Happy Easter

Hi folks,

Just popping in to wish everyone a Happy Easter and to share the card I made for my dearly beloved (to accompany his special selection of Easter chocolates from a local, award-winning chocolate shop - Hummingbird Chocolate).

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH Chelsea Gardens + Juniper card stock
• stamps: Image: Easter Basket coloured with Shinhan Markers; Sentiment: Chelsea Gardens Cardmaking
• embellishments: CTMH Whimsy Ribbon Pack (psst. from a recent corporate update, it would appear that the Whimsy line will be revamped with the release of the new Annual Expressions later this year. So, if there are certain colours you absolutely adore in this colour family, you might want to stock up to avoid disappointment if those colours are discontinued).

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Everyone!

Hope your day is filled with chocolate bunnies, eggs, and marshmallow peeps!

Just thought I would share the Easter card I made for dearly beloved -  he is, after all, my favourite peep!

And this is a pint-sized container I decorated to hold a big bag of Lindt mini eggs for him (just a small portion of his chocolate Easter goodies).

And, yes - the Easter bunny really DID come by for a visit bright and early this morning.

After making all his deliveries overnight, he stopped by for a wee snack!


card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH Penelope
• stamped images and die cut: CTMH Spring Critters stamp set and thin cuts. Image coloured with Copic markers (Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06, Y08, B000, B00, V05)
• layout: Mojo Monday 440

challenges for this card:

• Cute Card Thursday #418: To die for

pint container details:

• CTMH pint sized container
• patterned paper: CTMH Penelope
• stamped images and die cut: CTMH Spring Critters stamp set and thin cuts. Image coloured with Copic markers (R000, N0)
• embellishments: CTMH Green Shimmer Trim, Flamingo Dots

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Easter!

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is having an enjoyable Easter weekend. Ours was a quiet one on our own this year. No visiting with dearly beloved's family as many of them are at a destination wedding for one of the cousins.

It was a nice change from the usual hub-bub of the family gatherings but I must say I did miss watching the nieces and nephews run around for the annual Easter egg hunt.

Anyways, I figured I should stop in and share the Easter card I made for dearly beloved this year.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base
• patterned paper: Graphic 45 "Hope" (my favourite Easter themed paper as it isn't awash in the usual spring pastels)
• stamps: Verve Stamps "Egg-stra Special", "Some Bunny"
• dies: Verve Stamps "Flourished Trim", "Rounded Scallop Frame", "Rounded Rectangle"
• twine from my stash
• layout: Viva La Verve April 2015 Week 1

challenges for this card:

• Pile It On #63: die cuts/punches
• Verve Divas April Inspiration: Bunnies and Babies
• One Stitch at a Time #234: Anything Goes with Easter/Passover 
• Sister Act Card Challenge #100: Anything Goes

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Mojo Monday 341 - Happy Easter

Hi folks,

Well, leave it to me...see this card?

Well, it was SUPPOSED to go with us to Easter dinner at dearly beloved's Dad's. I forgot it. Apparently, I can MAKE the cards, I just don't remember to GIVE the cards. sigh. Oh well, in the stash for next year!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base, cream mat
• patterned papers: Authentique "Hope"
• stamps: Verve "Eggstra Special"
• layout: Mojo Monday 341

challenges for this card:

• Loves Rubber Stamps #99: Easter or Spring Theme
• The Pink Elephanat #246: Easter
• Craft Your Passion #209: Bunnies, Chicks and Eggs

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Mojo 341 - You're egg-stra special

Hi folks!

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate!!! Just thought I would pop in and share a few cards this morning before we head down to have Easter dinner with dearly beloved's family.

Up first is --- an Easter card!

I know it has flowers on it but I'm giving it to dearly beloved anyway. So there. I probably could have swapped out the flowered paper for the polka-dotted paper in this pad but - oh well, it's Spring, it's Easter, he's getting flowers on his card!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base, cream mat
• patterned papers: Authentique "Hope"
• stamps: Verve "Eggstra Special"
• layout: Mojo Monday 341

challenges for this card:

• Loves Rubber Stamps #99: Easter or Spring Theme
• The Pink Elephanat #246: Easter
• The Kraft Journal #167: Bunnies or Lambs
• Craft Your Passion #209: Bunnies, Chicks and Eggs

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sister Act Card Challenge #49

Hi folks!

