Birthday card with tea cups and bunny

Hello everyone, I'm here again with a new birthday card that I made for my friend who loves tea and who always had a bunny since I've known her. 

But the story doesn't end here. Unfortunately, on his birthday, I forgot to call and say happy birthday to her. I had never done that before, and luckily I had a good excuse for doing that.

For her birthday I also bought a lot of teas and tea blends. 

And the bunny looked so ill lately that one of the vets advised to euthanise the bunny. But luckily they asked another vet who didn't see this necessary at all. So the bunny is still alive and seems really happy.

Now, about the card making. 

For the background, I used a cream white paper and embossed it with the Lace embossing folder by Tim Holtz. 

The cups were coloured with Distress inks, then I muted the colours with wet white paint. And when it was dry, I added white dots with a very fine brush and acrylic paint.

What I used:

Sizzix Texture Fades, Lace embossing folder (661824)

Sizzix Bigz die, Teatime (660234)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Carrot Bunny (665213)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Falling Hearts  (664415)

My Favorite Things, Bitty Birthday Wishes stamp set

Ranger Distress inks 

Ranger embossing powder (super fine white)

etc.

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Happy Birthday

Easter tags with Carrot Bunnies

Maybe you remember the Easter treat boxes that I made a few days ago and now I would like to show you the matching tags. If you would like to see my boxes, you can find it here.

For making this tag, I cut a tag from watercolour paper (300 gsm) using the middle sized die from the Framed Tag die set. Then I blended Tumbled Glass ink through the Linked Squares stencil. I inked the edges with Salvaged Patina ink.

I made the rabbits and the carrots the same way as I did with the box. So please click on the previous link if you need tutorial for these.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Carrot Bunny (665213)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Framed Tags (666065)

Stampers Anonymous, Linked Squares (THS157)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Talk (CMS236)

Ranger Distress inks (Tumbled Glass, Salvaged Patina, Ripe Persimmon, Carved Pumpkin, Mowed Lawn, Forest Moss)

Ranger Distress Archival ink (Black Soot)

Easter treat boxes with carrot bunnies

Hello everyone, I would like to show you my latest creations, the Easter treat boxes that I made for my daughter's friends. The main characters of the box are made with the Carrot Bunny die set by Tim Holtz.

For this, I used one of my favourite box dies, the Sizzix Bigz XL, Box die. It's an old and retired die, but luckily I have it. It's so easy to assemble the pieces and I get a quite big box in the end.

The paper is Swirlcards, Colorado Labyrinthe 30x30cm paper pad. A few years ago I bought two of them and now they were the ideal papers for this project. AfterI put the box together, I inked edges with Salvaged Patine Distress ink.

For the rabbits, I just used white, pink and black papers, but the carrots were coloured with Distress inks. The big part was coloured with Carved Pumpkin and Ripe Persimmon and I added a little brown (Vintage Photo) to the edges. The green part was coloured with Mowed Lawn and Forest Moss.

The text is part of the Spring Shadows stamp set and I heat embossed with Ranger Fern Green embossing powder. As a frame I glued under the text plate an orange paper.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Carrot Bunny (665213)

Sizzix Bigz XL die, Box 3 (656278)

Stampers Anonymous, Spring Shadows (CMS393)

Ranger Distress inks (Carved Pumpkin, Forest Moss, Mowed Lawn, Ripe Persimmon, Salvaged Patina, Vintage Photo)

Swirlcards, Colorado Labyrinthe paper pad 30x30cm

With my boxes, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Food and/or Drink

Birthday card with Bunny Games die set

Hello everyone, I'm here with my second inspirational project that I made for our February challenge over at the Country View Challenges. The theme is: Be sentimental.

Because of the gift box and the balloon this can be a birthday card, but for me it's a name-day card for a friend who likes bunnies and purple colour. 

And now, here is the tutorial.

I cut out a rectangle panel from watercolour paper and coloured the bottom part with Pumice Stone and the upper part with a mixture Speckled Egg and Cracked Pistachio.

When it was dry, I painted the clouds using white paint and a brush.

Then I toned back the background with a wet mixture of Picket Fence and Pumice Stone. I dried it with a heat tool and then I inked the edges with Hickory Smoke and Vintage Photo Archival ink. 

