I’ve been wanting to play with this new stamp set in the Spring Mini for a while now and finally, I got my chance to make this Friends of the Forest Bunnies Hello Card! I didn’t “plan” it very well, actually, in making it. I stamped the tree knowing I would cut it out, but I stamped the bunnies directly on the card front hoping it would all work out in the end! That’s the fun of it sometimes!
The card base is Pool Party, one of my favorite colors. I thought a square card would suit the little scene I planned to make so the card base is 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″. The Basic White cardstock layer is 4″ x 4″. All this card takes is some stamping and some coloring and it’s not that complicated even though it may look tedious! It’s all in what you enjoy!
The stamps are in the Friends of the Forest Stamp Set in the January-June 2022 Spring Mini Catalog on page 19. It’s not a stamp set with a lot of fanfare except for the Deer Punch coordinating with the deer stamp. No dies, no matching designer paper, but maybe that’s why the set appealed to me besides the cute forest animals! Just simple stamping.
I stamped the tree with Memento Ink on Basic White and colored it in with Stampin’ Blends. The trunk and branches are colored with Light and Dark Soft Suede and the leaves with Light and Dark Granny Apple Green plus a bit of Light Mossy Meadow. You might think “Oh, I can’t color all those leaves!” but I just dabbed each one with some green, scattered around so there would be the different shades of green in the leaves. Don’t worry about perfection or staying in the lines. Just hit each one with a bit of green! I cut out the tree with Paper Snips, again not being perfect with the leaves, just wiggling my scissors around the edge going in and out the tiniest bit.
The bunnies would be fun to cut out but I just took a chance and stamped them on the card where I thought I wanted them to be. Two are colored with a Light and Dark Gray Granite and the other one with one of the new Natural Tones Blends, #500 plus a little shading with Light Soft Suede. The insides of the ears are pink. The tree stump is Dark Soft Suede. I also stamped the grass, flowers, and mushroom stamp several times and colored those in. But I needed more grass so I just drew in little sprigs of grass with two shades of the Granny Apple Green and then the Dark Mossy Meadow Blend. They are just little lines and squiggles, no big deal.
I couldn’t leave the background just white, so I just squiggled in sky with the Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend. It’s fine if some white shows because that’s how skies look. Just squiggle in the color with the side of the marker here and there and don’t worry about it. You can fill in more if you want and it will dry lighter.
Since I didn’t have much space, I stamped the “hello” greeting directly on the front of the card. This word is in the Hello Ladybug Stamp Set. Had I messed it up, I would have stamped it on a small die-cut or rectangle and placed that over the boo-boo! There is always a way to fix your stamping! As I was getting ready to photograph my card, I noticed two little die-cut clouds from the Brilliant Rainbow Dies so I adhered those in the sky.
My Friends of the Forest Bunnies Hello Card is just a fun little springtime card that I could also use for Easter. Go take a look at this stamp set if you’ve missed it in the Spring Mini and see if you “need it” in your “collection”!