Surprise Easter Card

I wanted to play along with CAS on Friday's Easter challenge plus combine with the elements from Tic Tac Toe too. So my card front is my clean and simple card for CAS on Friday:

I wanted to make a peek-a-boo window for my wee Easter chicken but I only own a square one from MFT so made my own using Just Stitching Double Circle dies (LF) and a circle die to make a window inside the double stitching.

Now I could have stayed with the CAS theme for Tic Tac Toe but I wanted to make a wee scene inside the card so I'm entering the inside of the card for TTT243 (Easter Eggs, pastel colours, grass). I'll also enter the inside of the card into the collaboration for "birds of a feather" with Time Out and Just Us Girls as well, plus Simon Says : Easter/Spring for their Wednesday Challenge too!

Aren't they just adorable, I've used an older stamp set from Lawn fawn called Chirpy Chirp Chirp and it has stamps to fill in the Easter egg and also the wee flower petals and wee butterflies, which made Copic colouring the chickens and bunny helmets easy.

I just grabbed 2 colour combos from my earliest blends I have, so nothing too fancy but I do like the peachy one a lot.

Supply List:

Stamps: Chirpy Chirp Chirp (LF), Eggstraordinary Easter Add-on (LF - sentiment)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Fresh Freesia (SU!), Pale Papaya (SU!), Sparkling Rose (PFS), Sunshine (PFS)

Paper: Neenah Solar White #110, Xpress IT blending, Flower Market DSP (LF - retired)

Dies: Grassy border (LF), Just Stitching Double Circles (LF), Sweet Stacks : Circles (HB)

Other: Copics

Challenges: CAS on Friday #279, TTC#243, TOC#259 , JUG#718, SSSW

Well that was a lot of fun combing a CAS card front with an Easter scene inside, hope you can find time to join in with one or all of the challenges.

EDITED 29/3/24: Very excited to say my wee card was chosen as the winner at CAS on Friday. I loved the card so pleased others agreed.

✿Karen✿

Easter swap time Part 3

The last of the Easter swaps my team shared amongst ourselves as promised.

From Sally Williams - a really beautiful treat pouch - just perfect for holding the egg. Click on Sally's name to see all the colours she made.

Plus she's stamped on the cellophane bag with white Stazon.

Both Debbie & Clare created stunning cards using A Good Egg - I love this chicken!

From Debbie Lamb:

From Clare Stirling:

Do contact any of us if you'd like to learn how to create them for yourselves - got to admit we certainly made our eggs look prettier.

Easter swap time Part 2

I can't believe it's Friday & I haven't shared all the great swaps I received or were shared with me last weekend when the WOW paperKRafters got together. This is Part 2 (part 1 was my gable box with eggs, eggs & more eggs) - logon tomorrow night to see part 3 you won't be disappointed!

In no particular order from Janine Pearce another use for sweet treat cups - isn't this just gorgeous with the wee mini eggs & the frilled DSP .

From the newest member of the team Robyn File who has made these eggs real pretty! Almost too pretty to eat!

Better share a card or you'll think all the swaps involved chocolate (though a lot did!) from Lesley Stewart not one but two cards and wait for it an EGG!!

I must admit blogging this chocolate has made me hungry so better go eat some swaps & I'll be back with the rest of the swaps tomorrow night.

Easter swap time

My team the WOW paperKrafters meet today for our monthly meeting and this means swaps - I'm sad I know but as much as I love blog hopping, I much prefer the real thing in my hands so I love swaps.

I used Greetings Eight (which I see is called Eight Great Greetings in the States) as one of it's greetings is Happy Easter & a cute wee bunny with eggs.

One of my team mates Patrice from the bigger team gave me the directions for cutting & scoring a gable box - which I must say holds a surprising amount of eggs! There's also a very cool tutorial on SCS which you can view HERE to create your own.

Will share the others great ideas, once they've had a chance to blog them themselves.

My first international swap

wow that sounds important but my SBS sisters had an Easter swap & I was very fortunate to receive this gorgeous card from Debby AKA Debby's stuff - now anyone who has ever visited her blog will know she's one very talented stamper! Isn't this the cutest easter chick ever & my 2 favourite colours - green and blue as well.

