Some bunny loves you!

 You know what stinks? Having your card returned to you for insufficient postage which means it didn't get there in time, 😞 I knew better, but carelessly put the wrong stamp on the envelope. Meanwhile, to make this less of a downer, watch the very short video of what I put inside the envelope which prompted the necessity for extra postage. Hope you laugh along with me!

well, sorry the video won't show up but you can go here to see it.



Linking my card up to Paint Party Friday!

And if you are feeling particularly generous and just want to make my day then you could go leave me a comment over on the StencilGirl blog because I posted this dreamcatcher art journal page over there. Comments sure are nice here on my blog but it makes me smile to get comments over on a manufacturers page, lol Insecurity strikes us all doesn't it?

Egg-stra special card

I've had plenty of cards published before so why is this card egg-stra special to me?

That's because the image is hand drawn...yep, that's MY artwork on this card!

Pretty nifty, eh?

The Buckle Boutique bunny box and gift bag!

Oh. My. Cuteness.

Feast your eyes on this adorably blinged out Easter bunny!!!!
It was so easy to do since the rhinestone sheets are self adhesive!

I had so much fun using my punch that I punched out some matching rhinestones to adorn the butterfly tag that came with the gift bag.

And it was super easy to cut a strip of green rhinestones to trim the bag with! 

How easy to jazz the simple bag up!!

I just loooooooooooveeeeeeeee how she turned out!!

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Happy Easter!

There is no Sundays with Sandee today, I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. This is my big bunny head that I made about 6 years ago, and I revamped it a little this spring with a new paint job and some fresh flowers. ♥ I love seasonal door decor!

I have been making little Easter treats for the ladies in my building for the last 3 years. There are 4 of us and I always sneak down the night before and put something out for them. This year I found these cute little Lindt chocolate bugs, so I hot glued them onto the flower stem that I created, hung a tag on it and taped it to their doorbell. They look so cute, it will be a shame when they take them inside, lol

After church, I am off today to go have Easter lunch with 2 of my art besties at the Arboretum and hopeful the weather is going to cooperate with us and give us a nice sunny spring day. Here's wishing you a wonderful Easter!

balneology: noun

the science of the therapeutic use of baths
( is this similiar to Calgon-ology? )

pronunciation
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Paper Playtime
come join us!!

Ch#7 Use a PUN
Begins: Mon, Apr 1

Ends: Sun, Apr 14

Prize $15 Gift Cert. from The Robin's Nest
and
My Craft Spot with a prize of Metal Dies or Stamp Set
 (winner's choice). WINNER MUST HAVE A USA ADDRESS

Winner announced in the WINNERS Page Tab

Here's what I created for this challenge:

 

 I think it makes a dino-mite Easter card for a little boy.

 

Cricut Craft Room - Create a Critter ( free cut )

Ranger - stickles

Faber Castell - PITT pens

DCWV - Glitter Stack

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots ( to lift the Easter egg up a little )

 

I can't wait to see what you come up with, after all PUNS are FUN! 

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Here is my Monday inspiration for the Frosted Designs challenge which started on March 29th, go check it out and play along with us, you still have plenty of time!

 

 My favorite part of the card are all the little stickle dots and doodling :) They make me happy!

CARDZ TV with Mary - stamp

Stazon - ink

Ranger - stickles, Liquid Pearls, Distress pen

My Little Shoebox - papers

 

Make a card, layout or off the page project with scallops on it and you can enter it into our challenge to be eligible for this prize!

Words or Whatever

 

This weeks Prize is 10 pieces of chipboard of your choice

There is some amazing chipboard designs, go over and check it out HERE

 

*PLEASE REMEMBER, WE ASK THAT YOU ONLY SUBMIT ONE PROJECT PER CHALLENGE! THANK YOU!* 

obviate: verb

to anticipate and prevent (as a situation)
or
make unnecessary (as an action)
pronunciation
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Happy Easter to everyone!
 

