HAPPY EASTER!!!!

I just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone reading this, along with their friends and families, a wonderful, healthy, happy Easter Sunday!  Thank you to all of my followers and those who have left comments - it really is a little thing that makes me so happy! 

We are off to my boyfriend's sister's for dinner with his parents, and then later we are off to dessert at my mom's.  It's amazing how four years later, I still miss my dad like crazy, especially on holidays!           : (       But he is still at every family gathering, and always will be!  Just remember to take time to appreciate your loved ones, celebrate and give thanks for the Resurrection, and have a Happy Easter everyone!

Kim V.

Finally DONE!!

I have been busy all week completing all of these Easter cards and projects I've been posting, and these are the last several, including the post below.  These are the two new original ones, inspired by the Cricut MB members, and the post below contains cards similar to ones I've already posted recently.  For these, I followed the stair step instructions on Split Coast Stampers, and the egg card is a series of cuts from SVG Cuts website. 

For the panoramic egg, I layered three of the "frame" eggs to create a shadow box effect, although it doesn't show up in the picture.  The bunny and grass are from the Easter mini cart, and I used Divine swirls CB on the bunny, swiss dots on the background egg.

For the stair step, the large focal egg is also from the Easter mini, cut with DCWV glitter paper.  Bunnies, chicks, and eggs also all from the Easter mini, and the bunny on the last step is just a sticker from Michaels, from the same pack as the "Happy Easter" sticker in the front.  Thank you for visiting!

....and the repeats!

Since these were all repeats of earlier cards and posts, I just bundled them all into one picture, just to prove how busy I really have been!  These are all for various family members, and I am now going outside to enjoy this beautiful weather here!  Thanks for visiting, and have a wonderful Easter!

And another.....

This is for my older niece.  It's from a file available at http://www.stackyscraps.com/, and cut with MTC at about  4" x 2.5".  The patterned paper is from Joann's, and the little bow is MS.  The Easter eggs in the basket are just some simple stickers from Michael's, and I added stickles for the zipper.  Off to work on more!  Thanks for visiting.

...and the second

This one is for my boyfriend, hence the honey bunny sticker.  Someone asked me the other day what I call him, because he has people call him by his last name since he hates his first name (weirdo, I know), and I realized that we never refer to each other by name - only pet names.  So I decided in that moment to make a more masculine bunny and title the front with "Honey Bunny" for a little play on words. 

OK, now that you are all vomiting from the silliness, here are the details.  This is another MTC cut from the gallery in the program cut at 3.5x2.7, the patterned paper is from the aforementioned K&Co pack, and the basket is also an MTC file.  I pop dotted two layers of the basket so the eggs could be "inside" of it, so I hope that shows up here.  In addition, I used stickles on the ears and belly, pop dotted the bunny, and used the houdstooth CB folder on the basket for some dimension.  Thanks for visiting, and stay tuned - much more to come over the next few days!

Easter cards!

I have been giving my Expression workout this week!  I have been busy cutting, and I finally got to put together two cards this monring, with more to come, hopefully, today.  I have so many to finish, but I am determined to get it done!

Here is the first, and it is an MTC file that I put together using a coloring page.  The patterned paper is from a K&Co all seasons pack that I got, the "Happy Easter" sticker is from Michael's (I know, I know, it's cheating), and the gingham bow is MS.

Oh Crap!!

This little bunny is not happy to have a piece already taken out of him!  I love this cut, and this entire cart!  Bunny, the grass, and the eggs are from the Easter seasonal, the background paper is a K&Co from their seasonal pack, the card base and bunny's ribbon are MS, the chocolate ribbon is SU, and I printed out the "Oh crap" on my printer and used the SU 1 3/4" punch. The large egg is a negative cut ftom a treat bag that I embossed with CB flowers folder. Thanks for visiting!

I've been sooooo busy!!!!

I made nine of these sweet treat cards for a friend to give to the kids in her life - I really hope she appreciates all of the work that went into these, lol!  It took me all night to cut, glue, and stick, but I got them done.  Four are for boys, five are for girls.  Most cuts are from the Easter seasonal cart, with the exception of some of the shorter grass, which is from Plantin Schoolbook.  Lots more to do over the next few days for my family now, but at least these are done! 

The insides are just stamped with a "Happy Easter" sentiment at the bottom so she can write in whatever she wants.  The candy corns were actually from Michael's - you know, one of those "impulse buys" right near the register, and they suckered me in, lol.  But I really like the way they came out.  I do love my sweet treat cups from Stampin' Up, and you can get them from Barb here:

http://www.snowmanlover.blogspot.com/

The various papers are from a combination of Michael's and Stampin' Up, and the stamps are from Michael's dollar bin.  Thanks for visiting!

Easter card

My boyfriend and I were out playing tennis yesterday, and the church down the street had it's bells ringing out the tune "The Old Rugged Cross".  As I found myself singing along, this card popped into my head.  The cross is simply the Pooh font cart wood feature used to cut a lowercase "t", and grass cut with Plantin Schoolbook.  The purple ribbon is from Michael's, the background paper is from DCWV Rustic stack, and the "hill" is hand torn.  I bent up and inked the grass blades for some dimension, too.

The outside and inside sentiment were printed, and the sunrise was the toughest part.  It probably doesn't even look like a sunrise, but I made it up myself from the basic shapes in MTC with a circle and rectangles, using the warp feature.  Also, the clouds are from Pooh and Friends.  Thanks for visiting!

Something a little different

Well, I'm not around my craft supplies, including my Expression, this weekend while I am at my boyfriend's, so I decided to try something a little different today.  This is from a file that I bought at http://www.myscrapchick.com/, and it is actually hand cut from a printed PDF.  I will say this, after cutting these pieces out by hand, it REALLY makes me appreciate my Cricut even more!  The PDF contained all of the colored pieces, so i just cut a white cardstock to 10"x5" to make this a 5x5 square card.  A little inking on the beak, head, and cheeks and it was done.  Very simple card today - but I think she is pretty cute!  If you own MTC or SCAL, you really should check out this site for some great cut files.  Thanks for visiting.

An Homage to Snowmanlover!

So, every part of this Easter card is from Barb's Stampin' Up site!  She put together all of the papers, cardstock, and ribbon in a Springy Card Kit, and the sweet treat cups I ordered separately.  Barb is so sweet, and I wanted to make an "all-Barb" card, lol, to thank her for her great kits.  You can visit her site here:    http://www.snowmanlover.blogspot.com/

The egg was finished off with some stickles for a little extra, but the cardstock, paper, ribbon and sweet treat cup are all from Stampin' Up.  The sentiment was cut with the new Easter cartridge, the grass was cut with Plantin Schoolbook, and the egg was a leftover cut from an Easter treat bag I cut with MTC (see several posts below).  Thanks for visiting!