Easter Centerpiece - PSA Essentials Blog Hop

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The inspiration for this centerpiece came about when I had my 6-month dental appointment a few weeks ago. I was reading "All You" magazine and spotted this gorgeous picture inside. I knew I wanted to make something similar.

I have a 3-level cake stand my mom gave me years ago, so I knew exactly what I wanted to design.

Since I want to save these eggs and use them again, I poked holes in the eggs to blow out the contents, rinsed, and dried the eggs.

I tried using Copic markers to color some eggs. I didn't like the results; too many streaks. This yellow egg is an example. I tried stamping directly onto the egg, but it was too hard to get a good impression. I stamped onto white tissue using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I trimmed out the design and used Mod Podge to decoupage the sentiment onto the egg. The stamps I used today come from these sets: Topiary and Little Bunny.

Here's another example of my technique. This time I colored in the bunny using a Copic marker before I decoupaged the design onto the egg.

Most of the eggs where dyed with Paas egg coloring.

Here are some other details on my project. I like the look of the washi tape; that idea also came directly from the magazine.

To get the bunny Peeps to stand up, I trimmed the bottoms so they would be flat.

The guys love Lindt chocolates, so I love the looks of these little Lindt bunnies. My son Kalino gave me input as to where the bunnies should be placed.

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To One of My Favorite Peeps

Happy Easter! I made this card for Kalino. He looks forward to the Easter scavenger hunt I do each year for him. I haven't created the 12 clues yet and it's already after lunch time; behind schedule!

The weather is nice, so I was going to do the scavenger hunt outside, but late last night I heard some loud noise outside my studio window. Sure enough, I'm guessing it was raccoons that broke into the vent to get into the crawl space under the house. We're not going near that open vent; darn raccoons!

I bought these cute stamps at the A Muse store in Seattle last November. I couldn't resist them.

Well, I've got to run.

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Peep, Favorite Peeps (A Muse)

Paper: white textured, Crushed Curry (Stampin' Up)

Ink: Basic Black, Daffodil Delight (Stampin' Up), VersaMark (Tsukineko)

Tools: Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers), Silhouette digital cutter with label design

Other: baker's twine (House of 3 Pink Paislee), foam tape (3M)

Egg Heart Card

Here's a final Easter card I designed for my PSA Essentials monthly assignment. This is my favorite of the bunch I've been showing you this week.

I stamped the egg shaped repeatedly on white cardstock. Using Copic markers, I colored in the eggs. I cut the eggs out and layered them on a heart-shaped piece of chipboard that I made. I added Diamond Glaze to the entire heart and let it dry overnight. It came out looking so nice and shiny. This would actually make a cute piece of jewelry. You could glue the heart to a pin back.

Here's a closeup of the yummy heart. Have a good one!

Card Ingredients

Finished Size: 4.25” x 4.25”

Stamps: Topiary (PSA Essentials)

Paper: Melon Mambo - textured (Stampin’ Up), white & Lemon Tart (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Silhouette digital cutter with label design, Heart punch (Stampin’ Up), Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)

Other: Copic markers (Y35, RV13, BG02, YG13, YG11, BV04, YR04), foam tape (3M), Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, Lemon Tart ribbon (Papertrey Ink), silver thread (from Peru), Diamond Glaze (JudiKins)

Card Instructions

1. Make card from cardstock and round corners.
2. Use a digital cutter to cut fancy label shape. Tie some ribbon around the front of the card and attach the fancy label.
3. Stamp egg image repeatedly on white cardstock and color with various Copic markers.  Cut out egg designs.
4. Punch large heart shape 4 times and glue layers together to create your own chipboard.
5. Glue the eggs to the heart by overlapping to cover the chipboard. Trim off the excess.
6. Pour Diamond Glaze onto the surface of the chipboard heart and allow to dry overnight.

Tip: Don’t shake the Diamond Glaze bottle; it will create air bubbles.

7. Stamp sentiment on card and attach heart.

Happy Easter Basket and a Giveaway at the PSA Essentials Blog

Hi everyone, Happy Earth Day! Today, several of my Easter cards are featured on the PSA Essentials blog. You have a chance (more if you spread the word) to win the Topiary set of stamps. Go here to enter before Easter Sunday ends EST.

Here's one of the cards. The bottom on the basket is a recycled Starbucks coffee jacket. I love incorporating recycled items when I can. The handle of the basket is the circular stamp that comes with the stamp set.

Here's a closeup of the basket. I used Diamond Glaze on the eggs to give them a glossy shine. I also added some "grass" to the basket with some JudiKins Speckles.

Don't forget to enter to win on the PSA Essentials blog. Have a great day!

Card Ingredients

Card Finished Size: 4.25” x 5.5”

Stamps: Topiary (PSA Essentials)

Paper: kraft (Stampin’ Up), white (Papertrey Ink), coffee jacket (Starbucks)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Tools:  Martha Stewart Scoring Board, 1¾“ circle punch (Stampin’ Up), scalloped scallop edge punch (EK Success)

Other: baker’s twine (Divine Twine), foam tape (3M), Copic markers (BV05, YR04, RV13), Diamond Glaze (JudiKins), Spring Meadow Speckles (JudiKins), Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue

Card Instructions

1. Make card from cardstock.
2. Stamp egg image repeatedly on white cardstock and color with various Copic markers.  Cut out egg designs.
3. Pour Diamond Glaze onto the surface of the eggs and dry thoroughly.

Tip: Don’t shake the Diamond Glaze bottle; it will create air bubbles.

