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Arrange a Wreath Easter Card

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Arrange a Wreath Easter Card

This Arrange A Wreath Easter Card uses several products, unfortunately, from the Stampin’ Up! Last-Chance List. Every year we go through this with a bit of excitement and a bit of nostalgia. We wonder what will be retiring and then we groan when our favorites are on the list! It’s really kind of funny after you have been through it many times! And then when the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog comes out we’re all excited about the new products and almost forget about what retired! Yet there are always those products that we each must have in our stash, whether they have been around for awhile or maybe only a year or two.

Easter is coming next weekend so be sure you are ready for the Easter Bunny! Make some Easter cards to send and get them in the mail! If you already have the Arrange a Wreath Bundle, you can make some very pretty cards for Spring and Easter. This Bundle is good for all seasons, actually. I really wish it was not retiring yet! However, on this card, I just used the Wreath Builder Dies. The stamp set, dies, and Bundle are all backordered as I write this. Hopefully, they will be back in stock soon!

Another product retiring, that I just purchased, is the Playing With Patterns Designer Series Paper. These are 6″ x 6″ papers with such colorful and happy colors and patterns! I can’t believe I didn’t have it before now. There were several papers that I could have used for a background for this Easter card, but I chose this Calypso Coral paper with white dots and layered it on top of Basic White cardstock to brighten it up. The card base is Calypso Coral.

The wreath is one of two choices in leafy wreaths in the die set. And then you get all kinds of dies to add elements to your wreath. I chose the wreath with the small sprigs of leaves and decorated it with colored die-cut eggs and flowers along with the die-cut bow in the Wreath Builder Dies. For flower centers, I used the Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. I have used these a lot because Gold Glitter goes with a lot of things especially since they come in different sizes of dots. These dots are also retiring soon so get them while you can!

I actually forgot about the matching Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set, so I used the Easter greeting in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. ALL the Itty Bitty Stamp sets are retiring, which really upsets me because I used all the Itty Bitty stamp sets a lot. You can find just about any greeting you could need in one of these sets! If you don’t have them, be sure to check them out in case you “need” them! The greeting is stamped in Calypso Coral Ink and punched out with the Classic Label Punch. Can we really live without this basic punch??! It was just perfect with the Itty Bitty greetings and many others.

Check out the Last-Chance Products List and Sale. The Classic Label Punch is even on sale, but is backordered. All of these products are available while supplies last.

The easiest way to see what is still available is just to go to the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and shop there. If you already have the Arrange a Wreath Bundle or dies, make a card for a friend or neighbor for Easter like this Arrange A Wreath Easter Card. You can even add a bunny if you want!

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Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket

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Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket

This Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket Easter card came out of planning to make a monochromatic or almost monochromatic card like one I made a previous year that turned out cute! Only the background turned out to be monochromatic! But it is fun to make a stamped background! Just some good old stamping that feels good in your hand!

The card base is Crumb Cake Cardstock with a layer of Petal Pink. The top layer is Shimmery White Cardstock. I stamped the Easter basket in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set randomly on the piece of Shimmery White with Crumb Cake ink. The Shimmery White has just a very subtle shimmer to it which makes it so elegant and beautiful (but difficult to photograph!).

The bunny and the Easter basket in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set are both stamped on Shimmery White and then cut out with Paper Snips scissors by hand! Then they were adhered to a die-cut piece of Shimmery White, cut out with the Stitched Shapes Dies. These dies are on the Last-Chance List which makes me sad because they have been some of my favorite and most used dies. They are just basic shapes you can use over and over but the little stitching around the edge really adds a nice touch. Plus they can be layered on other die-cuts. In this case the Stitched Shapes circle is layered on a Layering Circles scalloped die-cut. (The Layering Ovals and Layering Squares Dies are both retiring!)

The bunny and basket are both popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. They are colored in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. Some Stampin’ Blends colors are retiring as well! Crazy! The bow is tied with the Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon.

