Category Archives: Easter

Happy Easter to You!

Easter Cross Card

Here's an Easter card that just popped into my head to make.  I know years and years and years ago someone made these little individual wooden crosses to stand on wooden bases for our family with an artificial flower stuck on the middle. Perhaps one had little white flowers all over the cross, I don't quite remember, but it is the image I had in my mind when I made this card. I just punched out some white flowers with the Itty Bitty Punch Pack, poked them with my bone folder to get them to curl up a bit, and put a rhinestone in the middle.

I hope you are spending a wonderful Easter Sunday with your family…and if you have little ones, really treasure this time!

Here are some Texas Bluebonnets in our yard that always make me think of Easter time!

Bluebonnets

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And some of the last of the azaleas for the season!

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Make an Easter Chick with the Stampin’ Up! Petal Cone Die

 Petal Cone Die Easter Chick

If you want to make an Easter Chick, or an Easter Duck I suppose, it's easy to make one with the Stampin' Up! Petal Cone Die. It makes a great treat holder.  Just die cut two shapes of the Petal Cone Die with the Big Shot and adhere them together.  Cut off all but one of the flaps. Use the same die to cut the orange scalloped tuft for the top of his/her head.  The other scalloped pieces of yellow that were cut out with the original cone can be folded in half and made into wings on the side of the body.  Make a face and beak using some punches and scraps of card stock and you've got a cute little chick!

Punch holes in the sides if you want to add a ribbon hanger.  Add some Easter grass and some candy treats! You can use the Petal Cone Die to make all sorts of treat holders for any occasion!

 

Make a Card for Easter with an Easter Bunny

Everybunny Easter Card

It's not too late to make a card for Easter!  This one is easy to make and you can do it with whatever supplies you have. The bunny is from the Stampin' Up! stamp set Everybunny in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog.  Just stamp in Black Stazon Ink…or even any color of ink (and don't necessarily color in). If you stamp in Black Stazon, you can watercolor with markers, ink, Blender Pen, brush, or Aqua Painter.  I used my Watercolor Crayons and Aqua Painter.  Love using those! The Easter bunny is then die cut with the Labels Collection Framelits and put on a layer of Melon Mambo.  If you don't have those framelits, use some other shape or even just layer rectangles. That's how we did it before framelits! I used a strip of Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper….I love how "Eastery" and "springy" those colors look!…. and tied a piece of 5/8" Whisper White Organza Ribbon around the middle of the card.  The greeting is already included in the Everybunny set, punched out with the Large Oval Punch and layered on the Scallop Oval Punch.

If it is too late to mail, hand it to a friend, a neighbor, or someone at church on Easter Sunday!

You can find all of these supplies in my Stampin' Up! Online Store here!

If you don't have the bunnies, stamp a flower instead and a greeting, add a pretty strip of designer paper, or not, and you can make a card you can be proud to give someone for Easter!

Make a Punch Art Easter Bunny and Basket

Punch Art Easter Bunny Basket

It's fun to make a punch art Easter Bunny with your Stampin' Up! punches, and even more fun to put him on a cute basket made with the Fancy Favor Die and the Big Shot! To get the basket look, I also embossed the cut out basket with the Lattice Embossing Folder. The basket is made with Soft Suede card stock and I also sponged some White Craft Ink on to the embossing to make it show up a little more. The Easter eggs were really fun….just punched some Tea for Two Designer Series Paper with the Small Oval Punch.

To make a bunny out of punches, just experiment according to what size you want. This one has a 1 3/4" circle punch body, 1 1/4" circle punch head and ears made with the Blossom Petals Punch. I drew in the eyes and mouth and whiskers, punched the heart nose and colored in some cheeks with Watercolor Crayons and an Aqua Painter.

  Punch Art Easter Bunny Fancy Favor Basket

The basket is all ready for some Easter treats!  Cut some narrow strips of card stock and crumple or run through your (retired) crimper to make "Easter grass"!

Try your hand at making a punch art bunny!

For any punches, card stock, or any other papercrafting supplies, just check out my Stampin' Up! Online Store here.

Celebrate Easter with My Digital Studio

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Let the Stampin' Up! digital papercrafting download for My Digital Studio help you make your Easter celebration a little easier!

This download, Celebrate Easter Ensemble, includes:

* 5-page décor designer template (8-1/2" x 11")
* Double-sided postcard template (5" x 3-1/2")
* 14-piece SVG stamp brush set 
* 7 Designer Series Papers 
* 8 embellishments

Get these downloads printed and make your own egg holders, napkin rings, mini baskets, cupcake holders, name cards, table tents, invitations and whatever your Easter imagination comes up with! 

