Ears To A Wonderful Easter

Hi Crafty Friends,

Happy Easter everyone! Today I am sharing an Easter card I created for my grandson. I have been waiting for my Spellbinders Club kit for March to arrive so I could make this card as I wanted to add the cap from the kit to the bunny. This is similar to one I made for my granddaughter, except for the cap. Adding the cap to the bunny was inspired by a card created by Sarah Leese.

This is a 5 x 7 card and used the February large die of the month and the Clear Stamp with coordinating die set for the sentiment.

For the background I used the Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Ornate Eggs 3D Embossing Folder with coordinating stencils.

For the inside of the card, I added a scrap of the embossed background along the bottom. I added a die cut Happy Easter which is from Karen Burniston. 

 

Stencilled Bunny Ears

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a 5 x 7 Easter card using products from Spellbinders February All Clubs Crate.

To start I used the stencil of the month called Botanical Bunny. I used inks in greens and purples to the stencil pieces. 

I used the Spring Stripes Embossing Folder to add texture to the back panel of the card. 

The sentiment is from the Ears to Spring Clear Stamp/Die set.

For the inside of the card, I used the leftover embossed panel along the bottom of the card. I also added another sentiment.

 

 

Ears To A Wonderful Easter

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

My Spellbinders  February All Clubs Crate arrived on Friday, so I was able to create my first Easter card for the year.

This is a 5 x 7 card and used the large die of the month and the Clear Stamp with coordinating die set for the sentiment.

For the background I used the Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Ornate Eggs 3D Embossing Folder with coordinating stencils.

For the inside of the card, I added a scrap of the embossed background along the bottom. I added a die cut Happy Easter which is from Karen Burniston. 

Finally I added a few flowers which were left over from doing the front of the card.

April 2025 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our April Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.

Check out Karen Burniston's blog on Wednesday (US Time) when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month, plus Karen will have an amazing video tutorial to share with us all.

Our challenge theme this month is ... DESIGNER'S CHOICE" - it's a wide open challenge! Make whatever you want!

With Easter less than a couple of weeks away, I decided to create an Easter themed card for this months challenge. I thought all the tiny easter elements included in some of the smaller die sets (charms, etc) would work well with the Postage Pop-up die set, so I pulled that out to use for the main pop-up element of my card.

I like making 5 x 7 cards, which is what I made for my card today and seeing it is a larger size I decided to add two postage pop up elements on my card ... one of the right and one of the left.

The patterned paper I used for my card, I used the stripes horizontally for the background panels and then used the same paper but with the stripes going vertically for the postage pop up panels.

For the bunny and the chick in the egg I used dies from the Spring Animals die set. The Happy Easter and the pink and purple Easter eggs are from the Easter Charms die set.

The Easter Basket is from the Animal Add-ons 5 die set which I filled with Easter eggs using dies from the Easter Borders die set. The row of white bunnies is also from this die set.

Finally I added a large flower and leaves using dies from the Twist Flower Pop-up die set.

For the front of my card, I created an Easter Bunny ... I used the bunny elements from the Animal Add-ons 5 die set along with a large oval die from the Crosshatch Ovals die set. I surround the bunny with flowers using flowers from the Twist Flower Pop-up die set.

Hoppy Easter Trifolds

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

With Easter only a few weeks away, I have two Easter Cards to share today. 

These cards using products from Spellbinders February 25 Club Kits, many of which are perfect for Easter Cards. I also used Scrappy Tail Crafts Trifold die set, I ordered this late last year and have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to play with it.

I made two cards, more of these the same but they both have a couple of differences to them. For the card with the blue covers, I made this one for my grandson and being a boy didn't want the cover to look too girly, so used the Embossing Folder of the Month called Wicker Basket.

The large chick on the left  panel is called Pip and is the freebie die you get when you order the Caboodle (all the sets).

When you completely open the two side flaps there is a in the centre which holds the pop-up portion of the card. On the front of the flap I added an Easter sentiment from an older Divinity Designs stamp set. "Bunny Kisses" sounded perfect for these cards.

Here is a look at the card when it is full open. For the background I used the Stencil of the Month, Nature's Canvas. As you can see I used this on each of the three panels x 2 cards ... that's 6 times. I added a panel of green card that had been die cut along the top using a grass edge. I used this to add my characters.

The Bunnies and all the eggs are from the Large Die of the Month for February, Hoppin' Bunnies Everywhere, this die set has so much in it and is amazing.

For my granddaughters card, I went with pink for the covers. This time round I used the 3D Embossing Folder of the Month for February, Petite Bow.

I die cut the three sizes of eggs, the bows, and paint pieces all from various colours of cardstock, so each card has different coloured eggs etc.

The "Sending Easter Blessings" sentiment on the top right hand panel is from the Betterpress Plate of the Month for February, Luxe Damask. The great things about Betterpress plates is that they can be foiled which is what I did here, using black foil on pink cardstock for the pink card and blue cardstock for the blue card.