Then I arranged the cut-outs on the panel to find the place for the text. When I found the perfect place, I stamped the text with embossing ink and heat embossed with black embossing powder.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Bunny Games (665850)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Celebrate Colorize (666285)

Stampers Anonymous, Handwritten Thoughts (CMS218)

Ranger Distress paint (Cracked Pistachio, Speckled Egg, Picket Fence, Pumice Stone)

Ranger Distress Archival ink (Hickory Smoke, Vintage Photo)

Ranger embossing powder (super fine black)

etc.

So if you have a project with a sentiment on it, please don't hesitate to join our February challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Craft Shop! Good luck!

Easter shaker card with Bunny Games by Tim Holtz

Hello everyone, I'm here with my second inspirational project for our April challenge over at the Country View Challenges blog. The theme is, The Spring Is Coming. For this Easter challenge I made a shaker a card.

Here is my tutorial.

I took a 300 gsm paper and using embossing ink I stamped on it with the Dots background stamp. I heat embossed with white embossing powder then I blended Squeezed Lemonade ink onto the surface.

Then I cut out en egg shape from the middle of my rectangle panel with a Sizzix Framelits egg die.

I glued a piece of acetate to the back of the rectangle panel.  Then I placed double-sided foam adhesive tape pieces to the back side. I put them as close to the open space as I could.

I scattered coloured sequins in the egg shape. 

I glued a white panel to the back side, so my shaker background was ready.

I cut out the pieces of the bunnies from brown, pink and black card stocks, assembled them and places the bunnies around the egg.

What I used:

Sizzix Framelits die, Egg (658691)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Bunny Games by Tim Holtz (665850)

Stampers Anonymous, Dots&Floral by Tim Holtz (CMS220)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Talk by Tim Holtz (CMS236)

sequins

double-sided foam adhesive tape

Ranger Distress ink (Squeezed Lemonade, Frayed Burlap)

Ranger embossing powder (super fine white)

etc.

So if you have a Spring project, please don't hesitate to join our challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Craft Shop.

Happy Easter!!!

With my card, I would like to join the SIMON SAYS STAMP Wednesday Challenge: Interactive

Easter card with Carrot Bunnies

Hello everyone, I'm here with my first inspirational project for our April challenge over at the Country View Challenges. The theme is The Spring Is Coming and my talented teamie, Corrie will be your hostess. 

And here is my tutorial.

I took a rectangle panel and made the background with two Distress Oxide colours (Bundled Sage, Speckled Egg). Then I inked the edges with Walnut Stain ink and spattered the surface with white paint.

The big carrot was coloured with Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink and I added Walnut Stain Distress ink (original) to the edges.

The egg was coloured with Mustard Seed and Squeezed Lemonade Oxide inks.

For the little flowers, I used Blueprint Sketch and Mowed Lawn markers.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Colorize, Papercut Chicks by Tim Holtz (665854)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Carrot Bunny by Tim Holtz (665213)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Funky Florals 3 by Tim Holtz (662702)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Funky Foliage by Tim Holtz (663087)

Stampers Anonymous, Spring Shadows by Tim Holtz (CMS393)

Ranger Distress Oxide inks (Ripe Persimmon, Bundled Sage, Speckled Egg, Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade)

Ranger Distress inks (Walnut Stain)

Ranger Distress markers (Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch)

etc.

So if you have a Spring project, please don't hesitate to join our challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Craft Shop.

Easter wine tags with Bunny Hop die set by Tim Holtz

Let me show you these super easy and quick bottle tags that I made for friends and family.  You only need the Sizzix Thinlits Bunny Hop die set, the Crazy Talk stamp set or/and some text stickers. The wine tags were cut out with one of my favourite MFT Die-Namics die, the Wine Tag. Unfortunately this product is discontinued.

Easter bottle tag with Bunny Games by Tim Holtz

On this tag, all the elements were first made for another project, but then I didn't use them. 

The tag was made for a Christmas wine tag but I made and chose another one and this stayed in my stash. For the dots I used silver embossing powder and Polkadot stencil by Tim Holtz. The colour? I don't know exactly but I'm sure it was not just one Distress colour and I spritzed with water.

The bunny was made for a future project but I realised that I need darker bunnies so this one is left out from that project. The main parts of the bunny were cut out from Neenah Desert Storm paper. 

The yellow paper of the Easter egg and the banner was made after one of Tim's demos. This one exactly. That time I made 4 pieces of paper in 4 different colours. 

The only die set I used for this tag is the Sizzix Thinlits die, Bunny Game by Tim Holtz.

