Can you believe that I didn’t really like this set the first time I saw it?  Well, I got over that!

This simple geometrical layering and side tied bow make a faster card than you think.  Cut a bunch of the layers and you can put together 10 of these pretty quickly!

This set, Easter Blossoms, from Stampin’ Up!’s Occasions Mini Catalog is available through April 30th.

Below are the materials and supplies and the dimensions of the layers… let me know what you think!  Happy stamping!

Sets:  Easter Blossoms (wood: #121905, clear: #122057)
Accessories:
5 ½ x 8 ½ Rose Red
5 ¼ x 4” Vanilla Cardstock
3 ¼ x 3 ¾ Rose Red
3 x 3 ½ Springtime Vintage DSP (large rose floral)
2 ½ x 3 Not Quite Navy
2 ¼ x 2 ¾ Crumb Cake
2 x 2 ½ Very Vanilla
Crumb Cake Classic ink
1/8th inch punch
Dimensionals™, Basic Pearls #119247
Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder #120175
Sizzix Die Cutting Machine, Multi-purpose platform, clear cutting pads
15 inches Rose Red Seam Binding Ribbon #121884
5 inches Always Artichoke Seam Binding Ribbon #121000
Vintage Flower Adornments (1 vanilla rose) #121879

Ah, those three beautiful words every woman wants to hear… ‘chocolate Easter bunny’!

The fabulous ‘single’ stamp ‘Chocolate Bunny’ (#116980, $7.95) is available for a limited time while the Occasions Mini Catalog is available… don’t miss it!

I made a simple ‘treat sleeve’ with a 2 1/2 x 10 inch piece of Mellow Moss cardstock and folded it back up on itself to form a pocket.

The best part is the ‘chocolate’ on the bunny! I stamped the bunny in Chocolate Chip (how appropriate!) Crafter’s Ink (#101816) and heat set with Crystal Clear embossing powder (#109130, $4.75) on Creamy Caramel cardstock.

The floral stamp in Blush Blossom on Blush Blossom paper is from ‘Razzle Dazzle’ (#116714, $18.95) set.  The pocket is held together with Moss brads from the Soft Subtles brads assortment.

One important thing to remember about the ‘handle’, punch out the jumbo circle and THEN punch out the flower… it is close to impossible the other way around, LOL!

Materials & Dimensions:

2 ½ x 10 inch Mellow Moss cardstock
(scored at 6 ½  inches)
2 ¼ x 3 Blush Blossom cardstock (for front panel)
2 ¼ x 3 Creamy Caramel (for the bunny)
2 ½ x 2 ¾ Close to Cocoa (for the flower punch)
2 ½ x 2 ¾ Blush Blossom (for the scallop circle punch)
Blush Blossom dye ink
Chocolate Chip Crafters Ink
Crystal Clear embossing powder & Heat Tool
1 ¼ inch jumbo circle punch
Scallop Circle Punch
Extra Large Fancy Flower punch (118073)
Earth Elements brads (Olive)
1 1/16th inch circle punch
Dimensionals™, Chocolate Chip narrow grosgrain ribbon

This card gets me thinking about how beautiful my daffodils are going to be when they finally bloom–they are growing bigger with every sunny day!

And I am going to miss this set when it expires on April 18th.  ‘Abundant Hope’ is a limited edition set in our Occasions Mini Catalog which retires on April 30th.

It took me two days to make this card and finally ‘like’ the layout.  I knew I wanted the black & yellow combination… and ended up with this very simple card.  So simple that I decided the ‘pop up’ two of the daffodils or it wouldn’t satisfy me.  You can’t see the glitter… it does improve it.

Accessories include:
Basic Black & So Saffron cardstock
Black StazOn
Earth Elements Watercolor Crayons
Aquapainters
#107590 Designer Label Punch
#116630 Modern Label Punch
#118402 Scallop Trim Border
(SAB FREE with $50 order)
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter & 2 Way glue pen

My daffodils are starting to come up (seems like winter was forever this year)! I included an up-close shot of the beautiful detail of the stamp.   You can click on the card for a close up as well.

The card is Vanilla and the Saffron designer paper.  The flower was colored in with the Summer Sun and Old Olive Watercolor Crayons and an Aquapainter.  This was a very quick card!  The vanilla satin ribbon gave it a richness and don’t you just LOVE the Scallop Trim Border Punch (#118402) which is a FREE Sale-A-Bration gift with your $50 order and available only until the end of this month.

This limited edition set ‘Abundant Hope’ (click on thumbnail below to see full sized set), is available until April 30th.

Materials:
Vanilla cardstock
4 x 3 inch Certainly Celery Cardstock
3 ¾ x 2 ¾ Very Vanilla cardstock
2 x 4 So Saffron Designer Paper
Vanilla Satin Ribbon
Scallop Trim Border Punch #118402 (FREE SAB)
Black StazOn
Earth Element Watercolor Crayons
Aquapainters

This beautiful 3D Easter Card is made with Stampin’ Up!’s ’5th Avenue Floral’ stamp set and the (leftover from the Stamp Festival projects) designer series paper ‘Cottage Wall.’