It's Friday so that means it is time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

As you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor - Digi Stamp Characters by Heather Ellis! I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

My card creation this week features a very cute Easter image from Heather's Pure Innocence line

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base and mats
• patterned papers: My Mind's Eye "Howdy Doody"
• digital image: Digi Stamp Characters by Heather Ellis "Pure Innocence 033", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E11, E23, E25, E27, Y000, Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06, Y17, R11, R12, BG34, BG10, BG000, BG0000
• sentiment: Verve "Hoppy Easter", stamped in CTMH Lagoon
• Prima flower from my stash
• EK Success Diamond Lace Border Punch
• layout: Seize the Sketch #13

additional challenges for this card:

• Lacy Sunshine Challenge #29: Anything Goes
• Paper Players #187: Clean and Simple with a "Spring" Theme (for me, Spring and Easter go hand in hand)
• Bearly Mine March Challenge: One for the girls
• One Stitch at a Time #204: Use a Digi
• Sentimental Sunday 198: Cute and Cuddly
• Crafty Creations Challenges #259: Holiday
• Hiding in my craft room #141: Color it

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sister Act Card Challenge #47

Hi folks!

It's Friday so that means it is time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

If you are a regular visitor then you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor Milk Coffee - I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

This week, I'm sharing a card on which I used the VERY cute digital stamp Lisbeth and Little Bunnies

I think this card will be perfect for one of my nieces for Easter.

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches, white card stock base, Bazzill bright pink card stock mats
• patterned paper: Amy Tangerine "Sketchbook"
• digital stamp: Milk Coffee's "Lisbeth and Little Bunnies", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E11, E21, E23, E25, E27, C1, R20, R32, R43, YR15, YR16, YG17, YG67, Y000, Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06, Y19), background sponged with CTMH Heavenly Blue
• sentiment: Verve "Some Bunny"
• layout: Splitcoaststampers Sketch 477
• Spellbinders: Classic Squares
• EK Success Scalloped Scallops border punch
• flower, button, twine from my stash

Challenges for this card:

• Bearly Mine Inspiration and Challenge March Challenge: One for the girls

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sister Act Card Challenge #45 - with Stitchy Bear

Hi folks!

Wow! It's Friday already? Where did the week go?  It seems like I've been "go go go" all week. And have a busy weekend ahead as well.

Since it IS Friday it's time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

As you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor - Stitchy Bear! I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

My card this week features the "3 Amigos" image from Stitchy Bear - don't these three pals look egg-cited that Easter is on it's way?

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned paper: Dear Lizzy "Neapolitan"
• digital image: "3 Amigos" image from Stitchy Bear, coloured with Copic Markers (Y00, Y02, Y04, Y11, E93, YR15, YR16, B52, BV02, G20, R22, G24, B0000, B04, B02, YG17, YG13), background sponged with CTMH Heavenly Blue
• sentiment: Verve "Egg-stra Special"
• adhesive gems from my stash
• layout: Sunday Sketch & Stamp Challenge #194

as always, thanks for stopping by!

Long Time, No Tilda

Hi folks,

back today with the last of my Easter/Spring cards. This one was for my youngest niece. I know - bad Auntie - it SHOULD be arriving tomorrow - way after Easter. That's why I'm calling these my Spring cards. Not Easter cards.

It's been a long time since I coloured up one of my Tilda images so I figured I would use this one as it kind of looks like my niece.

card details:

• finished size: 5 x 5 inches, white card stock base. CTMH (can't remember if it is Blush or Baby Pink) card stock mat 
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye "Dolled Up"
• stamped image: Tilda with newly hatched chick from the 2010 Magnolia Hoppy Easter collection, coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E31, E33, E35, E37, E27, Y06, Y08, YR04, RV00, RV11,  RV13, RV23, BG32, BG34,  BG0000, BG000)
• sentiment: Verve "Egg-stra Special", stamped in CTMH Juniper
• Spellbinders Petite Ovals
• EK Success Diamond Lace Border Punch
• CTMH Hollyhock buttons
• ivory seam binding
• Layout: Pink Gem #75

additional challenges for this card:

• Magnolia-licious: Buttons, Bows or Beads
• Oldie but Goodie - make it girly (my buttons, seam binding and stamped image are all WELL over 6 months old)
• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Clear it out: Anything goes + 2 or more buttons
• Love to Scrap #4: Cut it out (die cuts and/or punches - I used both!)
• Incy Wincy Designs: Fur or Feathers (I'm going the feathers route with the little chick)
• Cupcake Craft 238: Cute and Cuddly

As always, thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed your visit and come back again soon!

