Hybrid Easter Card

Today I'm sharing the Easter cards I mailed out this year:

The inside and decorated panel were created in Photoshop with a digital scrapbooking kit, and printed onto smooth white card stock. The 'bunny chick' was stamped onto the same white card stock, coloured with Copic markers, then cut out with a Spellbinders label. It was popped up with foam tape onto the printed panel.

I added 'hand painted' digital shadows to the elements before printing for realism - but I have a confession to make. I did all the printing a long time ago ... and now I have no idea who the designer of the digi kit is, or where I even got it. I had an accidental wipe of my external hard drive that contained all my digital kits.

All I needed to do to finish the cards was to assemble the printed pieces and stamp/colour/cut the 'bunny chick'.  These are A2 sized cards, and I loved how they turned out.

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Easter Puppy Card

I'm back today with a fun little Easter card, using a couple of 'Stamps By Judith' images.

The basket (Printworks) was stamped first, then masked for the rest of the images. Colouring was done with water colour crayons and a damp paintbrush. The greenery around the puppy is actually the top of a carrot.  :-)

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Easter Sketch Cards #4 & 5

Here are the final Easter cards I made using an older sketch from Seize The Birthday.  I made them the same as my earlier ones, this time substituting the butterflies for some lovely chipboard birds from my stash.

These ones are a little bulkier because of the chipboard embellishment, so the envelopes will have to be lined with thin foam sheets or card stock. I don't end up hand delivering too many Easter cards, they all go out in the mail.

Both of the cards are larger, 6.5 x 5".

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Chick Easter Card

My Mom asked me to make her some Easter cards to send out, so I came up with this sweet and simple design:

The chick was Cricut cut from 'A Child's Year' cartridge - one from white and one from yellow. Since there was no shadow option when cutting, I offset the white one a little.

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Easter Sketch Cards, #2 & 3

Obviously I loved that sketch from 'Seize The Birthday'  -- enough that I made several Easter cards using it. Here are two more - same sketch, just slightly different embellishments. The paper is so pretty and perfect for Easter, why mess with a good thing?  :-) 

These cards are larger than A2, they are 5 x 6.5". I thought I would add a little Easter banner, and after doing one this way I decided I liked it better across the bottom of the doily. 

 I love how the acetate butterflies catch the light!

As much as I love this patterned paper, I've had it for so long I'm just happy to be using it up. With any luck, I'll be ready for some NEW designs by next Spring. 

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Fuzzy Bunny Easter Card

When I was poking around in my sticker stash (yes, I have one of those too) I came across a sheet of fuzzy stickers. I had used several of them to make a lamp cover for our Granddaughter's nursery, a few more for birthday cards, and the rest went into the drawer. I thought the bunny would be perfect for an Easter card.

This is another large card - a full 5 x 7! The peach Astroparche card base is from a package I've had for at least 12 years.  It's a hard colour to match up, but worked really well with this bunny.

It's sure hard to find Easter verse stamps ... I have one or two and use them year after year. Or I print verses from the computer. I guess there must not be too much of a demand for them, but I am going to search on-line so maybe I'll have better luck with the inside of next year's Easter cards.  This one will probably have a handwritten greeting.

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Easter Sketch Card #1

Weeks and weeks ago, I mentioned loving the recent sketch at Seize The Birthday, but that I used it to make several Easter cards. It was the perfect sketch to use up some of this pretty patterned paper that has been in my stash far too long.

The card is large, 5 x 6.5, and I used a MFT doily die for the fancy circle. The acetate butterfly embellishment is by K&Co, as is the paper.

 

A thin piece of foam tape right along the underside of the butterfly body keeps it raised up and the wings loose.

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Little Bunny Easter Card

In addition to the chick sticker that I shared on yesterday's card, the package came with this adorable bunny sticker. I used it to make our Grand-daughter an Easter card:

Various punches and dies were used to create the scalloped square and landscape, then I added the stamped dots afterwards.

Miss Olivia is going to love this, even if it isn't a puppy.  (She loves loves LOVES puppies).

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Little Chick Easter Card

Last Spring we were visiting Phoenix, and I picked up this package of adorable felt stickers. I used one for our Grandbaby Ethan's Easter card this year:

I used dies to create the little landscape, then mounted everything to a scalloped square then to the front of the yellow A2 card base.

The little chick is very fitting, since this year our daughter has four actual chicks they want to raise for eggs!!!!!

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Pansy Easter Card

I have a sweet and simple Easter Card to share today ...

I cut down a 12x12 sheet of pansy paper and made several different cards with the panels. Most of the cards have been posted already, but this one I made into an Easter card.

I love coordinating punches and stamps (or die cuts and stamps!)

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Jelly Beans!

This is a recycled card - we received it last year, and it was just too cute not to re-use. I cut it down, wrapped it with some yellow Bakers Twine, and popped it up onto the 5" square card base.

I penned the words inside with an orange pen; this is the card that my parents will send to our Grand-Daughter for Easter.

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Easter Card for Freshly Made Sketch #72

I am going to need some Easter cards, so thought I'd play along with the Freshly Made Sketch this week:

 However, I'm not that thrilled with it. I was bound and determined to use this patterned paper, but decided not to make multiples of this layout. 

I used a doily die and acetate butterfly that matches the paper nicely but I was much happier with the cards I made using the sketch at Seize The Birthday.  Since it has to be a birthday card to qualify for that challenge, I won't be posting those cards on the site - or even here on my blog until it's closer to Easter.  :-)

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