If you really wanted to make a monochromatic Easter card, here is one I made last year all in Highland Heather Ink.

On the inside of the card, I added a Shimmery White piece of cardstock with the Easter greeting stamped in Crumb Cake from the stamp set, plus the Easter basket in the bottom corner.

Be sure to check out the list of retiring Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog products. Some are discounted but not everything. Bundles are not carried over at the Bundle price with the 10% off price, but some Bundle items are carried over to the new catalog separately. There will be new Bundles in the new catalog! A few products are not really going away, such as the Tear & Tape Adhesive, but are being “reconfigured”. The embossing powders are not going away but will be packaged in sets of three colors.

It’s time to make Easter cards so I hope this Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket card will give you some inspiration.

Last-Chance Products Sale HERE!

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Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card

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Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card

There are so many pretty cards you can make with this die-cut wreath including a card like this Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card. You can use this wreath and the other design that comes in the set as well to make all kinds of cards for many occasions. I love adding the Easter bunny and his basket of eggs to the wreath!

The die-cut wreath is made with the Wreath Builder Dies. I die cut two wreaths, one out of Pear Pizzazz and one out of Soft Sea Foam for a lighter color. You can use just one wreath but I think two look more interesting. Just glue one on top of the other, however you would like to place it, and then adhere to the card front.

The card base is Pear Pizzazz with a layer of Shimmery White Cardstock. I thought the background needed a little something, so I embossed it with the Ornate 3D Floral Embossing Folder. I think it adds a nice background without being too much.

The Easter bunny and basket, from the Springtime Joy Stamp Set, are stamped on Shimmery White with Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. I then cut out each by hand. To get your scissors inside the handle of the basket, you can punch a hole or maybe a couple of holes carefully which might work better than trying to stab the point of your scissors into the cardstock! I just used Multipurpose Liquid Glue for everything, although you could pop some things up with Stampin’ Dimensionals if you wanted to.

I also added a bow with the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon and adhered it with Mini Glue Dots. There is also a die for a bow to hang on the wreath, but I preferred a real bow. For the greeting, I stamped one in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and made a tiny tag out of it to tie on behind the bow. You can even cheat and add Glue Dots behind a little tag like this to hold it in exactly the position you want it or even behind ribbon tails or bow loops to keep them where you want them!

Here is another card I made for fall die-cutting one each of both the wreath designs on one card!

Easter is in two weeks from yesterday so it’s time to make Easter and Spring cards if you want to send them.

Shop the Last-Chance Products Sale March 24 – May 3 on select, retiring Annual Catalog products! Be ready!

(Sale probably begins at 1:00 PM Mountain Time, 2:00 PM Central Time when the Retiring List is released. Stay tuned!)

Altered Spring Lamb Gift Bag

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Altered Spring Lamb Gift Bag

Something I think is fun to do is to take a shopping bag you got at a store and turn it into a gift bag, like this Altered Spring Lamb Gift Bag. The other day when I was cleaning out my “bag of bags”, I came across this small kraft shopping bag I got at one of my favorite gift shops. This bag is about 6″ x 7″ which was perfect for adding this stamped panel to the front of the bag! Even if the bag has printing, such as the name of the store or company, just cover it up with your stamping elements.

This bag already had the white border line around the bag with the store name printed in the middle. This was the perfect size to add my stamped decoration for the front of the bag and turn it into a spring gift bag, maybe for Easter

It was really like making a card, I just made the piece to fit the front area of the bag. The lamb is from the Springtime Joy Stamp Set, very popular right now with Easter coming up soon! The lamb is stamped in Memento Black Ink so I could color him with Stampin’ Blends Markers.

When I looked at the greetings in the stamp set, it seemed I should place the lamb off to the side and put the greeting, layered, right there on the other side. I wanted the lamb to be white, but I used the Light Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blend to just add a bit of color by the fluffs of wool and here and there. Then I also colored the flowers and leaves.