4. Trim a corrugated coffee jacket to resemble the bottom of a basket. Tie some baker’s twine around the basket.
5. Stamp the round border design on kraft cardstock and punch out with circle punch. Cut inside design to create a handle. Adhere to create basket shape.
6. Punch out scalloped cardstock. Cover with adhesive and add grass Speckles. Add to basket.
7. Stamp sentiment on card front.
8. Adhere dry eggs, grass, and basket to card front with dimensional adhesive.

Happy Easter Bunnies

This Easter card coordinates with the tag I posted yesterday. I just love those little bunnies!

Well, I've got to run. Thanks for stopping by!

Card Ingredients

Finished Size: 4.25” x 5.5”

Stamps: Little Bunny, Topiary (PSA Essentials)

Paper: White, Summer Sunrise, & Hawaiian Shores patterned paper (Papertrey Ink), Gable Green (Stampin’ Up)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Cool Caribbean (Stampin’ Up), VersaMark (Tsukineko)

Tools: Big Shot with Limitless Labels metal die (Papertrey Ink), Scalloped Scallop punch (EK Success), Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)

Other:  Copic marker (YR32), Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, Hawaiian Shores ribbon (Papertrey Ink), rhinestones (Michael’s), sponge

Card Instructions

1. Make card from cardstock.
2. Use die cutting machine to cut tag. Stamp circle design on “sun” with watermark ink.
3. Stamp bunnies on white cardstock and color with Copic marker. Cut out bunnies.
4. Punch out scalloped green cardstock. Use scissors to create the look of grass.
5. Use a scallop circle and blue ink to sponge clouds on the card front.
6. Adhere patterned paper to the bottom of the card front and round the bottom corners.
7. Adhere sun, grass, and bunnies to the card front.
8. Add ribbon and rhinestones.
9. Stamp Happy Easter sentiment.

Happy Easter Tag

Hi dearies! I'm still in vacation mode, even though vacation has been over for several days. Maui, I miss you! I've got several Easter projects to post this week, so let's get started.

Here's a closeup of the tag. This tag would be cute on an Easter basket. I used PSA Essentials Little Bunny set for the bunny image and the Topiary set for the sentiment.

Have a great day!

Tag Ingredients

Finished Size: 3.75” x 2.75”

Stamps: Little Bunny, Topiary (PSA Essentials)

Paper: White, Summer Sunrise, & Hawaiian Shores patterned paper (Papertrey Ink), Gable Green (Stampin’ Up)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Tools: Big Shot with Mat Stack 5 metal die (Papertrey Ink), Scalloped Scallop punch (EK Success), Crop-a-Dile (We R Memory Keepers)

Other:  Copic marker (YR32), Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, Hawaiian Shores ribbon (Papertrey Ink), rhinestones (Michael’s), baker’s twine (Etsy)

Tag Instructions

1. Use die cutting machine to cut tag from 3 colors of paper. Trim and piece together to form one tag.
2. Stamp bunnies on white cardstock and color with Copic marker. Cut out bunnies.
3.  Punch out scalloped green cardstock. Use scissors to create the look of grass.
4. Adhere grass and bunnies to the tag.
5. Add ribbon and rhinestones.
6. Stamp Happy Easter sentiment. 
7. Punch hole in tag and add an eyelet. Add baker’s twine to the eyelet.

Easter Greetings

Happy Easter! It was a cold and rainy day here in Northern California. Luckily, the scavenger egg hunt I planned for the Little Guy was an indoor event. He had fun. My Sweetie made dinner, so that was great. I was able to create this card.

To everyone in Baja California and Southern California, I hope you're OK after than large earthquake this afternoon.

This card started with a Baja Breeze cardstock base. I don't have the Hero Arts Cloud background stamp, but I can cut the design on my Silhouette since Hero Arts released this image for the Silhouette. I used the negative as a stencil. I applied white craft ink and then imbossed the image with white embossing powder. I've had this The Cat's Pajamas Spring Fling set since last year and I haven't used 80% of it.

I only own 3 Copic markers, but I used them all on Driving Mr. Carrot! I also did some paper piecing and I used some colored pencils. I forgot to use Memento ink when I stamped the image...oh well. The eggs are also paper pieced.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Spring Fling (The Cat's Pajamas)

Paper: Baja Breeze (SU!), white (Papertrey Ink), patterned paper (Carolyn Gavin for K & Company)

Ink: Memories Black

Tools: Silhouette (with Hero Arts Cloud background), Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers), 1 3/8" circle punch & scallop circle punch (SU!), 2" circle punch (Fiskars), embossing gun

Other: Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, foam tape (3M), white embossing powder, Copic markers

Easter Greetings

There is not enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do. I volunteered at school two days in a row for a few hours each day, so I've have less time in my little studio. I finished this card for Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge 3 a few minutes past her deadline. That's OK...I needed an Easter card today to mail to my parents in New Mexico.

Dawn's colors this week were: kraft, soft pink, red, vanilla, and berry

I got to use some new goodies I received as blog candy from Craft Critique and Cornish Heritage Farms. I received 3 6x6 inch Scrapblocks and a large 6x6 inch acrylic block. Very nice!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Distressed Grid (Cornish Heritage Farms), Easter Greetings (The Cat's Pajamas)
Paper: cream cardstock (my stash), Poppy (Making Memories), Kraft, Pretty in Pink, and Riding Hood Red DSP (SU!)

Ink: Riding Hood Red, VersaMark
Tools: Big Shot with Sizzix and Cuttlebug dies, 1/2" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, paper crimper (Fiskars), Threading Water punch (Fiskars), Scallop Edge punch (SU!)
Other: clear embossing powder, foam tape, chipboard, cream lace (Thanks, Char!), pink flower brad (SU!)