Colors
Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Taken with Teal, Whisper White

Click here to purchase this download or to look at each element more closely. AND view the other downloads for this week!

Click on the download to bring up the single download.  Right below you will see "More Images".  Click on those words, which brings up a closer view.  Then click on each image and finally the word "next" to see even more in that download.

If you don't own My Digital Studio already, take the 30-day FREE Trial of My Digital Studio! Buy the Celebrate Easter download, if you like, play around with it, print your projects, and get the full My Digital Studio experience!  No obligation! My Digital Studio is pretty intuitive, even for the beginner, but if you need more resources, I can help!

Go to my store now to check out My Digital Studio and all the downloads!

Learned From the Easter Bunny

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Learned From The Easter Bunny

                                All I need to know I learned from the Easter Bunny
                                Don't put all your eggs in one basket
                                Walk softly and carry a big carrot
                                Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.
                                There's no such thing as too much candy.
                                All work and no play can make you a basket case.
                                A cute little tail attracts a lot of attention.
                                Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day.
                                Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.
                                Some body parts should be floppy.
                                Keep your paws off other people's jelly beans.
                                Good things come in small sugar-coated packages.
                                The grass is always greener in someone else's basket.
                                An Easter bonnet can tame even the wildest hare.
                                To show your true colors you have to come out of your shell! 

                                                                                                    ~ Author Unknown

It’s Easter Sunday!

He Is Risen Easter Card

Happy Easter everyone! Here is a beautiful Easter card I received the other day IN THE MAIL from my friend Nona. Just the other day I was talking about how nice it used to be in the "olden days" to get real mail…cards and letters…from friends and famiily.  It really is a treat!  She used the beautiful Sale-A-Bration paper, Everyday Enchantment, the Triple Treat Flower single stamp, and the Easter Dove single stamp. The flower stamp is available in the main catalog and the dove stamp in the Occasions Mini Catalog.

And I was also lucky enough to receive this Easter card from my friend Sally.

Easter Card with Bunny

I love the beautiful spring colors together and the cute little bunny, not to mention the sentiment, of course. It really makes you feel the spring season.

Have a wonderful Easter!

Punch Art Bunny Tails Easter Favor Treat Bag

Punch Art Bunny Tails Easter Favor Treat Bag

If you need just a simple little cute Easter treat with a bunny on it, this is it!  I saw this on Pinterest and remade it with Stampin' Up! supplies, of course! I think it would be cuter with little white marshmallows in the bag, but I didn't have any in the pantry so I used little white robin's egg Easter candy instead.

There is still time to make some Easter treats while you are waiting for the bunny to come!  Get out some punches and Whisper White card stock and punch away! It's really fun to make little Easter favors like this!

The top of the treat bag is die cut with the Big Shot Top Note die and folded in half.  The words are just hand-written with a Stampin' Write Marker and the little stitching accents are made with the Signo Gel Pen (just highlighting what is already scored on there from the Top Note Die).

I'm sure children would think it was fun to find a little treat bag made for them in their Easter Baskets!

Lattice Die Cut Easter Card

Lattice Die Cut Easter Card

The photo is a little blurry but I loved this Easter card made with the Lattice Die for the Big Shot that was on display at Stampin' Up! Leadership back in January. It also uses the single Easter Dove stamp #125455 in the Occasions Mini Catalog.  The little colored punched out flowers and stems and tiny butterfly, plus the little pearls just make this card so beautiful.

If you are making an Easter card, perhaps this will give you some inspiration!

Easter Duckie Punch Art Card Using Scraps

Easter Duckie Punch Art Card

Sometimes it is interesting where inspiration comes from. I got an email from a gourmet caramel apple company, and they had a little stuffed Easter duck perched on top of an apple with a cute printed bow in the back. It was so cute and I thought of the many punch art chicks and ducks I've seen….and the bow made me think of our new Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper.

When I pulled out my pack of paper, there was this scrap from cutting out a Framelits Die Label the other day.  I thought it would make a perfect frame. And that's where I started.

The Easter punch art duckie is made with these punches:

  • 1 3/4" Circle #119850
  • 1 3/8" Circle #119860 
  • Modern Label #119849 
  • Boho Blossoms #119858 
  • Bird Builder #117191 
  • 1/2" Circle #119869 
  • Circle in Itty Bitty Shapes #118309

Try your hand at some Stampin' Up! punch art!  Just have fun!