The greeting is stamped and then die-cut with a die in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. For the layers underneath I just cut out rectangles with my Paper Trimmer.

For embellishments, I stamped a butterfly off to the side of the lamb and colored it with Stampin’ Blends. I also stamped the basket of eggs, colored it, and then cut out with Paper Snips. I decided not to pop it up with Dimensionals and just glued it down flat next to the lamb. Also, that little chick is so cute, I stamped, colored and cut him out and glued him down at the corner of the greeting. Now after all this, if you get a smudge of ink on your work, just add another butterfly to cover it up!

The whole decorative piece is layered on Blushing Bride and then Pear Pizzazz Cardstock. It is centered inside that white border line and looks perfect on this shopping bag turned into a gift bag! You can do this for any occasion! If you don’t have a cute little shopping bag, you can purchase plain bags at the craft store and decorate those. This is especially fun (and useful!) to do before Christmas so you have plenty of gift bags ready for gift wrapping like this Christmas bag.

Look through your bags and see if you have some shopping bags you can alter for whatever occasion you need like this Altered Spring Lamb Gift Bag I did using the Springtime Joy Stamp Set, perfect for a small Easter treat or gift!

Trio of Bunnies Easter Card

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Trio of Bunnies Easter Card

Here’s a Trio of Bunnies Easter Card, three little bunnies just waiting for Easter! They are just waiting in the grass, next to some tulips, thinking about spring!

The card base is Pool Party Cardstock with a layer of Blushing Bride Cardstock. I like these two colors together for spring, for softness, and for prettiness! The top layer is Basic White Cardstock, stamped with the bunnies from the Springtime Joy Stamp Set, a couple of tulips, and a small butterfly all in Memento Black Ink.

The bunnies, tulips, and butterfly were colored in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I had colored in some grass and even some sprigs of grass, but then I got the idea to cut a piece of green designer paper of some sort for the bottom border of the card to look like grass. I looked through my designer papers and ended up choosing this pattern from the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper. There are several you could choose from. I also colored in the background of the sky behind the bunnies with the Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend.

I usually like to cover a “seam” or where a piece of designer paper ends on a piece of cardstock with a piece of ribbon or another strip of paper. On this card, I used a piece of Mossy Meadow 3/16″ Braided Linen Trim across the top of the designer paper and tied two knots along the trim.

The greeting is from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. You can find almost anything you need in all of the “Itty Bitty” stamp sets! I love them! I punched it out with the Classic Label Punch. It was a good size for this card! It is popped up with a small Foam Adhesive Strip. These are just like Stampin’ Dimensionals except they are strips. Sometimes you use them in the same way as Dimensionals and sometimes they are used for special projects like shaker cards.

For one more little touch, I added some Artistry Blooms Adhesive-Backed Sequins in the background. I could have added an Easter Basket for at least one bunny to hold, but I wasn’t thinking about that when I made the card so I think it is fine the way it is. I could have also used the “Welcome Spring” greeting in the stamp set.

You will find a lot of uses for this cute Springtime Joy Stamp Set!

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Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card

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Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card

I am really falling in love with this spring stamp set and enjoyed this making this Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card. Yes, Easter is right around the corner so it’s time to make cards!

Be sure to check out this Springtime Joy Stamp Set in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog (Spring Mini)! You might miss it because it’s “just” a stamp set! No Suite, no Bundle, no dies, no embellishments, just a stamp set! Like in the olden days! You’ll find it on page 22.

I wanted to make a card with the lamb in the stamp set and this is what I came up with! The card base is Melon Mambo, a color I haven’t used in awhile somehow. It has a layer of Blushing Bride Cardstock on which I stamped tulips in the same color ink, Blushing Bride.