I'm doubly blessed one of my other SBS sister's has awarded me a Renee award. i've never seen this one before but the sentiments that go with the award make me feel very special - thank you Anne AKA Stargroves.


The Renee Award was created by Bella (bellasinclair.blogspot.com) and Ces (cesandherdishes.blogspot.com) who wanted to show appreciation of the impact their friend Renee made on their lives. This award is meant, according to Bella, to be given to those that, like Renee, are like "the acorn, a small package becoming a tall and sturdy oak giving more acorns, becoming tall and sturdy oaks, giving acorns…".

Well I'm over half way through my demo swaps for convention (aiming for 80, 40 completed & lots of bits & bobs awaiting construction) - only a few days to go plus have quite a few things drying for the latest Kristina challenge - so hopefully will have something to show you tomorrow that is chocolate, red, yellow and white - so far so good but she's thrown in turquoise as well! Hating this one but it's special as no. 50 - so have a go if you haven't before they great (says me with clenched teeth).

The Easter Bunny has been

Michelle Cave from my SU! team has been busy. I can see that Diane has already blogged/blathered that she has received a bag of goodies in the post. And me too!!

It was perfect therapy after a 26-hour stint at the hospital and about 3 hours sleep to arrive home & find I had chocolate in my letter box!! Thanks Michelle you really are the Easter bunny/life saver & she's used also my favourite Easter set; A Good Egg which is just so cute.

I just adore this set which is phenomenal value at $46.95 for a set of 7 stamps. If interested in ordering A Good Egg (or Good Morning DSP) you can contact me HERE.

And whilst talking about A Good Egg I'll take this opportunity to share another cool card that I received as a swap from another demonstrator Kim Ambercromie recently - she's also used the cute chicken & the really cute birdie paper from the newly released DSP Good Morning Sunshine. Isn't it just GORGEOUS.


Interestingly I also used this same DSP for my swaps but totally a different look - mine had pears & was kiwi kissed! See HERE to see what I mean.

Happy Easter all & I hope the Easter Bunny visits you all.

Cambria's cool bagalope basket

this is the one of the projects I demoed at a workshop recently totally cased from the very clever Cambria

I've always thought that Bag-a-lopes are such a cool idea - take one envelope - stamp or wheel it, score it, fold it & finally embellish it, really quick & a perfect wee gift bag in less than 15 minutes.

Stampin' Up! envelopes are prefect for the job, smooth (so perfect for stamping), white inside & good quality & you get 40 for $12.95!


Stamp set: A Good Egg
Paper: Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Whisper White, Spring Fling DSP (retired)
Ink: Basic gray, Pretty in Pink
Other: Whisper white envelope, large tab punch, scallop circle punch, 1-3/8" circle punch, 1-1/4" circle punch, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Pretty in Pink and Barely Banana markers, white Signo gel pen, word window punch

Now say ohhhhhhhhhh after me isn't this just the mostest! So thanks Cambria for an awesome project.

One week to Easter

It must be time for the chick & the bunny to appear. This is my take on the hinged card my upline Jacque showed us. I've used the now retired Spring Fling DSP which was just perfect. Her card can be seen HERE

Stamp set: A Good Egg
Paper: Barely Banana, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Spring Fling DSP
Ink: So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Basic Grey
Other: Designer label punch, small oval punch, scallop edge border punch, oval cutting system (CM), Pretty in Pink grosgrain ribbon, 2-way glue pen, dazzling diamonds glitter, dimensionals, soft subtle brads, hand held 2mm circle punch, soft subtle markers

I hope Sylvia & her friends enjoyed learning this technique.

Happy Easter All

No more treats from me (unless you've entered "my survey" or Scrapbook Challenge). I'll announce the winners tomorrow.

My final treat is wait for it..................Bunny Hugs on a 2,5,7,10 box


I used Barely Banana card stock with the chicken & Easter eggs stamped randomly all over it in Summer Sun ink. I water coloured in the images on the front panel using water colour crayons & a bit of Dazzling Diamonds to make the ears, nose & eggs all sparkly & of cos' some ribbon - light pink gingham in this case.

