Happy Easter everyone!  Here is a card I had fun making!  Not that I made up the design myself, I copied it from one made by another demonstrator, Olive Barnes, on Stamper’s Showcase, on the Stampin’ Up! demo website the other day.

I used the A Good Egg stamp set to stamp the egg, colored it in with markers and then adhered Dazzling Diamonds Glitter over the whole egg using the Two-Way Glue Pen.  The egg is popped up with Dimensionals on the Wild Wasabi cardstock.  I also used the Priceless Classy Brass Template to emboss a few designs on the card.

And here is a cute little basket and scallop-covered York Peppermint Patties, courtesy of Cambria’s tutorial on Splitcoaststampers, also using A Good Egg stamp set.  They can really be made for any season or occasion just by changing the colors and stamp images.  I used the Flowers For You Designer Paper on the basket.  My demo friend Anne and I made these together the other day and although they are very simple to make, we managed to make it as complicated as possible!  I think every time I look at this basket I will remember all the laughs and giggles we had over putting these together!

This is the azalea bush on one end of the front of the house.  Unfortunately, this burst of blooms faces the house next door and doesn’t show as much from the front!  But it is just gorgeous!  If you click on the photo you should get an enlargement.  Every March Houston holds the annual Azalea Trail where you get to visit a few beautiful houses and gardens in the River Oaks area.  This is one outing my husband and I have always gone on every year that we have lived here, which now is twenty-five years.  Some years we carried a baby or brought all the kids if we had to, or if we were really in luck, found a babysitter and also got to have a nice lunch out alone afterwards.  We went last Friday afternoon, an unusually cold and windy day in Houston, but the sun had come out. We wore winter coats and the River Oaks Garden Club hostesses got to wear their long fur coats!