The lamb is stamped with Memento Ink on Basic White Cardstock. I die-cut the lamb with this die in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I started off just coloring the lamb image with Stampin’ Blends, using the lightest gray just around the lamb for a little definition around the flowers, around her face, and around the fluffs of wool on the body. The crown of flowers is colored with Melon Mambo and Flirty Flamingo and the leaves with Granny Apple Green. But I couldn’t stop! I added some grass under the lamb and then, of course, I had to have some sky with Pool Party! Just kind of scribble little scribbles if you are coloring in a larger area.

This lamb piece is layered on a scalloped rectangle of Melon Mambo, also die-cut from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I popped this up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is also in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set. It is stamped in Blushing Bride Ink and die-cut with a banner in the Tasteful Labels Dies. It is popped up on Dimensionals, too.

For the inside of the card, I adhered a layer of Basic White since the Melon Mambo is a little dark. It is stamped with the Easter greeting in the stamp set and a little tulip in the lower right corner.

For another idea, here is a card I made with the cute bunny in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set. Oddly enough, I also stamped the tulips in the background on that card, too! I was almost copying myself and didn’t know it!

If you plan to make spring and Easter cards, consider the Springtime Joy Stamp Set and make a card like my Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card.

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Welcome Spring Bunny Card

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Welcome Spring Bunny Card

With all the snow, ice, and cold weather, not just in Texas but all over the country, I thought it was time to think about spring! Tulips, bunnies, and a basket of eggs – that says spring quite well, I think!

I pulled out the Springtime Joy Stamp Set which is in the Spring Mini Catalog. It’s not part of a Bundle or anything, just a simple stamp set, so don’t miss it! It’s perfect for spring and Easter and other occasions.

I often like to stamp randomly on the cardstock to make a background myself rather than use designer paper so I stamped all over the background with the tulip stamp in Memento Ink and then colored in the tulips with Stampin’ Blends. I used Flirty Flamingo and Granny Apple Green for the tulips with a bit of Daffodil Delight on the green leaves.

The card base is Granny Apple Green with a Flirty Flamingo layer. The way I made this big color decision was when I pulled out the cardstock, these two colors were right next to each other! I thought it looked springy and bright so used them!

The bunny and the basket were stamped on a piece of Basic White Cardstock. I played around with various dies until I found something that fit around the bunny and could have a layer behind it. I chose these rectangles in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies to cut out the bunny and then to make a Granny Apple Green layer. I cut the basket of eggs out separately with my Paper Snips and popped it up like the bunny is holding the basket. The eggs were colored with Pool Party, Balmy Blue, and a bit of light pink.

The greeting is stamped with the spring sentiment in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set and then layered on a die-cut piece of Granny Apple Green. Here is another way I used the bunny in this stamp set by placing it on a gift bag.

If you purchase this stamp set early, you will have time to use it for spring and Easter, but the darling bunny and lamb could be used for baby cards and projects, also.

Although I found the winter weather we finally had in Houston after several years to be a little exciting and I’m always happy to see snow as long as my family and I are at home, I think we are all reaching our limit with this winter storm with power outages and such low water pressure you barely have water! Usually winter in Houston lasts one day but this one is something else! Time to think about spring! If you are snowed in, maybe it is time to make something for spring similar to this Welcome Spring Bunny Card.

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Springtime Joy Gift Bag

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Springtime Joy Gift Bag

Spring will be coming even though many places are in the midst of a very cold winter right now, so I combined hydrangeas and a bunny for spring in this Springtime Joy Gift Bag. This would be cute for Easter treats or a gift or for Mother’s Day in May or any other time!

I started off wanting to make this gift bag with the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper just as you see, with the border of hydrangeas at the bottom of the bag with room in the plain area for a greeting or whatever I would come up with. I wanted to use that sheet that has the borders of hydrangeas at the top and bottom. Shortly, I realized that if i scored the paper like normal, most of the hydrangea images would end up at flaps at the bottom of the gift bag! So I had to engineer an extra piece of cardstock at the bottom to make the bottom flaps without cutting into the hydrangeas!