Viva La Verve April 2013 Week 1

Hi folks,

Don't be alarmed, but this isn't the last of my Easter cards for this year. I was a bit tardy getting around to making them so there will still be a few that will pop up on the blog-arooni over the next little while.

Up first, is the Easter card I made for my sweetie using the Week 1 Sketch for the April Viva La Verve Challenges over on Splitcoaststampers.

Now, here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 4.25 inches, kraft card stock base
• patterned papers: My Mind's Eye "Nostalgia", edges inked with Memento Rich Cocoa
• stamps: Verve "Hoppy Easter", "Some Bunny". Bunny is coloured with Copic Markers (E50, E51, E53, YG11, BG000)
• Spellbinders Petite Circles, Petite Ovals

additional challenges for this card:

• One Stitch at a Time #157: Spring (a sure harbinger of Spring for me is Easter, especially when it  falls in March!)
• One Stop Craft Challenge #222: Easter
• Hiding in My Craft Room #91: Freestyle (anything goes)
• The Sisterhood of Crafters: Spring/Easter
• Crafty Creations #215: Easter

Thanks for stopping by - I hope one and all had a fabulous long weekend!

You're Egg-stra Special

Hi folks,

Well, I was a bit tardy getting started at my Easter cards - so all of them that have to go to Newfoundland will be arriving a little bit late. But I am sure no one will really mind.

Anyways, I made this card for one of my nieces.

I HAD wanted to have little Miss Anya holding onto the eggs but they were just a little too large. So I decided to just pop them over to the side.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base and mats
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye
• stamped image: The Greeting Farm "Simply Anya" coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E21, E23, E25, R20, BG10, BG11)
• sentiment: Verve "Egg-Stra Special"
• layout: The Paper Players #138

challenges for this card:

• Anyone for Anya: Anything Goes
• Yumi & Fumi #12: Springtime (since TGF is on the Y&F friends list, it's okay to enter a TGF card for a Y&F challenge, yay!)
• Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe 116: Egg-cellent Easter
• Craft your Passion #155: Make it Cute
• Love to Create #58: Pastel Colours
• Oldie but a Goodie: Easter (both sets of stamps I used on this card are both well over 6 months!)
• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Pastel Pretties
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC251: Cards for the kiddos
• Crafty Creations #215: Easter
• Sisterhood of Crafters: Easter/Spring

Thanks for stopping by!

March Viva La Verve Week 4

Hi folks,

Remember yesterday when I said I got crafty? Well, here's EIGHT more cards....yep, EIGHT that I made during my marathon crafting day.

They all use the Week 4 Viva La Verve Sketch. For half of them I kept the original orientation, for the other half I flipped the sketch. Now I have a bunch more cards for my stash and a bunch of Easter cards ready for this weekend!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base, CTMH Buttercup and Indian Corn Blue for the mats
• patterned paper: CTMH Sweet Home (I am REALLY REALLY working on reducing my stash of papers.....REALLY. These must be at least a couple of years old as they are retired.)
• stamps: Verve "Eggstra Special". "Easter Joy", "Joyful Blooms", "Birthday Surprise", "Chicks Rule", "Wishful Elegance", "Doodled Occasions"
• CTMH Buttercup and Indian Corn Blue buttons from my stash
• butcher's twine

challenges for these cards:

• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Use it Tuesday #52: All About Spring (for me, Spring is all about Easter and birthdays - my birthday in fact! It's on Easter Sunday this year!)
• Oldie but a Goodie: Easter
• Heart 2 Heart Challenges: So Egg-cited for Easter
• Hiding in my Craft Room #90: Anniversary (for the anniversary card for my Aunt and Uncle)
• Simon Says Stamp: Easter/Spring

thanks for stopping by!

March Viva La Verve Week 3

Hi folks,

I finally gave myself permission to have a full day of crafting in my craft room and was able to make a bunch of cards.

Up first were these six cards I made using the sketch for Week 3 of the March Viva La Verve Challenges over on Splitcoaststampers - I made four Easter cards and two birthday cards.

