Happy Easter

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.  Here are a few pictures of our Easter.




Avery met the Easter Bunny at the mall.

We took Avery on The Easter Bunny Express at LM&M Railroad.

Went on an egg hunt.

 

 

 



Here's Avery's Easter bucket.



 

 

And we tried out a couple of Pinterest ideas while coloring eggs.

 

 

1. Use Kool-Aid to dye eggs.  2/3 cup water and one pack Kool-aid per color.

 

2.  Use a whisk for little kids to dip eggs.

 

 

 

And some more pictures of the egg coloring fun.





Embossing

This months theme for card swap was to use our favorite technique.  Mine is heat embossing.  Here is my card

I ended up with three versions of the same card simply because I was lazy. All of the little embossed hearts came from one folder. I wanted to have some in each color. And since we make six cards to swap I would have had to run my folder through eighteen times if I wanted all my cards to be identical. I opted to only run it through six times and just have two of each color. Here are close ups of the different colors.

 

 

Challenges:

Crafting For All Seasons - Something New (new love, new supplies)

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

 A Blog Named Hero - New Year, New You (new love, new supplies)

 Clear It Out - Warm Fuzzies (love) Textured Items (embossed hearts) Stash (embossing powder)

 Crafty Creations - Something New (supplies)

 Crafty Ribbons - New Beginings

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Lexi's Creations - Anything Goes

Pin & Tack - Anything Goes

Stamping with the Dragon - Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant - Celebrate

 Shelly's Images - Anything Goes

Sassy Studio Designs - Something Old (tools) / Something New (supplies)

Cards Galore - Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Cardstock and Ribbon

The theme for this months card swap over at Red Letter Journals was to only use solid colored cardstock and ribbon.    Here is the card I made.

The stamp is called Halloween Magic and is by Stampendous.  The ribbon and embossing folder are both by The Paper Studio.




Challenges I'm entering:
Craft Us Crazy - Favorite Embellishment (ribbon)
The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Use Circles
The Pink Elephant - Make It Girly
ATC's With Attitude - Anything Goes
Fat Pages with Attitude - Anything Goes
Stamp Your Life - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes  RANDOM WINNER

WOYWW

It's almost that time again.....WOYWW over at Stamping Ground.  It's still 30 minutes till Wednesday..but I'm hoping to get closer to the beginning of the list this time around so I wanted to have my post ready and waiting for Mr Linky.

I'm working on my cards for next months card swap group over at Red Letter Journals. 

Christmas Card

Here is a CAS Christmas card I made for this months card swap.

If the gem on the big snowflake looks familiar...it is.  I had some left over from last months card swap.  I used a retired Stampin' Up set called "Snowflakes".  And a Close to My Heart stamp from the set "Holiday Commentary".  I know...shame on me for mixing companies.

Here is a close up...trying to show the iridescenty embossing powder.....but I just couldnt seem to get a good pic of it.

 

 

Challenges I'm Entering:

Bearly-Mine Challenges - Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge - Christmas

Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas

 Everybody Art Challenge - Embossing

 Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

 Creative Craft Challenges2 - Special Occasion/Not Birthday

 One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

 Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Christmas Cards

Pile it On - Make it Sparkle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween Card

Here is the Halloween card I created for card swap this month at Red Letter Journal.  The theme for this month was to include five elements that could be left over from other projects.  Mine were patterned paper, stamped image, flowers, brads/gemstones and punched shapes.

The digi I used is one that I won from Simply Betty Stamps and is called Little Pumpkin Lilly.  It can be found in digi form here or in rubber form here.

Challenges I am entering:
My Craft Spot - Boo to You
Pause Dream Enjoy - Halloween
Paper Playtime - Trick or Treat
Crafts and Me Challenges - My Sentiments Exactly
Clear It Out - Orange, Purple and Black
Just Keep on Crafting - Anything Goes

WOYWW

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been a week already!  Not a whole lot has changed since my last weeks WOYWW post for Stamping Ground.  I've gotten my digi image from Simply Betty Stamps resized to the size I want and printed onto cardstock.  I got those cut out and have started to color them.  I still need to color her stockings and a few of the pumpkins.  And then figure out the rest of the card.

 

 

I always like to have a scratch piece of paper to work over to protect my table.  It's also great for testing colors, drawing layout sketches and keeping track of measurements on.