 

 

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Here are my Easter projects that I made for my friends and neighbors:

2 egg cartons filled with goodies for the elderly neighbor ladies who live below me.
And I made up a lot of Peep S'more's and handed them out to my friends, they get their's early since the Easter bunny has to hand deliver them! lol
 ( This Peep S'mores will be hung from the door knob for the girl who lives across from me along with the neighbor's below who get the egg cartons.The Easter bunny delivers theirs during the night for them to have a surprise in the morning !! )

I did change how I put the goodies inside the egg cartons, I like this much better than the orginal version. You can go to Try it on Tuesday to see the first version and you still have until April 8th to play along with our Recycle It challenge!

 

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Did you know that there is a PEEPS web page? HA!


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Yesterday I was asked by Winnie ( concerning my Art MoB 6 month recap  )
"Is the shop you sell for online as well so others can look and order from it as well?"

The answer is no. I chose to not do an Etsy shop because I want to obviate dealing with the Post Office on a regular basis. I love being in a shop where I can restock and then can walk away from it. I am lucky that I live in one of those tourist towns where there are a lot of people visiting the shop. ( excluding the months of January and February ).

If you are interested in the card recap, go here.
For the mixed media wall hanging recap, go here.
 

nascent: adjective

coming or having recently come into existence

pronunciation

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It's Tuesday and it's time for our new challenge which is:

 'Recycle It' 

Our challenge is to use old packages, plastic boxes string etc and upcycle them!!

Go check out what my fellow DT members created, I was blown away with their creativity!

 

 

I love this challenge! I have 2 little old ladies who live on the ground floor and I enjoy making then surprises to have. I took a half an egg carton and embellished it. First applying some coordinating pattern paper to cover the top.

 

 Little Scrap Pieces is having a challenge to use a hand made embellishment.

I made washi tape or faux ribbon, however you want to look at it, lol I took masking tape and laid it out on a piece of wax paper ( so it would lay flat to work on it, yet wouldn't stick ) Then I rubbed some Ranger Distress Stain on it and spritzed it with water. Then made faux stitching lines on it with a Distress Marker. Great way to trim the egg carton since it's tape.Added a small flower with a drop of Liquid Pearls to finish it off.

Tied it up with some scrumptious Really Reasonable Ribbon and filled it with fun Easter goodies...yum..snacked on a few of them myself ;)

Over at Anything but a Card they are asking you to create something Spring or Alice in Wonderland related, and this definitely falls into the spring category!

 

Our sponsor for this month's challenge is Craft-embellies with a  £10 store voucher.

( currency convertor )

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Name That Synonym:

 Fill in the blanks to create a synonym of "nascent":

  i_c_p_e_t

Answer found here...you didn't think I'd tell you, did you?

 

canorous: adjective

pleasant sounding : melodious

 

pronunciation

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entering this card in:

 

Cute Card Thrusday - Challenge 261 Easter Parade

Sparkles Monthly Challenge #42 - Birds

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Challenge #35 Bring on Spring

Card Makin' Mama's - It's Springtime

 

A little card I drew, I used water color paper and Faber Castell Aquarelle pencils to color in the back ground and the chick. Metallic grape Gelato for her hat and hand stitched some grass. Outlined everything with their PITT pen in black.

 

 

A close up shot of her little flower hat and the fuzzy brad! The Liquid Scrapdots really do help balance the brad "underworkings" ( for lack of a better word for the parts that poke through the paper ) I also think paper piecing adds a lot to a simple card too, do you?

I really do love dimension on a card, and haven't a clue why it makes me so happy?

 

Faber Castell - PITT pens, gelatos, Aquarelle pencils

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

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And here is Mother Nature's riposte concerning spring...one day of sunshine! woo hoo!! lol
I choose a more roseate outlook, no snow :)



grift: verb

to obtain (money) illicitly (as in a confidence game)

or

to acquire money or property illicitly

pronunciation

"Grift" was born in the argot of the underworld, a realm in which a "grifter" might be a pickpocket, a crooked gambler, or a confidence man—any criminal who relied on skill and wits rather than physical violence—and to be "on the grift" was to make a living by stings and clever thefts."
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Making a few tags for the store, my only Easter tag that I had in there, has already sold! I don't know why, but I am always humbled when they buy my tags :)