I've been trying REALLY hard lately to use of my stash of older 12x12 papers from CTMH. I figured 6 cards using these long-retired Topstitch papers would be a good way to make some progress on that stash-busting goal. Pink and blue for Easter cards or spring birthday cards - sounds like a plan to me!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base, CTMH Baby Pink & Heavenly Blue mats. The brown card stock is from Bazzill.
• patterned papers: CTMH Topstitch
• stamps: Verve "Birthday Surprise", "Joyful Blooms", "Hoppy Easter", "Egg-stra Special", "Chicks Rule", "Bunny Shake". Images were coloured with Copic Markers (E57, E41, R21, B00, B01)
• CTMH Baby Pink, Heavenly Blue, Cocoa buttons from my stash
• butcher twine
• Stampin' Up Scalloped Circle Punch, 1 3/8 inch Circle Punch

challenges for these cards:

• Oldie but a Goodie: Easter (stash busters are my papers and my buttons)
• Shopping our Stash #94: Easter or Spring
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Easter Treats
• Simon Says Challenge: Easter/Spring
• Cute Card Thursday #261: Easter Parade
• Crafts4Eternity Recipe #116: Egg-celent Easter
• Raise the Bar #136: Spring is a hop away (bunny, chick, baby animal)
• Heart 2 Heart Challenge: So Egg-cited for Easter
• Craft your Passion #155: Make it Cute (the bunny from the bunny shake set is just squee-dorable - love that little tail!)

As always, thanks for stopping by! 

Easter Deja Vu

Hi folks!


Happy Easter! Today I am sharing the last of the Easter cards I made for our nieces.   If you are a regular visitor you will recognize the layouts and images used on these two cards - but I kind of played mix and match by putting different images on the layouts.

Using the Mojo233 layout and Mini Daydream Fhiona:

Using Mojo235 and Little Easter Bunny Fhiona

I think they are pretty darn cute images, don't you?

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Pear card stock & white card stock bases
• patterned papers: Echo Park Paper Co Summer Days
• buttons and ribbons from my stash
• stamped images: both are from Your Next Stamp: Little Easter Bunny Fhiona (E000, E00, C00, C0, C1, E33, E31, Y04, R81, YG23, V15), Mini Day Dream Fiona (E000, E00, E31, E33, E35, E37, E39, YG21, YG23, YG25)
• sentiment stamp: CTMH and Pink Cat Studio

Challenges for these cards:

• The Pixie Cottage #115: Sweet Treats  (for my cute little bunny toting her basket full of easter eggs)
• Raise the Bar #99: Cutesy Easter/Spring

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter Sunday!

Easter - Again!

Hi folks,

back with a couple more Easter cards that I made for two of our nieces.

For these two, I used the layout on the cover of the Card Maps 2 magazine

This one is for a younger niece....

And this one is for an older niece....

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned papers: Echo Park Paper Co Summer Days
• CTMH Pear Cardstock
• button, blingy flower, ribbons from my stash
• stamped images: both are from Your Next Stamp: Little Easter Bunny Fhiona (E000, E00, C00, C0, C1, E33, E31, Y04, R81, YG23, V15), Mini Rainy Day Fiona (E000, E00, E21, E23, E25, V12, V15)
• sentiment stamp: CTMH

challenges for these cards:

• Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #180: Easter

Hope you are all have a lovely Easter weekend! We have another busy day ahead of us today - spent with dearly beloved's family. I am SO looking forward to Sunday and Monday -- me time! Which most likely means clean up the mess in the craft room time....want a little peek? 

One of my craft room table after I finished making Easter cards yesterday....

and then I went right back and made two birthday cards in this mess! Can you believe it?

Bellarific Friday

Hi folks,


The Bellarific Friday challenge for this past week was a sketch, seen below:

I made a couple of Easter cards for two of our nieces, using the cute Umbrella Peep image.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, Stampin' Up cardstock base
• patterned papers: Echo Park Sweet Summertime
• stamped image: Stamping Bella Umbrella Peep, paper pieced umbrella but the Peep and Umbrella handle are coloured with Copic Markers (E00, YG21, YG23, C2)
• sentiment stamps: CTMH
• CTMH Buttons from my stash

additional challenges for these cards:

• Paper Pretties Monday Challenge: April Showers bring May flowers - or umbrellas!
• Cupcake Craft Challenges: Things from your sewing box - buttons!
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes!