For each of the cards, I positioned the bunnies in a different place. For the card above I put the girl bunny in front seeing it was for my granddaughter. The one for my grandson has the boy bunny in front.

When I first started making this I was thinking only to do the centre portion of the card, but when I asked my husband should I add the extra panels, he said yes! I am glad I did.

And finally one last photos of my cards, this time showing the front of both. As you can see I added the girl bunny to the girl card and the boy bunny to the boy.

For the sentiment here I used the "Hoppy Easter" die included in the Large Die of the month. I was recently watching a YouTube video by Nicole Sphor and she mentioned how you could glimmer those tiny sentiment dies that are included in so many die sets. So of course I decided to give it a go, and I will be doing this a lot more in the future, I love the look.

Happy Easter

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing two Easter themed Never Ending Cards I created for my two grandchildren. I figured they would enjoy the movement involved in this style of card.

These cards using the new 5 x 7 Never Ending Cards die set from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott's Never-Ending Cards Collection.

Here is a quick video to see my card in action.

I used pink cardstock for the card for my granddaughter, I used digital papers that I found from Etsy to decorate my cards.

In the past when I have made never ending cards I have used two layers of card, however many of the newer styles are one layer. Which is what this card is.

I left a blank panel so that I can write a personal greeting.

These photos show the order of how the card flips through the various levels, before coming back to the original page.

This is the last panel, before you flip back to the front. 

Here you can see the blue version that I made for my grandson. I used similar images on both, but one or two are different.

This is such a fun style of card.

I love these cute designs, which made quick work of creating these cards.

And one last photo of the blue card.

March 2024 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

 

Hi Crafty Friends, 

Welcome to our March Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.

Check out Karen Burniston's blog on Wednesday (US Time) when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month, plus Karen will have an amazing video tutorial to share with us all.

Our challenge theme this month is ... "BUNNY EARS" - Use a bunny, bunnies or even just the ears for a card of any theme.

Here is a quick video to see my card in action.

As you can see, I have created an Easter themed Slimline Card. Actually my card is more a DL card, rather than a Slimline being that it is 8 1/4 inches wide by 4 1/4 inches, I opted for this size to make sure the Bunny Ball Character would fit inside the card properly.

For this card, I decided to not attach the bunny to the card, that way when the card is opened the bunny explodes out of the card. You can see this if you watch the video above. The bunny can't fall out of the card as the magnets on the flap keeps it safe inside.

I used the Long Flap and Closure die set to add the flap to the bottom portion of the Slimline card.

Along the top of the card I added a thin panel to which I added the bunnies from the Easter Borders die set.

The grass along the bottom of the card is from the Long Nature Edges die set. 

I also added a stamped sentiment to my card, which I die cut out using the smallest rectangle die included in the Short Rectangles die set.

To create the bunny, I used the Mini Ball Pop-up die set along with the new Animals Add-ons 5 die set. I added a green label to the bottom of the bunny to look like grass, the label is from the Rectangle and Labels Crosshatch die set.

For the front of the card, I used the dies from the Animals Add-on 5 die set to make two bunny faces. I also used the smallest circle included in the Circles Crosshatch die set.

I also used the Happy Easter die set to add the Easter sentiment.

Easter Bunny

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing an Easter themed Kinetic Easel Block card I created recently to give to one of my grandchildren for Easter. 

This card using the Bouncing Bunny & It's Only More Puppets 5 x 7" Mechanism die sets from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott. I used Sam's tutorial on creating an Easel Block card which she created when this collection was released last year, but I did give my card a few tweaks to make it a little different. You can find Sam Calcott's Easel Block Card Tutorial here.

Here is a quick video to see my card in action and how it folds.

For my Easel Block card, I did use the same bunny and papers which Sam used on hers, mainly these papers suited the style of card the best in my opinion. I did how change up the theme, making mine an Easter card.

I added Easter eggs to the card using Lawn Fawn's Mini Easter Eggs die set.

For the sentiment I used Karen Burniston's new Happy Easter die set which I adhered to the centre of the block portion of the Easel Block Card.

I also added an Easter Egg Basket to one of the bunny's arm which is from Karen Burniston's new Animal Add-ons 5 die set.

Here is a side view of my card, to see the look of the card a little easier.

On the inside base of the card, I added a large Easter Egg die cut and an Easter sentiment. Both the sentiment and large egg are from Divinity Designs, links of which are in the supply list below.

You can also see on this photo how two eggs at the back of the "block" are adhered so they don't interfere with the workings of the bunny.

I added a panel at the back inner portion of the card. Here I added two more sentiments which are also included in the Divinity Designs stamp set. I also added four more of the mini Easter Eggs. 

Here is a look at my card when it is folded, ready to be placed in an envelope. You can see how the card folds to fit an envelope, by watching the video at the top of the post. Because of the pull tab at the top of the card the card measures 7 1/2 inches x 5 inches.