With this tag, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Bright and Cheerful

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Food and/or Drink

Easter card with Cottontail by Tim Holtz

The last time, I so enjoyed making a patterned background with Easter eggs using Pumice Stone and Speckled Egg Distress Oxide inks that I decided to make another one with some changes, of course. Here you can see my earlier card that I mentioned and there you can find the tutorial as well.

And here is my today card.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Spring Shadows (CMS393)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Sizzix Wildflower Stems 1 

Sizzix Bigz die, Cottontail

Ranger Distress Oxide ink pads (Pumice Stone, Speckled Egg)

Ranger Distress paint (Speckled Egg)

Ranger Distress Archival ink pads (Ground Espresso, Vintage Photo)

Ranger Distress ink pad (Gathered Twigs)

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Hippity and Hoppity - Easter card

Let me introduce you the two Easter bunnies, Hippity and Hoppity. They are very cheerful and droll young rabbits, also they are best friends. 

Now let's see how I made the background for these merry chaps. 

First of all, I took a 300 gsm watercolour paper and started to stamp eggs with Distress Oxide colours (Speckled Egg, Pumice Stone) randomly. For this, I used the Stampers Anonymous, Bird Feather stamp set. You can also use the Spring Shadows for this. Maybe next time I will do a background with that too. In the end I speckled the background with diluted Ground Espresso Distress paint.

After this, I did some stitching. I don't often do such a thing, just when I have to take out my sewing machine to shorten my new jeans, since I'm a diminutive woman :-) I also inked the edges with Gathered Twigs colour.

The next step was to make an underlayer. For this, I cut out a one size bigger square and coloured the edges with Distress Speckled Egg paint.

The rabbits were cut out with the Sizzix Thinlits, Bunny Hop die from Kraft paper. This is why I could sand the edges.

For the text, I used an old Strip (Sizzlits) die, the Tattered Curvy Banners. The two words of the text were stamped separately. First I inked the Hippity carefully to avoid inking the Hoppity accidentally. For this, I used the Ground Espresso Archival ink. Then I do the same with the Hoppity. I also spattered the banner with Vintage Photo Spray Stain using a brush.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Bunny Hop by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Sizzlits Strip die, Tattered Curvy Banners by Tim Holtz

Stampers Anonymous, Bird Feather stamp set (CMS180)

Stampers Anonymous, Spring Shadows stamp set (CMS393)

Ranger Distress Oxide ink pads (Pumice Stone, Speckled Egg)

Ranger Distress ink pads (Gathered Twigs)

Ranger Distress paints (Ground Espresso, Speckled Eggs)

Ranger Distress Spray Stain (Vintage Photo)

Idea-ology Classic Kraft Stock

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Easter card with silhouette bunny

Hello crafty friends, this is my second project for our March challenge, Silhouette. We would like you to put a silhouette image to the focal point of your project. I did that too. For this, I chose an old Bigz die, the Easter elements by Tim Holtz. A perfect silhouette bunny.

Actually, the background was in my stash for quite some time. I think I made it when the Speckled Egg colour was released and it arrived to me. I really liked it but I couldn't find anything suitable for this nice background until now.

So, first I used the Rosette layering stencil and I blended embossing ink through the stencil. Then I melted Liquid Platinum embossing powder with a heat tool. When the embossed pattern was cold again, I started to blend Speckled Egg Distress ink onto the surface. I placed a little bit bigger paper under my background which edges were heat embossed with Liquid Platinum. Then I speckled my background with diluted Vintage Photo.

The  bunny was coloured with Spun Sugar Distress paint.

But then, I put a layer of pearl shine to the top. For this you can use the Ranger Liquid Pearls but I used the DecoArt Oyster Pearl paint.

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz die, Easter Elements

Sizzix Thinlits die, Wildflowers Stems 1

Sizzix Thinlits die, Friendship Words (Script)

Sizzix Impresslits die, Star Trim

Stampers Anonymous, Rosette layering stencil

I'm not sure you can see it but I put on my each die-cut a pearl shine cover. And the Star Trim was covered with Liquid Platinum too.

If you have a silhouette project, please don't hesitate to join our March challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher to spend in the Country View Crafts online shop.

Slimline birthday card with Stacey Yacula critters

I needed some colouring, so I created a very colourful birthday card with Stacey Yacula images from MFT Stamps.

What I used:

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Pawty Time

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Hooray Kind Of Day

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Scene Builder

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Friendly Foxes

MFT Stamps, Slimline Starter Die-namics

Copic Sketch markers

Inkadinkado stamping mask

With my card, I would like to join the:

MFT Slimline challenge: Birthday Wishes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!