Thanks for stopping by! Today is the start of the holiday long weekend here in Ontario. Believe me, I NEED this weekend to be calm and relaxing.

Mojo 235 for Easter

Hi folks,

back today with another Easter card for one of our nieces. This time I used the Mojo 235 sketch shown below:

At first, this one had me puzzled but then, with the right papers and cutest little image, I think it came together quite nicely.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned papers: Echo Park Paper Co "Summer Days"
• stamped image: Mini Daydream Fhiona from Your Next Stamp, coloured with Copic Markers (E31, E33, E35, E37, E39, V12, V15, V17, E000, E00, E01)
• CTMH Crocheted White Daisy Flower, Pear button
• EK Success Scalloped Scallops border punch
• Spellbinders Petite Circles Die

additional challenges for this card:

• Come and Get It Challenges: Bring it on....Spring!
• One Stitch at a Time #107: Something New (my cute little Fhiona stamp was inked for the first time for this card)
• Paper Sundaes #114: Happy Easter

Hope you are all having a wonderful day! It's a long holiday weekend here for me -- four days, with hopefully some time for crafting!

Mojo 233 - for Easter

hi folks,

just a quick post of another Easter card for one of our nieces. For this one I used the Mojo Monday 233 sketch from a couple of weeks ago.

Here's the sketch:

and here's my card:

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Pear card stock
• patterned paper: Echo Park Paper Co "Summer Days"
• stamped image: Mini Rainy Day Fhiona from Your Next Stamp, coloured with Copic Markers (YG21, YG23, YG25, E21, E23, E25, E000, E00, E04)
• sentiment: Verve
• ribbon and button from my stash
• EK Success Scalloped Scallops border punch

You may see me post another very similar card in a couple of days. I have the makings for another one sitting on my craft desk - just not assembled yet. This one HAD to go in the mail on Monday but the other one doesn't have to be ready until the weekend.

challenges for this card:

• ABC DT April Challenge: Anything Goes!
• Really Reasonable Ribbon #45: Buttons and Bows
• Paper Sundaes #114: Happy Easter

Anyways, thanks for stopping by! Hope your day is going well!

Easter cards for the boys

Hi folks,

back with even more Easter cards today. This time for the nephews....and one for my sweetie. So no peeking my honey pie!

I decided to use a Mojo Monday sketch from a couple of weeks ago...Mojo232

And a few images from the last release from PaperWorksCo (sniff, sniff, tear, tear)

And changing the orientation to landscape.....

And my usual little trick of changing the images and orientation so that all four cards are different.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, Stampin' Up card stock base
• patterned paper: Recollections
• stamped images: PaperWorksCo Barnyard Buddies (Dillon the Duck and Shelly the Sheep) and Forest Critters (Becky the Bunny), coloured with Copic Markers (duck: Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06, Y32, Y35, Y38; sheep: W00, W0, W1, E93, E95, E97, E99; bunny: W00, W0, W1, RV00, RV21, RV23)
• CTMH pear cardstock
• CTMH sentiment stamp 
• and look at that! I even did some sewing on my card!

additional challenges for these cards:

• Card Crafter's Circle #16: Easter
• Bugaboo's Catch The Bug Challenge: Easter/Spring
• Paper Sundaes #114: Happy Easter

Thanks for stopping by - I'll be posting more Easter cards as the week goes on...

A few MORE cards for Easter

Hi folks, another quick post for tonight (to my sweetie - if you are reading this....close it now...no peeking since once of these cards is for you!)

While I was making the cards in the previous post, I decided to put together three more since I had the images coloured and the papers out anyway.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft cardstock base
• patterned papers: Basic Grey "Hopscotch" (card3), My Mind's Eye Lime Twist "Life of the Party" (cards 1 and 2)
• stamps: Verve "Bunny Shake", "Egg-stra Special". The images are all coloured with Copics. The brown bunny is coloured with E21, E23, E25. The white bunny is coloured with W00, W0. The chick in the egg is coloured with W0, W00, Y38, Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06. Oh...and the bunnies have white Fun Flock from CTMH on their tails...you probably can't see that in the photos.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope your weekend is turning out to be fabulous!