I hope The McKinney's enjoy their eggs!

Happy Easter one and all and I hope the bunny hops over your way.

UPDATE 21/3/08: The winners are............. & this wasn't rigged!! I wrote all the names on a bit of paper, folded up the paper & shook well & then threw them up in the air the piece that escaped the furthest WON.

Scrapbook page: Judy Beetson
Home class survey: Joan Hallett

They won a 12x12 sheet of Blush Blossom & Mellow Moss, plus a 6x12 piece of the two designer papers plus one sheet of die cuts & tags from the Simply Scrappin' Kit: Today & Always.


Congratulations to you both & thanks everyone for entering :-)

Easter Treat Part 3

The wee treat box is going CHOCOLATE or in this case Close To Cocoa & Taupe!

Cadbury Candied eggs are so yummy - I hope there is some left for my wee & not so wee nieces & nephews.

Bunny Hugs are multiplying!!

I suppose that's what bunnies do.

I love my wee Bunny Hugs stamp set that is in the summer mini catalogue (6 stamps for $39.95) and was really pleasantly surprised to see that my upline Jacque was using it at class last night too. We made a wee treat box and a matching card - don't they look cute with my bag-a-lope - now I wonder who will get these next week??



Click the picture if you can't see but the card is all iridescent - ohhh!

If anyone wants an unscheduled card class Tuesday or Wednesday night next week - to play with the set let me know ASAP.

Update 14/3/08: The above class will be held at MY HOUSE Tuesday 18th March 6-8 pm.

Easter Treat Part 2

Well it was card class tonight and my friend Julie was the only attendee :-(

As it was her first time maybe that was a good thing, we managed to make the acetate triangle box filled up with Cadbury mini eggs this time, a bag-a-lope for Easter using Bunny Hugs which is in the current Summer Mini catalogue and as she had a birthday tomorrow we made a buckle card using the incredibly versatile Bud Basics stamp set which my friend & SU! demo Anabel Welch taught me to make last week (only alteration in our card is we changed from Tempting Turquoise to Pixie Pink as I didn't have a TT ink pad).

Cardstock & inks for the projects:
Happy birthday buckle card: Pixie Pink, Green Galore, Chocolate Chip
My bag-a-lope: Barely Banana, Pretty In Pink, Creamy Caramel
Julie's bag-a-lope: Apricot Appeal, Lavender Lace

You can probably see the Easter eggs in Julie's bag-a-lope example better than mine.

Easter Treat Part 1

Rachael Knight one of the fellow SU! demos I am lucky to be in the same team with gave me a dinky wee acetate triangle box at Christmas. She had used the d'vine swirls embossing folder and Stazon Baby Blue ink to colour hers up and filled it up with those rock hard cola roller balls - yum says me but know I'm in the minority on that one.

For an Easter treat I thought it would be fun to see how hard it was to make one using acetate instead of paper. I know from making triangle boxes from paper you have to score accurately and quite heavily so was wondering how I would manage with the acetate. Opening my Christmas treat up I could see the original dimension was 6x4" and thought my dots and blooms embossing folder was more appropriate for the oval mini Easter eggs I wanted to put inside.

The embossing did look cool but not as deep as Rachael's which she achieved - mine didn't really take up any of the Stazon when I was tapping it lightly on the surface of the acetate - will try a few with a sheet of card stock extra to see if I can make the embossing stand out more next time.

Still happy with how it looks and it was surprisingly easy to score though I was using the scoring blade that fits into my Fiskars cutter.

UPDATE: from Rachael she played around with different types of acetate and the thicker the better. She recycled and cleaned off acetate covers from reports that were being thrown out at her work - very enterprising. She'd also like to credit our upline Jacque with the idea of embossing the acetate and inking with the Stazon but if my memory serves me right it might have been Jacque's right hand woman Tui that came up with that idea. All around I think the power of 3 or should that be 4 - we're a charmed lot definitely though.

But I'd still like to say a BIG thank you to Rachael for the sweet idea of making a triangle box out of the acetate, as they do look rather cool.