I did a little math and added on a 12″ strip of Old Olive cardstock to the bottom of the hydrangea piece.

Springtime Joy Gift Bag Inside Scoring

To make this gift bag, I cut the designer paper at 6 3/4″ x 12″. Make sure your hydrangeas are where you want them before you cut! The Old Olive piece is 2 1/4″ x 12″. I adhered just 1/2″ of the Old Olive to the designer paper because I wanted 1 3/4″ to be the bottom of the gift bag.

Score the bag and Old Olive piece at 1 3/4″, 5 1/2″, 7 1/4″, and 11″. Then turn the paper and score the Old Olive portion at 1 3/4″ and 8″. This gives a 1/2″ lip at the top of the bag I folded over to show the inside color of the bag for contrast.

Springtime Joy Gift Bag Outside Scoring

Cut up from the bottom on all the scored lines up to the edge of the designer paper. Normally this would all be the same paper, of course! Then cut off just the little narrow piece of the Old Olive as shown in the photos above.

Next, crease all the score lines, fold and assemble. Put some adhesive on that narrow side about the cut-off piece and fold the other side over to make the seam. Form into a box shape and fold in the flaps at the bottom, applying as much adhesive as you think necessary to close the bottom of the bag. Reach in from the top of the bag with a ruler or bone folder to press down from the inside on those bottom tabs to make sure everything is stuck together well.

Once you have the bag made, you can embellish however you like. You can even punch some holes in the top and tie ribbon through to hold the bag closed. Just pinch in the sides a little to get the top to close. But on my bag, I just tied a separate bow and adhered it with a couple of Mini Glue Dots.

The little bunny is from the cute spring stamp set, Springtime Joy. You’ll find it in the Spring Mini Catalog on page 22. I stamped the little bunny (the lamb was too big!) in Memento Ink and colored in with several Stampin’ Blends markers. For the bunny, I just used the light and dark Smokey Slate plus a little Crumb Cake and then pink and purple flowers for the little crown. I die cut the bunny with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I wanted a layer underneath it so I just cut a Rococo Rose rectangle to fit underneath and with my Paper Snips, cut those curved corners after I adhered the two pieces together. I popped up the bunny with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is from the same Springtime Joy Stamp Set and stamped in Rococo Rose Ink to match the paper.

I think it’s a cute little bag, a relatively easy gift bag to make. You’ve probably made one just the same way. With the rest of that same sheet of hydrangea paper, check out the cards I made in this post. It would have been nice if the cards fit in the bag, and I could have made them smaller, but I just made regular size cards as a separate project! I can use this little bag as a decoration around Easter time or as a gift! Just think of this Springtime Joy Gift Bag filled with chocolate Easter eggs or a chocolate bunny!

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Easy Easter Candy Treats

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Easy Easter Candy Treats

If you want to make some last-minute Easy Easter Candy Treats, these will work! These are quick and simple and you can vary the size according to the candy treat you have to put inside. You could even not cut an opening in the front and just decorate the front for the occasion and tuck your candy treat inside. You can make these taller or wider.

These candy treat holders are 2″ x 8 1/2″ to start with but depending on your candy, you can cut them down a little shorter. The 2″ width is so the piece of cardstock will fit into the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Cut the 2″ x 8 1/2″ strip of cardstock and punch each end in the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Then place one end at the 3 3/4″ inch mark on the Paper Trimmer and score, then turn and place the other end at the 3 3/4″ mark and score. That gives you the little space in which to place your candy treat.

Before you put the candy inside, decide if you want a different color background inside. The Daffodil Yellow treat holder has a Whisper White piece stamped with the little green leaves in Welcome Easter, although you really can’t see them! The Melon Mambo treat holder doesn’t have an inside layer. However, on that one, I stamped the little flowers in the Welcome Easter Stamp Set on the front. The greeting is stamped from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and punched out with the handy dandy Classic Label Punch. To decorate the Daffodil Delight holder, I just added some small Rhinestone Jewels.

