One more Easter Card

Made another Easter card, this one for my grandson.  I stamped the bunny and the sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp March 2017 Card Kit, with black Versafine Ink, then colored in the bunny with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.  I stamped the hearts in Momento Pink and colored with the Zig markers.  I accented the front by adding a scalloped border in pink on the left side.  All in all, I think it turned out pretty cute.

Easter Cards for the grandkids

Used my Simon Says Stamp March 2017 Card Kit to make some Easter cards.  The kit this month included some fun items I hadn't used before, so my first card  was trying out the Nuvo Embellishment Mousse.  This was an interesting experience.  The mousse feels a little slick when you're applying it, but goes on fairly easily.  I applied it through the flowered egg-shaped stenciled that was included, using all three of the included colors (Pure Platinum, Aquamarine, and Peony Pink).

It wasn't perfect, but almost, which is really saying something about ease of use right from the get go.

I cut the white card stock down, leaving enough room for the sentiment (from the included stamp set), which I stamped in Momento Black.

The background is one of the papers that was also included in the kit.





My next card was fairly simple.  I used a sheet of the included paper for the background.  I stamped the bunny and sentiments in Versa Fine Black ink on Neenah Solar White card stock.  I used my new zig markers (I know, I'm a little late in trying out these markers). I didn't bother with much shading, but think it came out pretty nice.

 I then fussy cut half of the bunny before attaching it to the front.  I think my granddaughter will like it. 

Another card from Day One

This was made from the second watercolor strips card I made on the first day of class, and I was hoping it would turn out a lot better than the first one I'd done, as I was using a better watercolor paper.  However, I couldn't really see all that much difference, and so I was a little disappointed.









Looking at it, I thought I'd cut it down into a circle and stamp a flower on it.  Using the Simon Says Stamp largest Stitched Circles die, I cut out a nicely colored section of the strips.  I then used Onyx Black VersaFine Ink to stamp the flower stamp on the circle.  I attached it to the center of a white A2 card base.

When I stamped the Thinking of You I tried to curve it a little to match the curve at the bottom of the circle die cut, without being too obvious about it.  I think it turned out pretty well.

Another card from my Day One experiments

I took another of my first day experiments, which I didn't think turned out very well originally.  By turning it upside down, I thought it looked like a beautiful sunset, so stamped some trees in Onyx Black Versafine Ink.  I trimmed off some of the watercolor card where it had pilled before stamping, and then matted the card with black card stock. 

I had to do quite a bit of touching up on the bottom of my stamping, where I apparently hadn't pushed down on the stamp enough, but I think it turned out pretty well.

I was going to make this into a sympathy card, but I'm not sure if it is a little too bright for that.  I'm going to give it some thought.  Maybe I'll make it a thinking of you or missing you card.  The sentiment will go at the top, I think, although I left a little room on the bottom for a small sentiment if I want to go that way.