Easter Card | Graciellie Design - "Alleluia"

Greetings!

I hope everyone has a Blessed Easter celebrating God's Gift of Grace through His Son, Jesus. I am sharing this card with you today featuring this simple floral cross design from Graciellie's "Alleluia" Set.

I printed, watercolored and die cut the top panels. Then I created stenciled backgrounds in coordinating colors, cut them with an A2 stitched rectangle die and glued them onto top-folding card bases. The cross panels were adhered on top and I added a few sequins to finish the cards. This was an easy card to mass-produce and even with a protective piece of card stock inside the envelope, they only required one standard postage stamp for mailing! This helps balance the cost of sending out most of my triple-padded-expensive-to-mail cards! : )

Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you a very Blessed Easter! Take care and have a wonderful week!

Challenges:

Crafty Calendar - April - Spring/Easter

My Time To Craft #454 Easter

Rachelle ♥

Easter Easel Cards | Pink and Main - "Love Ewe" Stamp Set

 

Happy Friday Everyone! 

I've got two fun Easter easel cards for you today! (Say that three times fast!) Both cards use images from the new “Love Ewe” Stamp & Die Set in combination with a lot of other great Pink and Main products!

I wanted to create oval-shaped easel cards and used the largest die from the “Layered Oval Dies” Set. I raised the die just over the top fold to make the card base and scored the front in half for the easel function. 

The bunny and chick were selectively stamped, water colored and die cut. The same large oval die cut was used to cut a piece of pattern paper from the NEW“Happy” Pad and backed with a blank oval for strength. I wanted the chick to be peeping out from a cracked pattern paper eggshell and used one of the smaller ovals with a fussy cut edge. I glued a medium-sized pattern paper oval in dark rose to my base, adhered the chick into place, popped the cracked eggshell on top with foam tape and added a few light green pearls. The sentiment from the “Spring Sentiments” Set was stamped, die cut with a “Sentiment Strip Die” and popped up with a double layer of foam tape on the inside to create the easel stop. I placed Scor-Tape just on the bottom half of the scored card front and pressed the finished chick panel on top. I love the way these pattern papers work together in this design and that little Easter chick is so adorable!

The bunny card was designed in a similar way but started with a background I stenciled with the “Petite Petals” pattern. I used plain card stock for my middle layer on this card front and a small floral pattern from the “All Occasion Florals” Pad for my grass layer, which matched my bunny’s carrots! This sentiment is from the New “Love Ewe” Set and is perfect with this image! 

Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope you have a great weekend! 

Challenges:

Aud Sentiments - #269 - Spring

Cute Card Thursday #676 - AG

Krafty Chicks #549 - Stamp Act

Moving Along With The Times - March - Spring Is Coming

Stinkin' Inkers - March - Hop To It!

Crafty Creations #419 - AG March 2021

Little Red Wagon #5591 - Fun Feathered Friends

Animal Friends Challenge March - Hare or Rabbit

Do-Al (l) creatives - #51 Easter Greetings

2 Crafty Critter Crazies March 2021

Take care and stay safe! 

Rachelle ♥

Easter Card | Stampendous Cross

He is Risen and I hope everyone is having Blessed Easter Day! 

I would like to share this Easter Card with you today that features an ink-blended background and a older framed stamped image from Stampendous. This card was fairly easy to put together and I was very happy with the ink blending result - it really looks like the minute just before the sun rises above the horizon and the sky is aglow. 

I hope that everyone is staying safe and I am praying for healing during this very uncertain time.

Challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner #206 - Easter/Spring

Simon Says Stamp - Spring Mood Board

Paper Funday Challenge #16 -AG/Optional Easter

Crafty Cardmakers #254 - Easter

Thanks for joining me!

Rachelle ♥

Spring/Easter Card | Cut It Up! Challenge #197 - "Hopping Down The Bunny Trail!"

Thinking Happy Thoughts!

We have a great new challenge over on the Cut It Up! Blog: "Hopping Down The Bunny Trail!" and we hope to see your great Spring/Easter Projects featuring rabbits and die cuts! We have a great prize sponsor, Amy Lassiter, from Taylored Expressions, who is generously offering a $25.00 gift code to our winner! Please stop over on the Cut It Up! Blog to see all of the cute creations the design team has on display for this adorable theme!

This card is a product mix-n-match from several different manufacturers: Ellen Hutson (Backyard Bird Friends), Avery Elle (Peek-A-Boo Pals) and MFT Stamps. I created a dome-shaped card by die cutting a base with a left-hand fold. The base was ink-blended with a cloud stencil and all of the images were stamped, colored and cut. I die cut two dome frames from blue card stock and glued them together; the tree branch was taped in place behind the frame. An acetate window was also die cut and then adhered onto the frame. A thin strip of foam tape was added to the back of the entire frame and the edges were brushed with an anti-static powder tool. The excess powder was tapped out and shaker contents were piled onto the center of the card front; the release paper was removed and the shaker frame was pressed down onto the front. The bunny & nest/eggs were glued together and adhered onto the tree branch with foam tape.

Thanks so much for joining me today and we can't wait to see your spring-y designs in our gallery!

Additional Challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters - SPRING

Crafty Cardmakers - #253 - Spring

Dream Valley Challenges #222 - Spring Colors

Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Spring Mood Board

Mod Squad Challenge - Spring Has Sprung

Paper Funday #16 - AG/Opt. Twist Easter

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie - #139

Krafty Chicks #510 - Stamp Act

Rachelle ♥

Easter Card | Guest Designer on the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog - #131 Tic Tac Toe!

Hello!

I'm so excited to be joining the amazing team over on the Retro Rubber Blog today as the Guest Designer for challenge #131 - Tic Tac Toe! As you can see from the options below - there are so many great choices from which to create your own perfect 3-in-a-row! I decided to make an "X" and went with five prompts! I hope you will join us and don't forget to use a stamp that is at least one year old!

I decided to use Lawn Fawn's "Easter Party", which was released in combination with the "Easter Egg Frames" in the Spring of 2018. I started by cutting small strips of pattern paper and gluing them down onto white card stock measuring 3.5" x 4.5".

Using the egg frame, I traced around the shape to give me a cutting edge and hand cut the eggs to fit behind the frame.

I die cut the frames from contrasting card stock, glued/stacked 2 frames together and adhered them onto the egg base. I placed the egg into the MISTI and stamped the sentiment. The Lawn Fawn images were stamped, colored and die cut and I glued one blank die cut behind each one to give it stability before popping them into place with foam tape. I added a few pastel pearls to finish off the card front. 

I made the card base by creating a positive template from the die cut and adding numerous marks to make sure that the image remained square. So when I placed the folded card base onto my grid, the template was also aligned on top (using the same grid) over the fold and then I cut the shape to create the card base. 

I ended up with a card base rainbow!

Thanks so much for joining me today and please head over to the Retro Rubber Blog to see the other great projects for this challenge!

Additional Challenge Submissions:

Die Cut Diva's - March 2020

Let's Craft and Create #157 - AG + Opt Easter

Sparkles Monthly Challenge  - #126 Easter

Sweet Stampers - #42 - Easter or Spring

Use Your Stuff - Spring #394

Crafty Cardmakers #253 - Spring

Rachelle ♥