 

entering this in:

 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Easter/Spring

  Added dimension with the grass, love that my Liquid Scrapdots can equal the height of the bunny's tail :)

 

 

bunny, cotton ball - misc, from stash

Creative Imaginations - basket weave paper

Cricut - Happy Hauntings cartridge p. 67 ( grass )

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Prima - ( gem butterfly )

Heidi Swapp - bling ( eye )

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots, Gemstone Adhesive

Studio G - stamp

Sakura - Glaze pens

Honey Script - font

Ranger - Liquid Pearls

Stazon - ink
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Cath over at Moxie Fab has us all thinking about home decor projects.
 I took some tea light candles and wrapped some washi tape around them and then had tons of fun embellishing them. Warning here folks, this may become addictive. They are so cute and tiny! lol I can picture them in the guest bathroom or out on my balcony...either way I can't wait to make some more.

Spring Home Decor Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
also entering in
Anything But a Card - Challenge 15 Spring or Alice in Wonderland

Do make sure that anything you adhere to the tea lights is out of the way of the flame!!

Maya Road - Fabric Tape
Ranger - Tissue Tape
Recollections - flower
twine, button, fiber - misc
Helmar - 450 Adhesive



demotic: adjective

of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing

or

 common, popular

and

 of or relating to the form of Modern Greek that is based on everyday speech

pronunciation

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Yesterday was the second day of spring...huh? I woke up to this and thought I must be dreaming!

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entering this little bunny in:

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #107 Use a bunny

So do you eat the tail or the ears first?

Ears for me, lol...although I haven't had a chocolate bunnies in eons!

Cricut  Craft Room - Easter Seasonal 2010

( This was offered in the CCR as a free cut, made my base card shape and then the cover, and the bow )
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Inkspirational Challenge #12



I love having a sketch challenge and trying to come up with an alternate way to do it yet keep within the parameters of the sketch requirements. I was worried at first at the mono chromatic aspect to the challenge but once I began digging through my stash it all came together on it's own. I just love that!

I have used Liquid Scrapdots for many tiny things before but I think this little bee that I fussy cut out is the tiniest of them all!

ANOTHER reason I love Liquid Scrapdots is the layering effect. I know that twine and burlap aren't that thick, but when you want your die cut to "float" equal to the material; it sure makes that feat possible with Liquid Scrapdots. With pop dots, you have a height you cannot manipulate, but with LSD, anything is possible! I used the LSD under the flower and under the top portion of the clay pot.

American Crafts - pattern paper
Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination cartridge, p. 80 ( tag )
Close to my Heart - ink marker
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Hemp ribbon ( bow )
Prima - flower ribbon
Helmar - 450, Liquid scrapdots
K&Co. - Gem
Ranger - Liquid Pearls
rub on sentiment,twine, clay pot, glitter flower, burlap - misc.

Reminder: Paper Playtime has their Challenge #6 to Use a Bee up an running.

fetter: noun

 a chain or shackle for the feet

or

 something that confines : restraint

 

 pronunciation

 

I am looking forward to freeing myself from the fetters of making Mother's Day cards!

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#29 of 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days

( almost finished, working on the display for them now!! )

 

 

Cricut - Don Juan cartridge, p. 57 ( stitched )

Traveling Typewriter - font

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I always like to add seasonal birthday cards into the regular birthday cards that I sell on a regular basis, so I made this one and am entering it into:

Bitten by the Bug - Egg~ceptional Easter Egg challenge

Cricut - Paisley cartridge, p. 40 (butterfly)
Cricut Craft Room - Easter Seasonal cartridge
 ( to create base card and then card front and base )
Ranger - stickles
Making Memories - rub on sentiment
 

Relict: noun

a surviving species of an otherwise extinct group of organisms; also : a remnant of a formerly widespread species that persists in an isolated area

or

something left unchanged

pronunciation

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Still using Rangers Spring Pallette colors:

Distress Stain, Peeled Paint

Dylusions, lemon zest, vibrant turquoise

Used my Distress Marker, antique linen dipped in Distress Stain, vintage photo for the cross ( love this technique )

 

Had to use Tattered Angels, popsicle for the lavender color

Carmine Tango - font

I wanted to use the Ranger palette in the background, creating a soft backdrop for the cross. I dropped a small amount of ink on a piece of wax paper, added water and painted the colors with my water pen. Heat set and then spritzed with water and blotted.  Printed the saying directly on the card. My cross is outlined with Faber Castell PITT pen.

