Happy Easter!

Happy Easter every one!  I hope you  have great friends and family to spend it with.  I'm with my family, but I wanted to take a minute to share this cute Easter card on the way to my cousin.  I just love Lawn Fawn's Happy Easter set.  The bunnies are so cute!  For this card, I used Peacock Feather and Broken China Distress Ink to create the background, then stamped on some clouds from Lawn Fawn's Sunny Skies set with some Hero Arts Unicorn White ink.  Then I added grass cut from some paper from my scraps using the Grassy Border die from Lawn Fawn.  The eggs and bunnies were colored with colored pencils blended out with Gamsol.  I'm really enjoying learning all these new coloring techniques. 

Happy Birthday!

For today's card, I really didn't have to look anywhere for inspiration; it just sort of made itself.  I recently bought this Crafty Secrets' set called Dahlia while shopping at yet another local scrapbooking store that is going out of business.  My sister was over to watch some TV and I just wanted to play with the new stamp.  Without any real idea of where I was going with it, I stamped it in Versamark ink on some kraft card stock from my stash then heat embossed it with some Zing white embossing powder.  I colored the flower in with some colored pencils to add a pop of color.  Then I stamped on the sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Happy Sentiments set using Versafine ink.  I decided it needed a bit of a mat, so I cut the finished piece down to 3.75 by 5 inches and then cut a white mat at 4 by 5.25.  Then it was just a matter of gluing it all down to a kraft card stock card base.