Easter bunny basket

The Easter cards continue. Today's card was inspired by the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. I used a digi from Stitchy Bear I won in a challenge. I coloured the image using Copics and die cut it with a stitched die from Lawn Fawn. The DSP is from Stampin' Up. I didn't have an Easter sentiment that would fit on the card, so I decided to only stamp the sentiment on the inside. 

I'm also linking up over at One Stitch at a Time where the theme is Nature, Challenge Up Your Life "Easter", Fantasy Stampers "Spring is in the Air" and Simply Create Too where the challenge is Easter or Bunnies.

Card: 300 gsm white card, Hobbycraft 160 gsm Three Shades of Blue, Hobbycraft 160 gsm white card

Stamp: Easter Basket from Stitchy Bear, Personal Impressions Easter Set 1

Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black

Colouring: Copics

Paper: Stampin' Up Birds of a Feather

Other: Lawn Fawn Stitched circle dies, Stampin' Up Decorative Label punch, Banner punch

Birthday flowers

Between working, sleeping, gym, food blog and card blog, I don't seem to be able to keep up all five. Work and sleep are the two I can't give up, the first one for purely financial reasons, and the second one to maintain my sanity. I haven't been to the gym in ages, so both my blogs were doing great. Now I'm trying to get back to the gym, and the card blog has been suffering. I'll try to keep balancing it all and today there was some time for a bit of crafting. Tomorrow it's back to the gym again. 

Today's card was inspired by this week's Freshly Made Sketch and Colour Throwdown. I'm also entering the card at Addicted to Stamps where Anything goes and Crafty Creations Challenge where the recipe of the week is at least 3 layers, 2 DSPs and one image. I used the Stampin' Up Bloom With Hope hostess set and coloured it with Copics. 

Card: Leonardo Stationery 300 gsm white card, Hobbycraft 160 gsm white card, Stampin' Up Island Indigo card

Stamp: Stampin' Up Bloom with Hope

Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black

Colouring: Copics E39, Y19, YR04

Paper: Stampin' Up Birds of a Feather, Sycamore Street

Other: Tim Holtz Idea-ology paper twine, Stampin' Up Sycamore Street designer buttons, Stampin' Up Basic pearls 

Easter chicks with owl punch

There's plenty of challenges this week that are more or less Easter Themed. And what better theme than to celebrate the approach of the Chocolate Egg holiday! I wanted to share one of my Easter projects, and enter it into a few challenges. And I loved all the inspiration from the design teams, I just love browsing these blogs and admiring the amazing creativity that is out there. The theme of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge is Happy Easter and/or Sweet treats. I would say this card has both, as to me it's clear the eggs on the designer paper are chocolate eggs... The theme for the Make My Monday challenge is Easter card or creation. And finally, the Stampin' Royalty challenge this week is a picture inspiration challenge using the picture below. Inspiring me both with the egg theme as well as the bright colours which are reflected in the designer paper I was using.

I just love the Stampin' Up owl punch, and have made several projects with it in the past. This time I turned the cute little owls into Easter chicks. I punched the chicks in Hobbycraft three shades of yellow cardstock and inked around the edges with Mustard Seed distress ink. I painted the feet and the beak using 80's glam Sharpies. The papers are from the Stampin' Up Birds of a Feather DSP and the background stamp is the lovely new Hardwood stamp, which is quickly becoming my favourite background stamp. I used leftover scraps of cardstock for the banners and stamped the Happy using Hobbycraft typewriter alphabet (I seriously need to invest in a new alphabet stamp set, I have been drooling over the ah-maa-zing Lawn Fawn alphabets and matching dies, and I think they will be my next crafting investment). The Easter is die cut from yellow paper using the Sizzix Bug in a Rug alphabet dies and inked around the edges with Mustard seed.

Stamps: Hardwood, Hobbycraft clear typewriter alphabet
Inks: Stampin' Up Sahara Sand, Tim Holtz Mustard Seed distress ink
Paper: Stampin' Up Birds of a Feather DSP
Cardstock: Hobbycraft three shades of blue 160 gsm cardstock, Hobbycraft three shades of yellow 160 gsm cardstock, Hobbycraft white 160 gsm cardstock, Papermania capsule sizzling red hot cardstock, Craft UK kraft card
Other: 80's glam Sharpies