I didn’t have any exciting Easter candy but these little chocolate bunnies which are pretty flat fit in just fine. So if you had a larger chocolate bunny, for example, you probably would need to make the base wider and therefore the strip longer in the beginning. Then you can die-cut or punch some kind of opening in the front. Just add a ribbon to tie the top together and you’re done!

Sometimes you need to give credit where credit is due so I must give credit to myself! I made a similar Easter treat last year but I had a cuter piece of candy to put inside! You can see that post HERE.

None of us will be having big family Easter dinners this year, so it would be easy to make one of these Easter candy treats to put at each place at the table for you and your spouse, or children, or whoever you are living with during this quarantine time.

Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card

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Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card

Today I needed to make an Easter card for my son that was a little less frilly than the ones I already made and I had something in mind, but not this Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card. But once I started looking at my designer papers for the one I was going to use, I saw this Garden Lane Designer Series Paper and I thought that leafy pattern would go well with a bunny!

The card base is Garden Green but there are other greens that go with the paper. For the scalloped Layering Circle Die underneath the bunny, I chose Pool Party because it looked like it matched the bluish leaves a little bit.

The bunny from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set is stamped in Memento Ink and die cut with the Stitched Shapes Die. Then I had fun coloring him in with Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends.

The Easter greeting is from the same Welcome Easter Stamp Set and is just stamped on a strip of Whisper White. The bunny and the greeting are both popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

That’s all there is to this card! The Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card is an easy and fun card to make!

Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter

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Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter

It’s been a long time since I have made a diorama card but it was fun to make this Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter. Diorama cards can be made in different ways, even fancier than this one. A diorama card is a 3D card with an opening on the front layer that lets you see a scene of any kind on the inside. Sometimes there is even a middle layer. But let’s start with this one!

You just need two pieces of cardstock, each piece 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. I chose Pool Party for my front piece and Whisper White for the back. On each piece, score 1/2″ and 1″ from each end.

Diorama Easter card diagram

Then you will crease those score lines so that your card front pushes out and the back piece pushes back. You can see which way these score lines go from this top view of the diorama card.

Diorama Card Top View

Now you will stamp or decorate that back piece before you assemble the card. But when you are ready to adhere the two pieces of the card together, use something like Tear & Tape Adhesive or Multipurpose Liquid Glue. All you have to do is adhere that end 1/2″ on the front and the back piece together.

For my Easter diorama card, I used the Welcome Easter Stamp Set. I stamped the three little characters, colored them with Stampin’ Blends, and cut them out with my Paper Snips. I also used the Happy Easter greeting stamped in Pool Party from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set.

On the front of the card in the center area, I die cut with a Layering Ovals die. You could use a circle die, punch, square, whatever you like. I played around with the placement of the bunny, chick, and lamb before adhering the two pieces together. You want to make sure that you can see what you want to see well enough.

You want to think about the background. I stamped a few leafy boughs from the Path of Petals Stamp Set. I didn’t want the rest of the background to just be white so I colored in lightly, just with kind of a scribble motion with a Pool Party Stampin’ Blend marker. And I drew in some sprigs of grass at the bottom.

The lamb and the chick are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals to give a little dimension inside the card. The bunny is also popped up on a dimensional on the front corner. I still thought the card needed a little something so I used some Iridescent Sequins on the inside and even the outside. Once I added the sequins, I was happy with the card!

Now the amazing part of this card is that you can fold it flat and it is the size of a normal card! It will fit in an envelope and can be mailed!

As I’ve said before, you can use the Welcome Easter Stamp Set to make baby cards with these cute images! You could change the greeting on this Easter card and make it one for a baby, like one that comes in the stamp set.

Here is another example of a diorama card that I made years ago, an oldie but goodie!