 

 

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And #23 of 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days

( I'll confess, I barely made this one in time, so I went for a great printed paper and embellished it some. )

 

 

Prima - paper

Cricut - French Manor cartridge, p. 39 ( bird )

Helmar - Gemstone Adhesive

Traveling Typewriter - font

Close to my Heart - marker

 

A close up of the scattering of tiny gems I added to the flowers:

 

entering this in:

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - #162 Add a Sentiment 



  

thimblerig:

to cheat by trickery

or

 to swindle by a trick in which a small ball or pea is quickly shifted from under one to another of three small cups to fool the spectator guessing its location

 

pronunciation

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Adding another camera themed card for the Moxie Fab - Camera Craze...I mean, how much fun is one allowed? I hope endless amounts! This will be the 12th card in my 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days challenge issued by the Art MoB.

I love that a very old Cricut cartridge had something that would work for the ever trendy camera craze, which is a Polaroid frame. I can still smell the chemicals from my dad's Polaroid and watching with fascination as the picture emerged right in front of our eyes...just like magic!

 

I added a small dollop of LSD under the butterfly wings, just to give it a slight dimension.

 

Echo Park - pattern paper

Cricut - Country Life, p. 73 ( flowers )

Don Juan cartridge , p. 70 ( Polaroid frame )

Paisley cartridge - p. 40 ( butterfly )

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Dymo Label Maker ( perfect retro labeling for the Polaroid frame! )

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Aud Sentiments Challenge - Easter

 

I don't really need to explain the sentiment....do I girls? lol

The rabbit looks too scared to answer!

 

I think I cut the carrot from Create a Critter cartridge, it was a while back when Cricut gave us a free cut in the Cricut Craft Room. It's a really cute cartridge...and Jamie, if your reading this....it would make a fabulous Christmas present for me next year..hint hint...lol

 

Ranger - stickles

Maya Roads - tan felt flower

Hawaiian Aloha BTN - font

EK Success - Gem sticker

everything else - from my Easter stash bag

 

So, the question begs to be asked.....Does size matter?



clepsydra: noun

 

an instrument designed to measure time by the fall or flow of a quantity of water : water clock
( sounds like a disease if you ask me, lol)

 

pronunciation

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Here is card #11 for the 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days issued by the Art MoB.

 

entering this in:

 Cute card Thursday: Challenge 258 Something Old
 ( my brads are old, don't even know who made them )

Inkspirational: Challenge #9

 

 

 

 

American Crafts - pattern paper ( Dear Lizzy )

Glitz Design - candy ball machine ( Oh What a Dame )

brads - misc ( removed brads parts )

Helmar - 450 ( to glue down brads with )

tissue paper - ( left over from bottom of spray box, who knows what sprays were used but they all come from Ranger products )

twine - misc.

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I can't believe it's March already and that Easter is at the end of the month!!
So, I decided it was time to take down my winter wreath off my front door.

 

 I love my new Sony camera that Jamie gave me for my birthday, the macro shot feature works so much better on this camera than the one on my old Kodak!! This is a close up shot of the embellishments I used. An old Christmas ornament ( the cardinal ) and a branch I cut from my Cricut, Winter Wonderland cartridge out of chipboard and painted it.

 

 Put up my Easter bunny on my door, but I'm going to have to change it's colors for next year. It clashes with my spring welcome mat I bought last year....evidently I bought it after Easter and wasn't thinking about my bunny head that I had made! lol I made the bunny head last year at a crop, while everyone else was scrap booking I was making this! I'm going to need to paint the hat, and change his bow tie and then he'll be all matchy matchy...which will make me happy, happy!

 

 It doesn't feel very spring like out side, currently it's 36 degrees! brrrr....