my Tilda with Lilacs, both of my favorite flowers. How soon it will be and they will be in full bloom in my gardens. I can't wait. I colored my Tilda's with my Copics. You'll notice the little visitor to my copic picture. It was so cute I decided to leave it on. I added 4 Papertrey ribbon bows, one to each corner of the basket. I filled it with eggs. Now don't worry dear friends, tomorrow is weigh in day at Jenny Craig, I didn't cheat. The eggs got bagged up and put in my kids lunches for school. Hope everyone's week started off well.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

The bunny came to our house. These are the kids masterpieces. Some of Austin's were cracked, but he dyed them anyway. Phew, glad Easter is here they're starting to stink. LOL. Have a wonderful Easter with your families.

Here's one of the Easter cards that I made for one of the kids. I had tons of fun making it. Lots of glitter and eggs. I was going to add the little basket I hand made, but it didn't suit it. Hand woven and all.