Éire go deo!

 

Which means Ireland Forever! It’s a few days early, but I wanted to share this St. Patrick’s Day card. I only used three shades of green instead of forty, but I still like the effect. Stamps are by Lawn Fawn, their Celebration Scripty Sentiments and Simply Celebrate Spring sets, along with their Noble Fir ink. The other two colors are Later Gator and Fake Plant, both by Simon Hurley for Ranger. I also used Ranger’s Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder in gold and Simon Says Stamp Gold Matte cardstock. The panels were cut with Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables, and the top panel was popped up on Altenew foam tape.

Spring love

 This happy bunny couple is ready for Easter on this sweet Lawn Fawn card. All the solid cardstock is Lawn Fawn, and I also used their patterned papers from the Spiffy Speckles, Perfectly Plaid Remix, and Flower Market collections. Build-A-Bunny and Build-A-Bunny Accessories dies were used to cut out the bunnies and their clothing and accessories. The bunnies and background were assembled with liquid glue and then the panel was popped up on foam tape.

Spring has sprung!

 I created this sweet spring card using Newton’s Nook’s Postage Layout die, Frames and Flags die, and Easter Postage Sampler stamps and dies. The images were colored with Prismacolor pencils and mounted on foam squares, and the yellow basket weave paper is from the Newton’s Nook Happy Easter pack. It certainly seems springlike here in Texas, with temperatures in the 80s!

A huge thank you to the Newton’s Nook Design Team, who chose this card to be featured in the Inky Paws Challenge! It means a lot to me!

Easter wreath

 

Colored pencils time! The stamps and dies are by Pretty Pink Posh, and they were colored with Prismacolor pencils. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn’s Celebration Scripty Sentiments stamped in Picked Raspberries Distress Oxide.

Looking at spring

 

Even though the official start of spring is over a month away, we’ve had spring-like temperatures here in North Texas-today it got up to 77 degrees Fahrenheit. So I thought this spring window from Honey Bee Stamps would “bee” just the thing.

It's May!

 This card was done while playing Craft Roulette, which is a YouTube show on Friday nights. I'd actually never seen it before because I have a standing date with my daughter on Fridays, but she was sick so I happened to see this one. In Craft Roulette, you have to make a project that incorporates four elements that are spun for on a wheel. Last night the elements were: 3 tags, rose colors, May, and masking. I immediately thought of the song from the musical Camelot, where the court goes a-Maying. They sing, of course, this being a musical, and the beginning of the song is, "Tra-la, it's May..." If you want to know the rest of the song, I suggest you search it on the web. My mother's favorite flowers were yellow roses, and it being ten years since we lost her, I decided I wanted to use yellow as one of my rose colors. I picked peach to go with it because we had a peach rosebush in front of the house I used to live in and I always liked it. I masked off the checkerboard design on the tags with Gina K. Masking Magic Strips. The letters in May are cut with Henry's ABCs from Lawn Fawn, and the stamped letters are from a Hero Arts set. The tags are all dies from Sizzix, and the flower buds are Taylored Expressions Buds and Blossoms set. The tra la is stamped in Concord & 9th Grapefruit.

Have a Happy Day!

 This little bear is properly dressed for sliding down rainbows! This card was created for a Lawn Fawn color challenge using the four colors you see in the rainbow plus the yellow of the sun. I ink blended the background in Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, and then used Distress Oxides in Broken China, Prize Ribbon, Wilted Violet, and Picked Raspberry for the rainbow and Squeezed Lemonade for the sun. The little bear is from Lawn Fawn's Beary Rainy Day stamp set and was colored with Copic markers and cut out with the coordinating die. The sentiment is from the same set. I finished off the card with some sequins from Trinity Stamps.

Happy St. Patrick's Day a little early!

 

May the luck of the Irish be with you! This card uses some shamrock patterned paper I had in my stash, textured green cardstock, and bright white cardstock. The die is by CZ Designs for Simon Says Stamp and the sentiment is from a Newton's Nook set. The green sequins are from Trinity Stamps Plastic Pine Tree set. I used Wink of Stella clear to paint all the white shamrock outlines, though you can't tell in the picture. The sentiment was stamped with Distress Ink in Pine Needles.

I'm back!

 

I certainly didn't mean to go nearly a month without posting, but being out of town and sick messed up my posting schedule. Here's a family of bears to make up for it. They're making the best of a grey day in their colorful coats, boots, and umbrella, and the little one is certainly enjoying her puddle jumping. The raindrops were created using Lawn Fawn's Fairy Dust stencil paste and their Rainy Sky stencil. I also used Lawn Fawn's Grass stencil and their Freshly Cut Grass ink for the grass, and their Manatee ink for the sky. The Beary Rainy Day stamp set is also Lawn Fawn's and was colored with Copic markers. Finally, I stamped the sentiment on a Simple Wavy Banner, also from Lawn Fawn, bending the Make a Splash sentiment to fit the banner.

Hoppy Days Ahead

 More bunnies from the Hoppy Days Ahead set by Simon Says Stamp. I used the papers from the March 2022 Card Kit of the Month, which is also where the stamps came from. The bunnies, flowers, and sentiment are all in the set. I cut them out with the coordinating dies and colored them with Copic markers. The background dies are from Newton's Nook Slimline Frames and Windows set. I popped the bunnies, flowers, and sentiment  up on some foam squares to give the card some dimension.

Bunny Hugs

 This card was sent to my oldest daughter in South Carolina. I told her to share the hugs with my granddaughter. The images are from the Simon Says Stamp Hoppy Days Ahead set and were colored with Copic markers and cut out with the corresponding dies. The grayish paper is also from Simon Says Stamp, while the card base was inked with Hero Arts Field Green and a blending brush.

Newton Loves Springtime!

 

Posting a day early because I won't be able to tomorrow. I was so honored to be chosen as a Designer's Favorite in the last Newtons's Nook Challenge #168, which was a sketch challenge. This card is for Newton's Nook's Challenge #169, which was a theme challenge and the theme is Think Spring. I chose a stamp of Newton surrounded by eggs as well as his bunny and chick friends. I used pink and polka dot paper, popped the image and sentiment up on some foam squares, and accented with some fun sequins.