The flower heads were cut out and petals bent with a bone folder and then attached with Dimensionals®.  I love the colors Celery and Plum together anyway.

UPDATE: I bought a new Nikon D3000 SLR camera and I took a new photo… way bolder color! The thumbnail photo lower is with the old camera and you can see how washed out the color is.

It doesn’t help that I also have a terrible case of ‘photography envy’ from looking at the superior photography of Jon Haverstick and his photography of his wife’s Stampin’ Up! creations.  Oh well, I must embrace my mediocrity for now (but you can run out and buy, buy, buy more Stampin’ Up! products from me so that I can afford some better equipment…).

Materials Used:
Set(s): 5th Avenue Floral,
Well Scripted (#118601)
Accessories:
5 ½ x 8 ½ Perfect Plum cardstock
4 ¼ x 3 inch Certainly Celery cardstock
4 x 2 ¾ inch Whisper White cardstock
4 ¼ x 2 ½ inch Whisper White
For stamping and cutting flowers out
5 ¼ x 2 inch ‘Cottage Wall’ DSP (#115671)
Dimensionals®, Celery Satin Ribbon
Black StazOn ink, Bone folder
Certainly Celery Watercolor Crayon
Perfect Plum watercolor Crayon
Aquapainters

An Egg-cellent Easter (#113196) from the new Occasions Mini Catalog.

From April 1-30, when you buy $40 in products from the Occasions Mini or host a workshop totaling $150 or more, you’ll get one item from the “Under $10? page (p. 208) in the Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book & Catalog–FREE!  See all current specials on my Specials page.

This simple card was dressed up with the Stampin’ Up! exclusive ‘Birds & Blooms’ Sizzlits (#113485) for the Sizzix Big Shot in Barely Banana, Baja Breeze & Certainly Celery for a festive spring daffodil.

The set has a matching roller wheel “Egg Hunt” (see line art left).

The designer series paper is the SAB ‘Delicate Dots’ that I own a plethora of…

I couldn’t help myself… I love this bunny!  Below is a step-by-step PDF on how the box/basket was made (not a revolutionary idea, but certainly an easy one) using the Scalloped Envelope Sizzix die.

I am back from Hawaii and real life (which doesn’t seem to measure up to luxury resort living!).

Today is the very last day of Sale-A-Bration (featuring a free gift for each $50 purchase) as well as my monthly online purchase gift of the ‘Good Egg’ Spring & Easter projects PDF (read about it here).

It is also the last day to join Stampin’ Up! for only $169.  The kit is an amazing special price this month and the least expensive way to start your own home based creative business.  Contact me if this intrigues you… or join online (in about 15 minutes) HERE.

I am dusting off this idea that I posted last year because everything electronic is in collusion against me and I have been forced to buy a new camera AND a new scanner and have to now figure them out!

So enjoy a reprint of this downloadable template (click on thumbnail left to download the directions and template).

This was one of the Stamp Festival projects last Spring… a 3D egg basket ‘gold on gold’.  Stampin’ Up!’s awesome “Brushed Gold” paper embossed with the flourish from ‘Baroque Motifs’ (egg from “A Good Egg” set). See more samples of “A Good Egg” on my website.

I made most of these for Leadership 2008 when I was asked to be a display artist. You can click on one of the thumbnails for an upclose detail shot of it and scroll through them. Dig photo #2… my ‘New York high hair’ years…

UPDATE: The original post and template for the egg basket is HERE. You can also use my Archive page to find these as past posts.

So, as an apology, I am going to recycle last year’s ideas for you… but I have wonderful new projects and templates to share soon. Why not now you ask? Well, just to keep it fun, not only is my basement under construction, but I have a huge Stamp Festival on Saturday to prepare for during construction.

Ah, never a dull moment!

Okay, I promise that this is my very last post with "A Good Egg"… I just love that set!

The egg was embossed on our brushed gold cardstock and also embossed with the swirl stamp in Baroque Motifs.  I have gotten more questions on this card on my Gallery than any other… the background blue paper is from the LeJardin papers.  It has those wonderful swirls in it and I added a gold embossed swirl of my own as well as I might have gotten carried away with the zig gold painty pen and shadowed a few swirls of my own freehand.

The bling (which you really NEED, don’t you?) is our rhinestone brads (the amber colored ones) and of course some tiny rhinestones that I had around (gotta love bling!).

The second photo REALLY shows the shine best… the flat scan doesn’t do it justice.

Oh, and the kraft colored taffetta ribbon is my absolute favorite color!  I cannot tell you how lovely it looks–kraft sounds ugly, but it is really a taupe color.

Okay, how’d I do?