More Easter cards

 

This bunch of flowers is from the Spellbinders' kit called "Life is a Party", which was last June's kit of the month. I just got it recently just because of these flowers.  There are a couple of sprigs of greenery that were in my spare diecut cup, so in they went!  The sentiment is from Honeybee Stamps' "He is Risen" stamp set.

These butterflies are part of the "Celebrate Spring" card kit. They are very dimensional, and made from stiff plastic so they will stand up to the mail. Here's an angle shot to show how fluffed up the wings are.

This last one is a combination of an embossing folder, premade diecuts, and another sentiment from the Honeybee Stamps set which is fussy cut. Of course the inside reads "He is risen, indeed! Alleluia!"

Still celebrating spring

 

Keeping it simple here with the Spellbinders' small die of the month called "Spring Flower Card Creator". The die comes with connectors to make a square or rectangular frame. After working with the clover vine frame, I have had it with lining things up so precisely for a while, anyway.  This one I kept very simple with corner pieces and a simple sentiment.

And then there are more from the Spellbinders' Celebrate Spring card kit.

I had one more bunny created and plenty of stacked flowers, so why not?

And last, for today at least, is this simple interior window scene with the cute squirrel portrait. 

For the record, I dropped as many of those faceted "jewels" on the floor as I got on the card. They really didn't want to come off their backing with the glue dot, so when they did, they bolted for it!  I probably shouldn't admit it, but I haven't cleaned the floor under my craft desk since the pandemic began. Maybe when my feet start sticking to the floor?

Celebrate Spring -- variations on a bunny theme

 I'm doing Easter cards, and I'm loving this bunny from the March Spellbinders' Celebrate Spring card kit.  I will be giving most of these to my friend who has been providing me with little cartons of milk throughout the pandemic. 

This is as close as it gets to a production line for me. As much as I love these guys, I think I'm almost done with them. Probably.

If I were doing this one again I'd put some velum behind the bunny to tone down the flowers a little.

 

Spellbinders' Let Your Heart Soar, 11 more

 

Sure, so my challenge to myself is to use my subscription kits before the next month's kit arrives on the doorstep. I totally missed doing the January kit, but in my defense it arrived quite late in the month. We'll blame China since they are always a good scapegoat. 

Anyway, I decided with this kit to see how much of it I could use up. I've done 21 cards with this kit and I'm down to 3, maybe 4 good diecuts,  sticker butterflies, and a few puffy stickers and quite a few of the chipboard frames. I'm not entirely done, but I'll be good and tired of it pretty soon. 

For this card, above, I used a border die from last year with the "thank you" cut out of it, from some of the thin patterned paper.  I would like to thank Tina at Cards and Coffee Time for the idea of adding antennae with thin strips of card stock. It makes a world of difference for some of these pretty moths. The puffy stickers had them, so why not the chipboard ones? 

On some of the dimensional stickers, I took out some of the foam sticker layers to make them less tall. For example, this plane was up on a foam dot, the trailing flag was up on another, and the little star circle was up on another. Too much!!  

On the card below, I left the layers in the flower dimensional sticker, but honestly it might require a bigger envelope or another stamp.

For the card above, I used the stamp set and colored a bird with my Polychromos colored pencils. Also, I stamped the card front with a script stamp in Versamark and then clear embossed it.  Who knew Versamark could stay wet enough to stick embossing powder hours later?

Look at the difference the antennae make on the moths.