Easter is coming soon so try your hand at this Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter because it is easy enough to make and will the recipient feel like someone special!

Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper

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Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil

This Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper is one of those cards for which I didn’t really have a design in mind until I made it but I knew what kind of paper I wanted to use. After it all came together I really loved it! I think I will make some more cards just like this one to send for Easter. And Easter isn’t far off!

I was seeing the Noble Peacock Specialty Designer Series Paper being used on some cards and it jogged my memory about having that paper! I have barely used it even though it is beautiful paper! I think products in the Annual Catalog get forgotten sometimes when we are mostly looking at the Mini Catalogs!

One of the coordinating colors with the Noble Peacock paper is Old Olive so I chose that for my card base. Then I just adhered the designer paper on the card base.

The bunny is from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set and is stamped in Memento Ink. Then I colored him with my Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blends and a little bit of Flirty Flamingo for his ears, nose, and bottom of his feet. I even drew in some sprigs of grass with Old Olive.

The bunny was die cut with one of my favorite dies of all time, the Stitched Shapes Dies. Then in deciding what color and size scalloped circle to use as a layer under the bunny, I die cut one in Petal Pink Cardstock and one in White Glimmer Paper. As I layered them to see what size I wanted, I saw that both layers looked good together! I love the little bit of pink around the edge and the pretty glimmer paper bringing another texture.

Since I had just received some back-ordered ribbon, the Petal Pink 1/4″Metallic Edge Ribbon, I used that underneath the bunny and popped it all up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting was stamped on a narrow scrap I had of Whisper White and I just cut the flagged ends.

Such a simple card, fun to make, and beautiful! Here is a similar card but with a monochromatic design for Easter. Try your hand at either one of these cards and send them out for Easter or just for spring or to say hello. If you have it, dig in your stash for the fancy-looking Noble Foil Paper to make this Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper.

Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box

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Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box

Which do you like better, the Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box or the chocolate bunnies?! Luckily, they go together so you can like both and not choose! Any time you need a quick and easy treat box, you can turn to the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog!

I intentionally made this Easter treat super simple. You can decorate these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes in many ways, of course. I started with the bunny in the Welcome Easter Stamp Set. It is stamped in Memento Ink and colored in with a Light Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend marker and a bit of the Dark for shading. For the little bit of pink in his ears and bottom of his feet, I used a Light Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blend Marker.

Since the area on the front of the Tiny Treat Box is fairly small, I just cut out the bunny by hand. I wrapped around a 3/4″ strip of Seaside Spray Cardstock, one of the current In Colors, around the box. If you put the ends of the strip on the front of the box, the junction of those paper ends will be covered up by the image you put on the front of the box. You could also use ribbon, but since I was going to tie ribbon around the top of the box, I just used cardstock. You could also use some pretty border dies to die cut a strip going around the box. You can apply a little bit of Snail Adhesive to hold the strip in place. Then the bunny is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals on the center of the box front.

Be sure to fill the box first with candy treats or a small gift and then tie with a ribbon. This is decorative plus holds the lid of the box closed for sure. The ribbon I used is the Seaside Spray 1/2″ Scalloped Linen Ribbon. It is very pretty with the linen and the light blue! I just tied it around in a bow. You could also adhere just the ribbon and then tie a bow separately to adhere to the top of the box if you wanted the bow closer to perfect.

Here is a very similar design with a Clear Tiny Treat Box that I made for Halloween using a strip of designer paper around the box and a Halloween image cut out from designer paper with a ribbon tied around the box.

That’s all there is to it! You could also stamp a “Happy Easter” greeting or a “Happy Spring” greeting. Maybe it would be a party favor at a baby shower and that would be cute with the bunny! Keep a stash of these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on hand to use for quick treats or gifts or order a quantity for a party or event. For a treat or even a little home decoration, try this Easter Bunny Clear Tiny Treat Box for this spring or Easter!

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